Falling Slowly
New York: Random House [1998], 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 4-227, [7] pp. Quarter black paper over maroon paper boards with copper lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Random House [1998], 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 4-227, [7] pp. Quarter black paper over maroon paper boards with copper lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Pantheon Books [1985], 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-187, [3] pp. Quarter white cloth over pink paper boards with pink lettering on the spine. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. Remainder mark to top of textblock; hint or two of edge wear to the..... More
London: Jonathan Cape (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-205, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £9.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with toning to the pageblock; dust jacket is Fine. More
New York: Pantheon Books [1984], 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-184, [6] pp. Quarter white cloth over pink paper boards with brown lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. The author's fourth novel. Winner of the 1984 Booker Prize. Remainder..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1987], 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-191, [1] pp. Quarter white cloth over pink paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 1-188, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green cloth with black and gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece. McCue 24. A children's book..... More
New York: Stein and Day Publishers (1976), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-224, [4] pp. Quarter red cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Brown's second book, published after his autobiography..... More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-236, [6] pp. Quarter navy cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Minor toning to the jacket flaps. More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. [6], vii-viii, 98, [2] pp. Publisher's device on the half-title page. Originally published in 1716, Browne's work is published in this edition on hand-made paper using the same method used in the hand-press period. Not all of the leaves are..... More
New York: James Miller, 1862, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. Small 8vo. [5], 384 [6]; [5], 408; [4], 400; [1] page of ads, [9], 242, [3] pages of advertisements in the rear, [3]; [9], 233, [1], [6] pages of advertisements, [1] pp. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece of the author..... More
Mount Vernon / New York: Peter Pauper Press, ca. 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], 5-60, [2] pp. Pictorial paper boards with white lettering on the front board and purple lettering on the spine. Price of $1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a few full-page illustrations..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-187, [1], [1]-14 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt and black rules on the front board and spine, gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's device..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], i-xvii, [3], 3-299, [1] pp. Bound in brown leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine; all edges gilt. Brown silk pastedowns and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and in-text wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Brown..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1899. Early Printing. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [10], 1-574, [2]; [6], 1-571, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green vertically-ribbed publisher's cloth with gilt decorations on the boards and spine, gilt lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1989], 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-314 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine, cow embossed in gilt on the front board. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-235, [1] pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, a decorated title page, decorated borders, and three color plates..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First paperback edition. Paperback. 8vo. [12], 13-281, [6] pp. White pictorial wrappers with a photograph of Bukowski at the end of the book. Krumhansl 71a. Near Fine with a bit of foxing to the textblock and rear wrapper. More
New York: Harper Collins (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [4], 3-297 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on front flap of jacket. Edited by John Martin. An attractive copy of this posthumous collection of previously unpublished..... More
Fremont, CA: Ruddy Duck Press [1984], 1984. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. 4to. [2], 1-9, [5] pp. Green wraps printed in black. Illustrated with a few drawings by Bukowski and a photograph of the author. "Going Modern" comprises volume 3, number 2 of a special chapbook issue of Oro Madre magazine published..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-125, [5] pp. Pictorial boards quarter bound in navy cloth with a paper label on the spine. Krumhansl 103c. The first hardcover trade edition, one of 400 copies numbered and signed by Bukowski, this being number 393..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First paperback edition. Paperback. 8vo. [4], 5-256, [3] pp. Pictorial wraps with a photograph of Bukowski at the end of the volume. Krumhansl 108a. Near Fine with a few tiny spots of discoloration and a bit of very light edge wear. More
New York: Ecco [2005], 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-270, [6] pp. Quarter dark brown paper over lighter brown paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by John Martin. A beautiful copy of this posthumous collection..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xv, 1-456, [2] pp. Green cloth with Ares embossed in gold on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of a bust of Ares, with a geneaological chart of Greek mythology, and with fifteen..... More