New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1987). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof that has been signed and dated by the author on the half-title page, "November 19, 1987." The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on three main..... More
New York: New York Times, (1963). Robert Frank. First edition. Hardcover. With the TLS signed by Thomas G Denny of the New York Times tipped in. Issued by the Times to commemorate the American Booksellers Association's annual convention. Bound in the original boards with the original glassine present. More
Barcelona: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Two volumes. Text in Spanish. 1006pp. Illustrated from color photographs. This set inscribed by Klein in Volume 1 and dated 2005. Massive research and very detailed. Both copies perfect bound in decorated wrappers, as issued. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the editor Rosemary James, co-founder (along with Joe DeSalvo) of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to writers and their readers. Rosemary and Joe own Faulkner House Books, in New Orleans, one of the country's most..... More
Oak View: Ed Smith, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Issue #10, the final issue, of this newsletter on the poet Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). 100 pages, perfect bound in white printed wrappers. News and notes on this writer from Los Angeles, whose story was told in the film Barfly. More
New York: Viking, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Signed by the author, his first book. Successfully filmed for the big screen directed by Larry Clark and starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith. Viking publicity material laid in. Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of the..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1971. Donald Barthelme. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A children's book illustrated by the author. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People (1972). One morning in 1887, Mathilda went into the back yard and discovered a Chinese house had appeared overnight. While..... More
Vilas (North Carolina): Canterbury House Publishing, (2010). First edition. Hardcover. Features a poem by Maya Angelou titled 'Phenomenal Woman." The 40 women are; Meredith Vieira, Joanne Carson, Anne Abernathy, Diane Crump, Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, Phyllis Diller, Esther Paik Goodhart, Nancy Giles, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, Janie L. Shores, Leatrice..... More
London: Picador, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. More powerful than No Country For Old Men, yes, this is no ordinary screenplay but a work of extraordinary imagination which draws on many of the themes of McCarthy's work as well as taking it to new dark places. It is also written with..... More
New York: Oxford University Press / Rolling Stone, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. In 1974 Rolling Stone magazine invited Jan Morris, probably the finest travel writer in the world, to write for the magazine. The fruits of that collaboration, the piquant combination of romantic traditionalist Welsh author and innovating contemporary American..... More
New York: Random House, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. The third volume of Exley's trilogy that began with 'A Fan's Notes' then 'Pages From a Cold Island'. Exley was a writer's writer, but a lifestyle of excess led to his passing at 62 of a heart attack. Still, when one reads..... More
Hardcover. A tale of a classical art professor and collector who doubles as a professional assassin, and who is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend. Basis for the big screen film that starred Clint Eastwood. More
New York: Crown, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. In Nicholai Hel, Trevanian has created the perfect assassin for our times: a man wrought out of the crucible of war and devastation. Brought up in China by his aristocratic Russian mother, he found strength and education in the arms of his Japanese..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. A collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. More
New York: Basic Books, (1978). John Gardner. First edition. hardback. This copy has a spectacular drawing by the author on the front blank that carries over onto the front pastedown. A woman riding some kind of animal. The drawing is not signed by Gardner but there are two different 'signatures'..... More
New York: Henry Holt, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. The flesh and blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across depression-era America. Based on extensive archival research declassified FBI documents, and interviews. Illustrated from photographs. 382pp with index. More
Chicago: Man Mountain Publishing, (1987). First edition. Paperback. Introduction by David G. Currie. Features 40 black-and-white photographs, 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches. More
Chicago: Man Mountain Publishing, (1987). First edition. Spiral bound in the original wrappers as issued, with stiff photo illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by David Currie 'Variations on a Theme'. An essay titled 'Learning to See' also by David Currie. The Darkroom (essay)", and lastly the essay 'The Second Beginning'. While..... More
Sherwood/Bloomington: Thalian Press/AuthorHouse, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. Dick Peterson, drummer with The Kingsmen, the group that recorded the iconic, yet controversial mega-hit, Louie Louie, tells the tale of the Kingsmen and 'the song'. Herein the humorous details, how things went down (and up) for The Kingsmen. Will the book solve..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition. Signed by Walker on the title page. This book, her second, after her award winning first book 'Zero at the Bone', introduces a gutsy new heroine, Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates. More
London: Bloomsbury, (1992). 40 illustrators. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Antonia Frasier on the title page and also signed by the Chairman of W.H. Smith, Sir Simon Hornby. Additionally signed, "with best wishes, A S Byatt October 22nd 1992" on page 127 at A.S. Byatt's contribution. Published to celebrate..... More
New York: William Morrow, (2003-2004). First editions. Hardcover. The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels published in three volumes containing eight books in 2003 and 2004. The story follows the adventures of a sizable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late 17th and..... More
New York: Harmony, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet..... More
New York: Crown, (1980). Pierre Soulages. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A volume in the Q.L.P. Art series. Paintings by Pierre Soulage. Perhaps more than the work of any other artist, Soulages' paintings are almost impossible to render into words. They force us to stop in front of them, face to..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1974). Second printing. Hardcover. Though a second printing (stated) this copy has two handwritten passages from the book written out on the front yellow endpaper dated November 17, 1975, then signed underneath both passages by John D MacDonald. The first handwritten passage is: "What makes so many of..... More
