Fiction
Seize the Day.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1957. Hardcover. First British edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Wear at the spine ends and some creasing to the rear panel. Offsetting to the endpaper and foxing to the page edges. More
The Victim.
New York: Vanguard, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book with light edgewear. Some offsetting to the endpapers. The author's second novel. No dust jacket. More
Let It Come Down.
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
Budding Prospects.
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
Red Sky At Morning.
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
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt.
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
The Grass Harp.
New York: Random House, 1951. Hardcover. First edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. First state with coarse cloth covers. Minor soiling to the book, wear to the jacket edges, sunning to the spine, and chjipping to the head and foot of the jacket. Price clipped. More
Death Comes for the Archbishop.
New York: Knopf, 1927. Hardcover. First edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. No dust jacket.The true first edition with both 1927 on the title and copyright pages with no additional printings noted. Contains the following first print misspellings: "happned" on page 20, line 16 "suppper" on page 57, line 15. The boards retain their green color. Paper inset title and author. The author's best known novel, the story of Father Jean Marie Latour who serves as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico in the mid 1800s. Ranked as one of the top 100 books of the 20th century. More
The Last of the Menu Girls.
Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1986. First edition, first printing. A fine book in paper wraps. A trade paper original. The author's second book, a collection of seven inter-related stories that define the protagonist, Rocio Esquibel. More
Diary of a Bad Year.
New York: Viking, 2007. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. More
Only Revolutions: A Novel.
London: Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The true first edition. The British edition precedes the U.S. edition. A pristine, unread copy. The second novel by the author The House of Leaves. A finalist for the National Book Award. More
The Silence.
New York: Scribner, 2020. Hardcover. Advance Reading Copy. 95. A fine book in publisher's wrappers. An advance copy in large paperback format. The latest novel by DeLillo, author of Underworld and White Noise. Says author Joy Williams, the book is "a swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo." More
Underworld.
New York: Scribner, 1997. Hard Cover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award. One of the major novels of the late 20th century. More
God's Pocket.
New York: Random House, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Light sunning to the jacket spine. The author's first book. More
A Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. The fourth novel by the author Run River and Play It as It Lays. The novel is the story of two American women in the derelict and fictional Central American nation of Boca Grande. More
The Last Thing He Wanted.
New York: Knopf, 1998. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine unread copy in plain beige covers. With publisher's promotional material stapled to the inside cover. This precedes the advance readers copy in a slipcase that was sent to booksellers for promotional purposes. More
The Last Thing He Wanted.
New York: Knopf, 1998. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. The book centers on a Washington D.C. journalist who who walks off her job covering the 1984 presidential campaign and finds herself thrust into an international conspiracy. More
After Henry.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A solid, tight copy. A collection of essays written for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. More
A Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Minor toning to the jacket. The author's fourth book. A novel set in California and Central America and tuned to the currents of several revolutions. The story of two American women in the derelict and fictional Central American nation of Boca Grande. More
Winter's Tales.
New York: Random House, 1942. hardcover. First U.S. edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to the bottom and top edges of the book. Chipping to the head and foot of the dust jacket, chips to the rear panel along with the close tears. More
Memory Wall: Stories.
New York: Scribner, 2010. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Owner name on front free endpaper. A collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. His fourth book, a collection of six short stories. The title story, 'Memory Wall' won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Fiction. More
Cloud Cuckoo Land.
New York: Scribners, 2021. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. A fine, unread copy of an advance edition of the newest book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. A lovely collectible copy of this review of this bestseller by one of America's best known story tellers. From the publisher: "The book follows five dreamers and outcasts who find solace and hope in one ancient text--and who become stewards both of that story and of the planet." The novel has received enthusiastic reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus and from booksellers around the country. A review copy with promotional material laid into the book. More