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Rock Springs.
New York: Atlantic, 1989. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's first story collection, 10 sharply written stories set largely in Montana. An interesting association copy. Signed and inscribed by the author to fellow writer Chris Offutt: "For Chris, from Richard. With admiration. Great Falls. November 1997." Signed by the author. More
A Piece of My Heart.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book in illustrated, printed wrappers. Appears to be unread. This was an early edition, promoting the trade copy of Richard Ford's first book. Ford went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day. Signed by the author on the title page. More
The Sportswriter.
New York: Vintage, 1985. First edition. A fine book in illustrated wraps. A paperback original and stated first edition. This is a paperback original and marks the introduction of Frank Bascombe, 38, who would wind up again in Ford's Pulitzer Prize winning Independence Day and The Lay of the Land. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
New York: Ecco, 2012. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. A grimly funny send up of the American war machine and the culture that it has spawned. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.
New York: Ecco, 2006. Paperback. advance Reading Copy. A close to fine book in illustrated wrappers. Evidence of sticker removal on the title page. Light wear at the edges. Signed by Ben Fountain on the title page. Fountain is the author of the rollicking satire, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk which won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award. Signed by the author. More
The Ebony Tower.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. One tiny nick at the top of the jacket spine. One of only 200 copies signed by the author on a page tipped in by the publisher. Signed by the author. More
Daniel Martin.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's fourth novel. Precedes the British edition. More
The Diary of a Young Girl. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
New York: Doubleday, 1952. Hardcover. Early printing. A close to fine book in a worn, but very good dust jacket. This is a later issue, a second or later printing. No first edition statement but with the 1952 date on the title page. Considereable wear and rubbing to the dust jacket, sunning to the spine. Chipping at the head of the jacket and the top of the front panel. First Issue DJ with the $3.00 price and code A.F;T.O.D.A.Y.G. at the top of the front panel. No code on rear flap or rear panel. Laid into the book is Christmas greeting card that is signed and inscribed by Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank. Otto was the only surviving member of the Frank family after World War II and the holocaust. He worked diligently to get his daughter's diary published in The Netherlands and later Great Britain and the United States. More
Freedom.
New York: FSG, 2010. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A special edition published as part of the Indispensable book series by Powells Books of Portland, Oregon. This is a fine copy in a green slipcase, special signed by Franzen on the title page. Freedom was lauded by many book critics and was named one of the top five fiction books of 2010 by The New York Times. More
The Twenty-Seventh City.
New York: FSG, 1988. Advance Reading Copy. A near fine copy in illustrated wraps. Light wear at the head and foot of the spine. The author's first book. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Never Call Retreat.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edges. Dust jacket trimmed by 1/4 inch. A lengthy novel cited by Walter Rideout in his influential study of the American radical novel. One critic called the book "a dense, intermittently eloquent and erratically penetrating Tolstoyan odyssey framed as a New York psychoanalystís session transcript." More
Migrant Agricultural Workers in America's Northeast. With a Foreward by Sen. Walter Mondale.
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1971. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Stated first edition. This, in the word of the publisher, is "a trenchant expose revealing, in their own words, how they live and how they work." More
JR.
New York: Knopf, 1975. First edition. A fine book in a very good plus dust jacket. Light creasing to the front panel and some creasing to the front jacket flap. A solid fine book with bright red topstain. A lovely copy of a big and bulky book that is prone to wear. Price of $15.00 present on the front flap. A tight, handsome copy. Winner of the National Book Award. Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers. More
The Random Review. 1982.
Random House, 1982. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of literary works from magazines in 1982. It is signed by the editors, Jonathan Galassi and Gary Fisketjon and contributors Tobias Wolff, Denis Johnson, C. K. Williams and Thomas Lux. Signed by the authors. More
Imaginary Timber: Poems.
New York: Doubleday, 1980. Paperback. First edition, first printing. A close to fine book in illustrated wrappers. A paperback original. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. More
Lethal Frequencies.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1995. Paperback. First edition. Fine in illustrated wraps. Softcover edition. A book of poetry. More
Five Smooth Stones. Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture.
Cambridge: Harvard University, 2000. Paperback. Doctoral Thesis. This is a photocopy of the doctoral dissertation that Marshall Ganz submitted for his degree in Sociology at Harvard University. t A near fine copy in plastic comb binding Ganz was a longtime lieutenant to farm labor leader Cesar Chavez and helped to bring unionization to farmworkers in the United. The dissertation was basis for book Ganz later published title: Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Included is a letter from Ganz to the late Dick Mister, a longtime labor union reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and other Northern California media outlets. More
The Wreckage of Agathon.
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A lovely and tight unread copy. The author's second novel. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. More
Dragon, Dragon.
New York: Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a very good plus dust jacket. Light sunning to top of the top boards. Light edgewear and a couple of closed tears on the rear panel. John Gardener's first book for children. More
A Last Bridge Home. New and Selected Poems. Illustrated by Russell Chatham.
Livingston: Clark City Press, 1992. Hardcover. First edition. The limited edition, #20 of 50 copies signed by the author. Bound in red and blue cloth with gilt decorations, ribbon marker. Original color etching laid in, signed by Russell Chatham, with the same number as the book (#20). 99 poems in four sections. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers. A fine copy in red and blue cloth with gilt decoration, issued without jacket, housed in the publisher's red cloth slipcase. Signed by the author. More
The Circle of Reason.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Tanning to the pages. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Virtual Light.
New York: Bantam, 1993. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in illustrated wrappers. A beautiful,unread copy with French wraps. Signed by the author on the title page. More
To Creature.
Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1975. First edition. A fine book in white wrappers. A collection of poetry. The author''s first book. More
Collected Poems, 1947-1980.
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a close to fine dust jacket. A bright and tight copy with only minor sunning to the jacket spine and light foxing to the page edges. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page that is dated in 1990 with his initials circled on the page. Signed by the author. More