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Very good: the cloth lightly soiled and toned as usual for this construction, the cover design clean and bright, the spine lightly worn at the head with the gilt faded but legible, the binding sound; internally the bamboo paper uniformly toned but supple and intact, without marginalia or inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landmark of 1890s San Francisco literary culture. \u003cem\u003eThe Lark\u003c\/em\u003e ran for twenty-four monthly numbers and a final \u003cem\u003eEpi-Lark\u003c\/em\u003e between May 1895 and April 1897, founded by Gelett Burgess and Bruce Porter as the vehicle of the loose circle of young San Francisco writers and artists who became known as Les Jeunes — among them Burgess and Porter, Florence Lundborg, Ernest Peixotto, Willis Polk, Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, and Carolyn Wells. 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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Its central work is \"Wichita Vortex Sutra,\" the long anti-Vietnam-War poem Ginsberg composed in 1966 by dictating into a Uher tape recorder during a cross-country trip through the Midwest, attempting in Whitman's long line to \"declare the End of the War.\" Also here are \"Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber,\" \"Death News\" (on the death of William Carlos Williams), \"The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express\" (1963), \"Kral Majales\" (the 1965 Prague poem written after Czech students crowned him May King and the police deported him), and \"Wales Visitation,\" his 1967 LSD-on-the-hillside ecology poem. 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Text set in Garamond by Words Worth, designed by Barbara Martin, printed April 1992 in Santa Barbara and Ann Arbor by Mackintosh Typography and Edwards Brothers for Black Sparrow Press. Large octavo. 217 pp. Original cream cloth lettered in red and black to the spine, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket — Barbara Martin's cream design with mauve topographic lines and red, gray, and blue accent squares — in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Robert Kelly\" at the colophon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket; bright, square, and clean throughout, the cloth fresh, the jacket's design elements crisp and unfaded, the acetate sleeve present and clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of poems composed between 1986 and 1990. The poems range widely in Kelly's characteristic manner, moving from myth and the visual arts to formal experiment: the volume includes \"A Flower for the New Year,\" chosen for \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry 1991\u003c\/em\u003e (edited by Mark Strand), and \"Unquell the Dawn Now,\" his homeophonic translation of Hölderlin's ode on the source of the Danube, \u003cem\u003eAm Quell der Donau\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the German is carried across into English by sound rather than sense. The book is dedicated to the printer Mary Moore Goodlett (1950–1990): \"this book is for Mary Moore Goodlett 1950–1990 who shows me so much of the way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in four states: paper wrappers; 200 cloth trade copies; 125 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author, of which this is one; and 26 lettered copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original holograph poem by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459950661793,"sku":"TO-2026-003","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-003_01.jpg?v=1784613344"},{"product_id":"to-2026-005","title":"The Leaves (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOEWINSOHN, Ron.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Leaves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED LIMITED ISSUE — ONE OF 200 NUMBERED HARDCOVER COPIES, THIS NO. 97.\u003c\/strong\u003e Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, signed limited issue: one of 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by the poet, this copy number 97 (the limitation number in red). Printed February 1973 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. Large octavo. 27 pp. Original olive-green textured cloth boards, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket in cream and buff with a delicate leaf-vine border framing the title, in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Ron Loewinsohn\" at the colophon. ISBN 0-87685-147-2. Very good in a very good dust jacket; the olive cloth bright and clean with no shelf wear, the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short collection of twenty-seven pages, dedicated \"this one is for the lady in the tree.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e finds Loewinsohn working in the spare, perception-centered manner he had refined since his Beat and San Francisco Renaissance beginnings — short-lined poems attentive to the natural world and to the act of seeing it, the leaf and the tree of the title serving as figures for noticing, change, and the passage of time. Barbara Martin's design frames the title page with a slender leaf-vine border in keeping with the book's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in three states: 1,000 copies in paper wrappers; 200 numbered copies signed by the poet, of which this is one; and 26 copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, lettered and signed — the standard three-state Black Sparrow production of the period, of which the signed hardcover is the usual collector's target.