New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "(John) Barth's first work of nonfiction, The Friday Book is what he calls "an arrangement of essays and occasional lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over thirty years or so of writing, teaching, and teaching writing." With the full measure of playfulness and erudition that he brings to his novels, Barth glances into..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles and Bibliographer, Jeffrey Miller. "In this bibliography I have described the first and subsequent American, English, paperback and foreign editions of books by and books translated by Paul Bowles as well as those with contributions. In general I have ignored subsequent impressions of all editions unless they differ significantly from the first impressions and thus..... More

Seymour, CT: The Greenwich Workshop, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. "The art of Bev Doolittle encompasses the whimsical, the mystical and the spiritual, and her own unique camouflage concepts. These themes are interwoven within the complete body of her work and each reveals a different aspect of the artist herself. Her style is characterized by meticulous realism, unsparing attention to detail and an extraordinary talent for drawing. Many of her works..... More

Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "It is a commonplace that, as a building is made up of numerous components which enclose its various internal spaces to form rooms, halls, corridors, ducts, etc., so a city is an aggregate of a variety of buildings which enclose or frame its external spaces to form squares, closes, roads, paths, gardens, parks, and so on. But whereas a building is..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1994. First Revised Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Jack Kerouac died in Florida during the morning hours of 21 October, 1969. The following day, at a small printing shop around the corner from the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City, 300 copies of a short Kerouac poem entitled “Hymn” (see TMB Item #3674; find it using the “Book ID” section under the “Search Inventory” tab on..... More

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "J. Rives Childs, the author of important works on (Giacomo) Casanova and Restif de la Bretonne and former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and to Ethiopia, began to collect Henry Miller's work in 1939. But it was not until 1947 that Childs opened his correspondence with Miller by sending to him a copy of a letter written to a French reviewer..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Musson Book Company Limited, n/d (circa 1936). Unknown Edition. Hardcover. "The very thought of the tartan is enough to gladden the heart of the Scotsman in a distant land. Be he Highlander or Lowlander, he feels a glow of emotion when he beholds the dress he may have worn when he roamed the lonely glens or climbed the heathery hills of his beloved Scotland. To the..... More

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. "Some time ago, The New Yorker printed a piece by E.B. White about a small book called The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., the late professor of English at Cornell. Mr. White recalled that in his own student days it was known on campus as the little book, and paid tribute to the author for his devotion to..... More

Paris, France: La Main Courante with New Native Press, 2008. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by co-publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Called by Jerome Rothenberg "The linking figure between American modernism (in-the-line-of-Pound) and Chinese traditions and practices", Wai-Lim Yip has been active as a bicultural poet, translator, critic and theorist between Taiwan and America for over 30 years. Prof. Wai-Lim Yip has been with UCSD since 1967, and has played a...... More