Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, signed by the author on the title-page. Harry Crews had this to say about this book: "Here are men who have looked into the eyes of war and who will never be able to look out of their own eyes..... More
Northampton: Ghenna Press, 1965. Leonard Baskin. First edition. Paperback. 4to. One of 500 copies printed. A collection of 16 of Baskin's drawings that includes "After Leonardo," "The Torment of Rembrandt,""The Torment of Albrecht Durer," and "The Torment of Michelangelo," among others. In addition to the drawings of the classic artists..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Touch of dulling to spine (just a touch). More
Bussum, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Agathon, 1977. First edition thus. Paperback. A PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Brautigan to actor Margot Kidder, 1948-2018, on the title page,"This copy is for Margo Kidder / wishing you good luck / with your movie / Richard Brautigan / San Francisco / August 6, 1978." Kidder and..... More
New Orleans: B E Trice, 2001. Russell Chatham. Presentation copy. Hardcover. Russell Chatham's Copy, so printed on the colophon page: "Of this first edition of Bitterroot, one hundred fifty numbered copies, and twenty six lettered copies, specially bound, have been signed by the author." Color lithograph by Russell Chatham to..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. This copy has the bookplate of Frank Buxton (1930-2018) on the front pastedown. Frank Buxton was an American actor, television writer, author, and television director. Frank Capra has briefly inscribed and signed his name to Buxton's bookplate. This book provides a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's tenth book. Essays. Seventeen pieces that were all published, with the exception of "A Night at a Waterfall." The stellar piece, in my opinion, is "A Walk in the Country." The first printing was 6500 copies..... More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. LImited signed edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 25 pages of text, bound in brown cloth and yellow patterned boards with acetate wrapper. #62/200 numbered copies signed by Crumley. The published work contained short fiction and non-fiction published by Clark City Press in 1991. More
New York: Knopf, (1972). Joseph Schindelman. First edition. Hardcover. Thanks to Mr. Wonka and a couple of buttons that did and did not get pushed, the Great Glass Elevator and all of its passengers find themselves orbiting in space! Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Front dust jacket flap..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1966). William Pene Du Bois. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 4to.When an irate eight-year-old girl puts the "magic finger" on the people who live on the neighboring farm, exciting things begin to happen. The author's third book for children. Price clipped jacket but code to bottom..... More
New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Twenty tales of indelible characters: a solitary woman struggling to corral a flock of idiot sheep; a young girl who creates a strange fairytale that shatters her parents' love; a modern-day prophet waging war against..... More
New York: Knopf, 1974. Herbert L Fink. First edition. Hardcover. Magic, madness, menace and romance are all woven together in this Gardner collection. Nine tales depict ministers and college students, strange medieval countries full of demented royalty, and whaling ships. More
New York: Basic Books, (1978). John Gardner. First edition. hardback. This copy has a spectacular drawing by the author on the front blank that carries over onto the front pastedown. A woman riding some kind of animal. The drawing is not signed by Gardner but there are two different 'signatures'..... More
New York: Lyons & Burford, (1990). John Groth. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. ALS laid in to Beef Torrey presenting him the book for his collection (dated 2005). An old Comanche named Starlight comes from Oklahoma to Texas with eight compatriots and demands of old Tom Bird the largest of his..... More
New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. According to the Orr/Torrey Jim Harrison bibliography 1964-2008, this advance copy, A14.a. states, "This state of the proof, white pad-bound binding with black lettering. Cover of this proof is paper and is a photocopy..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition (UK). Hardcover. This special copy has been finely bound for the publisher Tom Maschler bearing his personal bookplate especially designed for him by Quentin Blake. Original quarter leather patterned paper-covered boards with gilt titles in raised bands to spine and author's initials to the..... More
Tucson: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy is one of only 20, being #18. The same brick rust colored cloth as the one of 1000 copies, but this copy, on the limitation page, states #18/20 and is signed by Hieb there, as well..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. An Indiespensible selection done by Powell's Books that includes a signed first edition of the book, a chapbook interview along with a matching slipcase. Hunt's third novel concerning Nat and Ruth, young orphans, living in a crowded foster home run by..... More
New York: Random House, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, this copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Jackson, "To ______ / I've always looked / up to you -- you've been / like an older sister! / I hope this makes / your blood percolate / Love /..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1976). Third Printing (1979). Hardcover. 4to. This copy is inscribed to Ralph Graves, the Time-Life Editor on the front free endpaper, "For / Ralph Graves / In happy remembrance of our association at / Life Magazine, and with the good wishes / of/ Yousuf Karsh..... More
New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village. It presents 150 insightful and penetrating images, including 60 photographs..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. First issue book and dust jacket. Basis for the 1975 big screen film directed by Milos Forman that starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson. Winner of five Academy Awards; Best Picture, Actor & Actress, Director, and the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay by..... More
San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, (1994). Susan Seddon Boulet. First edition. hardcover. 4to. Le Guin has an uncanny understanding of the magical. In this story, she is particularly adept at exploring the magic of animals as she shows us their wisdom, follies, spirits and personalities. The illustrations, over 20, by..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Lacking the dust jacket, but a first edition of the author's first book. Frontispiece by A. I. Keller. Bookplate and blindstamp of writer/producer and voice actor, Carey Wilson, whose screenplays include Ben-Hur (1925), Mutiny on The Bounty (1935), and The Great..... More
Tucson: McMillan, Dennis, 2002. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is copy #0000 of a limited edition signed and numbered by the author. The book is still in shrinkwrap. The prequel, and sequel, to his acclaimed noir novel The Ice Harvest. Housed in the publisher's original black slipcase, as issued. More