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-005\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loewinsohn, Ron","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950727329,"sku":"TO-2026-005","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-005_01.jpg?v=1784613271"},{"product_id":"to-2026-006","title":"The Magellanic Clouds (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWAKOSKI, Diane.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Magellanic Clouds.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED LIMITED ISSUE — ONE OF 250 COPIES HANDBOUND BY EARLE GRAY, THIS NO. 155.\u003c\/strong\u003e Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, signed limited issue: one of 250 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, numbered and signed by the poet, this copy number 155 (the limitation number in red). Printed January 1970 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. Large octavo. 150 pp. Blue cloth spine with a cream paper label, illustrated paper-covered boards carrying Barbara Martin's cloud-painting design across both panels. Signed in black ink \"Diane Wakoski\" at the colophon. Very good; the blue cloth spine clean, the paper label bright and the lettering crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Sparrow's first full-length collection by Diane Wakoski, gathering some fifty poems around the long title piece. The Magellanic clouds — the two satellite galaxies that orbit the Milky Way — give Wakoski a figure for the orbiting selves and absent lovers that drive the book: poems of longing, betrayal, and self-invention, written in the direct, incantatory, image-driven voice that became her signature. The collection belongs to the run of confessional, mythologizing work — composed between \u003cem\u003eInside the Blood Factory\u003c\/em\u003e (1968) and \u003cem\u003eThe Motorcycle Betrayal Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1971) — that built her national reputation, fusing personal grievance and astronomical and elemental imagery into a sustained private mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in just two states — 1,000 copies in paper wrappers and this 250-copy issue handbound in illustrated boards by Earle Gray and signed by the poet — making the handbound state itself the deluxe production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-006\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wakoski, Diane","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950760097,"sku":"TO-2026-006","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-006_01.jpg?v=1784612131"},{"product_id":"to-2026-007","title":"Homage to Mistress Bradstreet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBERRYMAN, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHomage to Mistress Bradstreet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING — WITH BEN SHAHN ILLUSTRATIONS, UNCLIPPED.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Cudahy, 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 57 pp, with the poet's notes. \"First printing, 1956\" stated on the copyright page (LC card 56-6168); published simultaneously in Canada by Ambassador Books. Pictorial paper-covered boards designed by Ben Shahn, brick-red cloth spine lettered in gilt, in the matching Shahn-designed dust jacket, $3.75 price intact and unclipped on the front flap. Book very good-plus: the Shahn board design crisp on both panels, light spotting at the head edge, the gilt spine lettering rubbed but fully legible, binding tight and square, internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket very good — unclipped and intact, the Shahn front-panel design clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book that made Berryman's name. Written over five years between 1948 and 1953 and first published in \u003cem\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/em\u003e in 1953 before Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Cudahy issued it in book form in 1956, the poem is a sustained imagined dialogue with the seventeenth-century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet — a meditation on creative repression, religious doubt, and temptation, set against a close grasp of early American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ben Shahn collaboration is the second great feature of the first edition. Shahn (1898–1969), the Lithuanian-born American social-realist painter and graphic artist, was at the height of his reputation in 1956. For this book he designed not only the text illustrations but the jacket and the boards — bold black line drawings of a Puritan-era timber house and bare winter trees against a cream ground with a red title panel — so that text and image read as a single composition. 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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. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he commissioned a forty-three-foot boat he named the Snark and set out from Oakland with his wife Charmian and a small crew, meaning to sail around the world over seven years. The vessel was poorly built — it leaked, the engines failed, the bowsprit broke — and London contracted a succession of tropical illnesses that by the end left him barely able to use his hands. The voyage was abandoned at Sydney after roughly two years, scarcely a third of the planned route.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cruise of the Snark\u003c\/em\u003e is what he made of it: a sequence of essays on Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, the Solomons, and the New Hebrides, closing with his account of being defeated by his own body. 