New York: Scribner's, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. A novel that tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2014). First edition. Hardcover. Here, in this novel, the author returns to Gilead in the unforgetable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. More
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1991. David Salle. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler, edited and designed by John Cheim. Best known as a painter, Salle is quite accomplished as a photographer. Printed by the Stinehour Press. 54 images. Bound in illustrated boards in the original acetate dust wrapper..... 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: Doubleday, (1978). Raphael Soyer. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. One of 300 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. With a numbered color print signed by Raphael Soyer. This is copy #141. As a young man in 1930s Warsaw, Singer lived inconspicuously on the edge of a...... More
New Brighton: Kenneth Starosciak, (1974). First edition. One of 500 copies staple bound in stiff printed card covers. 29 pages. Contents: An Introduction, work not published, getting to know Capote, books, works in periodicals, separate publications about Capote, articles about Capote, and book reviews. More
Woody Creek/Loose Valley/Blue Grass/High Desert: Gonao International/Steam Press/Petro III Graphics/Sylph Publications, 2004. Ralph Steadman. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. #45/150 signed by both the author, Hunter S Thompson, and the illustrator, Ralph Steadman on the limitation page. A 51pp previously unpublished short story about a struggling young writer in the..... More
New York: Doubleday, (1999). First edition. hardcover. On February 13, 2000, Desmond Tutu was in Seattle at Seattle University receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities, at which time he signed this copy on a dated Seattle University bookplate: "God Bless You / Desmond Tutu." The establishment of South Africa's Truth..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. Publisher promotional letter laid in. This book collects all the poems from the author's previously published books. 461pp. More
New York: World Publishing, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book and the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. 46 poems in 4 categories. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet..... More
New York: Random House, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in full red morocco imitating the artwork of the original dust jacket that features a contemporary film projector with a ribbon of film that contains the author's name, and two critics' comments on the book; Dashiell Hammett and Dorothy Parker. The..... 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. A small film with a big heart..... More
Miami Beach: Dennis McMillan, 1987. Joe Servello. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. #51 OF 400 copies numbered and signed by Willeford. Dust jacket painting and endpapers by Joe Servello. A long excerpt (with added material) from Willeford's long novel Shark-Infested Custard originally written in the 1970s. This title was meant to..... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1938. Jack B Yeata. 2nd edition. Paperback. Small 4to. Here, Yeats depicts the collapse of his paradigm for Ireland's renewal through culture and discerns the seeds for a new cultural movement rooted in education and eugenics. For Yeats, cultural nationalism had the potential to unite the nation..... More
