California A Guide to the Golden State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project hardcover. First edition, first printing. A good to very good book in light green coarse-weave cloth with dark green lettering with soiling and staining to the spine and boards. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers. Book is second state of the first printing with Federal Writers/Project on the spine more than equidistant between the title and imprint. The supplied very good jacket is a later issue with a price of $4.50 on the front flap and 14 guide titles listed on the rear flap. Contains the original map in the rear pocket.- $67
- $67
Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A near fine book in light green cloth. Some foxing to the book and light sunning to the spine. Original color map is in the rear pocket. Previous owner name on front pastedown. No dust jacket.- $70
- $70
Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Book is in rust colored cloth with printing of 1937 on copyright page. Chipping and creasing to the jacket, especially at the top of the front panel and on the jacket spine. Fine colored map in the rear pocket. Jacket is price clipped.- $70
- $70
The Poet Exposed
Portraits by Christopher Felver Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. A beautiful group of black and white photos. A collection of about 100 portrait photos, many of them beat poets. Prologue by Gary Snyder, Forward by Robert Creeley and Afterword by Williams E. Parker. Signed by Gary Snyder, Carolyn Forche and Ann Waldman.- $53
- $53
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear to the extremities and minor soiling to the rear panel. Owner name on front endpaper. Jacket flaps are clipped slightly but still has the printed price of $2.50 on the front flap. State map is in a pocket on the rear pastedown.- $105
- $105
Missouri: A Guide to the Show Me State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A very good book in gray coarse-weave cloth with lettering stamped in dark blue. Some wear at the head and foot of the spine and along the extremities. The dust jacket is a supplied fourth edition jacket with chipping at the head of the jacket spine and chipping a the extremities. No map in the rear pocket as Missouri was one of the four states guides published by the WPA that did not contain a map in the first edition.- $60
- $60
Howl; Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading. and Bibliography
Allen Ginsberg; Barry Miles (ed.) Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Some foxing to the top edge pages. Signed by Allen Ginsberg with circled "AH" fand dated April 12, 1990.- $280
- $280
Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore and People. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A later printing of the first edition. A fine book in ochre cloth in dark red lettering. A strong, solid copy. A very good dust jacket with chipping to the jacket spine and general wear and chipping to the extremeities of the jacket. Road map of Connecticut on the front two endpapers. No map in rear pocket.- $35
- $35
Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A very good copy in original green boards. Moderate wear to the extremities. Rear map pocket with small closed tear and a bit browned. Folding map in rear pocket. This is the uncommon first edition with the year 1939 on the title page. No subsequent printings on the copyright page. Comes with a fine facsimile dust jacket.- $175
- $175
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear to the extremities and minor soiling to the rear panel. Foxing on the rear and front pages and soiling to front pastedowns. Jacket flaps are clipped slightly but still has the printed price of $2.50 on the front flap. State map is in a pocket on the rear pastedown.- $88
- $88
Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A very good copy in original green boards. Moderate wear to the extremities. Rear map pocket with small closed tear and a bit browned. Folding map in rear pocket. This is the uncommon first edition with the year 1939 on the title page. No subsequent printings on the copyright page. Comes with a fine facsimile dust jacket.- $140
- $140
Colorado: A Guide the the Highest State. American Guide Series
Federal Writers Project Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some sunning to the jacket spine and overall wear to the extremities of the jacket. Chipping at the head and foot of the jacket. A strong, solid copy. No map in the rear pastedown, as published.- $84
- $84
Seven Nights
BORGES, Jorge Luis Translated by Eliot Weinberger (Signed) Stiff wraps. Uncorrected Proof. This is an uncommon galley proof that apparently was prepared for several prominent book reviewers. It is signed by Borges in his blind hand on the first page, and scarce thus. The book collects seven lectures delivered by Borges in Buenos Aires between June and August 1977. Previously published in Spanish. Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger and with an introduction by Alastair Reid. This has only text with no title or copyright page. Age toning to the pages which are unprinted cream wraps. It is addressed to Rebecca Slinker of the Philadelphia Inquirer with the return address of Elizabeth Harper, publicity director. A New Directions address label with publication information for hard cover and paperback issues is pasted at top. There is a glossy dust jacket mockup pasted below the address label. The lower portion of the mock up has come loose where the glue has dried out. A copy of a hand-corrected typescript of Reid's four page introduction is laid in. All in all a quite scarce item. Signed by the author.- $1,680
- $1,680
A Cook’s Tour. In Search of a Perfect Meal
BOURDAIN, Anthony Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. First US edition. Bourdain crisscrosses the world sampling sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. The book version of the cooking travel show on the Food Network that launched Bourdain's television career. â Bourdain was a chef, an author, novelist, and world-traveling chronicler of food and culture.â Signed by the author on the title page.- $455
- $455
Dubious Battle in California
STEINBECK, John Staplebound. First edition. A very good copy in wrappers. Pencil markings on the front cover and general wear to the spine and rear cover. Staplebound. This is an essay by Steinbeck about how the factory farms in California had exploited the migrants who had fled the Dust Bowl. His novel, In Dubious Battle, about agricultural strikes in California, was also published in 1936. Photos available upon request.v.- $123
- $123
A Calendar: Poems by Robert Creeley
CREELEY, Robert Pamphlet. Limited edition. Limited Edition. A fine copy. This is number 546 of 600 copies. Oblong octavo. String-tied Japanese-style binding with striped paper wrapper and printed paper label. Signed by the author. Photos available on request.- $25
- $25
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
LEVY, Jacques (Chavez, Cesar) Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Wear to the head of the dust jacket and some soiling to the rear panel of the jacket and front fold. Price clipped. This is the authorized autobiography of farm labor leader Cesar Chavez that was published just as the Farm Workers Union was winning labor contracts with California growers. Signed by Chavez on the half title page. Signature only.- $280
- $280