New York: Simon & Schuster, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, a story that embraces all of the West--legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers--in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the..... More
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Originally published in Japan in 1982. Author's third novel, but first book to be translated into English. The time is now, the setting, Japan, minus the kimono and the impenetrable mystique of an exotic, distant culture. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Robbins in green ink on the half-title page. His second, and most famous book. Basis for the big screen film (1993). Tells the tale of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (she would not call it a defect) giving..... More
New York: Random House, (1969). First trade edition. Hardcover. This is the book that turned the author into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality. More
London: Harvill, (1997). First edition in English. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. This stunningly powerful novel, of a man's will to survive against all odds, was mentioned specifically when the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1998). More
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, (1983). Antonio Frasconi. First edition. Hardcover. One of 450 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the author and illustrator. This copy is #220.Basis for the big screen film directed by Barbara Streisand who also played the lead. Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Smiley on the title page. More
New York: Putnam, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title along with a red stamp. This novel focuses on four Chinese American families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of..... More
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1948. Later printing. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author dated in the year of publication. "To Thomas Thompson / with congratulations / on the sale of his / own "Saddle Tramp," / and best wishes / for its being..... More
n.p. n.p., 1983. First edition. No Binding. PRESS PHOTO INSCRIBED. World Photo stamp to rear. Caption attached to rear: "New York, Oct 21-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST-Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., stands beside one of his artworks during the premier showing of his drawings at the Freiden Gallery in New York. Monday..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof of this book of prose pieces. Perfect bound in sky blue printed wrappers, as issued. Here, the author expands on our intimate connection with plants and animals, the poisoning of our environment, and nuclear peril. She describes her struggles..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1948). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by West on the half-title page; "For Melba Bennett / a friend of Phil's / Jessamyn West." (Melba Berry Bennett was a scholar, poet, writer and bibliophile. She was invited by Robinson Jefferes to do his..... More
New York: Knopf, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. William Wharton, is the pen name of author, and painter Albert William Du Aime. Author's first novel, and basis for the big screen film (1984) directed by Alan Parker that starred Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. Publisher's press release laid in. Two other..... More
n.p. n.p., Undated. Garth Williams. No binding. Paint on heavy brown stock, measuring approx 9 x 14 1/2 inches (opens like a greeting card). With large cover illustration of two birds with clouds, seated on branches, signed in full by Garth Williams underneath the image. On the rear panel of..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated by Clifford Brycelea. A journey to a largely unknown country, a land of the mind and spirit as well as earth and grass, where people live in intimacy with landscape, where earth, mountains, stars..... More
