Titles starting with N from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Brewer & Warren,, 1930.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Illustrated throughout by Kent. One of 100 unnumbered copies designated as the author's edition with an extra design and a Kent poem not present in the trade edition. Unlike other copies of this special edition, this one is not bound in rough linen as called for but in blue and gilt-edged full morocco, identifying it as his own copy since it is known that Kent's copies of his books were bound in this manner. ... more information

New York:: Rinehart,, [1948].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Mailer on the title page. ... more information

Paris:: Olympia Press,, [1959].. First edition, first issue. Decorated wrappers. A splendid copy of the author's magnum opus -- fine and in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made, quarter-leather clamshell box. 12mo. Laid into this copy is a photo-postcard signed by Burroughs. The image is well-known, depicting Burroughs in Tangier in 1961, surrounded by other icons of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, and Peter Orlovsky. ... more information

New York:: Grove Press,, [1959].. First American (and first hardbound) edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket (with the correct $6 price).. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Bantam,, [1955].. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 16mo. A paperback original collection of short stories. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1982.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ... more information

Iowa City:: Windhover Press,, 1976.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket as issued. 4to. One of 200 copies printed by hand on handmade Italian paper. ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, [2003].. First of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second book, her first novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. ... more information

San Francisco:: Four Seasons Foundation,, 1964.. First edition. Broadside. Fine. 4to. Published in an edition of 300 copies signed by Snyder. ... more information

London:: Cape,, [1974].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. This novel of Napoleon, based on Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick, "maestro di color. ... more information

Boston:: Little, Brown,, [2004].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Signed by Connelly on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Riverhead Books,, 1995.. First edition of the Asian-American writer's first book, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Harcourt, Brace,, [1952].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine, bright dust jacket that has a snag at the crown of the front panel. 8vo. With publisher's complimentary slip laid in giving the date of publication as August 21. ... more information

New York:: Harcourt, Brace,, [1952].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket (and inscribed, a collector's dream copy). Housed in a custom-made, quarter-leather clamshell box. 8vo. With publisher's review slip tipped in. This copy is in the gray binding (one of three with no priority having been established, but the presence of the slip suggests it is indeed the primary binding). More significantly, this copy is inscribed: "For Neal Naumburg -- wit... more information

New York:: Dial,, 1952.. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine, unusually fresh dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Viking,, [1990].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed by Barthelme on the title page. ... more information

London:: Viking,, [1989].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in glassine dust jacket, as issued. Small 4to. One of 150 numbered, specially bound copies signed by the author. ... more information

New York:: Schocken Books,, [1985].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

The Bronx:: Thought [i.e. Fordham University Quarterly],, September 1950.. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. 4to. An offprint from the magazine in which the poet eruditely probes his subject with philosophical logic. Though Bloomfield and Mendelson cite the magazine in their bibliography of Auden's works, no mention is made of this first separate publication. As such this pamphlet stands among the poet's rarest "A" items. ... more information

Sacramento:: English Club of Sacramento State College,, [1968].. First edition of the author's first book . Printed wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made cloth chemise. 8vo. Laid into this copy is a color photograph of Carver displaying a large fish he has just caught. This volume of verse, produced in an edition of some 200 copies according to Carver, was distributed locally by the English Club; no copies were for sale. Due to these circumstances, "Near Klamath" has been hard to find from... more information