New York: The Dial Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as “the telling room.”..... More
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Oblong 24mo. Being #70 of 100 copies (plus 26 lettered copies not for sale). String tied wrappers, unpaginated with a wonderfully decorated dust jacket with French flaps. In memory of the painters Paul Klee and Paul Terence Feeley. Measures 5..... More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. During the last year of her life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings took on the arduous task of collecting materials toward a biography she intended to write on her deceased friend, Ellen Glasgow. The two authors met through correspondences they exchanged about their..... More
New York: Random House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Here, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page. This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019. First edition. This copy is inscribed by Susan Rice on the title page. Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice--National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed on the title page and dated in the year of publication. The author' debut novel. In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was..... More
New York: Penguin, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Like provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens and set aside the leftover broth for the enslaved, unaware that the potlikker, not the..... More
New York: Random House, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a tipped-in sheet that follows the front endpaper, the author's second book. Her first book, 'The Warmth of Other Suns' won the Pulitzer Prize. Poetically written and brilliantly researched, Caste invites us to discover the inner workings..... More
New York: Bantam, 1979. First edition thus. Paperback. A special edition (not for sale) mass market paperback 4 1/8 X 7 inches. Basis for the major big screen film of the same name. In 1947, a group of determined men gathered at a remote Air Force base in the high..... More
London / New York: Verso, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. First edition. Hardcover. Card laid in "As this book was coming off press, one of the Navy SEALs who was on the raid on the Abbottabad compound published a book in which he gave an account of the shooting of bin Laden that differs slightly..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1984. First edition. Paperback. This copy is signed by the author under his printed name on the title page. An uncorrected proof bound in the original orange perfect bound wrappers. The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events..... More
New York: Scribner's, 2003. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Press release laid as well as a reader response card. A novel set in Montana and in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing on characters from Doig's most popular work. Susan Duff, the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A writer of extraordinary power and originality ,that holds a celebrated place in American letters. This volume, the Uncorrected Proof, gathers together the short stories that span her writing career. The nineeteen stories offered here include her most important works; Madame Zilensky and..... More
New York: Knopf, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. A novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet. Ali writes stories on email for anyone who wants them. She promises “freedom just for one night,” but she does not do so without a warning: the story might change you. Ask for..... More
Seattle: The Center For Wooden Boats, 2012. Dick Wagner. Second edition (2012). Paperback. Signed by Wagner on the half-title page: "Imagine a World / without history." (signed, Dick Wagner). The Center for Wooden Boats provides a gathering place where maritime history comes alive through direct experience and our small craft..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the..... More
New York: Harper, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A special signed edition has been specially bound by the publisher, and signed by Erdrich. the first entry in a loosely-connected trilogy by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich. The Plague of Doves follows the townsfolk of the fictional Pluto, North Dakota, who are plagued..... More
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For eleven cents—all the money in his pocket—he buys a soda bottle’s worth..... More
Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs--whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. The first person is the narrator who appears throughout, guiding the reader with one hand while throwing sand in his eyes with the other, since all of this is full of contrivances and connivances and interpolations designed to show that what..... More
San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century: among them, Marcel..... More
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed (in red ink) by the author "For Frank Buxton, another / great mind... / (signed) Martin Williams / Oct 1980" on the front endpaper. This book is an ideal introduction to all the other books..... More
New York: Crown, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right..... More