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Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering and rules to the spine (\"THE ENTAILED HAT,\" with \"GATH\" at the foot and \"HARPERS\" at the base). First published by Harper \u0026amp; Brothers in 1884; this is the privately financed 1912 limited reissue, the \"Teackle Mansion Edition,\" produced to preserve the novel to the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula per the limitation statement. Copyright 1884 by Harper \u0026amp; Brothers and 1912 by George Alfred Townsend. Inscribed in ink to the front free endpaper, \"To Ethel Nicholson, an \/ Angel if ever there was \/ one. With Love. \/ Georgie\" — a period gift inscription, not in the author's hand (Townsend signed as \"Geo. Alfred Townsend\" or \"Gath\"). Good to very good: the dark blue cloth complete, the spine gilt legible; pages clean and unmarked apart from the inscription; no dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Alfred Townsend (1841–1914) reported the Civil War and the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination under the byline \"Gath\" — his initials G.A.T. plus an H, after II Samuel 1:20 — and drew this novel from the country of his Delaware boyhood. Its Patty Cannon was the historical leader, with her son-in-law Joseph Johnson, of an early-nineteenth-century gang operating along the Maryland–Delaware line from Johnson's Cross Roads (now Reliance). The gang abducted free Black people and fugitives and trafficked them south into slavery — what historians call the Reverse Underground Railroad. Cannon was indicted for murder in 1829 and died in jail awaiting trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the Eastern Shore landscape Townsend knew firsthand, and peopled with characters drawn from local memory, \u003cem\u003eThe Entailed Hat\u003c\/em\u003e is the major nineteenth-century literary treatment of this difficult and still-understudied chapter of American history. Its setting includes the real Teackle Mansion in Princess Anne, Maryland, for which this 1912 limited edition is named. 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Robertson, 1914.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper: \"With the compliments of George Sterling.\" With a pen correction to the text on page 24 in Sterling's hand — a frequent feature of this title, as Sterling habitually corrected his own poems in copies he gave away. Laid in is an original silver gelatin photographic portrait of Sterling by William E. Dassonville, signed \"Sterling\" in pen to the print — Dassonville's signed portraits of the poet are scarce, and the photographer moved in the same San Francisco Bohemian circle as his sitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 141 pp. Printed by The Blair-Murdock Company of San Francisco for Robertson. The collection gathers sixty-one poems written largely during Sterling's Carmel years, including the title poem — dedicated to fellow Carmel bohemian James \"Jimmy\" Hopper — and \"The Master Mariner,\" among a substantial group of sonnets and lyrics. 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 dust jacket is in unusually fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Sterling (1869–1926) was a central figure of the West Coast \"Bohemian\" literary movement of the early twentieth century. Among the most personal of Sterling's California-period collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Caged-Eagle\u003c\/em\u003e devotes nearly a third of its pages to the First World War. The 1919 inscription — three years after publication and a year after the Armistice — carries the same wartime feeling forward, with Sterling's \"Damn the Kaiser!\" The three author's ink corrections, the inscription and inscribed half-title, and the scarce dust jacket in unusually fine state make this a strong association copy of one of Sterling's wartime books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sterling, George","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951218849,"sku":"TO-2026-022","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-022_01.jpg?v=1784613481"},{"product_id":"to-2026-026","title":"The Cruise of the Corwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUIR, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cruise of the Corwin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xxxi, 279 pp. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Original pale green cloth over boards, with a color pictorial label of the Corwin in Arctic ice (after a painting by Denny) mounted to the front board, white lettering, top edge gilt. Illustrated with photogravure plates from photographs — several by Edward S. Curtis — and with drawings from Muir's own sketches; appendices on glaciation and botany; one map of Wrangell Land. In the original publisher's pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.75 to the spine, unclipped. Kimes 348; BAL 14775; Arctic Bibliography 11838. Book very good, binding tight and internally clean; dust jacket good, with chipping and short tears at the spine head and corners but the pictorial artwork and $2.75 price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuir's Arctic journal, published posthumously by his literary executor. In the summer of 1881 the U.S. Revenue Cutter Corwin sailed from San Francisco into the Bering Sea, charged with searching for the lost Jeannette expedition under Commander George W. De Long and with resupplying the whaling and trading stations along the Alaskan and Siberian coasts. Captain Calvin L. Hooper invited Muir to join as the cruise's naturalist. Muir kept a daily journal and sent letters to the San Francisco \u003cem\u003eDaily Evening Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e recording glaciers, plant life, and the Aleut and Chukchi villages, as the Corwin worked north toward Wrangell Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muir, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951349921,"sku":"TO-2026-026","price":685.