New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, one-third black cloth with gold lettering on spine & front cover and boards, [x] + 309 pages. Nicholas Hornby (born 1957) is an English writer, celebrity, and... More about SLAM; A Novel
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, purple quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over mauve boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with purple marbling motives by Muriel Nasser, [x] + 388 pages. Madeleine L'Engle Camp (1918 - 2007) was an... More about A SEVERED WASP; A Novel
New York: The Modern Library, 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5"), red cloth with black labels & gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected full-color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting soldiers runnng through a desolate battlefield with ruined cannon in foreground, decorative gray "Torchbearer" endpapers, publisher's... More about THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE; An Episode of the American Civil War / Introduction by Robert Wooster...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 5/8" x 6 3/8"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting cliffs, 308 pages. Jonathan Hull is the bestselling... More about THE DISTANCE FROM NORMANDY; Jonathan Hull
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on half title, tall 8vo (9 5/8" x 6 5/8"), dark gray quarter cloth with silver lettering over light gray boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a cloudy... More about PLAINSONG
New York: The Mysterious Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected dark photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting St. Basil's cathedral on Red Square, 277 pages. The... More about FALL OF A COSMONAUT
New York: Broadway Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a white flower by Ron Van Dongen, 319 pages + [2]... More about SWAN; A Novel
Venice, California: Wave Publishing, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 3/8" x 6 3/8"), white quarter cloth with neon green lettering on spine over white boards with neon green small sunglasses on front cover, photographic dust jacket... More about INDISCRETIONS
[Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hiill, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on the title pages, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over yellow boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Richard Faughn, peach endpapers, 260 pages. Jill Collins McCorkle... More about CAROLINA MOON; A novel by Jill McCorkle
[Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hiill, 1990. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, archival mylar-protected typographic wrappers, 343 pages. Jill Collins McCorkle (born 1958) is an American short story writer and novelist. FERRIS BEACH is her fourth novel. SIGNED & in SUPERIOR... More about FERRIS BEACH; A Novel
New York: The Modern Library, 1963. Early Printing of 1960 Modern Library Giant G-38. Cloth. Thick 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), green cloth with black labels and gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a detail from a Japanese print, publisher's black... More about THE TALE OF THE GENJI; A Novel in Six Parts / The Tale of Genji / The Sacred Tree / A Wreath of...
"New York" [actually Shelton, Connecticut]: The First Edition Library: reproduction of The Viking Press, 1939 edition, 1939. Facsimile of First Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), decorative gray cloth with black lettering on spine with front cover delineating the dj's cover art, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of Okies... More about THE GRAPES OF WRATH
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper (with additional Typed Letter Signed by the Author & envelope to an admirer laid in), tall 8vo, off-white quarter cloth with gold... More about THE WIDOWS' ADVENTURES
London New York Toronto: abelard-schuman, 1962. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Shasti O'Leary, protected by a quality archival clear film cover, 223 pages. Xavier (1924 – 2014) was a well-received Italian writer from Calabria who had worked and... More about TERRAROSSA
New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Books, November 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, green quarter cloth with gold lettering over green boards, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Evan Gaffney, protected by a quality archival... More about THE JAPANESE LOVER; A Novel / Translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson
New York: Pocket Books, 2001. First Edition number line ends with 2. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, blue-green cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with detail of a woman's legs by Honi Werner, 376... More about GOOD IN BED
Venice: Wave Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over charcoal boards, photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Robert Graham who also executed several B&W drawings in the volume, top of pages stained..... More about UNTITLED NUDE
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1963. Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo, light orange buckram with black lettering on spine, with an Afterword and Glossary by Stanley Edgar Hyman, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting five young men sketched against an orange-white background, orange topstain, glossary of... More about A CLOCKWORK ORANGE; With an Afterword and Glossary by Stanley Edgar Hyman
The First Edition Library: reproduction of Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952 edition, 1952. Facsimile of First Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), gray-blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by "A," B&W photograph of EH [without pipe] on rear panel of dj, 140 pages... More about THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
"New York" [actually Shelton, Connecticut]: The First Edition Library: reproduction of D. Appleton and Company, 1895 edition, 1895. Facsimile of First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), yellow cloth with red & black lettering on spine & front cover (adding an Illuminated "The"), decorative slipcase reproducing the... More about THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE; An Episode of the American Civil War / By Stephen Crane