What Have I Ever Lost By Dying?
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in publisher's plain white wraps. A review copy with promotional materail laid into the book. Signed by the author on the title page. More
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in publisher's plain white wraps. A review copy with promotional materail laid into the book. Signed by the author on the title page. More
New York: Doubleday, 2022. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Much advance praise by the author's newest novel. "Hollywood elite become the hunted as their instinctual fight for survival takes priority over all else," says one review. Signed by the author on a publisher's tipped-in page. More
New York: Viking Press, 1957. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a close to very good dust jacket. This is the first book by Philip Booth and winner of the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1956. With publisher's promotional laid into the book. More
New York: New Directions, 1984. Stiff wraps. Uncorrected Proof. This is an uncommon galley proof that apparently was prepared for several prominent book reviewers. It is signed by Borges in his blind hand on the first page, and scarce thus. The book collects seven lectures delivered by Borges in Buenos Aires between June and August 1977. Previously published in Spanish. Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger and with an introduction by Alastair Reid. This has only text with no title or copyright page. Age toning to the pages which are unprinted cream wraps. It is addressed to Rebecca Slinker of the Philadelphia Inquirer with the return address of Elizabeth Harper, publicity director. A New Directions address label with publication information for hard cover and paperback issues is pasted at top. There is a glossy dust jacket mockup pasted below the address label. The lower portion of the mock up has come loose where the glue has dried out. A copy of a hand-corrected typescript of Reid's four page introduction is laid in. All in all a quite scarce item. Signed by the author. More
London: Peter Owen, 1982. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Paul Bowles takes the reader on a journey through Morroco through meditation and rumination of his days living there. A lovely, unread copy. Precedes the American edition by two years. More
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
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. Hardcover. First British edition. A nearly fine book in a fine dust jacket. Price clipped. Slight spine lean. The author's second novel set in British East Africa during Wor War I. More
New York: Schocken Books, 1974. Paperback. First edition. A paperback originally. Very good in wrappers. Sunning to the spine. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. More
New York: Viking, 2011. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. More
New York: Viking, 1984. First edition. Fine condition. A fine, fresh copy of the author's third book and second novel that by all accounts is one of his least common titles. More
New York: Lippincott, 1968. hardcover. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book in publisher's wrappers. Large format paperback. Advance reading copy. First issue copy with price of $.95 on the front cover publication date of May 24th. A classic, coming-of-age novel of a boy whose family moves from Alabama to a small New Mexico mountain town during World War II. The basis for the movie of the same name that starred Richard Crenna, Claire Bloom and Richard Thomas. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A portrait of the life and the suicide of this iconic writer told by his daughter. Illustrated with black and white photos. More
New York: Delta Book, 1970. Paperback. First paperback edition. A near fine book in illustrated wrappers. The first paperback edition of one of Brautigan's better-known works. Owner name and bookplate on front endpapers. More
New York: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Wear to the extremities of the dust jacket. Closed tear at the top of the front panel. Stated first printing. More
London: Old Street Publishing, 2009. Hardcover. First British edition. The true first edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. One reviewer called it "a story of multiple deceptions and concealed identities that unfolds like a pack of cards . . . A space filled with intrigue and potential danger, with hints of Kafka or Mervyn Peake. " More
New York: FSG, 1986. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A bright tight copy. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Hardcover. First US edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by George Kline. Forward by W. H. Auden. A lovely collection of poetry by this Nobel Prize winner and Russian ÈmigrÈ. Stated first edition with correct number line. More
New York: FSG, 1988. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. Light soiling to the top edge pages. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The third collection of the author's to be published in the United States. More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1915. Pamphlet. First British edition. This early collection of poems was published in an edition of only 500 copies. This was Brooke's third appearance in print. A fine, fresh copy with the original printed mailing envelope whose flap has been strengthened by archival document tape. Brooke's lyrical poems were published shortly after his death in 1915 when he was shipping out to the battle of Gallipoli. The English nation lionized him for his unabashedly patriotic poem, "The Soldier" whose lines begin: "If I should die, think only this of me:/ That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England. There Shall be/ In that rich earth richer dust concealed/" More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Paperback. Later printing. A near fine copy of a later printing of the paperback edition of her 1963 poetry collection. Owner bookplate on the front end paper. Signed by the author on the title page. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1974. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. More
New York: FSG, 1994. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in pictorial boards without dust jacket, as issued. Review copy with publisher's promotional material laid in. More
New York: Norton, 1988. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A very good copy in publisher's original plain wraps. More
New York: Norton, 1990. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A very good copy in publisher's original blue plain wraps. Review material laid into the book. More