Collectible Books

New York: Brentano"s, 1904. 255 pages. Dargan (1869-1968) was a writer and poet. This is her first book. ISBN: 281AIB1051131.

(N.-pl.): Reynolds Price (Privately Printed For the Author), 1976. 50 pages. 5 by 8 inches. One of 300 copies privately printed as holiday gifts by the author. ISBN: B001LCYQWY.

1897: The Schulte Publishing Company, Chicago. 373 pages plus 8 pages of other Schulte books. Wright III, 1882 (1891 edition). ISBN: 281AIB1051129.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1931. 247 pages. A romance novel. ISBN: B00085HJH4.

London: "Soviet War News", 1945. 64 pages. B/W photographic illustrations. Soviet WWII propaganda for the British audience. ISBN: 281AIB1051125.

New-York: Danl. Mallory; R. P. Bixby & Co.1842. 226 pages. Wright I-1782. ISBN: 281AIB1051123.

N. Pl: Bob Wensch, 1992. 16 pages. Wensch taught at Black Mountain beginning in 1935 and later served as rector. ISBN: 281AIB1051122.

Jamaica, New York: Book and Author War Bond Committee, 1946. 55 pages. Authors volunteered to support the war effort by speaking in various cities to sell war bonds. Prizes were then awarded to those individuals or organizations that had made the largest purchases of bonds. The prizes were the manuscripts that the authors had contributed toward the end that more bonds might be sold. ISBN: B0017W4YWA.

Den Haag: J. Philip Kruseman's Uitgeversmij, 1957. 31 pages. Musica-serie Kleinbe Boeknen over Grote Mannen No. 19. ISBN: 281AIB1051117.

New York: Penguin Books, 1983. 183 pages with 10 additional pages of ads for Penguin books. First hardback edition was published by Faber & Faber in 1982. ISBN: 281AIB1051112.

South San Francisco: ManRoot, 1976. Unpaginated. These poems originally appeared in the Monterey Beacon in 1935, either signed Amnesia Glasscock or unsigned. They were attributed to John Steinbeck but actually written by his first wife, Carol Henning. ISBN: 281AIB1047635.

Tannisse Uranium Mining Company of Nevada, n.d., ca. 1924. Oblong format, 10 x 6.6 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1051107.

Berkeley: 1909. 8 pages. Reprinted from the University of California Chronicle, Vol. IX, No. 2. Bradley, 1843-1936, was a Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley, from 1882-1911. Helen Throop Purdy was a Berkeley historian and writer. ISBN: 281AIB1051105.

N. Pl: Jim Burns, 1968. Six, 11 x 8.5 inch, sheets stapled, with mimeographed typed poems. Prepared for "Poetry Seminar Friday 16th...Committee Room B, - 7 p.m." Burns, born 1936, is an English poet and publisher. ISBN: 281AIB1051103.

(London): Phaidon Press, 1998. 512 pages. 10 by 11.5 inches. A useful survey of fashions and designers, with one page devoted to each of 500-odd subjects, illustrated with a photograph, mostly in color. ISBN: 9780714838083.

New York: Random House, 1991. 1310 pages. One of 300 specially bound signed and numbered copies. The author's longest novel, and his eighth best seller. Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize twice, once for fiction and once for non-fiction. ISBN: 281AIB1051097.

New York: World Publishing, 1971. Uncorrected proof. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. ISBN: 281AIB1050812.

New York: World Publishing, 1972. 739 pages. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. ISBN: B000HU0K3K.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. 191 pages. An adaptation of the author's third novel. The play opened off-Broadway in January 1967 and ran for 128 performances. Mailer continued to revise the play for the rest of his life, sometimes recruiting others including Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. ISBN: 9780297178392.

New York: Theatre De Lys, [1967]. [12] pages. 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. The play opened off-Broadway in January 1967 and ran for 128 performances. Evergreen Program Volume 1, Number 4. ISBN: 281AIB1050735.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 375 pages. The author's third book. Issued in two variant dust jackets, one with the author's name in orange and the work Park in green, the second in the reverse scheme (priority unknown). ISBN: B0007H236U.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. 499 pages. Collects four previously published narratives on political conventions together with a new preface. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. ISBN: 9780316544153.

London: Michael Joseph, 1984. 231 pages. A murder mystery by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The book was later adapted for a film starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini and directed by the author. ISBN: 9780718124540.

London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1975. 206 pages. Nonfiction narrative on the historic "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on October 30, 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire. ISBN: 9780246109507.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Unpaginated. The only book of poetry by the author who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and non-fiction. Issued simultaneously in wrappers. ISBN: B004PB4H5Y.

New York: Arbor House, 1983. 229 pages. The first hardcover edition of Mailer's reporting on the Republican and Democratic nomination conventions of 1972, first published that year in paperback. With an introduction by John Leonard. ISBN: 9780877955603.

New York: Random House, 1984. 229 pages. A murder mystery by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The book was later adapted for a film starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini and directed by the author. ISBN: 9780394537863.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. 271 pages. Uncorrected proof for the British edition of Mailer's fourth novel. ISBN: 281AIB1050800.

London: Macmillan, 1983. 709 pages. A novel of ancient Egypt. ISBN: 9780333340257.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. 192 pages. A collection of essays and interviews. ISBN: 9780316544184.