(click above for list of books sorted by arrival date)

CLINT EASTWOOD: A Biography
Signed by the Oscar-winning actor/director

Bob Brown's MY MARJONARY
Inscribed by the cult poet to Kay Boyle

Ted Berrigan's SONNETS
The mimeo first edition

ALL MY PRETTY ONES by Anne Sexton
SIGNED by the poet

OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS
Samuel Beckett's first book appearance

Steinbeck's THE PEARL
First UK edition, SIGNED by Steinbeck

THE LIFE OF TYMON OF ATHENS
Extracted from Shakespeare's Second Folio (1632)

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
First edition of Hemingway's classic.

Bernadette Mayer's ERUDITIO EX MEMORIA
An archive of manuscript drafts and source material.

biblioblography:
Adventures of a rare book dealer.
Plus interesting discoveries, new arrivals and blog-only specials.

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Aug. 5th, 2009 - Please note our new contact information to the right.

April 24th, 2009 - I've launched a new Twitter account to offer inexpensive copies of great reads: @cheepreads. A bit more about the experiment on the blog. Hope you'll follow along.

Feb. 9th, 2009 - My third catalog, LIVRE BRUT: 20 Vernacular, Folk and Outsider Books, is completed and available for download (PDF) or by request. Highlights include a photo album of the 1904 Sierra Club High Trip to Yosemite, one of the earliest Navy "cruise books," a stunning handmade book by a Korean War POW, and many more.

I run a small used, rare, and antiquarian book business in the Washington DC metro area (formerly the Cannery Row Old Book Co. of Monterey, CA). Search and want services are available, as are appraisals and collection development. Please inquire. Offers of books for sale are actively solicited, from individual titles to entire collections. Proud member: ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA. More about me can also be found here.