New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First edition. hardcover. This powerful and disturbing novel is a first-person account of a man's obsession with his sexual identity in terms of his worth as a man. Taking us deep into some aspects of male sexuality that have yet to be discussed publicly..... More
New York: Viking Press, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the..... More
Brockport: Boa Editions, 1984. First edition. hardback. Volume #10 in the American Poets Continuum Series. The winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this volume. Four sections: Believing/Unbelieving, A Muse, Dreams and Friends, and Fanny and the Affections. 28 poems. 87 pages. More
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1981. Advance Page-Proof Copy. strip bound. Oblong strip bound page proof measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches. With an introduction by J. Moussaieff Masson. Publisher's press release laid in. This book is a fruition of a long and successful collaboration between Sanskrit scholar J. Moussaieff Masson..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). Long Galley (6 1/2 x 24 inches). Paperback. An impressive allegory set in a spectral mid-19th century wilderness which exposes and refracts freedom, corruption and the loss of innocence. Led by Alabian Eustace, father of the dead Eily, a group of Scottish settlers from..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). Long Galley (6 1/2 x 24 inches). Paperback. Rare long galley. Svetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later..... More
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1980. Advance Galley Copy. Paperback. A 2pp TLS publicist letter tipped-in to the director, Purchasing Services at Baker & Taylor, dated August 18, 1980, with this text "Based on The New Testament Apocrypha and various Italian and American folktales, JESUS TALES offers a unique alternative to..... More
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986. Advance Uncorrected Galley. Paperback. Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Louise Erdrich, Alice Munro, Sara Vogan, Alice Adams, Tess Gallagher, Elizabeth Tallent, Anne Beattie, Jane Bowles, Joy Williams, Susan Minot, Laurie Colwin, and Mavis Gallant. Front cover missing, but a bright gold back cover still present..... More
New York: The Viking Press, (1968). Unrevised Proofs. Paperback. Author's first book. New York's East Village is a challenging arena for one's formative years and a fictional favorite for first novels. Anything goes. In this case it happens to 18-year-old Robert Probish. Refugee from bleak family life in Queens with..... More
New York: George Braziller, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Told entirely in the first person, Child's Play is an account of a contemporary Italian terrorist, whose assignment it is to assassinate a distinguished and ageing author.The Bread of Time to Come concerns a young man growing up in Australia before WWI..... More
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, (2013). Second edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy is briefly inscribed by Whittaker on the title page. Jim Whittaker was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He knows a bit about stretching boundaries. Before ever setting foot on Everest he honed his..... More
London: Constable, (2021). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. William Alfred Sergeant is an English guitarist, best known for being a member of Echo & the Bunnymen. Born in Walton Hospital, he grew up in the village of Melling and attended nearby Deyes Lane Secondary..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007). First edition. hardcover. The sequel to Duane's Depressed, a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010). First edition. hardcover. Here the author turns his keenly observing eye to his rollercoaster romance with Hollywood. As both the creator of numerous works successfully adapted by others for film and television and the screenplays he himself wrote (one with Diana Ossana). McMurtry has..... More
New York: Knopf, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Salter on the title page. "This novel explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures..... More
Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, (1972). First edition. Paperback. John Cawelti was one of the pioneers in establishing an academic respectability to the study of popular culture. As an example, he published "The Six Gun Mystique" which was based on an analysis of the messages contained in the..... More
Paris: Galerie Brugier-Rigail, (2017). Nickk Walker. First edition. Hardcover. #26 of 100 numbered copies (handwritten on box) 94 full-color pages featuring the artist's originals and murals. Nick Walker is one of the world's best known street artists. Born in 1969, he emerged from the infamous and groundbreaking Bristol Graffiti scene..... More
New York: Faber & Faber, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. The musical Broadway adaptation based on John Water’s hilarious 1988 film of the same name. Includes a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and music by Mark Shaiman, opened on Broadway in..... More
London: Cape, (1953). William McLaren. First edition. Hardcover. This book is not a sequel to 'Merry Hall'. Its accent is less on the garden than on the house itself. When the author arrived, he found Merry Hall in a sorry state, shabby, neglected, bearing many traces of the vandalism of..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). reprint. Hardcover. A story of an allegiance between man and beast stronger than many a tie between man and man. It is a story of a plot and counterplot, of the cunning of civilization pitted against the keen instincts of the jungle, of strange..... More
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, (1934). Reprint. Hardcover. Ownership signature to front endpaper (1949). Jacket description of this book includes; ".....we are going to tell you that Mr. Burroughs believes this to be the poorest Tarzan novel he has ever written". However, it has the makings of a good story;..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1949). First edition. hardcover. A volume in the 'Childhood of Famous Americans Series. The author has already contributed to this series with two other books; Washington Irving: Boy of Old New York and Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy. More
London: Methuen, (1951). First edition. "Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Caraway and Stoke may live in a dream world in which all the world's a ship and all men and women merely sailors, but he still resents the use of his ancestral home for the psychological testing of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. This thrilling sequel to The Guns of Navarone reunites members of the Allied team that silenced the giant guns of Navarone and sends them on a desperate bid to assist a ragtag band of Partisan forces trapped by two armoured divisions of the..... More
New York: Rhinehart & Co, (1947). First edition. harcover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. "One day a college freshman, the next day a faculty wife! Quite a jump for a sixteen-year-old girl, and one that suggests trouble ahead." That is the theme of the book that harks..... More
