Sydney: Nymboida Press, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. This copy signed and inscribed by this Australian surfing legend on the title page dated "Nov '98". Young was that one kid that loved playing in the waves, and who, with talent and determination, went on to become NSW, Australian and World Surfing... More
New York: Tor, (2011). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The debut science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the first novel in a trilogy featuring Jean le Flambeur; the sequels are The Fractal Prince and The Causal Angel. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in 2010, and by Tor in... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Every day, internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal... More
New York: Morrow, (1992). First edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title, "May 16, 1992 / Best Wishes / Cynthia J Wilbur." An affectionate, moving, and amusing tribute to the baseball greats of the 1940s and 1950s. Told in the players' own voices, this is the story of... More
New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. The first book to bring readers deep inside a stellar mixed martial arts gym, Beast shows exactly what it takes to reach the top of this exacting sport. Doug Merlino spent two years at Florida's American Top Team, living, eating, and training alongside... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2011). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. The official companion to series 1 and 2 of this PBS masterpiece. This historical drama follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the family's Edwardian country house. The programme begins with the 1912 sinking... More
New York: Dey St / William Morrow, (2016). First edition. hardcover. Facsimile signature to front of dust jacket, in gold sharpie, as well as the title page (black sharpie). These are tales of family, faith, mental health, lesbian sex, and understanding. Though sometimes dark, these stories might make you laugh... More
New York: Putnam, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Beautiful color endpapers featuring birds and trees. Beebe, 1877-1962, was an American naturalist, orinthologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer and author. He is regarded as one of the founders of the field of ecology, as well as one of the early 20th century's major... More
London: Eyre Methuen, (1975). First edition. hardcover. A collection of fifteen stories by Tiptree, a pseudonym of Alice Sheldon. The Stories are: And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side - The snows are melted, the snows are gone - the peacefulness of Vivyan - Mama... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump. Foreword by David Rieff. This book gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of her life, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deeepest commitment, and... More
New York: Knopf, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Laid in is a folding brochure, one sheet folded twice to make 6 panels listing other cookbooks from the publisher, including this book. "512 pages of entirely new and exciting recipes from all over Italy, in the long-awaited encore from the author of... More
New York: Europa Editions, (2013). First edition thus. Paperback. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. The author manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural. A mob informant's false accusation of corruption against Sicilian Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono not only... More
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. The follow up to the author's retired detective novel 'The Great Leader", involves Detective Sunderson who dares to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan." The... More
New York: Europa Editions, (2011). First edition thus. Paperback. As 1930s Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, terrible poverty and blinding desperation lurks behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime. In a luxurious beachfront apartment lie the bodies of a facist militia officer and his... More
New York: Europa Editions, 2015. First edition thus. Paperback. Touted by the New York Times as a "superb historical series", this series of mysteries unfold with such sinuous ease that they seem to write themselves. They enchant, surprise, enthrall. Commissario Ricciardi, who possesses the dubious gift of being able to... More
New York: St Martin's Press, (2002). First edition. Hardcover. This book tells the story of this extravagant work, the film 'Sunset Boulevard' directed by Billy Wilder. From the writing, casting, and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it. It's about the writing team of Billy Wilder... More
New York: Pantheon, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Signed with the author's trademark "Z" in green ink opposite the copyright page. Dated, also in green ink, '7.1.06'. A finalist for the National Book Award in the year of publication. The story alternates between two different narratives: Sam and Hailey, and Hailey... More
New York: Villard, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. Nearly 700 pages of letters that begin with a high school essay (written in 1955), that takes us through 1967 (after the publication of Hell's Angels). HST's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (2006). Michael P Berman. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong 4to. This copy is signed by both Charles Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman on the title page. "Inferno burns with Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. "I want to eat the dirt and... More
Tucson: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy is one of only 20, being #18. The same brick rust colored cloth as the one of 1000 copies, but this copy, on the limitation page, states #18/20 and is signed by Hieb there, as well... More
New York: Knof, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. "Autographed Copy" sticker to front cover. The author's first novel that takes the reader from the wine country of the Pacific Northwest to the vineyards of Italy. More
New York: Knopf, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Sm 4to. Signed by the author on the title page. A spell-binding thriller, a spy novel, a love story, and a literary tour de force that tackles the most freighted moral issues of our time with emotional power and comedic genius. 252 pages. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1954). First edition. Hardcover. This book tells the intimate and heroic life story of the attack transport 'Belinda". It tells of the ships and men that came in under naval bombardment, that landed our marines and GI's in battle, that took them wounded and dying off the... More
New York: Norton, (1995). First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. The seventeenth novel in the Aubrey / Maturin series of naval tales, which some described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin... More
Tucson: McM2002illan, 2002. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is copy #0000 of a limited edition signed and numbered by the author. The book is still in shrinkwrap. The prequel, and sequel, to his acclaimed noir novel The Ice Harvest. Housed in the publisher's original black slipcase, as issued. More