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-026_02.jpg?v=1783703951"},{"product_id":"to-2026-027","title":"John Steinbeck: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. 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Payne's inscription, written the day he sent copy one to Goldstone, places it second in the sequence in which the 1,200 copies left the press — and records the moment a forty-year California collection, catalogued from Texas, was made permanent in print. Inscribed copies of G\u0026amp;P are uncommon; one that is also the co-author's working copy, dated within the production sequence, is a singular survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-027\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldstone, Adrian H., and John R. 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Inscribed by Suarès on the half-title to Henry Miller: \"Henry Miller, my friend, \/ giving you this book \/ is one of the happy \/ days of my life. \/ C.S. \/ Pac. Pal. 16 may 73.\" Very good in printed wrappers; light fading along the spine; minor age toning to covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA direct association copy linking two figures whose friendship ran through Henry Miller's intellectual life. Carlo Suarès (1892–1976) knew Miller from the Paris years of the Villa Seurat and \u003cem\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/em\u003e.  This copy was inscribed in Pacific Palisades on 16 May 1973 — Miller's home from 1963 until his death — making an in-person handover all but certain. The book belongs to Suarès's late Kabbalah cycle for Shambhala, following \u003cem\u003eThe Cipher of Genesis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Song of Songs\u003c\/em\u003e (both 1970). Its argument — that Judas was not the betrayer of Christianity but its trained agent in awakening human consciousness — is exactly the kind of esoteric, anti-institutional reading of the Gospels Miller had been drawn to since the Villa Seurat days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscriptions of this length, warmth, and specificity from a named author to a named recipient — both established literary figures with documented decades of mutual reading — are uncommon. The wording is unguarded, and the place-and-date detail anchors it to a single afternoon at a known address. 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The issue is a roll-call of the period: alongside Ginsberg are John Rechy's \"The Fabulous Wedding of Miss Destiny,\" Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Edward Dahlberg, Robert Creeley, James Wright, Norman Mailer, Paul Blackburn, Edward Dorn, Peter Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's \"Her,\" and an excerpt from Jean Genet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned by Ginsberg on the page where his own work begins, the copy joins the documentary record of one of the most consequential little magazines in postwar American letters — a publication born of a censorship fight and central to the public emergence of the Beat writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-042\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ginsberg, Allen","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951841441,"sku":"TO-2026-042","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-042_01.jpg?v=1784609004"},{"product_id":"to-2026-043","title":"The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMILLER, Henry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Smile at the Foot of the Ladder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Duell, Sloan \u0026amp; Pearce, 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Henry Miller on the front free endpaper: \"From Henry Miller with deep appreciation of so many kindnesses \/ To — Harry and Margaret \/ 8\/27\/48.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 124 pp. Designed by Merle Armitage; prefatory essay \"About Henry Miller\" by Edwin Corle. Quarter black cloth over printed paper-covered boards, top edge red, in the publisher's orange-striped pictorial dust jacket. Cloth separated at the rear joint; the dust jacket with staining to the front flap and edge wear; a fair-to-good copy of an uncommon inscribed first edition. Shifreen \u0026amp; Jackson A66a.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Miller considered \u003cem\u003eThe Smile at the Foot of the Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e the most peculiar of all the stories he had written — a short fable of Auguste, a clown who could make audiences laugh but longed to give them a lasting joy. 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This copy carries Miller's own warm, dated inscription, presenting the book five months after publication \"with deep appreciation of so many kindnesses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-043\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miller, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Fair","offer_id":46459951874209,"sku":"TO-2026-043","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-043_01_b458df60-3007-4365-b28a-2f39422abc00.jpg?v=1783744065"},{"product_id":"to-2026-044","title":"Ghost Tantras (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCLURE, Michael.