Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. “‘When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.’ That’s ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing.” — Mary Pipher, author of Reviving..... More
New York: Knopf, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks. A man traveling down Highway..... More
New York: Grove, 1975. First American Edition. A Play. Laid into this copy is the program for the play from the Alberry Theatre. "Zürich, 1917. In Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning comic masterpiece, obscure British diplomat Henry Carr and Dadaist Tristan Tzara are in love with Cecily and Gwendolen, but Cecily..... More
New York: Scribner's, 2011. First Scribner hardcover edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Growing up wild in the 1970s, Nik was always the artist, always in a band. His beloved sister Denise was his most passionate fan. But now Denise watches as Nik retreats into a...... More
New York: Hyperion, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Chicago deejay Daphne "Dee Dee" Dupree is sassy and successful—but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own life and the lives of those closest to her seemingly coming apart at the seams, she's going to have to..... More
New York: Scribner's, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page underneath her printed name. Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail, her dark..... More
New Orleans: Faust Publishing Co, 1988. First edition. hardcover. Illustrated from photographs. 116 pages. Includes; Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction. A. Primary Sources: 1-15 Books, Speeches, and Essays printed under separate cover in English and in translation. 2. Periodicals: Reviews and review essays. 3. Periodicals: Articles, introductions, essays, excerpts. 4..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm..... More
Minneapolis: Dillion Press, 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. A biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court justice, which includes her childhood, her early legal career, and her life since her appointment. 127 pages with two appendices, a bibliography and index. Illustrated from photographs. More
New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Press release laid in. True stories of wild places and extreme endeavors from the magazine that invented adventure writing as we know it. Sebastian Junger goes whaling; Jon Krakauer solves the fatal mystery of a lost hiker; David Quammen tracks big, bad wolves..... More
Maitland: Mill City Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front blank. Mary Louise Ott's wedding was everything she'd always dreamt it would be, except for a few details. As she prepared to marry her true love, she wasn't hearing wedding bells; instead, family members sang..... More
New York: Knopf, 2007. First United States edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ondaatje on the title page. From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and..... More
New York: Pantheon, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. Dorothy Norman. First edition. Hardcover. Intimate is the right word for these photographs. These are private explorations made between 1930 and 1955, and never shown publicly until the 1990's. In this collection you'll find hushed interior and landscape views, plus many ethereal yet substantial portraits of..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When..... More
New York: Counterpoint, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. An unforgettable debut novel, Landsman is the Civil War story of Elias Abrams - orphan son of an indentured Jewish immigrant - who flees his sordid New Orleans gangland home to enlist in the Third..... More
New York: Europa Editions, 2015. First edition thus. Paperback. First published in 1977, this is the third novel in the series praised as "one of the finest things in modern fiction". The Laidlaw books are superlative crime fiction and are among the founding novels of what has since become known..... More
New York: Knopf, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. The two new books by Cormac McCarthy in an illustrated slipcase both books in dust jackets. Still in the original shrinkwrap. A beautiful design makes this set stand out. The books; those who follow McCarthy had been waiting for his masterpiece for years..... More
New York: Knopf, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does..... More
New York: Knopf, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats..... More
New York: Grove, 2021. First edition, Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover..... More
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2012. Miguel Gandert. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Arturo Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend..... More
New York/London: Hogarth, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped in sheet (after the first blank). Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled..... More
Hastings on Hudson: Morgan & Morgan, 1971. Ansel Adams. 7th printing. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Ansel Adams on the title page. Illustrated. Book 4 in the series of six. Studio sticker to rear pastedown (Best's Studio / Yosemite Valley), Previous owner's notes laid in. Sharp near new copy..... More
