New Arrivals
Mother Night
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's half brick cloth lettered in silver over black paper boards. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; trivial sunning to upper and lower edges, small abrasion to front board. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with..... More
First Blood (Rambo)
New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1972. First edition. Signed by David Morrell on the title page. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in metallic red and orange, blue topstain. Very Good with slight lean to spine, a little staining to top edge..... More
The Queen's Gambit
New York: Random House, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walter Tevis on the half-title. 243, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over black cloth spine decorated in white. Very Good with foxing to edges and endpapers, very slight impression to prelims, in Near Fine unclipped..... More
The Lost Weekend
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Jackson on the front free endpaper. [viii], 244 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Offsetting to front free endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, slightly sunned foot, light wear, small scrape..... More
Shogun: A Novel of Japan
London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. First British edition, first printing. Signed by James Clavell on the half title, inscribed to New Zealand-based novelist Diana Moorhead in green sharpie, "This is for Diana Moorhead,- the pretty lady - also an author, who knows...... James C Auckland Oct 23..... More
The Silent Mr. Palomar
New York: Targ Editions, 1981. First edition. One of a limited 250 copies signed by Italo Calvino. Contains ten pieces, all which feature Mr. Palomar, seven of which would later appear in the 1983 complete Italian and the 1985 English editions; the remaining three have not been reprinted since. [iv]..... More
Little House on the Prairie (9 Volume Set)
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995. Collector's edition bound in genuine red leather, decoratively stamped in gilt, with silken endpapers and ribbon placeholder. Complete in nine volumes. Fine, still in publisher's shrink wrap with minor splits in wrap. A beautiful set of Wilder's genuine portrait of Midwest frontier life. More
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in white and tan. Near Fine with lean to binding and light foxing to textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
City of Night
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Rechy on the front free endpaper in ink, "Best wishes John Rechy." 410pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, black topstain. Very Good+ with lean to binding, slightly bumped corners. Former owner's address sticker remnants..... More
Steppenwolf
London: Martin Secker, 1929. First edition in English, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with fading to cloth at foot, heavy foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal sheets and lighter so to contents throughout; contents tanned. In a Near Fine..... More
"Barbers and Lovers" in Ingluvin: The Magazine of Canadian Writing, Number 2, Spring 1971
Montreal: Ingluvin Publications, 1971. Signed by singer-songwriter, poet, and author Leonard Cohen in the bottom margin of the title page, dated 2002. He contributes the story "Barbers and Lovers" to this Canadian literary magazine. It would only be published in book form in 2022 in the posthumous book A Ballet..... More
On the Road
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition, first printing. Review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. [iv], 310 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in white with red topstain. Near Fine with very faint cup ring to rear board, tanning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
A Confederacy of Dunces
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black on the spine. Near Fine with slight musty odor to pages, otherwise fine. In a Fine unclipped dust jacket. An exceptional copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel published..... More
Villette
London: Smith Elder & Co., 1853. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary blind stamped half calf with gilt stamped compartments and five raised bands; red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Complete in three volumes with 12-pages of adverts at rear dated January, 1853..... More
A Child's History of England
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1851-1853. First edition in book form, first issue with 'Christmas, 1851' on dedication page and ad pages as described by Eckel. 1852, 1853, 1854 [but actually 1851-1853]. Complete in three volumes. x, 210pp; viii, 214pp; x, 210pp [ads in rear of each volume] Bound in red..... More
The Little House
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. Presentation copy signed by Helen S. Woodruff and seven other noteworthy female authors who were hostesses at a luncheon given on February 1, 1918: mystery writer Mary Robert Rinehart, famous children's authors Frances Hodgson Burnett and Kate Douglas Wiggin, Maria Thompson Daviess, playwright..... More
The Blue Castle
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926. First edition, first printing. [vi], 310 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth lettered in blue; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; toning and minor scuffing to spine with light crushing to ends. Former owner's contemporary bookplate on front pastedown..... More
All the Light We Cannot See
New York: Scribner, 2014. First edition, Powell's Indispensible issue, signed by Anthony Doerr; unopened, still in publisher's original shrink wrap with interview booklet. The Pulitzer-winning war novel. More
The Woman in the Dunes
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First British edition, first printing. Signed in Japanese by Kobo Abe on the front pastedown and front free endpaper with an inscription to a former owner. Bound in publisher's green cloth-affect boards lettered in silver. Near Fine with lean to binding, corners slightly bumped. In..... More
Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice)
Berlin: S. Fischer, Verlag, 1913. First German trade edition, first printing. 145, [3] pp. Publisher's half vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, spine label blocked in turquoise lettered in gilt. Text in the original German. Near Fine with slight rubbing and slight soiling to binding, spine darkened. Owner name to front..... More
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1938. First edition, first printing. [x], 247 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in red. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, small hole at foot. Light staining to cloth with minor edge wear. Offsetting to end sheets with abrasion mark at front free..... More
Tortilla Flat
New York: Covici Friede, 1935. First edition, wrappered issue of the author's first successful novel. A fantastic survival of this format. Provenance: Actor Jean Hersholt with his label to interior of chemise; and later from the collection of John Steinbeck's nephew, David Heyler. Publisher's original sewn binding in wraps, glassine..... More
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's gray cloth spine lettered in black and multi-color with abstract marbled boards. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear with minimal toning. A nice copy of Vonnegut's fifth postmodern satirical..... More
Guests of the Nation
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931. First edition, first impression. xii, 278pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, light wear, small stain to first page of text, in a Very Good dust jacket, toned, spine sunned, wear at head and tail, price-clipped. Rare in jacket..... More