New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American edition. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Original tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket. Corners bumped, offsetting from bookplate to front paste down and front free endpaper, name written on front free endpaper. A nice copy... More about The Stranger
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First edition, first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean and fading to spine. Remnants of dust jacket tipped in and partially removed... More about The Pastures of Heaven
New York: The Orion Press, 1960. First American edition. xvii, [2], 233, [1] pp. Black cloth decorated in yellow, red, white, and gray. Very Good+ with bowing to boards, in Near Fine dust jacket with light wear, unclipped. An unfinished novel written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries... More about The Saragossa Manuscript: A Collection of Weird Tales
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket... More about The Sound and the Fury
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. Copy #38 of limited 200 numbered copies signed by Charles Bukowski. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over plum cloth spine. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine and light shelf wear. Illustrated by the author. More about You Kissed Lilly
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First American edition. (Full number line on copyright page.) [viii], 177 pp. Original half cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Fine unread copy with tight binding, in an attractive Near Fine dust jacket with creasing to front flap, small faint dampstain to verso only. An excellent... More about The Alchemist
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First American edition. [viii], 305 pp. Original cloth, yellow endpapers and topstain. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket, a hint of shelf wear, tiny smudge to back panel. A very neat, clean copy of the author's first book. More about The Collector
London: Andre Deutsch. First British edition. 239 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt.Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A little offsetting to endpapers. Jacket is bright and attractive. An excellent copy of the author's sixth novel; he's best known for his baseball novels such as Bang the Drum Slowly... More about Wake Up, Stupid
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. Publisher's ribbed dark maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with spine lightly faded and cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities. Staple puncture to front free endpaper. Written while serving as a diplomat, Johnson originally opted to publish this book... More about The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition, first printing. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in blue. Very Good. Cloth soiled and spine-sunned with light wear at the spine ends. Rear endpapers a bit soiled and with previous owner inkless emboss. The author's first of two novels, which... More about Quicksand
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First edition. Number 193 of a limited 360 copies, signed by William Faulkner. Publisher's linen cloth stamped in black, with two labels illustrated by Lynd Ward on the front cover. Near Fine, with light soiling and light toning to cloth and pages... More about A Green Bough
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition, first printing. Very Good, with light evidence of contact with moisture at the rear cover, light wear to cloth and light rubbing to spine lettering. In a Very Good un-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, edge wear, and tape reinforcements made to the... More about The Dharma Bums
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1932. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's brown cloth binding decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to binding. Spine cloth and gilt faded. Corners softened. Small water spot to topstain. Endsheets lightly foxed and toned. A nice copy... More about Brave New World
Seattle: Gear Works Press, 1965. Folio. First edition, first printing. Signed by Guy Anderson and inscribed to former owner on verso of front cover;previous owner name written on cover verso as well. Bound in publisher's heavy grey stapled wraps printed in yellow and black. Near Fine with light shelf wear... More about Guy Anderson
New York: Random House, 1967. Signed, limited tenth anniversary edition. Number 922 of a limited 2,000 copies signed by Ayn Rand. Bound in publisher's coarse blue cloth. Hinge at title page slightly exposed, else Fine, in Near Fine mintuely chipped acetate wrapper, and Near Fine publisher's slipcase, which is sunned... More about Atlas Shrugged
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. In publisher's black and grey illustrated dust jacket over plain stiff wraps. Very Good. Lean to spine. Binding over-opened at front hinge. Contents toned and with light foxing to textblock edge. A novella based on Miller's experiences as an American expatriate... More about Quiet Days in Clichy
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. Assumed book club edition; though jacket is priced($19.95) and copyright page states "First Trade Edition" with a complete numberline, there are three lines of text at the base of the copyright page about the Book of the Month Club. Signed by John Irving... More about A Prayer for Owen Meany
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1971. First edition. Signed by Joe Brainard on the title page, and inscribed to Harvey [Donegan.] Bound in publisher's salmon wraps printed in dark blue. Near Fine with light soiling, light rubbing light toning to wraps, light reading crease to front cover. A collection of... More about Selected Writings
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891. 3 Volumes. First edition, first printing, first issue. Bound in contemporary half-leather binding over marbled paper covered boards, with all edges marbled and marbled endsheets; binder's stamp of Mudie to verso of front free endpaper. Near Fine with light rubbing to bindings... More about Tess of the D'Urbervilles
New York: New Directions, 1951. First American edition, second issue with "Paterson" by William Carlos Williams spelled correctly. Publisher's original grey cloth binding with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with faint rubbing at spine ends, previous owner inscription to front free endpaper, and pages toned. In a Near Fine... More about Siddhartha
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Near Fine, wish silver stamping vivid and sharp on the upper board, though rubbed on the spine. Corners and spine ends lightly worn. Previous owner details inked to front paste down, and pages toned. A lovely copy of Melville's classic, illustrated by... More about Moby Dick
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition stated, first printing with the proper BCDE code. Bound in publisher's grey cloth with titles stamped in black and red on the spine. Very Good, with slight odor to pages, several pages slightly wrinkled, top edge of textblock lightly foxed. In a.... More about The Princess Bride
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition, first printing with an A and the Scribner's seal on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; rear flap, rear panel and partial spine of dust jacket present, else jacket is lacking. About Fine, with... More about Tender is the Night
U.S.A. The Tamawaca Press, 1907. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's coarse pale green cloth, stamped in white and green. Near Fine, with spine cloth slightly darkened and lightly bruised at the ends, several small scuffs to cloth, previous owner name to front free endpaper and pages toned. A...... More about Tamawaca Folks
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 356 pp. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Very Good with cloth lightly spine toned and soiled, pages toned. In a Very Good first state dust jacket, with publisher's price intact, faded... More about The Heart is a Lonely Hunter