Brooklyn: Melville House, 2017. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. A memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland—and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Set in Iowa, this is the love story between Anya, the director of a theater commune, and Mac, a Canadian engineer who builds the sets for the theater. 321 pages. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Book 50 in the Patrick Dawlish series. "Sir Justin Franklin was concerned when his wife failed to answer his phone call. On a hunch he called his old school chum, Pat Dawlish, now Deputy Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. Dawlish..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived..... More
New York: World Publishing, 1971. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. When he knocked on the door of Arne Manor, little did Bob Curran know that upstairs the old man lay dead. When the police came in on the case, the relatives gathered round like vultures, eager to profit from..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First trade edition. Hardcover. By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the..... More
Kansas City: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Roger Ebert on the half-title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and co-host of television's "At the Movies" offers an inside look at the film industry and its stars, power brokers, festivals, writers, producers, directors, and..... More
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Signed (a somewhat shaky hand) by the author. In this book, Caldwell's definitive autobiography he tells about his work as a cotton picker, stagehand, professional football player, and war correspondent for Life magazine during World War II. In 1932, Erskine Caldwell's first novel..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle; You’ve Got Mail; When Harry Met Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers (I Feel Bad About My..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 7th Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed on a sheet pasted to the front endpaper: "In memory of the 40th anniversary / of the first lunar walk / and in honor of your ccontribution / to aviation safety / Warm Regards / Gene Cernan." Eugene Cernan was..... More
Great Barrington: Triad Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Duncan on the title page. In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American spirit, David James Duncan suggests that the de facto political party embodied by the so-called “Christian Right” has turned worship into a self-righteous betrayal..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A typed letter, one page, laid in from Frank Buxton who is soliciting a signature on Buxton's bookplate. An ALS also laid in from Chris Chase "Dear Frank / Of course I remember you / & I'm thrilled you like /..... More
Chicago: Big Table Books, 1971. R. Crumb. First edition. Hardcover. A series of poems, written between April and October 1970, celebrate the birth of the poet's first child Luke. The book opens in the Brancusi exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the poems continue to happen throughout the..... More
New York: Scribner, 1992. Fourth edition. Hardcover. This fourth printing is signed by John Dunning on the title page. Tough, book-loving Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway wants to nail Jackie Newton--a suspected psychopath who just barely beat the rap for a series of vagrant killings. Janeway is certain his sleazy..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists in the West. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelecanos called it “a masterpiece . . . the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Ivan Doig was surprised by his inheritance from his Uncle Wally in 1986. The packet of letters written by his beloved mother, Berneta, to her youngest brother in the last year of her short life..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. Originally published in 1990 by Mother Jones, but included in the Collection Working Men published in 1993. Bound in cloth over boards titled in blue and gilt, 20 pages. More
New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Dillard on a tipped-in sheet, her second novel. A fictional account of the lives of Toby and Lou Maytrees in Provincetown, MA, from the time of courting to old age. 216 pages. More
New York: Scribner, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. This is a special signed copy as noted on the bottom of the rear panel of the dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel was a major bestseller when it was published in 1997 and was the most widely reviewed novel of the year. It..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Elliott Banfield. 1995. Hardcover. Not since The Ginger Man has J.P. Donleavy succeeded in both delighting and irking his readers as he has with The Lady Who Like Clean Restrooms. This stylish novella tells the tale of Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, whose Scarsdale life..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Joe Ely. First edition. Hardcover. Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ivan Doig on the title page. At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee shop and cyber culture. His newspaper is going under, and his relationship with Lexa McCaskill is stalled at "just living together." Then, he..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. According to the New York Times, this remarkable small book became; "...an underground best seller" after its publication (1982) by a small California publisher. It is a classic American tall tale--about kinship, love, magic, and death. But most of all..... More
New York: The Third Press, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Apartheid-ridden South Africa is the setting for this remarkable novel by the wife of W. E. B. Du Bois. Young Dr. Vermeer, of sturdy Dutch stock and an established Afrikaans family, who is his nation's foremost doctor, undergoes emergency cardiac transplant..... More
