New York: Doubleday, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the half-title page. Blue stamp to half title, "Tour Rant 2007". Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by all three writers on the title page. In 1950 Jerry and Mike met for the first time, they were teenagers. Leiber was looking for someone to help compose music for lyrics he’s written, a friend recommended Stoller. They shared... More
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, (2012). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Four men set out to conquer the highest and coldest summit in North America, Denali, soaring 20,320 feet into the thin Arctic air. 295pp. More
New York: Public Affairs, (2010). First edition. Hardcover. The book travels between the high points and sublime dislocations in which the singer reaches an extreme muscical threshold, and it leaps the chasms as it tracks perhaps the most enigmatic and revelatory performer of our time. 195pp with index. More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. Here, in fourteen essays, are fourteen fresh answers to the question of how to be alone in a noisy and distracting mass culture. 278pp. More
New York: Knopf, 1983. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the title page: "Hazel / Best Wishes / Nora Ephron "(signed). Author's first novel. A tale of a cookbook writer and a syndicated columnist, whose happy marriage is breaking up. More
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, (2004). Gary Blythe. First U.S. edition, thus. Hardcover. Narrated from several different viewpoints. Dracula is a complex story that many know but few have actually read. Jan Needle's newly edited version makes the gripping events accessible to the twenty-first-century reader without losing the imcomparably chilling atmosphere of... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2008). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's first book. As the life of an anesthesiologist begins to collapse, she confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. More
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Capote's masterpiece, a non-fiction novel that details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. More
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Eight stories. The signed limited edition, one of 50 numbered copies, #49, signed by both Ray Carver and William Kittredge. Also inscribed by Kittredge (with ownership signature to ffep of the person the book is inscribed to). 128pp. More
London: John Major, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. With anecdotes of books and book collectors. Subscriber's list in volume 1. Frontispiece portrait and 'Library' in volume II. Illustrated. 556, 44 (index); 557-982pp. Bound in 19th century French full calf, red and green lettering pieces, a single gilt line around the front... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1965). Later printings. Hardcover. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger... More
Chicago: Contemporary Books, (1985). Hardcover. Signed by Paul Newman on the front endpaper. Laid in is a color flyer highlighting how much his food line donates to charity, and a "thank you" to Oregon retailers for their support. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. 136 pages with index and recipies. More
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1973). First edition. Hardcover. Author's third book. Review copy with both the review slip and the review itself by Anatole Broyard for the New York Times News Service (over 30 inches long x 8 1/2 wide, teletype like). The author explains his encounters with... More
Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Committee, 1956. First edition. Paperback. #216 of 750 numbered copies signed by Dalton Trumbo in red ink on the verso of the front cover (which serves as the colophon page). Trumbo was one of the "Hollywood 10" who were blacklisted by the powers that be... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Charles Bukowski. First edition, signed deluxe edition. Hardcover. One of 100 numbered copies, #36, with an original painting by Charles Bukowski (with tissue guard). A very elegant forest like scene, abstract, with lace-like images, signed in ink by Bukowski in the bottom right corner... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Charles Bukowski. First edition, deluxe issue. Hardcover. #83/100 copies, the deluxe issue, with an original painting by Charles Bukowski. A killer painting of a bird, using many colors and thick paint, signed "Buk" bottom right on the painting (with tissue guard). Also signed on... More
n.p. 2017. Ralph Steadman. First edition thus, a limited signed edition. This illustration, featured in Hunter S. Thompson's book FEAR & LOATHNG IN LAS VEGAS (Random House, 1971), forever raised the bar on "bad craziness". I cannot think of any image featured in any book that is as instantly recognizable... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, signed limited and enhanced. Hardcover. #119 of 350 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author. Occasionally, Bukowski would take a break from the tedium of signing, and, let his mind wander and, he would write down whatever came into his head in... More
New York: Knopf, 2007. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the blank after the front endpaper, along with his mark. A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The... More
Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 950 copies. This copy is inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by Newton: "The whole edition / promises to be / quickly sold." (Signed) A. Edward Newton / Sept 24, 1929. More
New York: Hendricks House, (1949). Reprint. Hardcover. Melville's seventh book. The first American edition of 'Pierre' as published by Harper and Brothers of New York in August, 1852. The first English edition (1852) consists of the identical sheets imported from American and published in London by Sampson Low, Son, and... More
London: Methuen & Co, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. A millionaire strips himself deliberately of his wealth and his identity and goes out to seek his fortune in the world. The first thing he does is to change clothes with a murderer, whose name is carefully stitched into his every garment... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Author's first book. A volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. An association/presentation copy inscribed by Rosten to Stephen Vincent Benet, dated "Sept 25, 1940". "To Stephen Benet: I shall try my best to... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1948. First British edition. Hardcover. William Edward Vickers (1889-1965) was an English mystery writer better known under his pen name, Roy Vickers. He also used the psuedonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. He is the author of over 60 crime novels and... More
