New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941. Hardcover. First edition. A close to fine book in publisher's original cloth. One of 246 copies signed by the author. This is #192. A presentation copy from the author to his sister Laura, inscribed twice. "For darling Lolly from the author, her brother with devoted love, William Rose Benet." December, 1941. And on the colophon page, "For Lollie with my love, Bill." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1942. This book is from the collection of the late, noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. More about The Dust Which is God

New York: Atheneum, 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Shallow, thin scratch to the front panel of the dust jacket and front cover of th book, else fine in fine dust jacket. This is an advance review copy with the publisher's dated review slip laid in. Also laid into this copy is a 1983 TLS of 200 words from Berriault to a publisher in which she recommends the work of author/screenwriter Jeremy Larner. More about The Descent

New York: Random House, 1952. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor creasing to the rear panel and a couple of nicks to the extremities. The author's second novel following The Sheltering Sky. More about Let It Come Down

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. Hardcover. First British edition. A near fine book in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Light soiling to the rear panel and a short closed tear at the rear jacket fold. This is Ray Bradbury's second book and the first British edition of the book that was titled "The Martian Chronicles" in the United States. Signed by the author on the title page. More about The Silver Locusts

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1981. Hardcover. Limited edition. A fine book without dust jacket, as issued. With original, very good blue slipcase. One of 26 lettered copies that have been signed by the designer, the artist and the author. This is copy "O". The elegant production was designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy in June 1981. Contains two original woodcuts by Eugene CanadÈ. A collection of Bronk's poetry from 1949 to 1981. Winner of the National Book Award for poetry. More about Life Supports

New York: Viking, 1933. Hardcover. First edition. First trade edition. Very good overall. Darkening to the edges of the tan boards and book spine. Sun fading to the cover and darkening at the jacket spine. This copy is signed by Caldwell on the front free endpaper, and scarce thus as collectible copies of the trade edition are uncommon. More about We Are the Living

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in a close to fine dust jacket. Slight sunning to the jacket spine. The author's first book and winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Canin was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in America. He is the author of America America, published to excellent reviews. Signed by Canin on the title page. More about Emperor of the Air

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1987. Paperback. First edition. A very good book in original paper wraps. The soft cover edition of a book that reproduces 12 lithographs that represent the change of seasons in the northern Montana lands where Chatham lived. Signed and dated in 1988 by Chatham on the title page. Signd by the author. More about The Missouri Headwaters. Twelve Original Lithographs

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. First Australian edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The true first edition. By the author of Dusklands and the Life and Times of Michael K., the fable of a boy who has come across the ocean in a boat to a new land. Coetzee has twice won the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. More about The Childhood of Jesus

New York: Random House, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in printed yellow wrappers. An unread copy. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, Age of Iron explores the insidious nature of complicity and reflects on the failure of language to maintain its authority in a complex postcolonial world. Like many of her white compatriots, Elizabeth Curren, a professor of classics who is dying of cancer, has remained willfully blind to the violence and degradation around her. Signed by the author. Signed proofs by this reclusive South African Nobel Laureate, who now lives in Australia, are quite uncommon. More about Age of Iron

New York: Viking, 2005. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The U.S. trade edition. Signed by Coetzee on the title page. More about Slow Man

New York: Morrow, 1991. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. An early book by the former U.S. Poet Laureate that has become quite scarce. There was a very small first print run. Laid into the book is a flyer for a reading he did when the book was likely signed. The book is signed by the author on the title page. More about Questions about Angels: Poems

New York: Putnam, 1966. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear at the spine ends of the jacket and toning to the rear panel. The author's first book in uncommonly nice condition. The story of the lone survivor of a mine disaster that kills 97 of his co-workers, and the apocalyptic cult that forms around him in the fiction town of West Condon. Signed by the author on the title page. More about The Origin of the Brunists