LIVING IN HOPE AND HISTORY: Notes From Our Century.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo cloth. Essays. Gordimer won the 1991 Novel Prize for Literature. 8vo cloth. #29055
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COLOR OF DARKNESS. Eleven Stories & A Novella.
New York: New Directions, 1957. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed "Sincere wishes from James Purdy" front flyleaf (not inscribed to anyone). The jacket states "second printing" bottom inside flap, but it... #29053
THE CAT & THE COFFEE DRINKERS. With Drawings by Erik Blegvad.
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Edition not stated but presumed, there being a full number line at bottom of copyright page. Small 8vo... #29052
WHERE SHE BRUSHED HER HAIR and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first edition. 8vo boards & cloth spine. #29051
ADA or ARDOR: A Family Chronicle. A Novel.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Nabokov's longest novel (588 pages). Large heavy boards. A very good copy. #29050
CHINA IN TEN WORDS. Translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr.
New York: Pantheon, 2011. First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first American edition, first printing, with full number line. Translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr. A.... #29049
CHRONICLE OF A BLOOD MERCHANT. A Novel.
New York: Pantheon, 2003. First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first American edition, first printing, with full number line. Translated from the Chinese by Andrew F. Jones. By... #29048
TO LIVE. A Novel.
New York: Anchor Books Original, 2003. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry, and with an... #29047
FAT CITY. A Novel.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, stated first printing. Basis of the acclaimed 1972 John Huston film about a couple of... #29046
4, THE ROAD. Poems
Vineyard Haven, MA: Salt Works Press, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & dated in 1986 by the poet with a short line from one of her poems. One of 400... #29045
THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Leon on the title page. First edition, first printing, with full number line. 8vo cloth. #29044
THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Leon on a special preliminary page. First edition, first printing, with full number line. 8vo cloth. #29043
SPARTACUS. A Novel.
New York: Published by the Author, 1951. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Fast on front flyleaf. Stated first edition, first printing. Basis of the famous (1960) Stanley... #29039
FILTH. A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First Edition - proof. Softcover. Signed by Welsh on the title page. Proof copy in pictorial card covers. By the author of TRAINSPOTTING. Uncommon format and... #29038
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED. A Novel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Foer on the title-page. First edition, first printing, with 2002 on title page and full number line on... #29037
JOURNEY FOR JOEDEL. A Novel
New York: Crown, 1970. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Review copy with slip, photo & publicity sheet laid in. Third novel by this North Carolina author & poet. His... #29036
THE BALLAD OF THE FLIM-FLAM MAN. A Comic Novel of Today.
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, stated first printing. Second novel and third book by this North Carolina author. Basis of a 1967 film... #29035
LOVE AND LONGING IN BOMBAY. Stories
New York: Little, Brown, 1997. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Chandra on the title-page. Author of a previous novel - RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN (1995) and the well-received... #29034
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. Stories
Boston & New York: A Mariner Original, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. First book by this London-born author who grew up in Rhode Island. The true first edition of this book... #29033
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS. A Novel
New York: Flatiron Books, 2018. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Moriarty on the title-page. First U.S. edition, first printing with full number line. By the Australian author... #29029
63: DREAM PALACE. Selected Stories 1956-1987.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. #130 of 150 numbered hardcover copies signed by Purdy (there were also 150 unsigned copies as well). A generous... #29028
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
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