San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, (2001). First trade edition. Hardcover. Folio. Essay by Judith Thurman. One of 5000 copies hard-bound with cloth spine. Two gallery printed price sheets, with photographic illustrations laid in. This major monograph stands as an important rediscovery of a small but central body of work in the..... More
Santa Barbara: Arabesque Books, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. The three-dimensional front cover of this volume with its mounted hinged mat displays one of Outerbridge's most famous Carbro-color prints. "WOMAN WITH CLAWS." With the hinged mat lifted, that part of the original image subsequently edited out by Outerbridge can be..... More
London: Heinemann, (1957). First edition. Paperback. A UK uncorrected proof of the author's first book. Perfect bound in the original beige wrappers printed in green. Basis for the big screen film (1958) directed by Dick Powell that starred Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner and Richard Egan. In 1952, during the Korean..... More
New York: Random House, (1939). First printing. Hardcover. Rebound in full red morocco imitating the artwork of the original dust jacket that features a 1939-ish film camera with reel to reel and flowing film that contains the author’s name, and two critics’ comments on the book (Dashiell Hammett and Dorothy..... More
Toronto: Macmillan, (1971). William Kimber. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Fetherling to actor Margot Kidder: "To Margot, E.F.S.* / with affection / Doug / 26 sept 73 / Toronto / *Egyptian Film Star." 54pp. Illustrated with line drawings by William Kimber. Bound in black boards with gilt spine..... More
New York: Putnam, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. A candid and highly personal portrait of Los Angeles and its surroundings by the astute and sensitive young columnist of the Los Angeles Free Press that captures the spirit of the city and its people with acid-dipped poetic prose. A deliciously irreverent and..... More
New York: The Dial Press, (1979). First printing. The voices of these poems are charms against chaos, passionate and kind, civil and ironic, indignant at pain, probing for forgiveness. One inquires, with clinical concern, into the history of heartbreak. 53 pages. Bound in two-tone cloth and boards in dust jacket..... More
New York: Random House, (1994). Roz Chast. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by both authors and the illustrator opposite the title page. What does a baby shrew like to eat? Answer: a couple of crunchy crickets, a group of juicy grasshoppers, one fresh frog, a pair of slippery salamanders, several..... More
New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proof. Here, Adams, the author of Watership Down, one of the century's most loved works of imaginative literature, tells us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort at the end of Watership Down. The first tales..... More
London: Fourth Estate, (1998). True first edition. Paperback. Set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys lived much as they had done for generations. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands, "drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both..... More
New York: Morrow, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. The sequel to his first book, A Drink Before the War. 336 pages. More
n.p. n.p., n.d. First edition. A single sheet. This broadside, measuring 7 x 11 inches and printed on light tan stock, has been signed by Margaret Atwood. This broadside was originally part of a suite of broadsides issued by Copper Canyon Press (but sold here separately). Designed by Lin Lawrence..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). First edition. Paperback. A narrative of modern architecture. Wolfe bluntly lays out his thesis in the introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House with a riff on the patriotic song "America the Beautiful". 143pp perfect bound in the original blue printed wrappers, as issued..... More
New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. An Uncorrected Proof signed by Moore on the title page. Her first book. Laid in is a TLS on the publisher's letterhead dated October 24, 1984 soliciting a blurb for this book. Ten sharply effective stories by a young writer who transforms her..... More
New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. An Uncorrected Proof signed by Moore on the title page. Her first book. Stapled inside the front cover is more information about the book and the author. Ten sharply effective stories by a young writer who transforms her insights into the anxieties, loneliness..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Clare Leighton. First edition thus. Hardcover. Roberts (1886-1941) was an American poet and novelist born in Perryville, KY., graduated from the University of Chicago in 1921. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Roethke(1908-1963) on the front endpaper in his signature green ink. With the ownership signature of Joan Skinner in the top right corner of the front endpaper with the date underneath "May - 1948". The author's second book of poetry, which is..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First U.S. edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof of the author's first book. Laid in is a TLS from Ted Solotaroff to Gilbert Sorrentino dated November 3, 1986 on the publisher's letterhead which reads: "Dear Gil / I think that Jim Crace is a writer..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. Set mostly in the deep South and New York, it is the story of one woman's pilgrimage to free herself from the guilt of the past and the development of her committment to the poor and the black. The author's sixth..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Vidal's first novel. "Into the minds of a half dozen men aboard a ship making a three day voyage among the treacherous Aleutians, nature projects the conflict of her forces. Battling the sea and struggling against each other as the dreaded..... More
New York: Putnam, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. The fourth book in the DUNE series takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy and tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, saviour of the planet Dune. Leto still lives but is no longer human. He..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. This is Vidal's second novel. "A young man comes upon the yellow wood where two roads stretch before him--two ways of life from which he must choose, and follow only one. Vidal writes of..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author (a real-life anesthesiologist) on the title page. An anesthesiologist at the height of her profession, faces a malpractice suit after a disastrous operation that ends a child's life. At the same time, she has to cope with..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. First American edition. Hardcover. For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Fourteen years later, the..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 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 best moments come when the detective loses the..... More
