New York: Morrow, (2002). Limited edition. hardcover. A limited edition, #65/200 copies signed by Ford on the title page with this date underneath his signature, "6/7/2" with the special numbered dust jacket done for the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. This copy also includes the regular dust jacket used on the first..... More
New York: Random House, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Adventure Press, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. The author was a 20-year-old Oxford student when he first succumbed to the lure of America's open road. You know the drill; a change of clothes, a cheap guitar, and the youthful wanderlust of the 'Easy Rider' era, he spent..... More
New York: Random House, (2009). First edition. hardcover. An inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Dan Williams. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. On a moonlit beach, a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his..... More
New York: Viking Press, (2020). First edition. hardcover. Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remove Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago Police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good..... More
Orlando: Harcourt, (2007). Tomislav Torjanac. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is signed by both the author and the illustrator on the title page. With a 5-page "Author's note" and wonderful illustrations in color. First published in 2001, winner of the Man Booker Prize. After the tragic sinking of..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927. First edition, first state. hardcover. Julia Peterkin (1880-1961) was the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and, with photographer Doris Ulmann, a nonfiction collection of essays entitled Roll, Jordan, Roll. She was the first South Carolinian to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her..... More
New York: LIttle Brown, (2016). First edition. hardcover. A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working..... More
New York: Scribner. (2000). Signed on the title page by Bloom and dated "16 June 2000 Bloomsday." Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. 283 pages. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. "This signed edition of Born to Run has been specially bound by the publisher". An autobiography of the singer/songwriter. The title is named after Springsteen's iconic 1975 album and song 'Born to Run'. The book is a companion piece to 'Chapter and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. R. Crumb. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is one of 26 lettered copies, copy "O" in the deluxe binding signed by both Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb on the colophon page. Great illustrations by R. Crumb, who illustrated Bukowski the best of all..... More
London: Faber and Faber. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Van himself. Featuring a foreword by Paul Muldoon and introduction by editor Eamonn Hughes. The second volume of Van's selected lyrics containing 120 songs from his storied career. Love songs, work songs about the pains..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. #119/350 signed. Hardcover. This is a special copy. Occasionally, Bukowski would take a break from the tedium of signing pages, and let his mind wander until it seized what came into focus at that instant. Like a mental erection that had to explode on the..... More
New York: Crown Journeys, (2003). First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page dated in the year of publication. Buckley tells the real story of the city's founding and takes us on several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his "other"..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1979). Mock-up. loose sheets. A central sequence of thirty-four poems on the ordinary life of serious farming, touching on both the brutal and the ecstatic, accompany three other sequences, different in subject, tone, and feeling. This appears to be some type of mock-up of the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1977). First edition. Paperback. Perfect bound in yellow printed wrappers, as issued. Handwritten information to front cover, title, author, publication date, etc. Also the letter "B" or "Blank" is written out in the appropriate place for the forthcoming hardbound book. 'Gaudete' is a narrative poem..... More
St. Louis: The Haberly Press, (1941). Loyd Haberly. A later printing. Hardcover. One of 1250 copies bound with a black cloth spine and orange boards with yellow decorations to front cover (no dust jacket). 106 pages of poetry with an index of titles. Illustrations by Haberly. More
New York: Ballantine, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. The second volume in this series. Includes poetry by Richard Wilbur, Louise Bogan, John Holmes, Mark Van Doren,Phyllis McGinley, Langston Hughes, May Sarton and Louise Simpson as well as Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, Babette Deutsch, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, William..... More
Hanover: University Press of New England, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the title page and dated 2015. A collection of witty, intelligent, and provacative pieces about women and their beverage of choice. 28 original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. A hat is a flag, a shield, a bit of armour, and the badge of femininity. A hat is the difference between wearing clothes and wearing a costume; it's the difference between being dressed and being dressed up, it's the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Theatrical anecdotes are almost as old as the theatre itself. For much of its 2500-year history, the stage has teemed with real characters and real stories as fascinating as any created by a...... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1978). Paperback. Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn’t turned out the way he’d hoped, and he’s now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can’t survive, so Blanchard agrees to a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. "A construction project in the desert of eastern Oregon forms the basis for a story with deep political, mystical, and--for its time--prescient implications: the impingement of American imperialism on its own native territory. Set in the 1980s, the project underway is..... More
