New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition of the author's first book of collected poems. The book won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, and is dedicated to his first wife, Sylvia Plath (who typed out the poems and submitted the manuscript for... More about THE HAWK IN THE RAIN
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Third printing. This copy warmly inscribed by Karsh: "For Ralph Graves, In happy remembrance of our association at Life Magazine-and with the good wishes of Josuf Karsh, 1983." Graves was the managing editor at Time- Life Books. A wonderful association. 200pp... More about KARSH PORTRAITS
NewYork: Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half title page. Laid in is a full printed sheet, folded in half to make four pages, a brochure of Levine's appearance at the Washington Center for the Book at the Central Seattle... More about THE MERCY. Poems
Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated 1979. Not one of the "Florida University" copies. Basis for the 1980 TV movie. More about CONDOMINIUM. A Novel. Inscribed By The Author
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Publisher's press release laid in. Winner of the Whibread Novel Award. The story concerns an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. More about THE CHILD IN TIME. A Novel
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This small edition was done through Three Dog Books of Archer City Texas. Signed and numbered on a stamped limitation page, this being 100/100. The author's second book of his three volume... More about A LITERARY LIFE. A Second Memoir
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. A biography of Ansel Adams, that starts when he was a teenager, and a summer custodian, of sorts, of a small building provided by The Sierra Club. His hikes in the Nevada mountains taught a young Adams a respect for the... More about ANSEL ADAMS. The Eloquent Light. Volume 1
Boston: Godine, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. The story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Erratum slip laid in. More about HUNGER OF MEMORY. The Education of Richard Rodriguez. An Autobiography. Signed
Los Angeles: The American Jewish Committee, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is boldly signed by Steven Spielberg on the title page. From the Dedication: "Steven Spielberg is a celebration of the human spirit. In his family, he celebrates the human spirit. In this work, he celebrates the human... More about A CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. An American Jewish Committee Tribute to Steven Spielberg
n.p. 2017. Ralph Steadman. First edition thus, a limited signed edition. This illustration, featured in Hunter S. Thompson's book FEAR & LOATHNG IN LAS VEGAS (Random House, 1971), forever raised the bar on "bad craziness". I cannot think of any image featured in any book that is as instantly recognizable... More about A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. A Silkscreen Print 1/150 by Ralph Steadman
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 about DOG SOLDIERS
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eudora Welty on the front free endpaper. A collection of autobiographical essays. The book is based on three lectures she delivered at Harvard University in April 1983, as part of the William E. Massey Sr. lecture series. The three essays... More about ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS. Signed
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 about ORIGINAL SIGNED DUST JACKET MOCKUP: "BIRDS"
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 about PIECES OF WHITE SHELL. A Journey to Navajoland
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. 'Compliments of the Author' card laid in. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. More about THIS BOY'S LIFE. A Memoir
