Falling Man
New York: Scribner, 2007. Advance reader's edition. Paperback. 246pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue pictorial wrappers. Near fine. More
Literature
Mao II
New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Later printing. Paperback. 241pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K "One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)..... More
Zero K: A Novel
New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; New Delhi: Scribner, May 2017. First Scribner trade paperback edition. Paperback. 274pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. A New York Times bestseller, "DeLillo's haunting new novel, Zero K--his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld" ( The New York Times), is a meditation on death..... More
Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories
New York, London and Toronto: Seven Stories Press, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. 322pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray paper over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are bumped. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The paper at..... More
The Burning Women of Far Cry
New York: Arbor House, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. DOUBLE SIGNED. 315pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 natural woven cloth-effect paper with brownish orange paper over boards. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Near fine condition. The spine and covers show light edge wear. The foot of the spine is just..... More
The Coming Triumph of the Free World
New York: Viking, 1988. Hardcover. SIGNED. 177pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 dark blue cloth with beige paper over boards, and the title stamped in silver on the spine. Very good condition. The covers are just a little bit warped. In a very good dust jacket, with only very minor edge..... More
Under the Wheat
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 157pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Light green endpapers. Fine condition. In a very good dust jacket, with subtle surface rubbing. Winner of the sixth Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1986). Inscribed by the..... More
The Voice of America: Stories
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 215pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 dark gray cloth with light gray paper over boards, and silver lettering on the spine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's book..... More
The Year of the Zinc Penny
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 173pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 blue cloth with light gray paper over boards. Very good plus. The spine ends are gently bumped, and there is a subtle ding in the top edge of the front cover. There are..... More
Village Daybook:; A Sac Prairie Journal
Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine and boards. Very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and just the faintest rub to the tip of the lower rear corner. There is a University Library stamp on the upper and lower edges of..... More
The Wind Leans West
New York: The Candlelight Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine and boards with green lettering and gilt ornamentation. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Three spots (one on the upper edge of the rear cover and two on the upper edge of the front)..... More
Mountain Time
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 357pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Gray cloth over boards stamped in red and gilt. The spine ends are just a little bruised, and the pages are tanned. In a price-clipped dust jacket with toning, sunning to the spine (title still bold), and..... More
Big Girl Small
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 294pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue paper over boards. Signed by the author on the title page. More
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 335pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
This is How You Lose Her
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Later printing. Paperback. 217pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child..... More
A Christmas Carol in Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas (Limited Japanese Paper Edition) [Boston Artist]
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. I. M. Gaugengigl and T. V. Chominski. Japanese Paper Edition (Limited). 121pp. Folio [43.5 cm] 1/4 bonded leather with moire patterning, with maroon cloth over boards and decorative gilt stamping on the front board. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait plus 23 tipped-in illustrations. The..... More
A Christmas Carol
Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2006. P.J. Lynch. Reprint. Hardcover. 158pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens’s beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition." More
The Last Thing He Wanted
New York: Vintage Books, 1997. First Vintage International Edition. Paperback. 227 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not..... More
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 149pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. Gray boards with title stamped in silver on spine. "From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion’s subjects, including the press, politics, California..... More
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 238pp. Octavo [21cm]. Printed wraps. "The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America particularly California in the..... More
South and West
New York: Vintage International, 2017. Later printing. Paperback. 126pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Printed wraps. Featuring "Notes on the South," an acute observation of the culture of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 1970, and "California Notes," thoughts about the West inspired by coverage of the Patty Hearst trial. More
Out of Africa
New York: Modern Library, 1992. Later printing. Hardcover. 399 pp. Small octavo. Grey cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket. Author's account of the time she spent in East Africa from 1914-1931. Later adapted into an award-winning film. More
Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales
The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Advance Readers Copy. Spiral Bound. 338pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black plastic spiral binding with black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are slightly browned, soiled and creased. There is a publisher's label announcing the date of publication on the front wrap. The..... More
Out of Africa
New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 389pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 gilt stamped cloth with rust-colored cloth over boards. There is a slight sheen to the cloth of the spine. The pages are toned. In an attractive dust jacket, with darkening (design still bold), and light chipping..... More
Getting into Death and Other Stories
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 227pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light green with decorative light green paper covered boards. Very good. The covers are subtly darkened. In a very good dust jacket, with yellowing. From the dust jacket- "Every page of Getting into Death- suffused with..... More