New York: Free Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration. 307..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1999. William Matthews. First edition. Hardcover. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life..... More
New York: New American Library, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores--is widely recognized as an underground classic. More
New York: Flatiron Books, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear..... More
London: New English Library, 1973. First edition. A representative collection of poetry and prose from City Lights that includes work by: Genet, Picasso, Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassidy, Kerouac, Mailer, Wm Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Corso, Lamantia and more. 141 pages, bound in purple cloth over boards in a price-clipped dust..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition. The definitive sketch of one of America’s greatest writers. On May 13, 1950, Lillian Ross’s first portrait of Ernest Hemingway was published in The New Yorker. It was an account of two days Hemingway spent in New York in 1949 on his..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Harry Crews on the title page. Enter the seedy world of fighters and musclemen. Eugene Talmadge Biggs, ex-farmboy and ex-boxer (he won 13 fights and lost the next four by knockouts), knows an amazing trick he can knock himself..... More
West Linn: Good Hill Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Klugman and another. Includes the DVD of out-takes from the making of the film The Odd Couple, 1971-1975. Illustrated from photographs (50+). A biography/memoir of the close professional relationship between Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. This book follows both..... More
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. In 1981 McCarthy (1933-2023) was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship worth $236,000. This windfall enabled him to travel the American Southwest researching his next book. This one. Packed with violence, truth, and screams from critics on both ends of the scale. When this..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. an honest and extremely harrowing read. As young readers take this journey with Tiger, they will learn that grief takes all forms and that life, somehow, does go on—even amid the surrounding dark. 420..... More
New York: Sports Publishing, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 215 pages with index. This reissue revised through the 2018 season chronicles Seattle's rise from a hopeless and hapless franchise in the 1970s and '80s to a proud team in the 1990s that went on to capture three division championships and earn..... More
New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008. First edition. hardcover. Signed by Leslie Jordan on the front endpaper. A hilarious romp from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood with beloved Emmy Award–winning actor, playwright, popular and laugh-out-loud funny Instagram icon, and gay legend. Leslie Jordan was a small man..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game..... More
International Focus Press: Richardson (TX), 2005. Second Printing (2008). Hardcover. Signed by Dan Korem on the front blank. 524 pages. Mass school shooters/bombers, suicide bombers, and postal/company killers all have something in common. They have the Random Actor behavioral profile identified in the early 1990s by Dan Korem, the critically..... More
New York: Knopf, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. The story revolves around a past-middle-age former Hollywood screenwriter, Jack Griffin, who is presently teaching creative writing at a New England college. He loses both parents within a year of each other, and he travels..... More
New York: Knopf, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. a slow-building mystery novel based around the disappearance of a young woman in 1971. Set primarily in 2015, with flashbacks to the characters’ coming-of-age in the 1960s and 1970s, the story follows three college friends..... More
New York: Knopf, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Here, Russo is at his best; to chronicle, with insight and compassion, small-town America. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'Empire Falls'. More
New York: Little Brown, 2010. First edition. hardcover. A massive 564 page autobiography by the Rolling Stone guitarist. "This is the life. Believe it or not. I haven't forgotten any of it". Illustrated from black and white as well as color photographs. With acknowledgments and index. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Rushdie on the title page. The author's third novel written out of a desire to approach the problem of "artificial" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the..... More
N.P. Altus Press, 2017. First edition. Paperback. Pulp magazines written initially for boys in the first half of the Twentieth Century dominated the industry with stories about cowboys and Indians, science fiction, and adventure. They were written by such illustrious authors as Louis L'Amour, Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard, and..... More
New York: Pantheon, 2010. First American edition. Hardcover. For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an expat, about what it means to feel rooted in..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. The author's first novel. A darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of..... More
Grand Cayman: Cathy Church, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is inscribed by the author on the title page. Cathy's underwater photo journey extends from the Caribbean to the South Pacific, from the surface to 150 feet deep. This delightful book is the first time she has shown us..... More
New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1989. First edition. 4to. With over 150 exquisite photographs displaying the works and techniques of 17 self-taught artists from the mountains between Virginia and Alabama. The sparse but well written text traces each artist's background and inspiration. Includes sculptors, painters, carvers, and basket weavers..... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1973. First edition. hardcover. Small 4to. A monograph of the Argentinian artist. Introductory text in Spanish by Rafael Squirru. All captions, the biography, and the bibliography are in Spanish. Sharp illustrations printed on heavy stock. 134 pages. Three-fold color brochure laid in measuring 8..... More
