Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories
PS Publishing, November 2013. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo in pictorial boards without jacket as issued. Yellow end pages. Signed by author, Andy Duncan on title page. [325 pages]. More
PS Publishing, November 2013. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo in pictorial boards without jacket as issued. Yellow end pages. Signed by author, Andy Duncan on title page. [325 pages]. More
Clarkson Potter, September 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Returning to the rich culinary heritage that made her New Southern Cooking a breakthrough success, Nathalie Dupree looks at the customs and historical influences that have shaped the way southerners eat today. The more than 150 recipes are thoroughly updated for contemporary kitchens..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, June 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love Ready! Aim! On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In a city like that one might sail through life led by a runaway hat. The young scattered in whatever directions their wild hair pointed and, gusting into one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City" In his second book..... More
Book Stops Here, September 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto {8 & 1/2 x 11'}. First printing, 'first edition limited to 800 copies for sale.' Quarto in DJ with slight curl to edges. Some small scuff marks and mild edgewear. Quarter bound: crimson cloth covered spine with gold lettering and cream..... More
St. Martin's Press, November 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Using extensive passages from Jay-Z's lyrics, 'Made in America' examines the rapper's role as a poet..... More
CHAPEL HILL: MUD PUPPY PRESS. 1987, January 1987. Limited. Stapled Pamphlet. {4 & 1/2' x 11'} Edition designed by John Cotterman and Grant Kornberg. This is number 335/500. Hand sewn into special wrappers by Robert C. Colver at the Ram's Head bindery. Special grey cardstock cover with black & red..... More
Scribner, October 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR..... More
Modern Library, 1963. Hardcover. Tight, bright blue cloth binding in clipped jacket with closed tear on front panel and edge chipping. Presentation copy inscribed by Ralph Ellison on title page: 'To Gloria Sampson, Sincerely, Ralph Ellison'. More
Knopf, May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious..... More
Knopf, September 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire..... More
University of Georgia Press, October 2011. Cloth. This is the first--and the only authorized--biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief..... More
Random House, March 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER For years, people have been asking Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: "What did your mom put in the cereal?" Middle brother Rahm is the mayor of Chicago, erstwhile..... More
Grove Press, April 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. BARNES & NOBLE'S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK - A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger. "A rare, remarkable book to be kept and reread--for its beauty of..... More
Knopf, September 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard..... More
Knopf, April 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The long-awaited first novel from the author of the sensational short-story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a stunning historical tale set at the start of Argentina's Dirty War, a hallucinatory journey into a forbidden city and a world of terror. Personally..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The greatly anticipated new work from the author of the international bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican "Midsummer Night's Dream" that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. By including the..... More
Trump Castle and Consolidated/Drake Press, 1990. Hardcover. Quarto; 8 & 1/2' x 11'; Facsimile gilt Erte signature stamped on leatherette (aka synthetic fake leather) covered front board. Pink end pages.There are a number of facsimile reproductions of Erte's signature throughout this catalogue. There is one real signature. On page 5..... More
Harper Wave, September 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering..... More
The Bookworm / The Tapeworm, 2015. Limited. Soft Cover. 12mo. First/first; Signed & numbered, #79/150 on title page. Clean & sound without markings. Scratch mark across middle of back panel of wrapper. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around the world..... More
Liveright, August 2014. Limited. Hardcover. Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving..... More
New Directions, 1958. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Moderate shelf wear. Significant rubbing on the spine and on the front cover adjacent to the spine. Pages toned. Nice bold author's signature with no dedication on the half title page. Binding still tight. No underlining or marginalia. More
New Directions, 2012. Limited. Hardcover. One of an edition limited to 150 copies, signed by Ferlinghetti and including a signed print. Still in shrinkwrap. More
Hodder & Stoughton, January 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Literary detective Thursday Next is pursuing the world's most evil man, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a display of literary vandalism. She must also assist her time-travelling father, marry the man she loves and discover the truth about bananas. First printing..... More