The Franklin Affair
New York: Random House, 2005. Second edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. A novel involving secrets of the Revolutionary War. After death R Taylor's friend reveals a code that could completely change American history. More
New York: Random House, 2005. Second edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. A novel involving secrets of the Revolutionary War. After death R Taylor's friend reveals a code that could completely change American history. More
Cambridge: Zoland Books, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 178pp. 1/4 olive green paper with light green paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Fine / Fine. Signed by Ha Jin on the title page. Ha Jin has received the Hemingway / PEN and Flannery O'Connor awards..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 403 pp. Period, full leather binding with gilt tooled boards and spine. Written on the verso of the ffep: "Original design tooled by A. Rordame A.D. 1900." A.e.g. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Black and white illustrations by Howard..... More
Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1974. Octavo [24.5 cm] in sewn wraps. James Jones also wrote The Thin Red Line and Go to the Widow-Maker. More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994. First edition. Leather bound. SIGNED. 325pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full red leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Red moire endsheets. Red silk ribbon page marker. Fine..... More
New York: Vintage Departures; Vintage Books, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 219pp. Octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wraps. The daughter and granddaughter of Wyoming ranchers, Teresa Jordan gives us a lyrical and superbly evocative book that is at once a family chronicle and a eulogy for the land her people helped shape..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American edition. Hardcover. 628pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Publisher's blue topstain. The text block is just only starting to crack at the half title page, but remains very sturdy..... More
New York and Philadelphia: Octagon Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in association with The Philip H. A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with white ink stamped titles on the backstrips and front boards. No slipcase. The front pastedowns have..... More
New York: Vintage Classics, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 783pp. Octavo. Green wraps. This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED - Pale green decorative boards quarterbound in a forest green paper spine. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Violet endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. Dust Jacket - has..... More
New York: Schocken Books Inc., 1998. Reprint. Paperback. 328pp. Small Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. The Castle was left unfinished and unpublished untile two years after Kafka's death. It is the story of a young man trying to breach a castle that is guarded by multiple levels of bureaucracy. This edition..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1998. Later printing. Paperback. 271pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Published a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is the story of a bank employee arrested for a charge which he has no possibility of defending himself against. The book is a terrifying depiction of overwhelming bureaucracy..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. 298pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes "Metamorphosis,"..... More
Penguin Classics, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 389pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. "Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with..... More
New York: Vintage, 1992. Later printing. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Paperback. From the publisher: "In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1974. Hardcover. SIGNED. 347pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 white cloth with red paper covered boards. Very good. The head of the spine is gently bumped. The front hinge is a little shakey. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with lightly creased and rubbed..... More
New York: Viking, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black paper with brown paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good only. The front free endsheet is absent. Near fine dust jacket. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed. Signed by..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 215pp. Octavo [23.8cm]. Yellow publisher's buckram spine and boards with sky blue inset illustration on the front board. Spine slightly rolled. Pictorial dust jacket with minor shelf wear. Includes two pieces of laid-in ephemera advertising Key-Z productions. Inscribed by the..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1999. Leather bound. SIGNED. 311 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; black leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Fine condition. Signed in bright colors by Ken Kesey..... More
New York: Berkley, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. 325pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him..... More
New York: Viking, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 533pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 white cloth with beige paper over boards. Remainder mark at the foot of the text block. In a dust jacket with light soiling and moderate edge wear. An epic tale which takes place in the near future..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1989. 1st Printing Thus. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Red leather spine and boards are clean. Elaborate gilt ornamentation over spine and boards is bright and shiny. Red, marble patterned endpapers. Signed by the author in blue pen on the first white page. All..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 260pp. Octavo. Black paper over boards with title stamped in copper gilt on spine. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. 288pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper covered boards, and a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are very gently bumped, rubbed and faded. The spine is a little rolled. There are several ripples in the..... More
London: Virago Press Limited, 1989. First UK edition. Hardcover. 232pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The edges of the spine and covers are very lightly bumped and rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition. The..... More