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
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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
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
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