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
Literature
David Copperfield
London: The Nonesuch Press in association with Duckworth Publishers, 2005. Phiz. Hardcover. 871pp. Very thick octavo [26 cm] 1/2 gray bonded leather with rust colored cloth over boards, and a gold-stamped bonded leather panel affixed to the spine. Pictorial endsheets. Very good plus. There is a small indentation in the..... More
The Works of Charles Dickens (24 of 25 volumes)
New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1911. Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. The Anniversary Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, February 7, 1812. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red cloth over boards with stamping in gilt and blind on the backstrips. Illustrated. Extremities moderately rubbed and dinged; occasional soft hinges and cracks..... More
Works of Charles Dickens (26 volumes)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Library Edition. Leather bound. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] 3/4 green leather with marbled paper over boards, and gilt tooled spines. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Illustrations by H. K. Browne, G. Cattermole, F. Walker, and George Cruikshank, among others. The extremities are rubbed and the..... More
The Works of Charles Dickens: The London Edition (13 volumes)
London: The Caxton Publishing Co, No date. Hablot K. Browne. The London Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and gilt tooled designs on the spines. The majority of the volumes are in very good condition, however a few of the volumes are in good..... More
Deliverance
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2011. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 278pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green leather with raised bands, and gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Yellow silk ribbon page marker. Blank Easton Press bookplate laid in. The gilt on the fore-edge of..... 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
Play It As It Lays
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Later printing. Paperback. 214pp. Octavo [21cm]. Printed wraps. "A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's 'Play It as It Lays' captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters..... 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
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
New York: Harper Perennial, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. 290pp Octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wrappers. New. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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
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
So They Said; Sine Cera: A DiverseCity Writing Series Anthology
Salt Lake City, UT: SLCC Community Writing Center, 2007. Volume 5. Paperback. SLCC Community Writing Center; Salt Lake CIty, UT. 2007. Duodecimo. Illustrated red wrappers. Volume 5, Number 1. 85pp. More
His Wife Leaves Him
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, June, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 407pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; grey, textually illustrated, cloth covered boards with original dust jacket. Dixon's unbreaking record of the consciousness of a man who loses his wife. More
Homer & Langley
New York: Random House, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 208pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black over blue boards. Near fine/Fine. Signed by the author. More
The Waterworks
New York: Random House, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 253pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth. Fine in publisher's shrinkwrap. Housed in a matching slipcase. This edition was limited to 250 copies, this is copy 123. Signed by the author on the limitation page. More
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Edna Cooke and Maginal Wright Enright. Easton Press Subscriber's Edition. Leather bound. 345pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray leather with a hubbed spine, and gilt stamped titles and vignettes on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Orange moire endsheets. Very good. The covers are..... More
Stones for Ibarra
New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 214pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 light gray paper with red paper covered boards, and a black ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are lightly rubbed and bumped. There is a small gouge in the top edge of..... More
Stones for Ibarra
New York: The Viking Press, 1984. Sixth printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 214pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 light gray paper with red paper covered boards, and a black ink stamped title on the spine. With light bumping to the head of spine, and a shallow closed tear in top edge of the..... More
Stones for Ibarra
New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 214pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 light gray paper with red paper covered boards, and a black ink stamped title on the spine. The covers are a bit cocked, the head of the spine is gently bumped, and there is a...... More
The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions
New York: Viking, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] 1/2 white cloth with brown paper over boards. Signed and dated "12/12/95" by the author on the half title page. Doerr is also the author of Stones for Ibarra. More
The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions
New York: Viking, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] 1/2 white cloth with brown paper over boards. Front board slightly splayed. Signed and dated "12/12/95" by the author on the half title page. Doerr is also the author of Stones for Ibarra. More
The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions
New York: Viking, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] 1/2 white cloth with brown paper over boards. Signed and dated "12/12/95" by the author on the half title page. Doerr is also the author of Stones for Ibarra. More