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
London: MQP, 2007. Aline Kominsky Crumb. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Thick small 4to. Here, Aline draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. She records her wild and crazy journey that took her from her beginnings as a nice... More
New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Stacy / Hooray for Art / up to a point / Yrs / Jim." Harrison has added his 'one-eye' drawing along with the date, 4/1/88.This is the story of Dalva... More
New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Egan follows a ghost, Theodore Winthrop, who wrote the first national book about the Northwest in the 1850s. That journey went by horseback and canoe. The modern jaunt goes by kayak... More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. This tale is not about a man and a dog, even though there are several men, aged ten or thereabouts in the story. The book is mostly an affectionate recapturing of... More
n.p. University of New Mexico Press, 1948. Gene Roberts. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. "I want to tell you about men mean as hell. Thieves, murderers, cattle rustlers, who poured into the West in search of more "gun room." Then there were the pioneer folks, anxious to make a decent... More
London: Covenant, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. A 5-line inscription signed by Frances Henking (her address and date underneath inscription). ALS tipped in, Henking explains (to the two people the book is inscribed to) her current... More
New York: Wm Morrow, 1936. Author's Edition (later printing). Hardcover. Inscribed by James Hilton on the front endpaper and dated December 1944. Christmas sticker of a young girl holding a large postcard with a message to the same person the book is inscribed to. Illustrated in color. Basis for the... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964. First edition. 4to. With text from his own writings. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1996). UK First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Born in a commune, Jane has led an itinerant childhood with her mother and only a vague notion of her father. Years before, Tom Owens had dropped out of college to form a.... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. A folio size reprint of the first edition of this famous photo book originally published in 1950. Weston first met Point Lobos on a day in 1915 when friends, traveling with him along the California coast, said he must see this place... More
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed on a publisher's bookplate pasted to the front endpaper and signed by Milt Hinton who has added a small drawing of a musical instrument dated in the year of publication. Illustrated from photographs. 164pp. More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Milt Hinton, 1910-2000, with musical notes, then signed by Hinton with a small drawing of a musical instrument, dated '91. Hinton, the 'dean of bass players',has experienced the jazz world firsthand for... More
