Thoreau's Excursions 1866

                           

Title: Excursions

Author: Thoreau, Henry David

Place Published: Boston

Publisher: Ticknor and Fields

Date Published: 1866

Description:

319 pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt spine. Early printing.

Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau, and published the year after Thoreau's death. With London Grove Library Company bookplate.

Condition:

Light rubbing to edges, mild fraying at spine ends; remnants of institutional label on spine; moderate foxing; very good.

Item#:

350827

Acquisition:
Acquired from PBA Galleries, Sale 777: Fine Literature - with Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture - Rock & Other Posters

First American Edition of Doctor Zhivago 1958

                             

Title: Doctor Zhivago

Author: Pasternak, Boris

Place Published: [New York]

Publisher: Pantheon

Date Published: [1958]

Description:

Translated from Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. Grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First American Edition.

Condition:

Jacket slightly toned and worn, minor chips along edges; faint sunning to volume spine, touches of wear to cloth; near fine in very good jacket.

Item#:

336412

Acquisition:
Acquired from PBA Galleries, Sale 777: Fine Literature - with Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture - Rock & Other Posters

Bukowski's Tales of Ordinary Madness Inscribed 1972

                             

Title: Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness - two copies, one inscribed

Author: Bukowski, Charles

Place Published: [San Francisco]

Publisher: City Lights Books

Date Published: Various dates

Description:

2 volumes. (8vo) pictorial wrappers. Comprises:

- First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Charles Bukowski on the first blank page: "Dooreen - Keep it there for me - Charles Bukowski." 1972.

- Seventh Printing. 1982.

With Bukowski's inscription on the uncommon paperback original, the true first edition. Bukowski's best stories are here, most first appeared in underground newspapers like "Open City" and "Nola Express." 

Condition:
Inscribed copy with wear and staining to wrappers, front cover detached but present, soiling to textblock edges; Seventh Printing about near fine with mild toning to wrappers, original bookseller's price sticker on front wrapper.

Acquisition:
Acquired from PBA Galleries, Sale 777: Fine Literature - with Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture - Rock & Other Posters