New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED: 122pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with title gilt stamped within salmon panels on front board and backstrip. Slight chipping to edges of dust-jacket. Small white stain on front cover. 2" wide and 2/3" deep open tear to back cover. 1/4"..... More
Berkely, CA: Counterpoint, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 280pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; gray paper boards with title in red on spine. Blanche McCrary Boyd's first novel in twenty years continues the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns. When Tomb of the Unknown Racist opens in 1999, Ellen--now sober, haunted by her activist..... More
New York: Pantheon, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 301pp. 24.5 cm. Black over yellow boards. First edition, first printing. NF dustjacket with "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. SIGNED by author on the title page. "A family from Minneapolis relocates to New Orleans one year before Katrina and settles on Orchard..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 648pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with beige paper covered boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge tears, and is lightly soiled. The jacket's spine is subtly sunned. Kay Boyle's fiction has..... More
New York: Tyrant Books, 9/25/2018. First edition. Paperback. 707pp. Octavo [22.5cm]; illustrated wraps. In 2013, Megan Boyle was unhappy with the life she was living and wanted to document it on the internet for an audience. Her hope was that if she documented each thought and action on the internet..... More
New York: Viking, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 369pp. Octavo [23.5] Hardcover in dustjacket. From the publisher: Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 60th Anniversary Edition. Paperback. 249pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. The 60th Anniversary edition of Bradbury's classic, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. 274pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Photographically illustrated black and white paper over boards. Very good. The extremities are just a bit dinged and rubbed. In a very good dust jacket, with light creasing and several shallow closed tears in the top..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. Hardcover. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The cloth along the top edge is just a little frayed. Very minor spine lean..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 216pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the spine is slightly rolled. The edges of the spine and covers are subtly..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 249pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 dark blue cloth with light blue paper covered boards. Near fine / Near fine. Cecil Brown's novel depicts the experiences of black comedians, writers, actors, and singers in the cutthroat world of Hollywood. More
New York: Doubleday, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 509pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black cloth boards. Fine/Fine. The stunning follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. The dust jacket states that this story is a deadly race through a real world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths. More
Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1961. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 251pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth covered boards with decorative silver stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Near fine condition. Republished by Photo Offset in a Limited Edition. From the publisher's note- "The book, of course, is admittedly fiction. The names..... More
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 337pp. Octavo [22cm]. 1/4 gray cloth with beige paper over boards. Title stamped in silver on spine. "The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye..... More
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head / Macmillan, 1896. D. Y. Cameron. First edition. Hardcover. 205; 16pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over tan boards illustrated in brown ink. Decorative gilt stamped spine. The top edge has the publisher's brown stain; other edges deckled. The bottom..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 315pp. Small octavo [19 cm] Bright green cloth spine and boards. Green publisher's topstain. Very good with a very good dust jacket. Light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Light bump..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 2001. Later printing. Paperback. 240pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; Illustrated wraps. "These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2001. Later Printing. Paperback. 204 pp. [21 cm]; pictorial wraps. A classic collection of Bukowski's columns which originally ran under the same title in the underground newspaper, Open City. More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Michael Montfort. Deluxe Limited Edition. SIGNED. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 27 cm] 1/2 red cloth with pictorial paper over boards, and a paper title label on the backstrip. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are bumped, there is..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 1983. Later printing. Paperback. Wraps in white rear cover, turquoise spine and photographic front cover with Bukowski. "Bukowski is a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same... More
Japan: Shinchosha Company, 1999. Foreign language edition. Paperback. 472pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] Cream colored wraps with Japanese characters and the publishers device printed on the spine and wraps. Very good. There is a previous owner's name on the title page. The illustrated dust wrapper is in very good condition, with..... More
New York: Ecco, 2002. R. Crumb. Later printing. Paperback. 15pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Stapled pink wraps with a bright illustration on the front wrap. “I was one of those social rejects, but then, you know, a lot of people were — nothing unusual about being an outcast in high school.”..... More
Parantez, [2002]. Turkish language edition. Paperback. 176pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine. Minor bumping to the fore edge of the front cover. There is a tiny sticker on the rear wrap, and there is a previous owner's name on the verso of the front cover. The writings of..... More
