Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. "I never killed a man that didn't need killing; I never shot an animal except for meat". Jeff Davis Milton was no western gunman. His answer to those who classed him as such were these apt and honest words. Yet for... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. A review of some of the most prominent lawsuits, judges, and lawyers showing how law actually functions. For 80 years the question of whether the State or the landowners owned the great oil fields of Texas, the million dollar state textbook... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1952). Charles Banks Wilson. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet after the copyright page. This book is a kind of monument to all of the wild and free horses, the mustangs, that once were the glory of our Western ranges... More
New York: Grossett & Dunlap, (1930). Ben Carlton Mead. Reprint edition. Hardcover. More thrilling than any adventure tale of the imagination is this true story of those who, for four centuries, have sought treasure in the lost mines of the Southwest. Not to mention confronting pirates, outlaws, cowboys, rangers, miners... More
New York: The Dial Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. A novel that tells the life story of a group of friends, from preaching in Harlem, through to experiencing 'incest, war, poverty, the civil-rights struggle, as well as wealth and love and fame". 597pp. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Tom Lea. First edition. Hardcover. Ben Lilly was the greatest bear hunter in history (after Davy Crockett). Here are all the stories Ben Lilly told and a great many more the author has put together. Dust jacket painting (and frontispiece) by Tom Lea. More
Unpublished. Charles Bukoiwski. Single sheets. A one-of-a-kind item, this infamous 12-page short story written in the early 1980s, when Buk was riding high and anything was possible. Obviously he was wrong on this one. These pages have only been seen by very few, a handful at most (Hank would Xerox... More
New York: Knopf, (2017). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. Four stories shot through with the humor and wisdom and surprise he is well-known for. More
Burton: Subterranean Press, 2006. Special Hardcover edition. Signed by the author on a large bookplate bound in after the red front endpaper. This tale revisits the author's popular characters Rickey and G-man. Bound in coarse green cloth with red spine lettering. 132 pages. More
New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Twelve passion-fueled stories. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page before the half-title page. 205pp. More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. LImited signed edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 25 pages of text, bound in brown cloth and yellow patterned boards with acetate wrapper. #62/200 numbered copies signed by Crumley. More
New York: Random House, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. A novel of deadly passions and obsessions. 259pp. More
New York: Putnam, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don't know is that some of Forsyth's greatest stories of... More
New York: Grove Press, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. Three novellas by the master of the genre. The title tale Harrison has a lot of fun with. It is about an aging Montana writer who's at the stage of his career when his work is increasingly discussed in terms of his... More
New York: Clarion Books, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. Angel Morgan needs help. Her daddy is in jail, and her mother has abandoned Angel and her little brother, Bernie, at their great-grandmother's crumbling Vermont farmhouse. In this dreary world of canned beans and peaches, of adult worries and loneliness, there is... More
New York: Little Brown, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Concerns an explosion at a dance hall in Missouri, who is to bless and who is to blame. Woodrell has written eight previous novels, five of which were notable books of the year selected by the New York Times. 164pp. More
New York: Knopf, 2008. First United States Edition. Hardcover. After twelve Flashman novels, MacDonald moves on to a different era. The turn of the seventeenth century, in the wild borders of Scotland, and a casket of jewels, an accidental murder, an estate at risk and a plot to overthrow the... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author, 9 lines, on the half-title page dated "March 15, 1990". Oxnam's first work of fiction. More
New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1997. First U.S. edition. Paperback. A PBO. Author's first book. This copy is signed on the title page. Basis for the cult film that starred Samantha Morton directed by Lynne Ramsay. A kind of post-punk Patricia Highsmith. A suicide, a road trip, a novel on a.... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front endpaper by the author (six lines). A candidly uncomplicated first person of Margo Brown during her freshman year at a small college in the Northwest. She's as friendly as a puppy and she has an older... More
New York: Harper Collins (Cliff Street Books), (1997). First edition. Hardcover. Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks ad-libbed their first interviews between the miraculous ancient sage and the reporter covering his history-making arrival in the United States. The 2000 year-old man knew everyone from Jesus to Shakespeare, Cleopatra to Paul Revere... More
Tacoma: Pacific Lutheran University Press, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. The story of the slow and often painful struggle of the Norwegian peasantry to retain their ancient cherished economic and political rights and so to gain a measure of equality with the so-called "upper class" in every facet of community and... More
Bussum, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Agathon, 1977. First edition thus. Paperback. A PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Brautigan to actor Margot Kidder, 1948-2018, on the title page,"This copy is for Margo Kidder / wishing you good luck / with your movie / Richard Brautigan / San Francisco / August 6, 1978." Kidder and... More
New York: Scribner's, (2004). First edition. Hardcover. When the two writers of this book decided they would chronicle the upcoming season (2004) they would witness not only the greatest comeback ever in sports, but the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years as the team put '86 behind them and... More
London: Faber & Faber, (2005). Dave Roberts. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A strange beast: a book of bones and stones, of vengeful hermits and wayward hearses, of junior Rip Van Winkles and resurrectionists. From the fainlty weird to the... More
