New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm), 281, [1] pages plus advertisements, in green cloth, top edge gilt, beautiful gold medallion to the upper panel, in an illustrated dust jacket. A love story set in New York..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition Thus. A fragment of an unfinished novel, written ca. 1955, featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment resulted from an attempt to return to fiction in English. "Asked why it ends abruptly, he replied..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers (Viking Press), 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 340 pages, in boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). Advance review copy of David Bradley's highly regarded debut novel..... More
The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Three Capote stories (Miriam; Among the Paths to Eden; and A Christmas Memory) that became three television specials and then a single film. Octavo, 276 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Front board lightly bumped and head of spine..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Best-selling antiwar novel about the execution of some French soldiers on false charges of cowardice in World War I. "Paths of Glory" was the Book of the Month Club choice for June 1935. The book also was the basis for..... More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (192 x 130 mm), 203, [5] pages, including an errata leaf, bound in the original pink wrappers (soft cover). The first novel by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), a largely autobiographical novel about first love..... More
[Palma de Mallorca, Spain]: The Divers Press, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Robert Creeley on the title page and featuring 11 stories and a preface. Published by Creeley's own Divers Press while he was living in Mallorca in 1953-54. Striking cover illustration by French painter René Laubiès... More
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New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 213 x 138 mm), 286 pages, in black quarter cloth spine and green cloth boards, dark gray top stain, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. The sequel..... More
Easthampton, Mass. Warwick Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by the author ("Frieda Fitzenmeyer"), the alter ego of illustrator and printer Carol J. Blinn, who has also signed the book. One of 125 copies, the sixth in Carol Blinn's charming series of "duck books." This book tells..... More
Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. First Edition Thus. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 x 135 mm), 433, [1] pages, in publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine in red, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the title page to..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Quarto (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 504 pages, in quarter cloth over illustrated boards, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the half title. A novel about an..... More
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London: Bloomsbury, 1990. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 277, [1] pages, in blue cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Set in South Africa (like..... More
London: Reinhardt Books in Association With Viking, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of 12 short stories. One of the stories, "A Branch of the Service," is published here for the first time; most of the others have never appeared in book form. With a preface by the author..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm), 204 pages, in gray cloth, silver titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by Xiaolu Guo on the title page and dated 14..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 226 pages, in illustrated wrappers housed in an illustrated slipcase. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the front free end paper. A collection of 12 stories by the celebrated Chinese-American..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. First Edition. Octavo, 323, [1] pages in black and cream boards, titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by Ha Jin on the title page. The third novel by the Chinese-born author Ha Jin. CONDITION: Fine..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 352 pages, photo-illustrated boards, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by Ha Jin on the title page. Ha Jin's novel about Chinese prisoners-of-war held by American forces during the Korean war. It's fiction but it's based..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1989. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED by Oscar Hijuelos on the title page. An uncorrected proof of the best-selling novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The book served as the basis for the 1992 film, The Mambo Kings, starring Antonio Banderas... More
New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 130 mm), 127, [1] pages, in gray cloth, in an illustrated dust jacket by Baldwin Hawes. Christopher Isherwood's novel about the making of a film, based on his experiences as..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm), 169, [3] pages, in black and brown boards, pink top stain, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED by Charles Johnson on the title..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Doris Lessing on the title page. A novel in which 18-year-old Ben is victimized by a variety of people in London, Nice, and Rio. A sequel to "The Fifth Child." PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 x...... More
New York: The Free Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140 mm), 194, [2] pages, red quarter cloth over black boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED by David Mamet on..... More
New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., 1944. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 255, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. Heinrich Mann's novel about a tyrannical schoolmaster who gets mixed up..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 143 mm), 247, [1] pages, in black quarter cloth over boards titles in silver to spine, in a printed, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED by Bobbie Ann Mason..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Walter Mosley on the title page. Mosley's first work of science fiction in which a blue light from outer space suddenly transforms people, allowing them to reach their full potential. 8vo., 296 pages. Fine in a Fine dust..... More