New York: Random House, 1968. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust plus dust jacket. Minor toning to the edges of the front and rear panels. Trace of wear at the head and foot of the jacket spine. Price of $5.95 is present on the jacket flap. The author's first book, which has become quite scarce as Irving's popularity has risen. This copy signed by Irving on a laid in bookplate. Signed by the author. More about Setting Free the Bears
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Hardcover. First British edition. Fine without dust jacket, as issued. This is one of 1,000 signed and limited copies of the first printing. This precedes all other copies of the book. It is a handsome edition with brown boards showing a small inset of the dust jacket on the front of the book. Though not called for, this copy is signed by the author. More about A Widow for One Year
New York: Knopf, 2000. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The story of Christopher Banks who is orphaned at the age of 9, but who returns to Shanghai to discover what happened to his parents. By the author of Remains of the Day. This is a review copy with publisher's promotional material laid in. Signed by the author and dated in the year of publication. More about When We Were Orphans
London: Faber & Faber, 1986. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. First issue with Butler & Tanner as the printer. A fine fresh copy. The author's second book. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel of the year. More about An Artist of the Floating World
Seattle: Winn, 1984. Paperback. First edition. The paperback edition of a collection of reminiscences of artist Russell Chatham. This was published simultaneously with the hardcover edition. A very good copy with wear at the extremities and a crease to the rear cover. Contains 24 color plates and other illustrations in black and white. Signed and inscribed by the author and dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper. More about Russell Chatham
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The late Denis Johnson uses his powers of observation to look at the United States and the world in unique ways. Signed by the author on the title page. More about Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond
New York: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Minor sunning to the front and rear flaps. The late author's first novel. Signed by the author on the half title page. More about Angels
New York: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Minor sunning to the front and rear flaps. The late author's first novel. More about Angels
New York: Knopf, 1987. First edition. A very good copy of the simultaneous paperback edition of Johnson's fourth book of poetry. Creasing to the front and rear covers, an inkstamp on the front endpaper. Signed by Johnson on the half title page. More about The Veil
New York: Scribner, 1951. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A close to fine book in a very good dust jacket. Wear at the tips of the dust jacket and head and foot of the spine. Short closed tear to the rear panel along with sme light soiling. Previous owner name. This is the first printing with Scribner capital "A" on the copyright page and price of $4.50 on the front flap. A major novel of World War II, in the same league as Norman Mailer's Naked and the Dead. Winner of the National Book Award. More about From Here to Eternity
Boston: Atlantic Little-Brown, 1970. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. This is the third collection of film reviews by the longtime movie critic of The New Yorker. It is an uncommon advance copy as the proof carries the working title of The Great Bastard Cross-fertilized Super-art," but was published as "Going Steady." A near fine copy with light fading to the spine and a label shadow on the lower edge. The proof differs from the published version in the title and all the places the title is listed, including in the "introduction" which became the "Forward" in the book. Also, an untitled section in the proof became "Intentions" in the finished book. More about The Great Bastard Cross-fertilized Super-art. (Going Steady
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. This is a very good copy of the uncorrected proof of the first British edition, which precedes the American edition later renamed Schindler's List. There is some light soiling to the front cover and a crease long spine area. Proof copies of this book are quite uncommon. The story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews from the ovens in World War II. The basis for the Academy Award winning film that starred Ralph Fiennes. Laid into the book is a book plate signed by Keneally. Signed by the author. More about Schindler's Ark
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a close to fine dust jacket. Minor wear at the foot of the jacket spine. The story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews from the concentration camps of World War II. A beautiful copy. Signed by the author on a bookplate laid into the book. Signed. More about Schindler's List
New York: Walker, 1964. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor wear to the extremities and some toning to the rear white panel. The first book by Australian best seller Thomas Keneally, best known for his novel that was made into the film Schindler's List. This is a mystery set in a Catholic seminary in Sydney, Australia. Signed by the author on the title page with his smiley face. More about The Place at Whitton
London: Macdonald, 1970. Hardcover. First British edition. Fine in a near fine plus dust jacket. Sticker ghost on front board. The author's first book. Signed by the author. More about The Ink Truck
New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. First British edition. A close to fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Top corners lightly bumped. Light sunning to the dust jacket spine. The third and final book in Kerr's Berlin Noir Trilogy that features the indelible character of Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. This is a stated first printing with a sticker price of $18.95 on the front jacket flap along with the British price of £13.99 on the bottom of the front flap. Signed by the author on bookplate laid into the book. More about A German Requiem
New York: Viking, 1989. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Slight browning to the pages, endemic to this title. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Both the U.S. price of $17.95 and the British price of £11.95 are on the front flap, which has not been clipped. This is the first book in Kerr's Berlin Noir Trilogy that features the indelible character of Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. It is 1936 and Gunther is investigating the theft of a diamond necklace as the Nazi party and their new converts--which sprouted like "March violets"--continue its rise to power. Signed by the author on the title page. More about March Violets
New York: Viking, 1990. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A bright, tight copy. The second book in Kerr's Berlin Noir Trilogy that features the indelible character of Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. With the original sticker price of $16.95 on the front flap. Later editions had the sticker price clipped and a new one of $18.95 added. The scarcest of all the Bernie Gunther novels. Signed by the author on the title page. More about The Pale Criminal
New York: Viking, 1990. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Ken Kesey reeaxmaines the Merry Pranksters' 1964 voyage and journey aboard the magical bus. Signed in a colorful gold ink by Kesey on the front free endpaper. Signed by the author. More about The Further Inquiry
New York: Doubleday, 1974. First U.S. edition. The author's first book. A fine book in a very good plus dust jacket. Wear at the extremities of the book and faint remainder spray on bottom edges. The story of the Juan Corona and the 25 murders of farm workers that he committed outside Yuba City in California's Central Valley. The author was unhappy with the book and has not allowed it to be reprinted. Signed by the author. More about The Road to Yuba City
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in near fine dust jacket. Foxing to the top edges. Minor wear to the extremities and a short closed tear on the rear panel. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for poetry. Signed and inscribed by the Galway Kinnell with beautiful signature on the front free endpaper. Sgned by the author. More about Selected Poems
Oberon Press, 1978. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The scarce hardcover edition of Kinsella's second book, published in a quite small press run. A collection of Indian stories set on the Hobbema Reserve in western Canada. Kinsella would later write his iconic novel, Shoeless Joe. Signed and inscribed by Kinsella on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes." Signed by the author. More about Scars
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine copy in plain gray wraps. This is an early an uncommon state of he Canadian author's mystical baseball novel. It was the basis for the movie Field of Dreams that starred Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. More about Shoeless Joe
New York: Penguin Press, 2014. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. One of the best books to come out of the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars. Winner of the National Book Award in 2014. Klay takes readers to the front lines "asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned," says the publisher. Klay is a Dartmouth graduate who served in Iraq after graduating. A fine copy that has been signed by Klay on the title page. Signed by the author. More about Redeployment
New York: Lyons & Burford, 1990. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Minor toning to the jacket flaps. A lovely copy of the first book by the acclaimed author Into the Wild, Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven. This is a collection of essays on mountain climbing and mountaineering from around the world. More about Eiger Dreams. Ventures Among Men and Mountains