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGhost Tantras.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, SIGNED.\u003c\/strong\u003e San Francisco: self-published by the author; distributed by City Lights Books, 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 106 pp. Black-and-white photo-illustrated wrappers, $1.50 on the rear cover. Signed by Michael McClure on the title page. A near fine copy, with light wear to the extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael McClure's \u003cem\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/em\u003e is the experimental volume of \"beast language\" poems — a mix of lyrical, guttural, and laryngeal sound, lion roars and growls and preverbal utterance. 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The poem opens under an epigraph from Robert Duncan, placing this coastal meditation in the lineage of San Francisco Renaissance poetry. 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[ix], 269 pp. Publisher's red cloth, in the original pictorial dust jacket priced $2.50 net. The book itself clean and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bowen's celebrated fifth novel — first published in London by Gollancz in 1935 — unfolds across a single February day, as two children wait out the hours in a Paris house while a long central section reaches back to recover the passionate, ruinous history of the boy's parents. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-064\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bowen, Elizabeth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459952595105,"sku":"TO-2026-064","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-064_01.jpg?v=1784602855"},{"product_id":"to-2026-065","title":"Bible of Filth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRUMB, R. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBible of Filth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being #597. Paris: Futuropolis, 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall octavo, unpaginated. Original black morocco binding stamped in silver, with yellow silk ribbon bookmark; issued without dust jacket, the original publisher's sleeve not present with this copy. A fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reference Bible bound for a different congregation. Crumb assembled this small leather-bound volume of his most explicit underground comics — work drawn from \u003cem\u003eSnatch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJiz\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZap\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eXYZ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBig Ass\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eUneeda\u003c\/em\u003e — and Futuropolis printed it in Paris in a thousand numbered copies, designed to look like a pocket Bible. It was never distributed in the United States; the graphic sexual content kept it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrumb is the central figure of San Francisco underground comics — \u003cem\u003eZap\u003c\/em\u003e, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin' — and \u003cem\u003eBible of Filth\u003c\/em\u003e gathers his sexual material in a single volume produced for a European audience. 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What lifts the book for the collector is the illustrator: Jo Mora, the sculptor, cartographer, and \"Renaissance Man of the West,\" who produced its frontispiece and twenty-one line drawings in 1932 — the same Monterey Peninsula years in which he was making his most sought-after pictorial maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBenito and Loreta Delfin\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the Mora-illustrated canon alongside \u003cem\u003eDawn and the Dons: The Romance of Monterey\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) and \u003cem\u003eFifty Funny Animal Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (1932), and is one of the more accessible titles for a collector building a Mora shelf. 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New York: Green Circle Books, 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 255 pp. Red cloth in the publisher's color-illustrated dust jacket. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book belongs to the broader 1930s San Francisco crime tradition associated with Dashiell Hammett and his contemporaries — writers who turned the working geography of the city into genre material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Depression-era San Francisco crime novel, here in its scarce original color-illustrated dust jacket. Ned Anderson, a wealthy young San Francisco playboy, returns from a round-the-world trip to find that his attorney has swindled him out of his fortune and that the attorney's secretary has been kidnapped; Anderson hires the private detective Simon Crole, and the case turns on a victim who meets the same fate twice over. 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The volume sits at the hinge between her early Greenwich Village lyric brilliance and the more politically engaged poetry that followed her involvement in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade hardcover of \u003cem\u003eThe Buck in the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e is common. 