Toronto: Macmillan, (1971). William Kimber. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Fetherling to actor Margot Kidder: "To Margot, E.F.S.* / with affection / Doug / 26 sept 73 / Toronto / *Egyptian Film Star." 54pp. Illustrated with line drawings by William Kimber. Bound in black boards with gilt spine..... More
New York: Putnam, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. A candid and highly personal portrait of Los Angeles and its surroundings by the astute and sensitive young columnist of the Los Angeles Free Press that captures the spirit of the city and its people with acid-dipped poetic prose. A deliciously irreverent and..... More
New York: Random House, (1994). Roz Chast. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by both authors and the illustrator opposite the title page. What does a baby shrew like to eat? Answer: a couple of crunchy crickets, a group of juicy grasshoppers, one fresh frog, a pair of slippery salamanders, several..... More
New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proof. Here, Adams, the author of Watership Down, one of the century's most loved works of imaginative literature, tells us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort at the end of Watership Down. The first tales..... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. First edition. A single sheet. This broadside, measuring 7 x 11 inches and printed on light tan stock, has been signed by Margaret Atwood. This broadside was originally part of a suite of broadsides issued by Copper Canyon Press (but sold here separately). Designed by Lin Lawrence..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). First edition. Paperback. A narrative of modern architecture. Wolfe bluntly lays out his thesis in the introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House with a riff on the patriotic song "America the Beautiful". 143pp perfect bound in the original blue printed wrappers, as issued..... More
New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. An Uncorrected Proof signed by Moore on the title page. Her first book. Laid in is a TLS on the publisher's letterhead dated October 24, 1984 soliciting a blurb for this book. Ten sharply effective stories by a young writer who transforms her..... More
New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. An Uncorrected Proof signed by Moore on the title page. Her first book. Stapled inside the front cover is more information about the book and the author. Ten sharply effective stories by a young writer who transforms her insights into the anxieties, loneliness..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Clare Leighton. First edition thus. Hardcover. Roberts (1886-1941) was an American poet and novelist born in Perryville, KY., graduated from the University of Chicago in 1921. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Roethke(1908-1963) on the front endpaper in his signature green ink. With the ownership signature of Joan Skinner in the top right corner of the front endpaper with the date underneath "May - 1948". The author's second book of poetry, which is..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First U.S. edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof of the author's first book. Laid in is a TLS from Ted Solotaroff to Gilbert Sorrentino dated November 3, 1986 on the publisher's letterhead which reads: "Dear Gil / I think that Jim Crace is a writer..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author (a real-life anesthesiologist) on the title page. An anesthesiologist at the height of her profession, faces a malpractice suit after a disastrous operation that ends a child's life. At the same time, she has to cope with..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. First American edition. Hardcover. For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Fourteen years later, the..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. The follow up to the author's retired detective novel 'The Great Leader", involves Detective Sunderson who dares to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan." The best moments come when the detective loses the..... More
Livingston: Clark City Press, (1991). Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. "This book should have been titled 'The Muddy Fork & Other Orphans. And this preface could be called "Stories About Stories." But I'm not old enough just yet to admit to too many orphans, literary or otherwise, and I'd rather save..... More
New York: Penguin, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Unrevised and unpublished proof copy. Here, Martin introduces the best of the young 'Western Writers" those whose work has reflected the region, its people, and their concerns, while at the same time transcending the West's rugged geography and offering stories of substance and..... More
New York: Harper Collins, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. This signed edition has been specially bound by the publisher. Chabon's first non-fiction book. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces. In these insightful, provacative, slyly interlinked essays, presents his..... More
Seattle: Sasquash Books, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The story of how the Mariners went from the bottom to the top of Major League Baseball, and how Seattle shed some of its backwater instincts to become a city wiht a record-setting passion for..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. This lucidly written study gives a careful and detailed reading of all of Pynchon's fiction from the early stories to Gravity's Rainbow. Seed stresses the intricacy of Pynchon's narratives and discusses such issues as his parody of myth, influences from..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1982). Tom Wolfe. First edition. hardcover. The signed limited edition, this signed twice on the colophon page by Wolfe, the underneath signature is dated November 19, 1987 by Wolfe and signed in his normal extravagant way. A collection of the 20 best non-fiction..... More
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012. Vincent Chong. First edition. Hardcover. A signed limited edition, illustrations by Vincent Chong. The saga of Ringil Eskiath, Gil, for short, a peerless warrior, continues. Though his love for another man has made him an outcast and pariah. A near fine copy in a near..... More
London: Orbit, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page (also dated). An imaginative tour de force, a stunning novel of bravery and hope, fear and betrayal, strangeness and charm in the face of darkness. 279 pages. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First edition. Hardcover. News Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. The term was codified with its current meaning by Wolfe in this collection of journalism articles..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1980). Tom Wolfe. Galley. Paperback. 4to. A book of essays written and drawn by Tom Wolfe. Measures 8 1/2 x 11 inches bound in yellow illustrated wrappers (pad bound). Includes the drawings by the author. A copy of a letter from the publisher..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1983). First edition. The author examines Pynchon's novels first against the backdrop of contemporary fiction. Then he explores Pynchon's view of the modern world, both its apparent ills and available remedies. 238 pages with index. More
