Search Results: Modern and Hypermodern Fiction from Singularity Rare & Fine

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. Octavo. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Signed by Terry Southern on the title page, without inscription. First Edition with all first state points, those being - on Jacket: James Jones blurb instead of Nelson Algren's at bottom of back panel; $ 5.00 price; code 0464, bottom of front flap. Book: purple cloth, black paper boards; no statement of printing (later editions do state printing); 5.75" x 8.25", 224 pp.; red endpapers and topstain. A Very Good book in a Near Fine jacket. Book shows some discoloration to top page edges, and a 5% lean (see scan); also very faint touch of fade at top edges of the boards. Jacket is first state and not clipped, still bearing the $ 5.00 price, and really shows no damage to call out, a solid Near Fine example of a jacket which has often suffered grade-loss easily. A nice "flat" signed (no inscription), First Edition, First State example of… Read More

Paris: Olympia Press 1958, 1958. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paris: Olympia Press, 1958. First edition. 12mo, green perfect-bound wrappers, 189 pp. Near Fine; touch peripheral wear. Please see scans. Bearing the later price overstamp. Scarce first edition - if you're here, you know the story of the bannings, burnings, and later pirate and non-pirate editions. The story of a naive and gorgeous young blonde girl - who quickly finds out in exactly what way we men are all, instantly and always, the same - borrows its plot structure from Voltaire's Candide and uses that strangely juxtaposed vehicle to shine a light on all the vagaries of modern western life which beg to be lampooned. Considered by many, then and now, to be a classic of "black (dark) humor". In 2006, Playboy Magazine included Candy on its list of the "25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written". Handsome and rare specimen of a title that is en… Read More

New York: Wings, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Carrie / Salem's Lot / The Shining New York: Wings Books [Random House], 2002. First Edition and First Printing thus (of this collection), with a number line starting with "1" (unusual for a Random House affiliate). Octavo, 1,096 pp. Red cloth boards, silver imprinting. Pictorial jacket, art by Tim Jacobus. Very Good Plus, really very close to Near Fine, for jacket and book. Jacket, which is not clipped, shows small scale curling at top; the book has trace dust on top page edges. Does not appear to have been read. A first printing and first edition of this Wings Books collection of King's first three novels. Handsome condition which many graders would call near fine, as well they might. Hefty; extra shipping may apply to some addresses. L41n

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 35 numbered pages. Brown cloth boards, no jacket, as issued. Fine; see scans. Bruccoli's scholarly bibliographic summary of Raymond Chandler's work, with separate sections on books, first book appearances, stories, articles, reviews, columns, letters, poems, blurbs, and an interview. L47n

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. Stated First American Edition. Octavo, illustrated jacket by Peter Burchard, red cloth boards with gilt cover and spine imprinting, yellow endpapers, 251 pp. A handsome Near Fine book, showing only modest foxing on the last endpaper, in a Very Good jacket with light edge wear, most notable at spine ends. See scans. Faint, trace musty scent. Brian Glanville's Florentine-suburban-hills-villa based tale of romantic longing for his first wife, not so much with the current one. A nicely preserved example for the collector of romances. Or, wives. L-43 n

Forsaken Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sweet, Joseph. (no place): Forsaken Press, 2009. First Edition Thus of the only hardcover edition (to date) of Joe Sweet's fifth novel - and the first book of the Damnation Chronicles - The Damned. Only ten of these were made by Sweet - signed and numbered, imitation black leather-clad boards, gilt leaf title, with a buttoning strap and a key and chain. Octavo, 218 pp. Hand illustrated front pastedown by Sweet, silver ink filled by him, with another signature. This is number one of the ten. See scans. The key and chain, per the author, symbolize the key in the story. It can be used as a bookmark, but...read a paperback reading copy, not this beauty. L20n

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hilary Gibson. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First American Edition and First Printing (see scan). Octavo, jacket illustrated by Hilary Gibson, three-quarters blue paper covered boards, one-quarter white cloth, gilt spine imprinting, 196 pp. Fine in Fine jacket..but for the bar-coded "sale price" sticker, lower right (see scan). This is removable, but somehow I think the author would prefer it stay on. Magic Realism, with a seasoning of sex and mystery, from Miles Gibson. L-26

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Walter Kumme. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First Edition and First Printing, with "A" on the copyright page. Octavo, jacket illustrated by Walter Kumme, light green buckram boards with gilt spine and cover imprinting, illustrated endpapers also by Kumme, top page edges dyed black, 303 pp. A Very Good book, fairly spoted on covers but otherwise without notable flaw, in a bright, clean, unclipped, better than VG jacket with some peripheral wear and a bit of foxing on the back panel. See scan. A scarce first printing of Weston's brooding novel about a war widow who enters an intricately swirling emotional state when she meets a man who seems nearly identical to her deceased husband. L-30n

