New Arrivals
Great Days
New York: Pocket, 1980. Mass market paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 172 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon early paperback printing of Barthelme's story collection. More
The Dead Father
New York: Quokka, 1978. Mass market paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 220 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon early paperback printing of Barthelme's second novel. More
Snow White
New York: Bantam, 1971. Mass market paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 180 pp. Shelf wear with some scuffs and bumps to edges. Chip and crease on top right corner of front cover. Pen notes by previous owner inside front cover and pen underlining throughout. This is an uncommon early paperback printing of Barthelme's first..... More
The Dick Gibson Show
New York: Pocket, 1972. Mass market paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 346 pp. Signed by Elkin on title page. Shelf wear. Crease to spine and pen note inside rear cover. This is a signed reprint of Elkin's third novel. More
Criers & Kibitzers Kibitzers & Criers
New York: Berkley, 1968. Mass market paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 256 pp. Signed by Elkin on title page. Shelf wear. Crease to spine and top right corner of front cover. This is a signed reprint of Elkin's first story collection. More
The Franchiser
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 342 pp. Inscribed in 1977 on title page. Cock to spine. Damp stain on front jacket cover. Some nicks and small closed tears around jacket edges. This is a stated first printing of Elkin's 4th..... More
Moby Dick; or The Whale
New York: Modern Library, 1982. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Faux-leather boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. 270 illustrations by Kent. 823 pp. Dark scuff on right block edge. Very minor scuffing to jacket edges. A fine copy. This is the scarce 1982 Modern Library facsimile of the 1930 Rockwell Kent-illustrated..... More
The Complete Stories
New York: Schocken Books, 1971. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo. Orange cloth. Dust jacket. 486 pp. Price-clipped. Jacket has 1" triangular chip top right corner of front cover and several small chips around header and footer of spine. Book is fine. This is a first edition thus of the collected stories of Kafka..... More
Nine Stories
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 302 pp. No dust jacket. An otherwise fine copy. This is a first book club edition of Salinger's second book. Nearly identical to the first trade edition save for the small..... More
Cause for Wonder
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 272 pp. Ex-library with stamp on bottom block edge, paste residue from card pocket on front free endpaper, jacket taped to boards, and several stamps in front matter. Tight and clean. This is a stated first edition of Morris' modernist novel..... More
Real Losses, Imaginary Gains
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 186 pp. Very minor scuffing to jacket edges. A fine copy which appears unread. This is a stated first edition of Morris' modernist story collection. More
Fire Sermon
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 155 pp. Very minor edge wear at header and footer of jacket spine. A fine copy. This is a stated first edition of Morris' modernist novel. More
The Field of Vision
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 251 pp. Book is very good with slightly bumped corners and bookplate on front free endpaper. Jacket is only fair, with chips and tears to edges, a 3" vertical closed tear on front jacket cover and 2" closed tear..... More
Out of Africa
New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Deckle edge. 389 pp. No dust jacket. Shelf wear and rubbing to boards and spine. Slight cock to spine. Hinges overopened. This is a stated first edition of Dinesen's classic memoir of her life in Kenya. More
Gone With the Wind
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First edition, early printing. Cloth. 8vo. Grey cloth. Dust jacket. 1037 pp. Jacket is complete but torn cleanly in two pieces along spine edge. Many tears and chips along spine edges. Book is very good, with minor shelf wear and slightly tender hinges. This is an early printing..... More
Wild Apples
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1923. Hardcover. 12mo. Patterned boards. 57 pp. Spine covering is missing. Edges bumped. Hinges a little tender. This is an uncommon edition of Thoreau's narrative history of the apple tree. From Riverside's lovely "Evergreen Series." More
Why We Broke Up
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated boards. Dust jacket. Many full color paintings by Kalman throughout. 354 pp. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by both Handler and Kalman on front free endpaper. Includes a ticket for the event at which this copy was signed. This is a...... More
Snakes
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Orange cloth. Dust jacket. 149 pp. Ex-library, with stamp on block edges and card pasted on front free endpaper. 2" closed tear on front jacket cover. This is a first edition of Young's novel about the blues. More
Never Let Me Go
New York: Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. 288 pp. Ex-library with sticker on jacket spine and card pasted on rear free endpaper. This is a first edition of Ishiguro's contemporary classic. More