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: 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.....
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.....
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, brick cloth, 310pp. First Edition of the author's first book. Presentation inscription signed by the author: "Best wishes, To my friend Joseph Singer, Jack Conroy - Moberly, Missouri, Nov. 9, 1933." Joseph Singer was a write and social activist from.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 orange cloth, yellow paper over boards, 295pp. Signed and dated by the author on title page in year of publication. The third novel featuring hard-boiled private detective Elvis Cole. Cole encounters the New York mob and a psycho killer in.....
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 fuschia cloth, turquoise paper over boards, 245pp. First U.S. hardcover edition, signed by the author on title page. The first novel featuring hard-boiled private detective Elvis Cole. In a search for a missing husband and son, Cole and his partner.....
New York: Doubleday, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 burgundy cloth, grey paper over boards, ix, 645pp. A modern classic set in the Pacific Northwest and spanning decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a......
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 turquoise cloth, gold paper over boards, ix, 294pp. Inscribed "To Mark" and signed by the author on the title page. Gus Orviston sets out to find the perfect fishing hole and finds himself and a greater appreciation for.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, 274pp. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts.....
Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, (2011). First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 97pp. Fine. National Book Award winner 2011. Ms. Finney's poems embrace a "sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, brick colored backstrip, orange paper over boards, 375pp. Signed by the author on the title page. First American hardcover edition of the paperback novel originally published in 1986 in which nascent sportswriter Frank Bascombe, who would reappear nine.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 taupe cloth, burgundy paper over boards, 230pp. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. A hundred-year natural history of a meadow in the arid mountains of Colorado/Wyoming interwoven with a family’s struggle to live on an.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, xx, 1189, afterword, note, index of titles, first lines, and original book sources. A compilation of the collected verse of Allen Ginsberg which includes all the poems from the earlier compilation "Collected Poems 1947-1980" and from.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 224pp, black boards. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page: "To ---. You know I love you. Dear Friend." An intimate and honest portrayal of a mother's struggle to understand her two runaway daughters and keep them safe...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 red cloth, black paper over boards, 305pp, in clipcase. Signed by the author on the title page. Powells.com IndieSpensable Volume 59, with pamphlet with interview with the author laid in, in custom slipcase. "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi.....
Berkeley: Bios, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3-5/8 x 7-3/4", green cloth, 43pp. One of a limited edition of 100 copies bound in cloth by Wesley B. Tanner. An additional 500 copies were paperbound. A novella set in post-World War I Europe depicting the ravages of war. As new in very.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 orange cloth, grey paper over boards, 76pp. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker. "Women in the Dark" was published in Liberty magazine in three installments in April of 1933 and was published in a pulp paperback edition in.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, dark green spine, light green paper over boards, 288pp. Signed by the author on the title page. From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 black cloth, red paper over boards, 225pp. "Poems of grief and regret, of nightmare and acceptance, of redemption and the possibility of grace." Remainder mark bottom edge, else fine in dust wrapper.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (2000). Illustrated by Kent Bash. Leatherbound. Thick octavo, 311pp, gilt decorated black leather, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, moire endpapers, color frontis. illustration and four full-page monochromes in text. Boldly signed by the author on half-title in his characteristic psychedelic style with gilt.....
Pleasant Hill, Oregon: Intrepid Trips, 1977-1975. Paperback. 8vo, multicolored wrappers, fully illustrated. Volume #1 signed and dated (1993) by Ken Kesey on front wrapper in red ink. Volume #1 is 2nd printing (1977), all others are 1sts. Volume #1 - "Old in The Streets," Edited by Ken Kesey with contributions.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, 273pp. First Edition of the author's elusive second book. John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan Guaranty Trust finds that Shaftesbury, Connecticut, the "unspoiled village with rare community spirit," is a place for murder... Foxing to edges and a......