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Stated First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, jacket designed by Steve Snider, red boards with gilt spine imprinting, 596 pp. Fine book in near-fine unclipped jacket showing toning at the spine, a smudge toward top right. L-27

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo; dust jacket designed by Paul Perlow; green boards with gilt spine imprinting, 312 pp. A handsome Near Fine book in a VG plus jacket which is complete, shows only three small closed tears on the back cover, faint toning toward top of panels. L-25

New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. First Edition / First Printing. Octavo, illustrated jacket, gray cloth boards with yellow spine and cover imprinting, 431 pp. A handsome Near Fine book, with just the remnants of a bookseller's sticker on the rear pastdown, in an unclipped, about very good jacket with some spine top tatter and smaller scale wear at other places on its edges. See scans. Just faintly musty. The first actual novel by Moffett; a story of the wild partying and traveling life of a man trying - apparently insufficiently hard - to overcome alcoholism. L-32n

New York: Dutton, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Dutton, January, 2012 publication date. the copyright date, by Raymond Khoury, is 2011. See scan of copyright page. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, illustrated jacket, gray and black boards with gilt spine imprinting, 371 pp. + 1. Fine book in a Fine jacket. See scans. The third installment in the Templar series, with Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin. l50n

Berkeley, CA: Prosumer Media Corporation, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New; immaculate. See scans and description. Berkeley, CA: Prosumer Media Corporation, 2003. The 2003 Special Edition of Dig_iT Magazine (of WHAT?), and issue devoted to reviews of 162 items of then-leading-edge consumer technology. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 144 pp. New; flawless. See all scans. A very scarce edition of a very scarce magazine in the modern history of computers. For the collector only; the technology herein reviewed is from 2003 - gasp ! - when we were still, I think, hunter-gatherers foraging for nuts and berries...weren't we ? Actually, I still do that from time to time, when funds are unprepossessing in amplitude. Get this one, and you'll be the only dude on your block that has one, for sure. Computer history archival entry. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR30

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Book in Fine jacket. See scans and description. New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First edition, stated first printing. Octavo, 256 pp. Black cloth, yellow and orange spine imprint, orange endpapers, jacket. Fine book in a Fine, unclipped jacket; see scans. Patrick Mann [actually, Leslie Waller] wrote this novel - best known for the riveting Sidney Lumet/ Al Pacino film version - with an actual incident for a basis. Or so goes the story... Scarce now, in top condition. Find, Handsome example. Mylar protected jacket. L17n

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, photo-illustrated jacket, blue and russet boards with gilt spine imprinting, 431 pp. Near Fine book in Near Fine, unclipped jacket. L-109

New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New; see description and scan. Advance Reading Copy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. The Duchess of Nothing, ARC, Heather McGowan's darkly comic novel about wandering with and relating to a seven year old boy because, though it's not easy, it is easier than doing the same thing with her cold, insensitive, absent husband or her cold, insensitive, absent lover. Well, we ARE men. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 5 + 216 + 1 pp. New and quite pristine. Note that the apparent cover dust in the scan is not, in fact, dust; it was the unfortunate choice of the cover artist to make it look like dust. The sensibilities of artistes. This immaculate Advance Reading Copy is from uncorrected proofs, and "the text should not be quoted without comparison to the revised text". A sharp, collectible piece, and of course chronologically about as early as one can get. See scans. L106

New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Stated First Edition (first printing). Octavo, jacket designed by Mario Pulice, black boards, gilt spine imprinting, red endpapers, 564 pp. Fine in Fine Jacket. L-27

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, illustrated jacket, blue and black boards with silver imprinting, 874 pp. As New book, As New jacket. Flawless. Laid flat and sealed since purchase. A collector copy. L23

New York: William Morrow, 2019. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New, and pristine, book and jacket. First Edition, First Printing. "Fall", by Neal Stephenson. New York: William Morrow, 2019. Octavo, illustrated jacket, black cloth boards with gold spine imprinting and blind-stamped NS monogram and design on cover, illustrated endpapers, 884 pp (883+1). A pristine, flawless example of Stephenson's 2019 venture into the prospective ability to upload one's conscious awareness to - The Cloud. Can we explore oher possible destinations, please? Very collectible example, in sealed flat storage on premises. Ships in stout protection, of course. LT19

New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. First Edition and First Printing of Vintage Contemporaries edition. Octavo, wraps designed by Susan Mitchell, 303 pp. + ads. Fine; top right corner micro-touched (see scan). L-33