New York: Doubleday, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the..... More
Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2004. First edition thus. Hardcover. Number 12 Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Photographs by Scott Newton. Musical magic hit Austin, Texas, in the early 1970s. At now-legendary venues such as Threadgill's, Vulcan Gas Company, and the Armadillo World..... More
New York: Harper, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A special signed edition has been specially bound by the publisher, and signed by Erdrich. the first entry in a loosely-connected trilogy by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich. The Plague of Doves follows the townsfolk of the fictional Pluto, North Dakota, who are plagued..... More
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For eleven cents—all the money in his pocket—he buys a soda bottle’s worth..... More
Jefferson (North Carolina): McFarland & Company, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed on the second blank page by Jackson and dated Jan 10, 2000. Laid into this copy is a 4-inch x 6-inch stiff paper dated Jan 12, 2000 in "Pineapple's" hand; "Pernell / Merry Christmas and Happy..... More
Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs--whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. The first person is the narrator who appears throughout, guiding the reader with one hand while throwing sand in his eyes with the other, since all of this is full of contrivances and connivances and interpolations designed to show that what..... More
San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century: among them, Marcel..... More
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed (in red ink) by the author "For Frank Buxton, another / great mind... / (signed) Martin Williams / Oct 1980" on the front endpaper. This book is an ideal introduction to all the other books..... More
New York: Crown, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right..... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by R. W. Apple, Jr. This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino..... More
New York: Tor, 1995. First edition. hardcover. Paul Park's Nebula Award finalist is an extraordinary, challenging, and disturbing novel about a human colony on a distant alien world, the planet Celestis. The native humanoid population is subjugated by the human colonists, but many of the Aboriginals undergo medical procedures involving..... More
New York: Random House Rolling Stone Book, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. The first comprehensive history of the movement that culminated in San Francisco's famous Summer of Love, is a hip, richly detailed analysis of one of the most dynamic periods in recent American history. The Haight-Ashbury movement of 1965-67-named after..... More
New York: Scribner's, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung..... More
New York: Ecco, 2009. Les LePere. First edition. Hardcover. Designed by McSweeney's. First edition. A novella. It is presented as a children's book, about Gracie Perke, a young girl exploring the world of beer. She learns why every adult enjoys it and why she's not allowed to drink it. Illustrated..... More
New York: Simon Pulse, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Following her parents’ high-profile divorce, Paige and her brother are forced to move to Idaho with their mother, and Paige doesn’t have very high hopes for her new life. The small town they’ve moved to is nothing compared to the life she..... More
New York: Scribner, 2018. First Scribner hardcover edition. Hardcover. Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university—a wide-eyed boy from the country—and where three Irish literary giants also came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about..... More
South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Yelberton Abraham Tittle, from the Piney Woods of East Texas, played pro football from 1948 until 1964, retiring at 38 after starring for the Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants. Although he was the quarterback in the 49ers' so-called..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. The range of subject matter covered in these essays; from Edith Wharton to Marilyn Monroe; from Caruso to Norman Mailer; from the Hiss and Oppenheimer cases to Edward Albee and more. 243 pages. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1996. First edition. hardcover. Signed by James Patterson on the half-title page. Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Peter Parnall. First edition. Hardcover. An autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey (1927-1989) originally published in 1968. His fourth book and his first book-length non-fiction work, it follows three fictional books (Jonathan Troy, The Brave Cowboy, and Fire on the Mountain). Novelist, essayist, white-water rafter..... More
London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021. First paperback edition in English. Paperback. Signed by the author on the publisher's bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way..... More
Vienna: Elsinore Press, 2017. Gina Lee Photographer. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. First edition of photographs by Gina Lee, an American poet, journalist, and dancer. This is a road book where the photographer is embedded as a dancer with Tav Falco & Panther Burns, an itinerant rock & roll band adrift..... More
New York: Knopf, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Explores historical origins of masks, from Cleopatra to the Apollo astronauts. This book is making faces at you. Though you may not be dressed for Halloween, attendant at a ceremony of the Ku Klux Klan, or busy invoking the blessings of your..... More
