New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1971. Donald Barthelme. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A children's book illustrated by the author. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People (1972). One morning in 1887, Mathilda went into the back yard and discovered a Chinese house had appeared overnight. While... More about THE SLIGHTLY IRREGULAR FIRE ENGINE or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
New York: IT BOOKS, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, Oahu's paradisical North Shore turns into a fiery hell. Its normal population of sixteen thousand more than triples and this explosion of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans creates one of the most... More about WELCOME TO PARADISE, NOW GO TO HELL. A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
Tokyo: Mitropa, Inc, (1998). Jun Mimura. First thus. Hardcover. 4to. Black and white photographs of Japanese hipsters and their fashion, their style. 94 pages. With photographs and text by George Hashiguchi. Text, and photo titles, in both Japanese and English. "It wasn't so hard to seek out these young people... More about THE LOOK 1980 - 1983
New York: Rizzoli, (2007). Vince Frost. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. An editorial powerhouse of more than sixty essays from some of the most established authors in the world with thoughts on; where they get ideas, writer's block, what get's them low, what do they do all day? Edited by the... More about HOW I WRITE THE SECRET LIVES OF AUTHORS
New York: Warner Books, (2005). First edition. Hardcover. Here, one of America's most beloved entertainers takes us home. Crystal opens the front door to a time in his life when he shared joy, love, music, and laughter with an eccentric family headed by the hardworking father who left them all... More about 700 SUNDAYS
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed and inscribed by the author on the title page and dated Dec 2003. Written with the momentum and grace of a sailboat running at full speed, this book describes a five-day race through breathtaking wilderness and one woman's voyage... More about BACK UNDER SAIL. Recovering the Spirit of Adventure
Vilas (North Carolina): Canterbury House Publishing, (2010). First edition. Hardcover. Features a poem by Maya Angelou titled 'Phenomenal Woman." The 40 women are; Meredith Vieira, Joanne Carson, Anne Abernathy, Diane Crump, Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, Phyllis Diller, Esther Paik Goodhart, Nancy Giles, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Janie L. Shores, Leatrice... More about WOMEN OF TRUE GRIT. 40 Famous and Infamous Women Share Real Life Stories with Secrets to Success...
New York: Hyperion, (2008). First edition. Hardcover. One of the most honest and open books about a young woman trying to grow up as her family falls apart. 210pp. More about LOOSE GIRL. A Memoir of Promiscuity
London: Picador, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. More powerful than No Country For Old Men, yes, this is no ordinary screenplay but a work of extraordinary imagination which draws on many of the themes of McCarthy's work as well as taking it to new dark places. It is also written with... More about THE COUNSELOR. A Screenplay. Greed is Greatly Overrated...But Fear Isn't
Minneapolis: Milkweed, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Frigid, lethal, and wildly beautiful. Lake Superior is as alluring as it is dangerous. Featuring three women living on its shores in three different centuries, this debut novel illuminates the mysterious powers of the greatest of the... More about THE LONG-SHINING WATERS
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Beginning with the letter that sparked a unique friendship, Ashley Andrews Lear examines the deep connections between two pioneers of American literature who broke the mold for women writers of their time. Pulitzer-Prize winning novelists Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow... More about THE REMARKABLE KINSHIP OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS AND ELLEN GLASGOW
New York: The Dial Press, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. "In the picturesque village of Guzman, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room."... More about THE TELLING ROOM. A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
New York: Oxford University Press / Rolling Stone, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. In 1974 Rolling Stone magazine invited Jan Morris, probably the finest travel writer in the world, to write for the magazine. The fruits of that collaboration, the piquant combination of romantic traditionalist Welsh author and innovating contemporary American... More about DESTINATIONS. Essays From Rolling Stone
New York: Random House, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. The third volume of Exley's trilogy that began with 'A Fan's Notes' then 'Pages From a Cold Island'. Exley was a writer's writer, but a lifestyle of excess led to his passing at 62 of a heart attack. Still, when one reads... More about LAST NOTES FROM HOME
New York: Crown, (1983). First edition. Author's fifth book. The story takes place in the golden summer of 1914, a summer remembered for its glorious sunny days that seemed to roll endlessly forward until the guns of August changed the world forever. The place is the small French Basque village of Salies. More about THE SUMMER OF KATYA. A Novel
Hardcover. A tale of a classical art professor and collector who doubles as a professional assassin, and who is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend. Basis for the big screen film that starred Clint Eastwood. More about THE EIGER SANCTION. A Novel
New York: Crown, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. In Nicholai Hel, Trevanian has created the perfect assassin for our times: a man wrought out of the crucible of war and devastation. Brought up in China by his aristocratic Russian mother, he found strength and education in the arms of his Japanese... More about SHIBUMI. A Novel
New York: Dutton, (2008). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet with a "Signed Copy" gold sticker to the front of the dust jacket. Author's first book, and an extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history... More about THE LITTLE BOOK
New York: Gallery Books, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. This is the fifth book in this charming series. Ellie and Ben Krueger arrived in Plum Harbor eager to live out their dream, tending a herd of gentle, friendly llamas for fun and profit, on a farm just beyond the village. Their... More about THE SILENCE OF THE LLAMAS. A Black Sheep Knitting Mystery
Boston: Beacon Press, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. A collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. More about THIRST. Poems
Boston: Beacon Press, (2008). First edition. Hardcover. A collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work; a cycle of eleven linked love poems. 78 pages. More about RED BIRD. Poems
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by Scott Berkun on the front blank. "What happens when an old-school management guru leaves the books and lectures behind to lead a young team at a revolutionary company, with no email, no offices, and no rules"? The answer... More about THE YEAR WITHOUT PANTS. Wordpress.com and the Future of Work
New York: Basic Books, (1978). John Gardner. First edition. hardback. This copy has a spectacular drawing by the author on the front blank that carries over onto the front pastedown. A woman riding some kind of animal. The drawing is not signed by Gardner but there are two different 'signatures'... More about ON MORAL FICTION
New York: Henry Holt, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. The flesh and blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across depression-era America. Based on extensive archival research declassified FBI documents, and interviews. Illustrated from photographs. 382pp with index. More about BONNIE AND CLYDE. The Lives Behind the Legend
Chicago: Man Mountain Publishing, (1987). First edition. Paperback. Introduction by David G. Currie. Features 40 black-and-white photographs, 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches. More about HALLOWEEN IN BUCKTOWN
