Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First edition. Hardcover. In the 1950s a number of Afro-American artists left the United States, seeking a community where their blackness could be accepted without racial nightmares and where they could practice their art with a freedom denied them in America. This sensitive..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed on the title page by the author. An interplanetary loves story, of Billie and Spike, of the past and the future; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world. 207pp. More
London: Granta Books, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed on the title page by the author. Set onboard the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, this book explores parallel lives, loves and universes. A story of The Ship of Fools, a Jew, a diamond, a dream. A...... More
New York: William Morrow, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's third book, one of 7500 copies. This copy has a terrific inscription written, apparently, on a very bad day: "To Tom Garner, the way of all flesh; we 'no' of no exceptions. Ain't life fucking grand? Fuck..... More
New York: Putnam, (1970). First edition. Paperback. Advance copy perfect bound in the original plain white wrappers of the author's first novel. Nominated for the National Book Award. Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness-all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, yet..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First edition. Both volumes in stiff printed wrappers, comb bound as issued. 787 leaves, in two volumes, reproducing hundreds of handwritten changes to the original manuscript. This biographical novel traces the parallel lives of Voltaire, "the wittiest, most irreverent, most spectacular philosopher who ever..... More
Menlo Park: C. Salway Press, (1990). Marion Keens. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. This copy is inscribed on the front endpaper by the author and dated by her "Christmas 1993." A captivating fantasy of six orphaned animals (four cats and two dogs) who enjoy a Christmas Eve romp through the..... More
New York: Knopf, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Small 4to. The uncorrected proof (tall galley) measuring 5 1/4 by 10 3/4 inches. Perfect bound in green printed wrappers. Taped to the front cover is a notice that this title is to be 'An Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild" along with..... More
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1979). John Thompson. First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered sets (#99) signed by the author on a limitation page tipped in to the third-volume "Legends of the Fall'. Measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. The tale of three brothers and their..... More
New York: Grove, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. In 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favor' Stoppard contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Here, the author takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched..... More
London: A Wildfire Club Edition, (1995). Petronella. A stated 'First edition'. Hardcover. Have you ever looked up at tall Victorian houses, or at country estates behind high walls, and thought that within those enclosures might lie another world? This book takes you into such a world--all-female world where maidservants are..... More
New York: Grove, (1979). First edition. A play set in a fictional black African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. Tha nation is faced with a Soviet-backed revolution which quickly brings newsmen from around the world to cover the story. 111 pages. More
Elmwood Park: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1986. First edition. Ranging from one page to twenty-six (the longest, a tribute to Charles Olson), his essays cover people, places and things--people like Robert Creeley, places like an Indian reservation out West, and things like totem poles. In addition to being philosophical, poetic..... More
New York: Knopf, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. A terrifying snowbound week in the country. An "idyllic" young marriage. These are the elements of a novel that combines the most intensely dramatic circumstance with a brilliant revelation of the way our supressed feelings can modify, even direct, our fates. 273 pages..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. This play centers on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zurich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and..... More
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition. Hardcover. When one is young and Black and living in 1968 it is sometimes very difficult to find out who you are or where you belong. Especially if all you want to do is play your horn. Especially if you are surrounded by..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Harrison's passions and concerns come to life page after page. In a protest against orthodoxy, the provocative long poem "Suite of Unreason" interweaves throughout the book and invites layered readings and startling entryways into unreason. 141 pages. Cover art "Summer Storm"..... More
New York: FSG, (1961). First edition. Paperback. The signatures of the book laid into a dust jacket (advance copy?). The author's third published novel, a semi-autobiographical campus novel that is set in the Pacific Northwest. 367 pages. More
New York: Random House, (1991). First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proof. A darkly comic tale of drugs, organized crime, a missing person, and a Nebraska priest's quest for meaning in a topless bar. 256 pages. Perfect bound in the original decorated slick wrappers. More
New York: New Directions, 1954). First edition. Hardcover. Here, in his last completed masterpiece, Dylan Thomas gave fullest expression to his sense of the "Daedal Dance of life." Under Milk Wood is a "ceremonial portrait" of the circle of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. It begins..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. The story of a young man and the girl he is courting, of her father and of all that happens to them in a suburb called Lakewood, just outside Cleveland, in those pre-World War II days. By the author of 'The..... More
New York: Linden Press, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proofs perfect bound in the original light tan printed wrappers. From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all..... More
Richmond: Van Neste Books, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. The tale of Henry Starr, a young man in search of his real mother. Told through the eyes of his younger cousin, Annie, it is also the story of generation and family. While growing up, with a father who could never 'make..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1946). First edition. Hardcover. These 33 selected by Thayer include; Rudyard Kipling 'The Last of the Stories', Edgar Allan Poe 'The Cask of Amontillado', Oscar Wilde 'The Sphinx Without a Secret', Ring Lardner 'The Young Immigrunts', Ben Hecht 'On a Day Like This' (two others by..... More
