New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering over gold boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the colorful Tarot card Fool, [viii] + 485 pages. Edward Paul Abbey (1927 – 1989) was an American author and... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, 1967. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with silver title on spine & a blue star on spine and front cover, Mylar-protected illustrated dust jacket (unclipped) with blue-green-black stylized island, [x] + 305 pages + [1] + [2] A Note About... More
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 1997. First New York Public Library Collector's Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 12mo, frontispiece of LMA after a photograph ca.1850s, illustrated with pictures of Louisa, family, friends, & manuscripts, striped blue and gray-blue endpapers, 369 pages. EXCEPTION ANTHOLOGY in TOP CONDITION internally... More
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, light blue boards with gilt spine lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with orange & blue backgrounds with a four-panel depiction of an Indian & The New Yorker circular seal stating that the Author... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahay, 1956. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED PRESENTATION by the AUTHOR, 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with green lettering over blue-gray lettered boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the author in a shadowy alley, [vi] + [1] 3-346 pages. Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981)... More
New York: Planet Press, 1930. Marcel Arnac. First Edition Limited to 2,000 copies of which this is No.198. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with green lettering on spine, illustrated with several B&W light-hearted drawings by the author, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of an infant perched on a tilted yardstick against... More
New York: William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page, 8vo (9 1/4"" x 6 1/2"), green quarter cloth over matching green boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with art by Alan Dingman, 309 pages + [310] Credits... More
North Liberty, Iowa: Ice Cube Books, 2009. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by the AUTHOR, 8vo, pale yellow speckled cloth over boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a man and boy in swimsuits by the ocean, illustrated with several B&W half-tone photographs, 259 pages + [6]. "A story... More
New York: HarperFlamingo / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998. First Edition. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a white-bearded old farmer--suggesting abolitionist John Brown-- standing outside his mountain... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2011. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black cloth over black boards with an embossed "M" on the cover, Mylar-protected black dust jacket (unclipped) with a large green eye with yellow banded "eyebrow," elaborate black & white sketches as endpapers, [vi] +... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the AUTHOR, 8vo, maroon quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over gray boards, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) designed by David Gatti, [i-viii], ix-xx + 281 pages. John Simmons Barth (born May 27... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Tall 8vo (9 3/8" x 6 3/8"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) by Lorellie Stubbs, tan endpapers, 710 pages. John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American... More
Boston New York Toronto London: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, tan quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over blue-gray boards, Mylar-protected color photographic dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Robert Farber, [i-vi], vii, [viii] + [1-2] 3-257 pages. John Simmons Barth (born... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the free front endpaper, small 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine, Mylar-protected black-lettered dust jacket (unclipped), [viii] + 177 pages. Donald Barthelme (1931 – 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/8"), black cloth with red lettering on spine and front cover, [xii] + 359 pages. Stephen Vincent Benét (1898 – 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known... More
New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author with flourish on free front endpaper, tall 8vo (9 3/8" x 6 1/2"), cinnamon quarter cloth over tan boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a woman's face, gold "Signed Copy" sticker on dj... More
New York: Redfeld, 1853. Engraved frontispiece. New Edition, Revised by the Author. Rebound in brown cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 4 7/8"), original text rebound in a brown "library" cloth binding, engraved frontispiece and title pages, xi, [xii: blank], [13]-391 pages. SCARCE: NEAR FINE, clean, tight copy with unform light... More
New York: Dutton, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, sky blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a girl in a field pointing up at a tornado, 373 pages... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Thick tall 8vo (or small 4to: 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black boards with scarlet lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Gustave Moreau's painting "Jupiter and Semele," decorative endpapers, [i-xii] + {1-2]-898 pages. Roberto Bolaño... More
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1952. First Modern Library Edition. Cloth. 12mo, red cloth with black labels on spine and cover with gold rules, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with a colored sketch of Dr. Johnson in a London street, xv + [i] Selected Bibliography + 559... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Marbled boards. 8vo, marbled glossy brown marbled boards with tan lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) designed by the Paul Bacon Studio, 354 pages. Vance Bourjaily [pronouced Bour-ZHAY-lee] (1922 – 2010) was a prolific American novelist, playwright, journalist, creative writing... More
New York: Viking, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on front endpaper, 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 3/8"), brown quarter cloth with bright copper-colored lettering on spine over light yellow boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing S. R. Gifford, "A Gorge in the... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1970. First Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo, yellow cloth, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a mandala, [vi] + 376 pages. Exceptional Condition for a Scarce title by Pearl Buck (1892-1973) a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author, whose life and creative works were deeply... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1946. First Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo, beige cloth with black lettering and red illustration plus red pavillion on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Chinese in a pavilion, decorative endpapers with Chinese brushwork, [iv] + 316 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION for a.... More
New York: Stonehill Publishing Company, 1976. First American Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, tan cloth with gold lettering on spine & "AB" on front cover, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), Foreword by the author, squash-colored endpapers, 189, [190] pages + [2] About the Author. John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (1917 –... More