Fiction : Postwar from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 164pp, printed wrappers. This issue of the Atlantic Monthly features Rudolph Wurlitzer's fiction debut; Kale on Brando; etc. Unmarked copy, small staple puncture to front cover, a bit of general wear.

Penland, NC: The Jargon Society, 1973 [1965]. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, [viii]+192pp, printed wrappers. 1973 printing of the Jargon Society edition of this Melville-referencing experimental novel first published in 1965. Unmarked copy, a little foxing to page edges and minor sunning.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch to fellow author Opal Louis Nations in 1975. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this collection of experimental texts, with cover lettering by Greg Irons. Light cover soil and minor wear, sound overall.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 92pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this experimental work by gladsome 'Pataphysician Harry Mathews, nicely designed and printed by Burning Deck. Light edgewear, sound overall.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch (as "Tom & Ron") to fellow author Opal Louis Nations. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this experimental text, with cover by George Schneeman. Unmarked copy, some spotting to covers.

Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2007. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 20 of 80 copies of this chapbook publication collecting three short works by Terry Southern. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2005. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 28 of 60 copies of this chapbook publication constituting the first complete version of a 1956 story written by Southern for a group of children he knew whilst living in Geneva. Unmarked copy, faint sunning.

New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp. Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of Gravity's Rainbow". Includes work by John Lennon (1/2 page fiction), Alfred Jarry, Robert Stone, and Donald Barthelme. Nicely preserved copy with typical toning of newsprint stock.

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 184pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first literary appearance of Cormac McCarthy (The Dark Waters, an advance excerpt from his first novel, The Orchard Keeper). An unmarked copy with some wear and small closed tears to the lap cover edges (as usual)… Read more about this item

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 226pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes a review of Cormac McCarthy's first novel (The Orchard Keeper) along with other works by Southern-associated authors. An unmarked copy with some wear and small closed tears to the lap cover edges (as usual); one leaf… Read more about this item

London: Atlas Press, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Stated limitation of 1,000 copies, though this copy unnumbered. A rare early production from the essential Atlas Press, a revised version of this translation previously published in Australia. Unmarked copy, light spotting to page edges.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in VG+ dw. INSCRIBED by the author on the FFEP. 8vo, 256pp, blind-stamped oatmeal cloth with spine stamped in gold. An ambitious work of historical fiction published by the Sierra Club. A few pieces of ephemera relating to the author are laid in. Book is… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. Large 8vo, viii+626pp, black cloth stamp in silver and purple, printed dustwrapper. Nice copy of the first American edition of this English translation of a monumental work on Genet by Sartre. Cloth has minor soil to back cover (internally clean), jacket has price… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early (but not first) printing of the first edition. VG in VG dw. 8vo, [viii]+312pp, light blue cloth with spine stamped in black and gold, printed dustwrapper. A clean copy (no markings) with slight bumping to edges; mylar-protected jacket has 0164 dateline and is not… Read more about this item

New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp (has been stored flat). Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of the editing of Gravity's Rainbow). Includes work by J. G. Ballard, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Thomas McGuane, Kenneth Koch, John Barth, et al. Well… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The California Quarterly, Inc, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Includes short stories by Ray Bradbury and B. Traven. Light toning and wear to wrappers, no markings.

New York: New American Library, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 12mo, 320pp, printed wrappers. An uncommonly sharp copy of the 1953 first printing of the fourth volume of this important series. Includes Gore Vidal, Borges, and a portfolio of current art. No markings, light toning and wear.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 80pp, printed wrappers. Features an early excerpt from My Dog, Tulip by J. R. Ackerley, recounting the emotional relationship between the author and his Alsatian. The text was subsequently enlarged to a book, much praised by Truman Capote and others.… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, 36pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by the Arion Press. Clean and unmarked copy, just about as new.

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by the Arion Press. Includes a frontispiece portrait of the author and a fold-out reproduction of a manuscript page.… Read more about this item