New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1979). John Thompson. First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered sets (#99) signed by the author on a limitation page tipped in to the third-volume "Legends of the Fall'. Measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. The tale of three brothers and their..... More
New York: Grove, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. In 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favor' Stoppard contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Here, the author takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched..... More
London: A Wildfire Club Edition, (1995). Petronella. A stated 'First edition'. Hardcover. Have you ever looked up at tall Victorian houses, or at country estates behind high walls, and thought that within those enclosures might lie another world? This book takes you into such a world--all-female world where maidservants are..... More
New York: Grove, (1979). First edition. A play set in a fictional black African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. Tha nation is faced with a Soviet-backed revolution which quickly brings newsmen from around the world to cover the story. 111 pages. More
Elmwood Park: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1986. First edition. Ranging from one page to twenty-six (the longest, a tribute to Charles Olson), his essays cover people, places and things--people like Robert Creeley, places like an Indian reservation out West, and things like totem poles. In addition to being philosophical, poetic..... More
New York: Knopf, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. A terrifying snowbound week in the country. An "idyllic" young marriage. These are the elements of a novel that combines the most intensely dramatic circumstance with a brilliant revelation of the way our supressed feelings can modify, even direct, our fates. 273 pages..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. This play centers on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zurich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and..... More
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition. Hardcover. When one is young and Black and living in 1968 it is sometimes very difficult to find out who you are or where you belong. Especially if all you want to do is play your horn. Especially if you are surrounded by..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Harrison's passions and concerns come to life page after page. In a protest against orthodoxy, the provocative long poem "Suite of Unreason" interweaves throughout the book and invites layered readings and startling entryways into unreason. 141 pages. Cover art "Summer Storm"..... More
New York: FSG, (1961). First edition. Paperback. The signatures of the book laid into a dust jacket (advance copy?). The author's third published novel, a semi-autobiographical campus novel that is set in the Pacific Northwest. 367 pages. More
New York: Random House, (1991). First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proof. A darkly comic tale of drugs, organized crime, a missing person, and a Nebraska priest's quest for meaning in a topless bar. 256 pages. Perfect bound in the original decorated slick wrappers. More
New York: New Directions, 1954). First edition. Hardcover. Here, in his last completed masterpiece, Dylan Thomas gave fullest expression to his sense of the "Daedal Dance of life." Under Milk Wood is a "ceremonial portrait" of the circle of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. It begins..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. The story of a young man and the girl he is courting, of her father and of all that happens to them in a suburb called Lakewood, just outside Cleveland, in those pre-World War II days. By the author of 'The..... More
New York: Linden Press, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proofs perfect bound in the original light tan printed wrappers. From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all..... More
Richmond: Van Neste Books, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. The tale of Henry Starr, a young man in search of his real mother. Told through the eyes of his younger cousin, Annie, it is also the story of generation and family. While growing up, with a father who could never 'make..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1946). First edition. Hardcover. These 33 selected by Thayer include; Rudyard Kipling 'The Last of the Stories', Edgar Allan Poe 'The Cask of Amontillado', Oscar Wilde 'The Sphinx Without a Secret', Ring Lardner 'The Young Immigrunts', Ben Hecht 'On a Day Like This' (two others by..... More
n.p. Filament Eleven Press, (2014). Adele Newton Furin. First edition. Hardcover. Well over 100 word author inscription to the half title signed "Andre" and dated 5/8/14. An awesome mystery in which the reader becomes the ultimate sleuth when four courageous children embark on a mission to save the Ancient Wisdom..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First American edition. Hardcover. Lacking the dust jacket, but a clean sharp copy. A Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is the son of..... More
New York: Viking Press, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. In this memoir Ani recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring..... More
Minneapolis: Dreamhaven, (1993). First edition. hardcover. Small 4to. A murder in heaven before the fall, a London in which black magic works, if you own a computer, an elderly lady who buys the holy grail and puts it on her mantlepiece. Gaiman tells these stories and others: Tales of spider-kings..... More
New York: Knopf, 2018. First American Edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped in sheet ( "Signed First Edition" sticker to front panel of the jacket). Here, the author tells the story of Poulo, a young, skinny, Brazillian man with a goatee and long, flowering hair, who wants..... More
1984. Single sheets. A two-page ALS from Barker to editor J.N. Williamson. Written entirely in black ink by Barker (including his name and return address at the top) on two plain 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper, the letter is undated but discussion of Williamson's forthcoming anthology "Masques" which..... More
New York: The Linden Press, (1982). First edition. hardcover. Eve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and Lord Buckley. Her articles and short stories have appeared in Vogue..... More
New York: Knopf, 1969. First edition. hardbound. Biography of Bert Lahr written by his son John Lahr, the drama critic. Laid in is a TLS from the author to Frank Buxton "Dear Mr. Buxton / Thank you very much for your letter -- I am very pleased that you liked..... More
