Apocalypse Wow! (Signed)
Franklin Library, January 1997. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Silk ribbon marker. More
Signed Books
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
We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989
The Glade Press, September 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A richly illustrated, compelling saga and biography, this unsentimental social history follows the adventures of more than five generations of families that made their mark on both Atlanta and Paris. The narrative especially highlights one grandmother's brave work with the French..... More
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs
Doubleday, July 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is not a beautiful copy: boards are rubbed, soiled, even a tad warped. Jacket is interiorly taped repaired, soiled and chipped. But it is INSCRIBED BY DIZZY GILLESPIE TWICE: 'To Brenda, Love Dizzy Gillespie' and 'To Pete, Ciao! Dizzy Gillespie' on the front..... More
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
Thomas Dunne Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and..... More
White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985
Harper & Row, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg that feature an important new work, the title poem White Shroud. First printing. Inscribed and dated (March 1987) on the title page to the New York actress Linda Dorff by Allen Ginsberg. On the..... More
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Little, Brown and Company, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the..... More
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Little, Brown and Company, September 2019. 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, Bloomberg, Chicago..... More
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Crown, June 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race..... More
How the SEC Became Goliath: The Making of College Football's Most Dominant Conference
Howard Books, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size matters. That's why the SEC is Goliath...because the Southeastern Conference, top to bottom, has better players, better coaches, better stadiums, better bank accounts, better weather, and what else, bigger players. How the SEC Became Goliath covers the Southeastern Conference and how the..... More
Round-The-World Flights
Van Nostrand Reinhold, June 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and a small 3mm closed tear on the jacket. Signed by the author, ' To John Wiley, Super pilot, writer and friend' on the front free endpaper. Mylar wrapped to protect. More
A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
Hachette Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Stephen "Steve-O" Glover--social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass--delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead. Steve-O is best known for his wildly dangerous, foolish, painful, embarrassing, and..... More
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Little, Brown and Company, February 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who..... More
The Glorious Nosebleed: The Fifth Alphabet
Peter Weed, 1974. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. In dustjacket with faint shelfwear. Red paper covered boards with black lettering along spine and black & white illustrations to front and back. Tight binding. Clean, sound, without markings. Signed by Gorey on title page. More
BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decorative cover design. Moire end pages. Two different pieces of Easton empherma laid in. One is unused Easton Press Ex-libris. The other a 4' x 6' double side cardstock 'note about Bully for Brontosaurus and the..... 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
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People "The Anthropocene..... More
How I Shed My Skin
Algonquin Books, April 2015. First Edition. Cloth. "White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the..... More
Matrix
Riverhead Books, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times..... More
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
Little Brown, May 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear with small tears/chips. Flap not clipped. Blue cloth covered spine with stamped gold lettering. Red paper covered boards. Red end pages. Slightly foxed fore-edge. Signed 'thank you, Emmett Grogan' bottom of..... More
Plays Well with Others
Vintage, February 1999. Trade Paperback. 2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by the Author In his widely read, prize -- winning "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war..... More
Transcendent Kingdom
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! - Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family..... More
Inner Circles: How America Changed the World A Memoir (Signed, First Edition)
Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Leather. Steel blue leather bound with gold lettering and fleur de lis decorative panels front and rear cover. Ribbed spine. Gold textblock edges with two small, slight scratches along fore-edge. Else like new. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages. Unused Easton Press Ex-libris laid in..... More
Last White Man
Riverhead Books, August 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY TIME, ELLE, USA TODAY, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND MORE "Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies "Searing, exhilarating ....... More
