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
San Francisco & New York: Straight Arrow & Simon Schuster, 1973, 1975, 1977. paperback. 3 volumes, all in wrappers, each volume signed by Bill Owens and dated 1978. All housed in a black cloth slipcase. Each volume measures 10 x 10 inches. Bill Owens is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer..... More
Tucson: McMillan, 2000. Michael Kellner. First edition. Hardcover. #107/225 copies bound in quarter-morocco and hand-made paper covered boards, signed and numbered by the author. The author's first book, and the true first edition. Everywhere you look, trashy people are doing trashy things in this darkly delicious debut comic thriller. Set..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. As Lawrence Durrell puts it in his perceptive introduction, "one senses two strong flavors which complement each other. Firstly, that of his sharply selective yet tender treatment of light and dark; secondly, the flavor of the capital city which he..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Edward Shenton. First edition. Hardcover. With the Scribner's "A" but without the seal, and with the front flap price, in red, of $2.50. By the author of The Yearling. The author's autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks..... More
Circa 1983. First edition. Papers. Approx 400pp, 16mo and 4to, being the working draft of Dramocles, housed in the author's original folder with story and character notes scribbled throughout. Consisting of (approx): 71pp of early draft, 50pp of possible scenes, bits and characterizations, 53pp + 170pp of drafts, 70pp of..... More
Melbourne, London, Toronto: Heinemann, (1957). First British edition. Hardcover. A post-apocalyptic novel that details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Andrew / Robert Stone." National Book Award winner. A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemingway's adventures stories, a tale of Vietnam and California, a narrative meditation on the counter-culture. More
New York: Knopf, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. This edition is bound with Ralph Barton's celebrated map of Paris with the kind permission of the artist. With 32 illustrations. Printed on the rear panel of the decorated slipcase; "Peter Whittle, Carl Van Vechten's first novel, was published in April, 1922..... 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
New York: Morrow, (1992). First edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title, "May 16, 1992 / Best Wishes / Cynthia J Wilbur." An affectionate, moving, and amusing tribute to the baseball greats of the 1940s and 1950s. Told in the players' own voices, this is the story of..... More
