Baltimore / Chapel Hill: Haw River Books, Ltd., 1989. Limited Edition. Paperbound. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2", stiff beige wrappers with die-cut pattern front wrapper revealing dark blue wrapper beneath, unpaginated. Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, this copy signed by the author on title page and with a presentation.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, one-half turquoise cloth, grey paper over boards, 311pp. A First Edition of this dystopian fantasy of a future puritanical Republic of Gilead which interprets the biblical Book of Genesis literally - and in which women's rights are sacrificed to a lesser.....
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 black cloth, green paper over boards. Signed in bold ink by the author: "To Mr. Monster, Best Wishes - Clive" with elaborate full-page + illustration by the author first free endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. Five creative and disturbing tales.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, 150pp, black endpapers and fore-edge. Signed by the author on the title page. In predictable middle age, Tony Webster is compelled to recall his boyhood and must revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-3/4 x 9-7/8", 1/2 black cloth, green paper over boards, 238pp. Signed by the author on the title page. First mystery novel in the Anna Pigeon series. Anna Pigeon has left New York to work as a park ranger in.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/4 x 8-3/4", black cloth over beveled boards, 312pp, frontis. illustration of a child's map of Kensington Gardens, top-edge gilt. First Edition. First appearance of Peter Pan. A fanciful novel for adults with a darker tone than the delightful children's story about.....
New York: Random House, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt and silver titled red cloth, 308pp, gold endpapers, black top-edge. #34 of 300 copies of the first edition that have been specially bound and signed by the author. A winner of the National Book Award winner comprised of three.....
Seattle: Scala House Press, 2008. First North American Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/8 - 6-1/8", black spine, brown paper over boards, 391pp. First English publication of Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol’s near-forgotten masterpiece based on the life and legend of the original assassin, 11th century Ismaili leader Hasan ibn Sabbah. Fictional Sabbah develops.....
London & New York: The Blackamore Press / Random House, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 5-7/8 x 8-1/4", blue cloth, 125pp, notes, gilt top-edge, deckled fore and bottom-edges, 8 illus. Translated by Ch. Isherwood; Introduction by T. S. Eliot. #304 of a first limited English edition of 400 copies; one of.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1990. First Edition. Paperbound. 6 x 9-1/8", stiff pictorial wrappers, 83pp. Presentation inscription to fellow poet Garrett (Hongo) in Port Townsend in 1991: "With much pleasure, affection, and respect" signed by the poet in Port Townsend in July of 1991. Published simulaneously in hardcover.Fine.....
Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, Inc., 1987. Limited Edition. Softcover. 6-1/4 x 10-3/4", orange wrappers, blue endpapers, 22pp, deckled edges, illus. front wrapper and title page. 150 copies of this limited edition were printed letterpress on Nideggen paper from handset 12-pt. Italian Old Style at Honeybrook Press by Donnell Hunter who.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", green cloth, 287pp, index of titles, index of first lines. The collection includes poems from North & South (1946), A Cold Spring (1955 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Questions of Travel (1965 - winner of the.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, 378pp. In this sequel to Julius LeVallon, Blackwood explores the natural and supernatural aspects of dual personality. A young man with a dual personality becomes a patient at a Spiritual Clinique where he is under the.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. 5-1/4 x 7-5/8", black cloth, red top-edge, 267pp. Signed by the author on first free endpaper. First & Second Printing Before Publication. Author's first novel. The story of a New York man of "organized leisure" Tristram Bone, his friends and.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Paperbound Edition. Softcover. 5-7/8 x 9", pictorial wrappers, 202pp. First Edition, with color title page. The author's dedication: "Dedicated to bad writing."Lady Death walks into gumshoe Nick Belane's LA office and hires him to find poet and novelist Céline who had apparently eluded.....
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1967. 2nd Edition. Softcover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2", printed wrappers, 16pp, illus. Second Edition, expanded from the first with new illustrations and photo-collages, priced at 75c. Approximately 3000 copies produced. Signed inscription by William S. Burrought to his friend and Merry Prankster associate William Gambell on June.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 6-1/2 x 9", 1/2 light brick colored cloth, buff paper over boards, 150pp, deckled fore-edge. A story in verse of a winged red monster named Geryon, bridging the gap between classic and modern in storytelling. Fine in dust wrapper and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, one-half burgundy spine, light grey paper over boards, 386pp, apps., Index of Titles, Index of First Lines. First American Edition. A complete edition of over 300 poems by Raymond Carver, edited by William L. Stull and with an introduction.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. Published October 1915. Cather's third novel follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Nebraska through her challenges in becoming a renowned opera singer.Square, rubbing & edge-wear to cloth, bumping to extreme corners of boards.....
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964. 1st Printing Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, 165pp, pictorial endpapers with scenes from the film. Tower Motion Picture Edition illustrated with photographs from the Warner Brothers - First National Film starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall.Hard-boiled dick Philip Marlowe is called.....
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First Printing Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, 221pp, red top-edge. Tower Books collection of five noir short stories by the acclaimed author of The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely including: Spanish Blood, The King in Yellow, Pearls Are A Nuisance.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 6-3/8 x 9-5/8, 1/2 black cloth, lavender paper over boards, 524pp, lavender endpapers, chronology, epilogue, index, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on two-page title-page. A recounting of the lives of three generations of women in 20th-century China -.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/8 x 9-3/8", black paper over boards, xi, 562pp, author's note, key, index, illus. Signed by Hillary Clinton, former president Bill Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton on first free endpaper beneath round "Hillary for President" sticker. This book was signed by.....
London: Ulysses Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 7-1/8 x 10-18", 1/2 white cloth, blue paper over boards, 33pp, deckled edges. #103 of a limited edition of 185 copies, signed by the author on limitation page facing title page. Printed by H. D. C. P. and C. C. Members of the.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1925. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth, 288pp, 21pp introduction. With a preface by R. B. Cunninghame.The four stories in this collection include Conrad's first (The Blake Mate, 1884) and his last (The Tale & The Warrior's Soul, both written in 1917). From Cunninghame's preface: "In.....
