New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition. Signed by Walker on the title page. This book, her second, after her award winning first book 'Zero at the Bone', introduces a gutsy new heroine, Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates. More about THE RED SCREAM. A Novel of Suspense
London: Bloomsbury, (1992). 40 illustrators. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Antonia Frasier on the title page and also signed by the Chairman of W.H. Smith, Sir Simon Hornby. Additionally signed, "with best wishes, A S Byatt October 22nd 1992" on page 127 at A.S. Byatt's contribution. Published to celebrate... More about THE PLEASURE OF READING
New York: William Morrow, (2003-2004). First editions. Hardcover. The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels published in three volumes containing eight books in 2003 and 2004. The story follows the adventures of a sizable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late 17th and... More about THE BAROQUE CYCLE. Eight Books in Three Volumes. Complete
New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. hardcover. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. Here, the author offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color... More about AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS. Seven Paradoxical Tales
New York: Harmony, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet... More about MOSTLY HARMLESS. The Fifth Book in the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Trilogy
New York: Copernicus Books, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. The authors believe that just a slightly more sophisticated approach to statistics can greatly increase our understanding of baseball numbers and our appreciation of the game. A fresh look at the numbers that are an integral part of our national pastime. Illustrated... More about CURVE BALL. Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
New York: Crown, (1980). Pierre Soulages. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A volume in the Q.L.P. Art series. Paintings by Pierre Soulage. Perhaps more than the work of any other artist, Soulages' paintings are almost impossible to render into words. They force us to stop in front of them, face to..... More about SOULAGES
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. This nice copy has all the right points to be the first edition. Basis for the big screen film directed by Robert Redford that starred Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, and Tom Skerritt. There were two other stories besides the title one... More about A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT And Other Stories
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1974). Second printing. Hardcover. Though a second printing (stated) this copy has two handwritten passages from the book written out on the front yellow endpaper dated November 17, 1975, then signed underneath both passages by John D MacDonald. The first handwritten passage is: "What makes so many of... More about THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY. #16 in the Travis McGee Series
Royal Oak: A.S.A.P., 1994. Phil Parks. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. Being Copy "Q" of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, James Elroy, Raymond Obstfeld and Phil Parks (there were also 100 numbered copies). Includes two stories by the author, the title tale and Cops Say the Darnedest Things. Color... More about HIGH HEELS THROUGH THE HEADLINER. Introduction by James Elroy. Afterword by Raymond Obstfeld....
New York: Random House, (2017). First edition. Hardcover. This book is essential reading in a time of global upheaval—a unique, impassioned and vital guide to peaceful, creative resistance in a violent era. A dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology which proposes that art can offer..... More about DRAW YOUR WEAPONS
New York: Mulholland Books. (2016). Hardcover. A novel set in a contemporary alternate-history United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated prior to his 1861 inauguration and a version of the Crittenden Compromise was adopted instead. 322pp. More about UNDERGROUND AIRLINES
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Larry Lujack on the front endpaper. Here's your chance to sit with the coffee-gulping, chain-smoking, Excedrin-Popping Lujack as he claws his way through the "afternoon drive" show on a 50,000-watt, round-the-clock hard-rock radio station. Bound in red... More about SUPER JOCK. The Loud, Frantic, Nonstop World of a Rock Radio DJ
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. In these seventeen essays Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations. 292pp... More about THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS. Essays
New York: Knopf, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Art Garfunkel on the front of the dust jacket (in his hair) in black sharpie. "A memoir of sorts: artful, moving, lyrical impressions of a life that reveal the making of a musician, the evolution of a man; a portrait of... More about WHAT IS IT ALL BUT LUMINOUS. Notes From an Underground Man
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1966). First edition. Hardcover. Lange's death (late in 1965) ended a photographic career which for thirty years had been a seminal influence in twentieth-century photography. Her extraordinary response to the problems of visual documentation gave photography a new awareness of the interaction between artistic... More about DOROTHEA LANGE. With a Critical Essay By George P. Elliott
New York: Crown, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by the author. Here, Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men, Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication, whose lives intersect during one of the... More about THUNDERSTRUCK
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. For almost 17 years, The Daily Show brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today's... More about THE DAILYSHOW (The Book). An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents. Staff and...
New York: Crown, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. A gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of freediving, and of the tragic, untimely death of America's greatest freediver, Nicholas Mevoli. Illustrated from photographs. 324pp with index. More about ONE BREATH. Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. "Four centuries after the death of Jesus Christ, two migrant ships pushed through dangerous seas. Strong men and women tended oars and sails; children crouched amidst livestock and household goods. Each crew valued kin about all, walked with live gods -... More about MAKING PEOPLES. A History of the New Zealanders. From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the...
New York: Norton, (1998). First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. The Hundred Days is the nineteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series first published in 1998. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars, specifically in their last portion in 1815, the Hundred Days. 281pp. More about THE HUNDRED DAYS
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2005). First edition. Hardcover. The acclaimed author's fourth novel won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and in several anthologies, including The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005. Moving back and forth between the 1960s and... More about CROSSING BULLY CREEK. Milkweed National Fiction Prize
New York: Dutton, (2017). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Chipper Jones, one of the game of baseball's greatest, and most colorful players. Jones was an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame worthy statistics during a nineteen-year career with the Atlanta Braves. This book, full of Chipper's trademark candor and... More about BALLPLAYER. Foreword by Bobby Cox
n.p. Cayucos Books, 1971. A Signed Limited Edition. hardcover. A re-issue of this famous book of poetry by Robinson Jeffers with an introduction by William Everson. #30 of only 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Everson. From the introduction: "The justification for reissuing any immature work by a.... More about CALIFORNIANS. With An Introduction by William Everson
New York: Villard, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. Review copy with publisher's dated slip, three photographs, and several press releases laid in. This biography of Janis Joplin, by her sister Laura, includes newly discovered letters by Janis, one of the first female rock superstars. Often characterized as a tragic figure set... More about LOVE JANIS
