THE ORPHAN MOTHER. A Novel.
New York: Grand Central, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hicks on a tipped-in preliminary page. Stated first edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. Tennessee author... #29027
New Arrivals
CLAIRVOYANT: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce. A Novel
New York: Hyperion, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "To --- with friendship /Alison Leslie Gold / 20 Aug 92". Fictional recreation of the life of James Joyce's only daughter, Lucia. 8vo boards & cloth. #29026
THE GRANDE CREVASSE. Translated from the French by Janet Adam Smith. A Novel.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1951. First U.S. Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first American edition. Second novel of high adventure (mountain climbing) by the noted French alpinist and author of... #29025
LITTLE SQUIRE JIM. A Novel.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1949. Third Edition. Nicely inscribed & dated in 1985 on front flyleaf. Stated third edition. 8o cloth. #29024
TRAILING THE GIANT PANDA.
New York: Scribners, 1929. First Edition / First Printing. With a Frontispiece from a painting by Carl Rungius & illustrations from photographs by Suydam Cutting, and Kermit. 278 pages with... #29023
THE DISTANT FRIEND. Translated from the French by Hugh A. Harter. Introduction by Jack Kolbert. A Novel.
New York: Holmes and Meier, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & dated April 11, 1991 in New York by Roy to translator Harter on the front flyleaf... #29022
HEART OF OAK A Novel
London: Heinemann, 2007. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Kent on the title-page. We find Adam Bolitho Captain of H.M.S. Nautilus, at the beginning of 1818, in this... #29021
FIRST LIGHT. A Novel
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Ackroyd on the title page. 8vo blue cloth. #29020
KENTUCKY IS MY LAND. Poems
Ashland, Kentucky: [Self-Published], n.d. Later Edition. Hardcover. Signed "With best wishes, Jesse Stuart" on the front flyleaf. This is the self-published "Author's Edition" issued soon after the 1952 Dutton edition... #29019
HIS MISTRESS'S VOICE. A Story
Lewisburg, PA: Press of Appletree Alley, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #7 of 195 numbered & signed by Roth. First book edition of a story published in Partisan Review in... #29018
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1980.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stories by Donald Barthelme, Frederick Busch, William H. Gass, Elizabeth Hardwick, Larry Heinemann, Grace Paley, John Sayles, Isaac Bashevis... #50104
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1966.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stories by Jack Cady, Harris Downey, David Ely, William Faulkner, Shirley Ann Grau, Mary Hedin, Shirley Jackson, Mary Lavan... #50103
BRIGADOON A Musical Play [SIGNED BY 10 CAST MEMBERS]
New York: Coward-McCann, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Original production opened on Broadway in 1947 starring David Brooks, Marion Bell, Pamela Britton, and Lee Sullivan. In 1954, it was made into... #50100
EMPIRE OF THE SUN (with Autographed Letter Signed - A.L.S.)
London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. A Novel. Basis for the film directed by Stephen Spielberg. 8vo cloth. Laid in is a folded AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED... #50099
THE GOLDEN APPLE A Musical in Two Acts (Signed by actress Kaye Ballard)
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. One of the first musicals produced Off-Broadway and then transferred to Broadway, an adaptation of parts of the ILIAD... #50098
THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. 884 pp. SIGNED by Bradbury on the title page. 8vo cloth. #50097
ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Signed by actor John Cullum)
New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1981. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by American actor & singer John Cullum to a local theater critic. 8vo cloth. #50095
I HAVE SEEN MONSTERS AND ANGELS.
Paris: Transition Press, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Jolas on the half-title page, "To Stephen Desai / with best wishes of / Eugene Jolas." Square 8vo cream-colored... #50086
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. First Edition thus / First Printing. Hardcover. Michener's Pulitzer-prize winning first book of short stories. Special limited edition of 1500 signed copies presented to... #50085
ASHENDEN OR THE BRITISH AGENT.
Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1947. Tower Books Edition. First Edition thus / First Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1928. Nice, affordable reissue hardcover edition. Attractive jacket design by Ava Morgan. 8vo cloth. #50084
THE 13 CLOCKS.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Marc Simont. First issue with Simont's first name misspelled as "Mark" on the title page. 8vo... #50083
THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1960. First Edition thus. Hardcover. New edition, originally published in 1941 by New Directions. 8vo black cloth. #50082
FINAL CRISIS.
New York: DC Comics, 2009. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, stated first printing.This compilation brings together the following comics which had appeared separately: Final Crisis Issues #1-7... #29012
IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY.
New York: Broadway Books, 2000. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Bryson on the title-page. Very amusing book about Australia, with Bryson in rollicking good form. 8vo boards & cloth. #29011
THE EMPEROR'S GENERAL. A Novel
New York: Broadway Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "For ----- / Semper Fi! / J. Webb / May 1999" front flyleaf. Set during MacArthur's retaking of the Philippines. Received... #29010