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Established in 1988, Skyline Books specializes in modern literature, art, and photography, with an emphasis on the Beat Generation, sixties counterculture, Pop Art, student activism, Fluxus, rock music, surfing, signed books, Happenings, psychoactive drugs, Pop Culture, Avant-garde art, and more.

You will find a fine selection of rare books and manuscripts by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Patchen, Hunter S. Thompson, Bruce Weber, William S. Burroughs, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Kenna, Gary Snyder, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, Haruki Murakami, Timothy Leary, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Peter Beard, Dave Eggers, Toni Morrison, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sherman Alexie, Gordon Wasson, Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Jim Carroll, Edward Gorey, Bruce Conner, Don DeLillo, Yoko Ono, Robert Frank, Raymond Carver, Keith Haring, Ian Rankin, and Brion Gysin, among many others.

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IRVING, John. A Widow for One Year. [London] Bloomsbury, [1998]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition preceding the American. Signed by Irving. Fine. SKB-5373
$125
IRVING, John. A Widow for One Year. [London] Bloomsbury, [1998]. Hardbound, issued without a dust jacket. The correct first edition preceding all others. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap. SKB-5634
$150
IRVING, John. My Movie Business. NY: Random House, [1999]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. As new. JB-8828
$15
IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire. NY: E. P. Dutton, [1981]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Briefly inscribed by Irving. Foxing to top edge, else fine. SKB-7466
$150
IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire. NY: E. P. Dutton, [1981]. Softbound. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first state. Publisher's "bound galley" information sheet laid in. Trivial soiling to back cover, else fine. SKB-13554
$50
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Down There on a Visit. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Isherwood. Fine in near fine, just perceptibly spine-faded dust jacket with a 1-inch tear to front panel. SKB-8064
$125
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The World in the Evening. London: Methuen, [1954]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition. Owner's inscription to first blank page, else about fine in near fine dust jacket with very minor wear to top and bottom of spine. SKB-8071
$25
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. An Artist of the Floating World. London: Faber & Faber, [1986]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition, second issue (printed by Richard Clay). Signed by Ishiguro. The author's second book. Pages slightly toned at edges, else fine. SKB-9897
$150
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. Publisher's prospectus for Early Japanese Stories. n.p.:n.p., [2000]. A handsome folding prospectus for this book published by Belmont Press in 2000. Fine. SKB-13844
$3
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Softbound. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine. SKB-2537
$125
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Softbound. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Signed by the author. Fine. SKB-13536
$175
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Unconsoled. London: Faber and Faber, [1995]. Thick 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Very fine. SKB-4114
$55
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Unconsoled. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Signed by the author. Very fine. SKB-4588
$50
[ART] IZERGINA, A. N. The Hermitage, Leningrad: French 20th Century Masters. London: Hamlyn, [1970]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated including tipped-in color plates. Fine in publisher's cardstock slipcase. SKB-13458
$37.5

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