Signed Books
Lesson Before Dying, A
Alfred A.Knopf, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: grey cloth with black lettering on spine edge & black paper covered boards with stamped black lettering & decoration. Tight binding. Signed by Gaines on title page below his printed name. This is a bright..... More
Grendel
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1976. Cloth. Signed by Gardner on blank page after FFEP. 7th printing; early reprint of this US edition, first printed in same month, September 17 and reprinted five times before this printing. Fair to guess it was selling out quickly. This has always been my favorite..... More
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
Harper & Row, February 1968. Cloth. In very good dust jacket with marginal wear. Tanning to spine verso & edges of recto. NOT price clipped. Original price of $4.95 on flap. 0268 bottom corner front flap. Orange end pages. Yellow topstain. Sound binding. Clean, unmarked interiors. Coded on copyright page..... More
Hola Cuba! Images and Impressions
Stratford Press, Athens, GA, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Presentation copy inscribed on the half-title page by Gene Younts. More
Looking Forward: The George Bush Story
Doubleday, September 1987. Limited. Hardcover. Number 202 of an edition limited to 250 SIGNED BY GEORGE H.W. BUSH while he was Vice President. Gilt-titled blue cloth in blue slipcase. More
Paradise Poems
Vintage, July 1984. First Thus. Paper Back. Signed by Stern on title page. More
Sweetbitter: A Novel
Penguin Books, February 1996. Paper Back. Turn-of-the-century East Texas. A world that offers no home for Reuben Sweetbitter, a young half-Choctaw, half-white man. Left as a child to fend for himself after the death of his mother, he finds his uneasy way through the world, searching always for a place..... More
The Lies That Bind: A Novel
Ballantine Books, June 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace.... More
The Lies That Bind: A Novel
Ballantine Books, June 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace.... More
Love & Rockets Vol. 2: Chelo's Burden
Fantagraphics Books, June 1986. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The original, seminal Love & Rockets comic book series, which ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996, singlehandedly defined the post-underground generation of comics that spawned Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and so many others. Now collected into 15 volumes, Love &..... More
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
William Morrow, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and..... More
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Little, Brown and Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times..... More
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Little, Brown and Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times..... More
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Schocken Books Inc, May 2006. Hardcover. Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it..... More
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
Oxford University Press, August 2017. Paper Back. In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-played a key role not only in maintaining safety and order but also in enforcing conventional standards..... More
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was..... More
Historic Tales of Talladega
Paragon Press, 1959. Cloth. Shelf wear/edgewear to boards & top of spine. Signed by Jamison in blue ink front free end page. Exposure to moisture has caused the signature to run and smear onto the front pastedown. Damp stain expecially to textblock top edge.. Bowed spine. More
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (4 Volume set in slipcase)
Canongate Books, 2001. Numbered. Cloth. Numbered: 974/2000 limited edition. 4 volumes in very good dust jackets. Maroon paper covered boards with gold design on front panel & gold lettering on spine. Black end pages. Clean, solid, & very good+ overall. Each of the 4 octavo hardbound volumes are numbered in..... More
Mississippi Blood
William Morrow, March 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times Bestseller GoodReads Choice Award semi finalist, Amazon Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2017 selection The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles "Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to..... More
Dark Tides: A Novel (2) (The Fairmile Series)
Atria Books, November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Named a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and..... More
Port Authority: Selected Poems 1965-1976
Brevity Press, 1976. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo (Six & 3/4-inch x Eight & 1/4-inch) First edition in original wraps. Mild wear to edges. Creased front cover lower, right corner. In clear vinyl jacket. Slight lean to spine. (108 pages). Signed & inscribed verso of front cover: 'Aug. 17, 1977..... More
Camino Winds
Doubleday Books, April 2020. Hardcover. "In American icon John Grisham's new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane--the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with..... More
Time for Mercy
Doubleday Books, October 2020. Hardcover. Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is riveting and suspenseful. Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a...... More
The Vain Conversation: A Novel (Story River Books)
University of South Carolina Press, February 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters--Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to..... More
