New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Norton Paperback Edition. Paperback. 277pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch's epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of... More about The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1952. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Charcoal colored cloth spine and boards. Very light bumping at head and tail of spine and a fair amount of bumping at the tips of the lower corners. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Dust Jacket -... More about Captain Marooner
New York: Dial Books, 2002. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Brown paper spine and boards. Bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Black publisher's remainder mark on the lower edge. Dust Jacket. More about Mississippi Trial, 1955
New York: W. W. Norton, 1986. Later printing. Paperback. 213pp. Octavo [21pp]; illustrated wraps. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex... More about A Clockwork Orange
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 1066pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth over boards. The front hinge is soft, the extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the pages are a bit yellowed. "Raintree Country" was made into a film in 1957, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. More about Raintree Country
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. 241pp. Octavo [24 cm.] 1/2 black cloth over rust colored boards, with a minor smudge on the fore-edge of the text block. The head of the backstrip is gently bruised. In a dust jacket, with only trivial wear to the rear panel... More about The Road
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 502pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "Winner of Pulitzer Prize" label on front wrap. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune... More about The Overstory
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 447pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with silver stamping on the backstrip. Publisher's light red top stain. Brown endpapers reproducing the author's initials. The spine is bumped at the head, and the boards show light shelf wear... More about Giant
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 172pp. Large octavo [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth, with black paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Signed by Rick Bass on the title page. Rick Bass is the author of over twenty books, including nonfiction... More about Oil Notes
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 about Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. Fritz Eichenberg. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 604pp. Quarto [26 cm] Red leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Brown moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page marker. The gilt is... More about The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts & Epilogue
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Edy Legrand. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 682pp. Quarto [27 cm] 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. Light brown moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page marker. The... More about Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover. 488pp. Octavo [24cm]; black paper boards with title on spine. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural... More about Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1980. Rafaello Busoni. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 450pp. Quarto [26 cm] Full red leather with raised bands and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. Introduction by... More about The Red and the Black
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1977. Brian Keogh. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 253pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Green leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative shamrock patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets and satin-ribbon page marker. Part... More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Tucson: The Tuscon Public Library, 1987. Paperback. SIGNED. 167pp. Octavo [23 cm] Pictorial wraps. Signed by Chuck Bowden on the half title page, and again at the head of his contributed article, "Useless Deserts & Other Goals." Other contributors include N. Scott Momaday, Frank Waters, John Nichols, William Eastlake, Rudolfo... More about Old Southwest, New Southwest: Essays on a Region and Its Literature (signed by Chuck Bowden
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1976. Federico Castellon. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 369pp. Quarto [27 cm] Brown leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Pale peach moire endsheets and satin-ribbon page marker. With only... More about The Talisman
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1980. Wray Manning. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 472pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Brown 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. Silk ribbon page marker. Part of... More about The Mill on the Floss
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Edward A. Wilson. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 377pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Full dark brown leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine and gilt stamped arrowhead designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Dark peach moire endsheets. Illustrations... More about The Last of the Mohicans