New York: Knopf, (2015). First edition. Hardback. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. The author's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war. All edges black. Special fancy binding... More
New York: Doubleday, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. A novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. More
New York: 4th Estate, 2004. Jay Ryan. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story. 131pp. Illustrations by Jay Ryan. More
n.p. Warner Bros, 1960. PRESENTATION SCRIPT. Hardcover. Marked "Final Screenplay" (April 11, 1960), 148pp. Directed by Vincent J. Donehue, with a screenplay by Dore Schary, who produced the film (and the play). The film starred Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, and Ann Shoemaker. An ALS is bound in from... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Three very different girls, Three very different summers. A powerful bond that stands the test of time. 238pp. More
New York: Putnam, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper, large signature complete with the "*". A 'learning disabled' rich kid college in upstate New York is overwhelmed by prisoners who just broke out of the prison across the lake. Pandemonium insues when the prisoners... More
San Francisco: Harper, (1993). First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is the English version of O Alquimista, the Portuguese original edition, published in Brazil by Editora Rocco Ltd in 1988. 177pp with epilogue. A magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of... More
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. The first book of the Harper Hall Trilogy in the Dragonriders of Pern series. A science-fiction novel with wonderful dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. More
New York: Knopf, 2001. First American edition. Hardback. A college student falls in love with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments, until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's... More
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, (1989). First edition. Originally published in Japan in 1982. Author's third novel, but first book to be translated into English. The time is now, the setting, Japan, minus the kimono and the impenetrable mystique of an exotic, distant culture. The narrator, identified only by... More
New York: Knopf, 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. A tour de force of metaphysical reality that is powered by two remarkable characters, a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an... More
New York: Knopf, (2006). First American edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy... More
New York: Random House, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by both Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag on the half-title page. With full page color, and black and white photographs encompassing a broad spectrum of subjects; a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars... More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Clare Leighton. First thus. Hardcover. The 20th anniversary edition of the author's first novel (1926). Roberts, a poet and novelist, was born in Kentucky. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she carefully represented... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. This novel, by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying, is ultimately an exploration of human defensiveness, the lust for power, both sexual and politcal, and the need for a compassion beyond what we... More
New York: New Directions, (1954). First American edition. Hardcover. Here, in his last completed masterpiece, Thomas gave fullest expression to his sense of the "daedal dance of life." A "ceremonial portrait" of the circle of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. It begins with dreams and ghosts... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. The book is set in the early 20th century, following three different families in scenes of deception and social transformation. The book also explores racial boundaries during that period of the 20th century. Years later, the novel was turned into a play... More
Corvallis: Arrowood Books, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. The editors asked Northwest writers what the northwest means to them, as individuals, and especially as working writers. In short, they were asked "Why live, work and write here?" Essays by Mark Halperin, Vern Rutssala, Tess Gallagher, Paul Pintarich, Vi Gale, Richard Hoyt... More
New York: Dutton, (2003). Malcolm McGookin & Jay "Zeebarf" Ziebarth. First edition. Hardcover. One of the human race's most popular humor series, featuring science and safety discussions, and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action. From the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice to the insurance defrauder... More
New York: Random House, (2002). First Trade edition. Hardcover. This copy inscribed by David Rockefeller to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. on the front end paper. 500+ pages with index. Housed in a custom black cloth box with leather spine label and chemise. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1961). First American edition. Hardcover. First published in Germany (1961), this novella, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum, concerns Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. 189pp. More
On a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. From Kenneth Millar (1915-1983) to the Los Angeles Times book critic Robert Kirsch (1922-1980). Millar, adds his return address to the top right of the page. He invented the gritty detective Lew Archer, writing as Ross Macdonald. Both Kirsch and... More
London: Michael Joseph, (1972). First UK edition thus. Hardcover. This is Baldwin's film script of Alex Haley's now famous The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written with that sincerity, passion and eloquence that are the hallmark of all Baldwin's writing. The story of the original book is faithfully followed, but with... More
New York: Dodubleday, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. Eleven interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives interwined with it, those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Offering a wide-ranging, contemplative exploration of the rivers that touch his life. Ducan backs his insights with a fierce defense of the sacred cultures and fauna that living waters sustain. 294pp. More
