New York: Europa editions, 2009. First edition thus. Paperback. This edition, perfect bound in illustrated wrappers, was published in 2013. This is the advance reading copy, so stated on a band of red tape that wraps around the spine. Two sheet press release laid in. Translated from the Italian by..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1994. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: "An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). The..... More
New York: Ecco, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The..... More
Tulsa: Council Oak Publishing, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to.This copy stamped "Complimentary Copy" to the half-title page. When Carrie Dickerson first saw a newspaper headline about the electric company's plans to build a nuclear power plant near her home in Oklahoma, she knew little about nuclear reactors and less..... More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. At once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet. The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. 300 pages. More
New York: Scribner's, 1972. Laszlo Kubinyi. First edition. A series of poems of historic depth and far-ranging insight, for Loren Eiseley is old enough to remember the early scenes of the twentieth century and to have talked to the last riders out of the buffalo grass. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi..... More
New York: Dutton, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, adding "onward." Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night. One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises. Each family follows their own path, only..... More
New York: Knopf, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. “The Most of Nora Ephron” runs 557 pages while still being far from a “complete works.” (As her son Jacob, a reporter for The New York Times’s Styles section, pointed out, this was a woman who spent the last six years of her..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. When my children were little, their territorial backseat battles once culminated in the memorable complaint from my daughter that her older brother's shadow was touching her. It's a grievance that Irene America, the artist's wife and model at the heart of Louise..... More
New York: Knopf, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by Nora Ephron on the title page. In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing older, and everything she will and won't miss. Filled with Nora's trademark wit, wisdom and warmth. More
New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. hardcover. Briefly inscribed on the title page by the author. A mesmerizing ode to the Pacific Northwest, convincing us that the wilderness is a source of ""renewal""--if we will only stop treating ""paradise"" like a ""vacant lot."" ""To see what a century can produce..... More
New York: Knopf, 2004. First edition. This copy signed by Egan on the title page. Author's first novel that takes us from the wine country of the Pacific Northwest to the vineyards of Italy. 305 pages. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. During an almost idyllic youth in the Los Angeles of the forties only Irwin's precocious artistic ability suggested the single-minded passion that eventually carried him from figurative portraiture, to abstract expressionism (in the period of his identification with the Ferus group)..... More
New York: Knopf, 2019. Nathaniel Russell. First edition. Hardcover. "When the decorated captain of a great ship, the Glory, descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, steps forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation..... More
New York: Knopf, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Moore's third book. Signed by the author on the title page underneath her printed name. This advance copy is perfect bound in pink printed wrappers as issued. Stapled to the inside front cover are some blurbs from her other books. Eight stories, 161..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1992. Frances Crichton Stuart. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed on the title page. "By the time he was eight he knew he would never be a great actress." So begins this sexy fast-paced satire by Rupert Everett, the internationally acclaimed star of the..... More
Brooklyn: Lunar Offensive Press, 1996. Emilie Brough. First edition. Paperback. 36 sewn pages in brown cardstock illustrated wrappers, as issued. This copy marked 2/96. Book order info sheet pasted to front cover. Poems. Illustrations by Emilie Brough. 14 poems. More
Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2020. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. "It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo's parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from from her school dinners. Soon the local dentist and the neighbor's dalmatian are..... More
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive -..... More
Livingston: Clark City Press, 1992. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. In a novel spanning the years 1978-1991, Finney ( Winterchill ) considers the thorny question of what role the past should play in the present. The book's 14 chapters, which read like a series of third-person short stories, probe the distinct..... More
New York: Viking Press, 2008. First edition. hardcover. Author's second book, the haunting follow-up to the Edgar Award-Winning "In the Woods". Cassie Maddox is still recovering. Transferred out of Dublin's Murder squad at her own request, she vows never to return. That is, until her boyfriend Sam O'Neill, calls her..... More
Ann Arbor: Dzanc Books, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work. In addition to previously unpublished short stories this book contains fragments from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress..... More
New York: Knopf, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. This memoir captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. Signed by the author on the title page (adding "Seattle" "2017.") Told in Gopnik's signature essayistic form. An ode to New York striving and a chronicle, by turns playful and sage..... More
