Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 272pp. Quarto [31 cm] Blue paper covered boards with gilt stamped titles. The extremities are very subtly rubbed and faded, and the boards are very slightly warped. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with general mild surface rubbing. May..... More
Tucson, AZ; Washington D. C. Nazraeli Press; Hemphill, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 68pp. Small square quarto [23.5 cm] Beige cloth over boards, with only very minor warping to the boards. In the pictorial dust jacket. One in an edition limited to 2000 copies. Signed by Joseph Mills on the..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, Inc., 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 776pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original green and white cloth with an illustration of Joseph Smith on the front cover. The extremities are rubbed, the text block is cracked at the title page, and pp. 29-38 have losses from the bottom..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2010]. Second printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 570pp. Navy blue paper over boards. The text block has dropped just a little. In a dust jacket, with a light 4" scratch to the front panel, along with an "Autograph Copy" label. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Second printing. Hardcover. 593pp. Octavo [24.5cm]. 1/4 ivory paper over blue boards. Title stamped in copper on spine. "After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There–after..... More
New York: DAW Books, 1988-1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654; 589; 1083pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 tan cloth over mottled beige boards. Soiling to boards. The textblock edges of Dragonbone Chair are also mildly soiled, and the dust jacket is a bit age toned. Prior to this trilogy, prolific author Tad Williams..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2015. Later printing. Paperback. 816pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over..... More
New York: Modern Library, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. 304pp. Octavo [20.5]. Illustrated wraps. Introduction by Anna Quindlen. Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf. More
New York: Vintage, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. 368pp. Octavo [20.5]. Illustrated wraps. "No novel in English has given more pleasure than 'Pride and Prejudice.' Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in..... More
Everyman's Library Children's Classics, 2020. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Hardcover. 96pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with black and gold gilt stamping on cover and spine. Illustration on front cover. Written during World War II, The Little Prince tells of the friendship between the narrator, an aviator stranded in..... More
United States of America: Shambhala, 1992. First edition. Paperback. 127pp. [17 cm] Illustrated wraps. The I Ching, the oldest of the Chinese classics, has throughout Chinese history commanded unsurpassed prestige and popularity. More
New York: Pantheon, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. 254pp. [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. In three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with..... More
New York: Ace, 2005. Ace Edition: Later Printing. Paperback. 687pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides—who would become known..... More
New York: Vintage, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. 263 pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "'Mountain,' Baldwin said, 'is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.' Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 1998. First Anchor Books Edition. Paperback. 311pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2011. First Anchor Books Mass-Market Edition: later printing. Paperback. 290pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can..... More
New York: Vintage Books, May 2011. First Vintage Books Edition; later printing. Paperback. 800pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Simone de Beauvoir's essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited..... More
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2017. Robert Crumb. Sixth printing. Hardcover. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. New book, in shrinkwrap, with no flaws. A dozen full-page illustrations and 30 chapter head illustrations by legendary sixties underground comix illustration..... More
New York: Vintage, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 400pp. Illustrated covers. "This masterful Japanese writer effortlessly blends the imaginitive psychological interior space of his characters with their exterior realities. Fluid, ebullient prose." More
New York: Library of America, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 228pp. Octavo [21cm]. Maroon cloth over boards. Title stamped in copper on spine. "A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of 'Native Son' and 'Black Boy.' Fred Daniels, a Black man..... More
New York: Plume, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 399pp. Octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight..... More
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 311 pp. Octavo [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Why, as a species, are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? Can altered states reveal something to us about our origins and our place in nature? In Food of..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Jason. Later printing. Paperback. 187pp. Black & red wraps with illustrated covers (by Jason). New book with no flaws. Reissue of beat classic with introduction by Ann Douglas. Part of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition series. More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. 432pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Orange wraps with black and white text. White spine with orange and black text. Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, “Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul.” He would screw..... More
New York: Harper Teen, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 416pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. More