JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
Signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother.
Signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother.
Advance uncorrected proofs for the first edition of this study of Mailer and Baldwin, whose oppositional relationship eventually led to a legendary fight at an NYC literary party, featuring extensive accounts and interview with each.
Uncorrected proofs of Cameron's short story collection, including the previously uncollected "Departing," the basis for Cameron's novel WEEKEND and a 1999 film adaptation directed by Brian Skeet.
Signed limited first edition of this late Gorey book of quietly alarming verses, featuring images in color as opposed to Gorey's more typical black and white.
First edition of this late Gorey book of quietly alarming verses, featuring images in color as opposed to Gorey's more typical black and white.
First edition of the follow-up to CORREGIDORA, also edited by Toni Morrison, about a Black woman who has been jailed for murder.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
First edition of this novel by a physicist that "captures the special excitement — intellectual, sexual, emotional — which surrounded the Los Alamos laboratories in 1943-1945" (front flap).
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Signed first edition of White's collected dispatches to THE NEW YORKER, affectionately inscribed to the Sarasota physician whose good advice White cordially ignored.