The rodent who came to dinner
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981]. 4to, [42] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; 7 full-page illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, side-stitched; near fine. More
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981]. 4to, [42] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; 7 full-page illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, side-stitched; near fine. More
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981]. Limited edition printed in an unknown quantity (OCLC notes 100), 4to, [42] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; 7 pages of illustrations and cover by Tom Clark; original pictorial wrappers; side-stapled; lightly toned with shadows at the edges, else near..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, [1976]. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 131); 8vo, pp. 59, [1]; original hand-made paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover and spine, original tissue dust jacket; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. More
[Bowling Green, Ohio]: Black Book / Number four, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 49, [3]; near fine in original black wrappers printed in white. This copy inscribed to Allan Kornblum: "For Al, hoping your Korn continues to blum, best John Clarke." More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1937]. 8vo, pp. 471, [1]; orig. brown printed wrappers; some spotting, very good. Advance proofs "photographically reproduced from uncorrected English proofs." His first novel, the importation of which was subsequently banned in South Africa, owing to its commentary on the Great Trek to the Transvaal in 1836..... More
Iowa City: The Qara Press, 1961. Edition limited to 190 copies (this, no. 115); 4to, pp. 33, [3]; 2 mounted portraits; fine copy in original gray paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. "Hand set & printed by Gerald McMonies Stevenson, Jr. as a part..... More
New York: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition of this 1930 avant-garde screenplay by Cocteau; oblong 4to, pp. [7], 1-53, [2]; 3 dozen or so illustrations from the film and behind-the-scenes views; a near fine copy in original black cloth lettered in blue, dust jacket..... More
Berkeley: Ārif Press, 1973. Edition limited to 350 copies, 26 of which have been lettered and signed by the author; oblong 12mo, pp. [22]; title page printed in red and black; original tan wrappers printed in red and black; back wrapper with a few small, light coffee stains; all else..... More
Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, [1970]. 8vo, pp. 80; black-and-white photographic portrait of the author on page 33; fine copy in original black cloth, red lettering on spine, in a rubbed, but unclipped dust jacket. The book won for Codrescu the 1970 Prize in the Big Table Series of Younger..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [2012]. Limited edition of an unknown quantity, 8vo, pp. [8]; fine in original printed hand-made paper wrappers from the St. Armand Mill in Canada. Signed by Codrescu on the flyleaf. "Master Manole to Anna was reprinted from So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems..... More
[San Francisco: Grape Press, 1973]. First edition limited to 376 copies, this one of 350 in wrappers; light toning, else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy inscribed: "For Allan..... More
[San Francisco: Fits Collective, 1972]. First edition limited to 200 copies, 26 of which were signed and lettered by the authors (not this); 16mo, (4¼" square), pp. [12]; lightly toned, else fine in self-wrappers. Dedicated to Jack Kerouac. More
London and San Francisco: Strange Faeces / Kingdom Kum Press, [ca. 1972]. Staple-bound journal, pp. [114]; mimeographed text, illustrations, and cartoons on tan and green paper; printed paper wrappers in a duotone comics motif by Nanos Valaoritis. Light toning and sunning to edges, else fine. With contributions by Lewis MacAdams..... More
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, [1934]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [8], 11-252; near fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in silver on spine, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a tear mended on the verso of the front panel. The author (1889-1986) was a British..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, 1980. Edition limited to 249 copies (this, no. 22); 8vo, pp. 68; original mustard cloth, printed paper label on spine, fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1968. First edition, 8vo., illus., jacket price clipped; near fine. More
Kirkwood, [Missouri]: The Printery, 1997. Edition limited to 60 copies "for those in attendance at the 1997 gathering of The Typocrafters," 8vo, pp. [3], 11, [3]; fine copy in original tan wrappers printed in red. From the library of Kim Merker. Excerpts from the correspondence between Kay Kramer and Carroll..... More
New York, London, et al. Pocket Books, [1995]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 304; text cocked, light stain to fore-edge, largely affecting endpaper, a very good copy in the dust jacket. CD in pocket inside back cover. This copy inscribed "For Trish & Terry, I love you [heart]. Thank you..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1998]. First edition limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies, 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [3], 346; generally a fine copy in full blue lether stamped in gilt, silk moire endpapers. This copy unnumbered and marked instead "publisher's copy" and with an added inscription on the..... More
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College, 1980. Edition limited to 75 copies (this, no. 15); oblong 4to, pp. [36]; printed in red and black; original cream wrappers printed in black, side-stitched; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. A collection of seven short stories designed, printed and bound by..... More
N.p. Light Press, n.d., [ca. 1991]. Limited edition printed in an unknown quantity, 4to, pp. [40]; printed from typescript; 2 full-page illustrations plus mouse vignettes; original pictorial wrappers; side-stapled; near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Only 4..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride, [1926] but actually after, 1930. 8vo, pp. [2], xiii, [3], 492; illustrated endpapers; a very good copy in the dust-jacket which is a little worn with small pieces missing at spine ends and reinforced with cellotape at spine ends on verso. Signed by the author..... More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, [1928]. Edition limited to 929 copies (this no. 288); 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 334, [2]; 2 portraits; spine ever-so-slightly discolored, else a fine copy in original red buckram, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. on the rough. More
Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1919. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 385, [1]; original blue cloth, worn, front hinge cracked, lacks flyleaf, gilt stamped cover and spine. More