HELLICONIA SPRING
Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More
Signed Books
Trillion Year Spree: History of Science Fiction
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems
Dalkey Archive Press, December 1992. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Limited/numbered No. 41/100. Signed by both Alexander Theroux and Edward Gorey on special limitations page at end of book. Quote from this same limitations page: 'This first edition of The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems is published in both paperback and..... More
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
Staff Pick
Long Petal of the Sea
Ballantine Books, January 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call..... More
Afterlife
Algonquin Books, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. Magazine *The Millions * The Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal..... More
A name for evil: A novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Lengthy inscription on front free endpaper from Lytle to Nashville bookseller Alice Stockell. More
Up Island
HarperCollins Publishers, June 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. If there was ever one woman who knew what was important, that woman was Molly Bell Redwine. From childhood, Molly was taught be her difficult, charismatic mother that "family is everything." But in what seems like an instant, Molly discovers that family can..... More
Morgan's Passing
Knopf, March 1980. Hardcover. Later printing. Jacket price-clipped. Signed by Anne Tyler on front free endpaper. More
Three Plays: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad, Indians, Wings (Dramabook)
Hill and Wang, June 1997. Trade Paperback. Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in one volume: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, and Wings. "Kopit is..... More
Focus
Reynal & Hitchcock, January 1945. Cloth. Grey cloth with black lettering on front board & blue & black lettering on spine. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket with several small closed tears & one half inch chip bottom edge of front panel. NOT price clipped; original price of $2.50 on front..... More
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
St. Martin's Press, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life..... More
Divers' Game
Ecco Press, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality--and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor..... More
The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel
Doubleday, July 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On..... More
Life Among Giants: A Novel
Algonquin Books, November 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David "Lizard" Hochmeyer's larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents' deaths. It's a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a...... More
The long walk at San Francisco State, and other essays
Grove Press, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Duodecimo (12mo.) in very good dustjacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5 on jacket flap. Red cloth with black lettering on spine. Clean, sound, bright review copy. Review slip laid in indicates this First Edition was published on January 29, 1971, although..... More
Dust to Dust: A Memoir
Ecco, March 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "A wonderful book, original in concept and stunningly written."--Ward Just "Elegiac, funny, wistful, deep, and wonderfully human, Dust to Dust moved me to laughter and tears, sometimes simultaneously."--Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War Tim O'Brien..... More
Alice Knott: A Novel
Riverhead Books, July 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. "A strange and beguiling masterpiece." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine A hypnotic, wildly inventive novel about art, violence, and endurance Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious..... More
Travels With Alice
Ticknor & Fields, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentatiton copy inscribed by Calvin Trillin on half-title page. Jacket price clipped. More
Clay in the Potter's Hand
Facets Of Life Poetry Collection, December 2001. Paper Back. Clean, solid, without markings or wear. Personal inscription by Watson: 'To DeJu. Keep smiling my friend and be Blessed! Enjoy! C.A.W. 7/8/08'. More
Spleen (After Baudelaire) A new translation of Baudelaire's poem, & seven photgraphs, by Elliot Ross
Phelps/Schaefer Litho-Graphics Company, 1984. Pamphlet. 7 loose post cards of Elliot Ross prints with an 8th card of 'Spleen' in French with English translation in mylar sleeve with black cardstock signed & dated by Ross. More
Land O'Goshen
St Martins Pr, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Inscribed: 'Happy reading Charles McNair'. More
Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel
Delacorte Press, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of."--Ken Follett "This is..... More