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Minor wear to the dust jackets, one price-clipped; otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three volumes: \u003cem\u003eLove Letter from an Impossible Land\u003c\/em\u003e (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), the Yale Series of Younger Poets selection chosen by Archibald MacLeish, here the second printing; \u003cem\u003eShips and Other Figures\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), first edition, inscribed at Los Angeles in 1953; and \u003cem\u003eThe Open Sea and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), the limited first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed from type and designed by Harry Ford. 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Also included: \u003cem\u003eReasons for Poetry \u0026amp; The Reason for Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e (Washington: Library of Congress, 1982), the published text of Meredith's two lectures as Consultant in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-088\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meredith, William","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953447073,"sku":"TO-2026-088","price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-088_04.jpg?v=1784611282"},{"product_id":"to-2026-092","title":"Sails and Mirage and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTERLING, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSails and Mirage and Other Poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12mo. 119 pp. Green cloth elaborately blind-stamped with a spider-web design, titled in gilt; in the original browned glassine dust wrapper, itself printed with a spider-web design. A fine copy, with the tiniest foxing to the fore-edge, the fragile glassine with shallow chipping to the edges. BAL 18797; Mattila A25.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Sterling (1869–1926) was the central figure of California's literary world in the first quarter of the twentieth century — a presiding poet of the San Francisco bohemia and the founder, at Carmel-by-the-Sea, of the artists' and writers' colony that drew Jack London, Mary Austin, and a generation of West Coast writers. \u003cem\u003eSails and Mirage\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the poems of his maturity, among them \"Spring in Carmel\" and \"The Passing of Bierce,\" his elegy for his mentor Ambrose Bierce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is dedicated to Albert M. Bender, the San Francisco insurance broker, art patron, and book collector who was one of the most important supporters of the arts in California in this period. The original glassine wrapper is the uncommon feature here: fragile by nature, it has been lost from the great majority of surviving copies of Robertson's Sterling first editions. To find one present, with its spider-web design intact and the book itself fine, is unusual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-092\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sterling, George","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953840289,"sku":"TO-2026-092","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-092_01.jpg?v=1784613168"},{"product_id":"to-2026-093","title":"Strange Waters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTERLING, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStrange Waters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION,\u003c\/strong\u003e limited to 150 copies. [San Francisco]: privately printed, [1926].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis copy carries several corrections to the text in what appears to be George Sterling's own hand. 12mo. [iv], 10 pp. Text printed in brown ink on toned laid paper; heavy tan paper wrappers with a decorative lyre-and-roses device, three-hole stab-sewn with a brown silk tie. A near fine copy, with light foxing, slight darkening to the covers, and small owner initials to the upper rear cover. BAL 18827; Mattila A29.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA privately printed pamphlet from the last year of George Sterling's life, in a copy he appears to have gone over and corrected himself — a habit well attested in his privately printed and presentation copies. \u003cem\u003eStrange Waters\u003c\/em\u003e was privately printed in San Francisco in an edition of just 150 copies and advertised in the August 1926 issue of the \u003cem\u003eOverland Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (Johnson, p. 38). Small private printings of this kind are the scarcest part of Sterling's bibliography — his major collections circulated widely, but a slim silk-tied pamphlet like this survives in far fewer hands. A copy bearing the poet's own manuscript corrections, from the final months of his life, is uncommon and of real documentary interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-093\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sterling, George","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459953905825,"sku":"TO-2026-093","price":385.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-093_01.jpg?v=1784609889"},{"product_id":"to-2026-094","title":"Into the Light: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTAYLOR, Edward Robeson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInto the Light: A Poem.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION,\u003c\/strong\u003e the first separate printing of the poem. San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. [32] pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers, the front cover with a striking Art Nouveau design — a stylized red flowering plant within a gilt, green, and black stained-glass-style border. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece and title page; title and text enclosed throughout in red ornamental borders. Near fine: the wrappers bright, with strong gilt and crisp ornament. