Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. Tall Galley. paperback. A Crime Club book. While on holiday on an island off the Ebony Coast of Africa, Dr. and Mrs. Quarshie are pressed into investigating the death of the head of the Ebonese secret police, a murder involving both espionage and voodoo. This uncorrected..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. paperback. Tall galley uncorrected proof, tape bound in yellow stiff printed wrappers, measuring 6 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches as issued. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since..... More
New York: Doubleday, (2013). First edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on the title-page. Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s, a story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart. 305 pages with acknowledgements. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sellers on the title page. A fan's memoir overflowing with humor, self-deprecation encyclopedic knowledge of musical minutiae, and "you should have been there" personal anecdotes. Vowing never to get caught up in music, he found himself powerfess to resist the..... More
Seattle: Mountaineers Books, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. In 1963, the world watched as Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Mount Everest. He returned a hero, celebrated from the streets of his hometown of Seattle to the hills of the White..... More
New York: Morrow, (2002). Limited edition. hardcover. A limited edition, #65/200 copies signed by Ford on the title page with this date underneath his signature, "6/7/2" with the special numbered dust jacket done for the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. This copy also includes the regular dust jacket used on the first..... More
New York: Random House, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Adventure Press, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. The author was a 20-year-old Oxford student when he first succumbed to the lure of America's open road. You know the drill; a change of clothes, a cheap guitar, and the youthful wanderlust of the 'Easy Rider' era, he spent..... More
New York: Random House, (2009). First edition. hardcover. An inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Dan Williams. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. On a moonlit beach, a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his..... More
New York: Scribner. (2000). Signed on the title page by Bloom and dated "16 June 2000 Bloomsday." Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. 283 pages. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. R. Crumb. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is one of 26 lettered copies, copy "O" in the deluxe binding signed by both Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb on the colophon page. Great illustrations by R. Crumb, who illustrated Bukowski the best of all..... More
London: Faber and Faber. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Van himself. Featuring a foreword by Paul Muldoon and introduction by editor Eamonn Hughes. The second volume of Van's selected lyrics containing 120 songs from his storied career. Love songs, work songs about the pains..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. #119/350 signed. Hardcover. This is a special copy. Occasionally, Bukowski would take a break from the tedium of signing pages, and let his mind wander until it seized what came into focus at that instant. Like a mental erection that had to explode on the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1979). Mock-up. loose sheets. A central sequence of thirty-four poems on the ordinary life of serious farming, touching on both the brutal and the ecstatic, accompany three other sequences, different in subject, tone, and feeling. This appears to be some type of mock-up of the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1977). First edition. Paperback. Perfect bound in yellow printed wrappers, as issued. Handwritten information to front cover, title, author, publication date, etc. Also the letter "B" or "Blank" is written out in the appropriate place for the forthcoming hardbound book. 'Gaudete' is a narrative poem..... More
St. Louis: The Haberly Press, (1941). Loyd Haberly. A later printing. Hardcover. One of 1250 copies bound with a black cloth spine and orange boards with yellow decorations to front cover (no dust jacket). 106 pages of poetry with an index of titles. Illustrations by Haberly. More
New York: Ballantine, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. The second volume in this series. Includes poetry by Richard Wilbur, Louise Bogan, John Holmes, Mark Van Doren,Phyllis McGinley, Langston Hughes, May Sarton and Louise Simpson as well as Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, Babette Deutsch, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, William..... More
Hanover: University Press of New England, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the title page and dated 2015. A collection of witty, intelligent, and provacative pieces about women and their beverage of choice. 28 original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1978). Paperback. Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn’t turned out the way he’d hoped, and he’s now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can’t survive, so Blanchard agrees to a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. "A construction project in the desert of eastern Oregon forms the basis for a story with deep political, mystical, and--for its time--prescient implications: the impingement of American imperialism on its own native territory. Set in the 1980s, the project underway is..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). First edition. Paperback. The Uncorrected Proof. Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two..... More
Seattle: Fireglass Publishing, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Author's debut novel. Label to front endpaper states; "This is a Collector's Edition copy". Below the label (that mentions forthcoming books in the series) is signed by the author who has also wrote "Find your Stelladaur!" A sixteen-year-old Reilly finds an heirloom treasure..... More
New York / Boston: Atlantic / Little Brown, (1961). First edition. Hardcover. Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. A film adaptation of the book, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kathy..... More
