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Printed on delicate bamboo paper with a deliberately informal aesthetic, it was dedicated, in Burgess's framing, to \"sincerity, spontaneity, and gaiety,\" and reached a national circulation of some three thousand by its second year, widely noticed in the Eastern and Midwestern press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound by itself, Book I represents the first half of the run and arguably the more important half — it contains the Purple Cow, the Stevenson portrait, and the first establishing of the magazine's voice and circle. 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First printing, one of 5,000 copies printed letterpress and sewn at Villiers Publications, London, with the Villiers printer's notice at the rear. 148 pp. Original black and cream stiff-card wrappers in the Pocket Poets house design, the cream front label printed in black, $2.00 price intact on the rear cover. With a contemporary ownership inscription on the front pastedown — \"Michael H. Page. London. xvi. i. mcmlxix\" (16 January 1969) — with his note \"1st Edition 1968,\" placing this London-printed copy in early UK circulation within months of publication. Very good; the wrappers lightly toned at the spine and edges, the sewn binding sound, internally clean and unmarked apart from the inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGinsberg's third major collection in the Pocket Poets Series, gathering the work of the seven years that followed \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e's emergence — the years of his travels through India, Japan, and Europe and of his rise as the central public poet of the American counterculture. 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One of 4,265 copies of the first printing (\"Published June, 1911\" on the copyright page, no later printings indicated). Original blue-green ribbed cloth with a color pictorial paste-down label of the Snark to the front board, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and more than one hundred half-tone photographs throughout. As in all known copies, the title page is tipped in, and an extra plate is inserted between pp. 270–271 without appearing in the list of illustrations. BAL 11929; Sisson \u0026amp; Martens p. 57. Very good: the front hinge slightly cracked but the binding firm; a small scratch to the top of the front-board label, the image of the Snark otherwise clean and intact; internally fresh with no foxing, all plates intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon's account of the voyage that nearly killed him. 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Original cream cloth printed in red over boards; in the original cream dust jacket printed in red, $2.00 price on the front flap, unclipped. Copyright 1936 by The Modern Library, Inc. (Random House's corporate imprint); manufactured at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York. Dedication: \"For Miriam.\" Laid in is the publisher's prepublication review slip, headed \"Review Copy from Random House · 20 East 57 Street · N.Y.,\" giving the title, author, date of publication (January 27, 1936), and price ($2.00), and describing Patchen as a \"proletarian poet\" in the company of Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, and C. Day Lewis. Book very good, square and tight, the text block clean and the internal hinges sound; dust jacket complete and unclipped, the $2.00 price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatchen's first book — the debut of the Niles, Ohio steelworker's son who would become, alongside Kenneth Rexroth, a foundational figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and a major influence on the Beat Generation. \u003cem\u003eBefore the Brave\u003c\/em\u003e is a politically charged Depression-era debut: angry, declamatory poems of social protest that call for collective awakening and rail against capitalism, war, and injustice, written in the urgent left-wing idiom of the 1930s. The presence of the review slip makes this a documented prepublication state, uncommon for the first book of a significant American poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-010\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patchen, Kenneth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950891169,"sku":"TO-2026-010","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-010_01.jpg?v=1785778857"},{"product_id":"tortilla-flat","title":"Tortilla Flat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTortilla Flat.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Covici-Friede, 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 317 pp. Illustrated throughout by Ruth Gannett. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in blue, top edge stained blue; in the first-issue dust jacket. First-issue points present: the Van Rees Press credit at the foot of the copyright page, with no later-printing indication; and — the point most often missing — Steinbeck's biography on the rear jacket flap, which later printings replaced with blurbs. Front-flap price $2.50, unclipped. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A4b (the trade edition, one of 4,000 copies). Housed in a custom clamshell box with gilt lettering to a white leather spine. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket; some fading to the spine, two short tape reinforcements to the verso, two small chips and a short closed tear at the lower front edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book that made Steinbeck. Three earlier books had passed largely unnoticed; this one — a loose, comic chronicle of the paisanos of Monterey, framed as a sly retelling of Arthurian legend, with Danny and his friends as the knights — became his first real critical and commercial success. The trade edition ran 4,000 copies, and far fewer survive in their original first-issue jackets. A fine copy in a strong first-issue jacket — with Steinbeck's biography intact on the rear flap — housed in a custom clamshell box is the form in which collectors want this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459951055009,"sku":"TO-2026-016","price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-016_01.jpg?v=1785776341"},{"product_id":"the-forgotten-village-signed","title":"The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION (SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION) — SIGNED BY STEINBECK.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Viking Press, 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge octavo. 143 pp. Signed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Illustrated with 136 black-and-white photographs by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackenschmied, from Herbert Kline's film of the same name. Original cream buckram stamped and decorated in green, top edges stained green; in the original color pictorial dust jacket with the $2.50 price intact and unclipped to the front flap. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A14a. \"Second Printing Before Publication\" stated on the copyright page — the state most copies bear, printed before the official publication date and bibliographically equivalent to the first for collecting purposes; the work was published on the same day in Canada by Macmillan. Very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket: light foxing to the covers and offsetting to the inner covers; the jacket complete, with wear and small chips to the spine ends and some darkening to the rear panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/em\u003e as the screenplay for Herbert Kline's 1941 docufiction film — a project he pursued specifically to make a picture outside the Hollywood studio system, drawing on his deep engagement with Mexico. The film follows Juan Diego, a boy in a remote mountain village, as modern medicine arrives in conflict with traditional practice. 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Original tan linen spine over blue-grey paper-covered boards, a gilt vignette of a miner with pickaxe beneath a sunburst to the upper board, printed paper spine label; in the publisher's blue-grey dust jacket with gilt lettering. A spare duplicate spine label is tipped to the rear interior — Russell's customary provision for his limited editions, intact here. Fine in the original dust jacket; boards clean, square, and bright, the gilt fresh, the spine label crisp, the interior fresh with all eight plates and tissue guards present and intact. The jacket — a fragile pictorial wrapper that rarely survives on the 1922 issue — is unusually well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819–1906) was a New England–educated woman who sailed around Cape Horn to California in 1849 with her physician husband, Fayette, and followed him into the diggings in 1851. 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Original green cloth, gilt lettering to the upper board and spine, deckled fore-edges; in the publisher's scarce original pictorial dust jacket, a black-on-cream wave design, with the original $1.25 price intact at the head of the front panel. BAL 18760; Mattila A7; Cecil Johnson, \u003cem\u003eA Bibliography of George Sterling\u003c\/em\u003e, pp. 10–11. Near fine; boards clean and square, the spine gilt slightly faded as usually seen, the interior fresh, the binding tight. 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The first edition of two thousand copies was reduced by fire, roughly a thousand sets of unbound sheets destroyed; copies in the original publisher's dust jacket are exceptionally scarce, and an unopened copy in jacket is among the strongest survivals available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-054 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Clark Ashton","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952267425,"sku":"TO-2026-054","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-054_01.jpg?v=1784609121"},{"product_id":"under-the-redwoods","title":"Under the Redwoods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARTE, Bret. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnder the Redwoods.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e (BAL 7396). 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