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWrappered books of this period are inherently fragile and seldom survive well. An uncommon and attractive volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA handsome example of early San Francisco fine printing from the firm of D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard. The author, Edward Robeson Taylor (1838–1923), was a physician and lawyer who served as Dean of Hastings College of the Law and, from 1907, as the 28th Mayor of San Francisco — sworn in at sixty-eight, the oldest in the city's history, a record he still holds — while publishing many volumes of verse. He also founded the Book Club of California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-094\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor, Edward Robeson","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459954004129,"sku":"TO-2026-094","price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-094_01.jpg?v=1784611579"},{"product_id":"to-2026-095","title":"Birthright: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRIBLING, T. S.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBirthright: A Novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Century Co., 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 309 pp. Illustrated by F. Luis Mora. Original red cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine. Dedicated \"To my mother Amelia Waits Stribling.\" Near fine, with slight fading to the spine and a small ink mark to the upper page edge; the cloth bright and the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the fictional town of Hooker's Bend, Tennessee, \u003cem\u003eBirthright\u003c\/em\u003e follows Peter Siner, a Harvard-educated young man who returns to his Southern hometown and confronts the entrenched prejudices and laws of the post-Reconstruction South. First serialized in \u003cem\u003eCentury Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in 1921 and issued in book form in 1922, the novel drew notice across the divides of its era and was twice adapted for the screen by the pioneering African American director Oscar Micheaux — as a silent film in 1924 and a sound film at the end of the 1930s. The 1924 silent is now lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are by F. 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The poems take their subjects from the landscape and seasons of Santa Cruz and the California coast, with titles including \"A Song of the Sea,\" \"A Winter Storm in Santa Cruz,\" \"The Orphans' Christmas,\" and \"To Santa Cruz.\" A genuinely uncommon book: no copies were traced in the antiquarian market at the time of cataloguing, and only two institutional holdings could be located — a survival rate typical of modest, locally produced wrappered volumes from the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-093\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stack, William J.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459954266273,"sku":"TO-2026-096","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-096_01.jpg?v=1784610713"},{"product_id":"to-2026-100","title":"A Book of Limericks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSMALL PRESS CLUB OF MARIN COUNTY. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Book of Limericks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. Marin County, California: The Small Press Club of Marin County, 1975. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA genuinely scarce object; no other copies were traced at the time of cataloguing. Of real interest to collectors of California private-press and amateur printing. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall oblong volume, 21 leaves. Color relief illustrations. Stiff salmon wrappers with red lettering, brown plastic comb binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unusual collaborative private-press production: twenty-one leaves of comic limericks, each leaf hand-set and printed by one of the member presses of the Small Press Club of Marin County, gathered into a single volume. Sixteen amateur presses contributed — among them Piping Rock, Sunflower, Frog Prints, Peanut Buddha, Shoestring, Pine Hill, Ampersand, Paradox, Narcissus, Nether-stoned, Figment, Trykkeri, Plant, Gladsome, Olson, and Athena — several printing more than one leaf, so that the book functions as a typographic specimen book of a 1970s Bay Area private-press circle: a survey of types, presswork, and design taste gathered between two covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-100\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Press Club of Marin County","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459954462881,"sku":"TO-2026-100","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-100_01.jpg?v=1784606537"},{"product_id":"to-2026-101","title":"Postcards (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e PROULX, E. 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Near fine in a like dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostcards\u003c\/em\u003e itself follows Loyal Blood, eldest son of a failing New England farm family, who flees after a violent crime and spends the next half-century adrift across the postwar American West while the family he left behind slowly comes apart. The narrative is interleaved with reproduced postcards from the Bloods' scattered correspondence — the formal device that gives the novel its title and its structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-101\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Proulx, E. 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