New York: Back Bay Books, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. 414pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically schizoid family to find his own path. Taking refuge in a remote cabin, he sets out in pursuit of the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead. But..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 217pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 yellow cloth, with rust-colored paper over boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light scratching to the surface of the dust jacket. 5" crease to the rear flap. This is the author's..... More
United States of America: Anchor Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 208pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First edition. SIGNED. 321pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in boards over cloth spine. Light shelfwear to jacket; spine faintly cocked. Interior is clean, tight, and bright. Signed by Dunning on title page. The first Cliff Janeway mystery. More
Minneapolis, MN: Dinkytown Antiquarian Books, 2003. Limited Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Slender octavo [21.5 cm] Tan wrappers. Fine. Signed by the author on the title page. One of 2250 copies. Issued for Midwest Bookhunters Chicago Spring Bookfair, Midwest Bookhunters Twin Cities Bookfair, Rocky Mountain Bookfair, Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair, and Boston International..... More
New York: Scribner, 2004. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. SIGNED. 369pp. Octavo [23 cm] Pictorial wraps. Very good. The wraps show light surface and edge wear. With the publisher's promotional material tucked in. Signed by the author on the title page. The third novel in mystery writer John Dunning's renowned Cliff..... More
New York: Scribner, 2004. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. SIGNED. 369pp. Octavo [23 cm] Pictorial wraps. Very good. The wraps show light surface and edge wear. Signed by the author on the title page. The third novel in mystery writer John Dunning's renowned Cliff Janeway series. More
New York: Scribner, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 369 pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over matching boards. Fine in like jacket. SIGNED by the author in black ink on the title page. The long awaited third novel in mystery writer John Dunning's renowned Cliff Janeway series. More
New York: Pocket Books, 2005. First edition thus. Paperback. Mass-market paperback, 469 pp. The long awaited third novel in mystery writer John Dunning's renowned Cliff Janeway series. More
New York: Scribner, 1995. Later printing. Hardcover. 351pp. The second novel in mystery writer John Dunning's renowned Cliff Janeway series. SIGNED by the author. More
New York: Scribners, 2001. First edition, #32/100. Leather bound. 473pp. Octavo [23 cm] Hand-bound in 3/4 blue leather over marbled boards with title gilt stamped on backstrip. In matching silk and marbled paper slipcase. Fine. One of one-hundred numbered copies in the author's manuscript edition. Contains a pages of the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 254pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 salmon-colored cloth with brown patterned paper over boards, a brown ink stamped title on the spine, and a small vignette in brown on the front cover. Very good. The spine is rolled, and the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 279pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with light green paper covered boards. Title in silver on backstrip. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with lightly chipped..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First UK edition. Hardcover. 279pp. Octavo [20 cm] Green paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped and rubbed. Mild spine slant. The endsheets are discolored, and the pages are..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1986. Uncorrected proof. Paperback. 269pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue and black printed wraps. Very good. The spine is faded, and the edges of the covers are very subtly faded. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Umberto Eco..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. First American edition. Hardcover. 444pp. Large octavo. 1/4 black cloth with bright red paper covered boards. Umberto Eco is the author of five novels and numerous collections of essays. More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 215pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with sea-green paper over boards. Yellow endpapers. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. More
New York: Ballantine, 2018. Later printing. Hardcover. 239pp. Octavo [19cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives—but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the..... More
San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 287pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over red and black illustrated boards. Fine. Signed by the author on the half-title. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [23 cm] Decorative foil stamped boards and slipcase. Still in the publisher's unopened shrink wrap. Signed by Dave Eggers. Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's Publishing. His novel, What is the What, won France’s Prix Medici. More
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2002. First Edition, first state. Hardcover. SIGNED. 371pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over gray printed boards. Near fine. Signed by the author on the rear pastedown. First state with 'First Edition' stated. More
Boise: Ahsahta Press / Boise State University, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 46pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green printed wraps. Very good. The spine and surrounding areas are heavily faded. Author's scarce second book. "At the time To Touch the Water was published, Gretel Ehrlich was a filmmaker, essayist, editor, cow- and..... More
Reading, PA: I. M. Beaver, Publisher, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 233pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards, with an ink stamped title on the front cover has almost completely rubbed away, with only a few traces of the white ink remaining. The edges of the covers and spine are..... More
Geneva, Illinois: JEF Books [Journal of Experimental Fiction] and Depth Charge Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the editor, James Hugunin, in ink on the front fly leaf. 126 pp. Quarto [29 cm]; glossy and colorfully illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Fine condition with no flaws. "A..... More
