Half in Love.
New York. Scribner, 2002. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book, a collection of stories that won strong reviews from critics. Signed by the author on the title page. More
New York. Scribner, 2002. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book, a collection of stories that won strong reviews from critics. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. Hardcover. First edition. Fine without dust jacket as issued. An annotated guide to writings about poet Sylvia Plath. More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. A clean, unread copy. The author's first novel , a screw-ball comedy in Hollywood. More
New York: Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the spine and top edge of the front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. A lovely copy of this classic work. Named by The New York Times as the best work of fiction in the past 25 years in a survey done in 2006. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. An unread copy. By the author of Suite Francaise. More
Munich: Luchterhand, 1995. Hardcover. First German Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Light sunning to the jacket spine. One of the enduring works on the Vietnam War. A collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. Based on O'Brien's experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division. More
New York: Knopf, 2018. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Unread copy. A debut novel that explores the plight of the native American Indian in an urban environment. The book has received glowing reviews and is a strong bestseller. Longlisted for the National Book Award. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor wear to the jacket extremities and light wear to head and foot of the dust jacket. Short closed tear at the top of the rear panel. All four corners of the flaps are clipped, but price of $1.75 clear present. First issue dust jacket with no mention of "Printed in the USA" on the rear panel. More
Knopf, 1983. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material and review slip laid in. More
London: Faber and Faber. 2004. Paperback. First British edition. The true first English edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A paperback original with dust jacket. There was a very small hardcover printing. Slight browning to the page edges. The story of a journalist who returns to Turkey and is assigned to write an investigative piece on a series of suicides in a town near the Armenian border. This book caused a sensation when published in Turkey. Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Signed by the author on the title page. More
London: Bloomsbury, 2011. Hardcover. First British edition. This is the true first edition, published a few days before the U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. More
New York: Random House, 1983. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Price of $14.95 present on the front jacket flap. The asuthor's third book. More
Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1992. Hardcover. Limited edition. Fine in fine dust jacket housed in slipcase. This is copy #69 out of 250 individually signed and numbered copies. Signed by the author. More
New York: Dutton, 1971. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the fore-edges. The first book by this Argentinian author. More
New York: Random House, 1974. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the front and rear panels of the jacket. A political satire of former president Richard Nixon. Signed by Philip Roth on a publisher's colophon sheet that has been laid into the book. Signed by the author. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book, an unread copy, in illustrated wraps. Trade plaperback. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The fictionalized story of Charles Lindbergh's election as president in 1940 and the impact it has on Roth's family and other Jews in America. More
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1954. Paperback. First edition. A very good copy in printed yellow wrappers that is a bit dust-soiled with light shelf wear. Contents incljhud "The Day It Snowed," the first published appearance (excluding college writings) of Philip Roth. At the time he was a staff member of the review. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped inside the upper cover. More
Capra Press, 1977. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight rubbing and chipping to the uncoated jacket. A overview of American literature as history. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. More
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in plain orange wraps. Review material laid in. The uncommon proof of the author's second novel about a young boy who sets sail on a slave ship bound for Africa. More
London: Bloomsbury, 1992. Hardcover. First British edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. His third book. Signed by the author. More
New York: Random House, 1939. Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition. A very good book in a very good copy. Darkening to the endpapers. Some sunning to the spine and soiling to the rear panel. First issue dust jacket with mention of 268 other titles on the rear panel. A very nice copy of the first Modern Library edition of Steinbeck's early novel of farm workers trying to organize in the fields and orchards of California in the 1930s. Published three years after the larger hardcover edition. More
New York: Charles Scribners, 1897. First U.S. edition. A near fine book in original brown cloth binding. Gilt title to spine. Bit of foxing at the bottom of the front panel. Small bookstore label on rear pastedown. Precedes the British edition. Four pages of ads for Charles Scribners at the rear of the book. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A finalist for the National Book Award. More
New York: Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Owner name on front pastedown, discretely under jacket flap. The author's third book. Signed by the author on the title page. More