Literature
U and I
New York: Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 179pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with light green paper covered boards. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The rear panel is very lightly soiled. Inscribed by Baker on the half title page. Nicholson Baker also wrote The..... More
Tiger Roan
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers. Lee Townsend. Sixteenth printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 236pp. Octavo [21 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a black ink stamped cowboy vignette on the front cover. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers..... More
The Devil Finds Work
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. 127 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and..... More
The Fire Next Time
New York: Vintage, 1992. First Vintage Internation Edition (later printing). Paperback. 106 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of..... More
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Vintage International, 2013. First Vintage International Trade Paperback Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. 226pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Baldwin's first major work, chronicling a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of himself and his place in the world. More
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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
Notes of a Native Son
Boston, MA: Later printing, 2012. First Beacon Paperback; Later Printing. Paperback. 179pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. From back of book: Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and..... More
Silence Once Begun
New York: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Books; A Division of Random House LLC, 2014. First Vintage Contemporaries Edition. Paperback. 232pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] White, black and red printed wraps. "The closest contemporary American writer we have to Italo Calvino in ear and mind." - Interview. More
The Day of Creation
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 254pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good condition. The front cover is ever so slightly concave. In a very good dust jacket. A first edition from the author..... More
The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 1199pp. Octavo [23.5cm] Paperback. From the publisher: A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of..... More
Millennium People
New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pp. [24 cm] New book, no flaws. Compelling, disturbing, and eerily prophetic, Millennium People affirms J.G. Ballard's legacy as, in the words of China Mieville, "probably the most original English writer of the last century." More
Incident at Sun Mountain
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth spine and boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light bumping and rubbing at the spine ends and edges of the covers. There is a large area of rubbed discoloration on the rear..... More
6 Chambers, 1 Bullet
New York: William Morrow, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 325pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black paper with blue paper over boards. Mild warping to the boards; boards bumped at the spine ends and corners. In a dust jacket, with numerous light scratches to the surface. Inscribed on the front free..... More
Dead in 5 Heartbeats
New York: William Morrow, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 307pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black paper with red paper over boards. Slight warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with light surface and edge wear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Barger. Additionally signed by the author on a...... More
Finding Caruso
New York: A Marian Wood Book, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 302pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 green paper with tan paper covered boards. Fine / Fine. Signed by the author on the title page. This is a novel of the American West. More
The Voyage of the Narwhal
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 399pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Blue paper over boards. The covers are cocked, and there are a couple of small stains on the text block edges. There are numerous light scratches on the surface of the..... More
Smoke Up the Valley: An Historical Novel of Texas in the '70's
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1949. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 344pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The covers have large areas of light abrasion. Rolled spine. The dust jacket is..... More
The Novels, Tales & Sketches of J. M. Barrie (12 volumes)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Author's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [21.5 cm]. Green cloth over boards with gilt title on spines and front boards, and gilt ruled border on front boards. Top of text block is gilt. Deckled fore-edges. The extremities are bumped and rubbed. Many of the boards have..... More
Macario: A textbook based on a filmscript by B. Traven
Riverside, CA: J. B. Blanchard Press, 1973. Paperback. SIGNED. 196pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly soiled and creased. The pages are age-toned. The book is sturdy. Inscribed by the co-author, Leo L. Barrow, on the dedication page. More
Macario: A textbook based on a filmscript by B. Traven
Riverside, CA: J. B. Blanchard Press, 1973. Paperback. SIGNED. 197pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are faded and very lightly soiled. The book is sturdy. Inscribed at length by the co-author, Leo L. Barrow, on the dedication page. More
Coming Soon
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Advance reading copy. Paperback. 393pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. A tale of two writers. More
The Floating Opera
New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, Inc., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 280pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]; brown cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Barth's first book. More
The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 281pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 dark red cloth over gray boards. The front cover is a bit warped, and there is a small sticker stain on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket with rubbing and light edge wear..... More
Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction 1984-94
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 377pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 light blue over light green boards, with very minor warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with rubbing. Signed by John Barth on the title page. More