American Literature
Joe (includes publisher's essay "A Display of Honors")
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 345 pp. Review Copy with laid in publisher's slip, a newsletter, and a staple-bound essay by Cleanth Brooks. More
Cataloochee
New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. xiii, 352 pp. Signed by Caldwell on the title page in year of publication. More
Dagon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 177 pp. Very good in original black cloth boards that have minor signs of prior reading, a very good illustrated dust jacket that has a faded spine, slight crinkling to the upper spine..... More
The Water is Wide
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 306 pp. Suite of black & white reproductions of photographs by William and Paul Keyserling. Conroy's first book, illustrating his experience as a teacher on Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina. More
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Austin, TX: Pemberton Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 6 x 9 in. Unpaginated. With laid in "Belated Seasons Greetings from John and Maureen Jenkins." More
Body
New York: Poseidon Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 240 pp. Fine in the original tan boards and black cloth binding, with a fine illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by Crews on the title page to Julie, who was the sister of Crews' lover, Maggie..... More
White Noise
New York: Viking Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. 326 pp. Near fine in the original grey boards and white binding that have the slightest suning along the top edges, with a near fine dust jacket that appears bright white and clean, and marred..... More
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 271 pp. Very good in original brown cloth, minimal wear and a firm binding, and a very good illustrated dust jacket that has tanning on the spine typical of this book and one minor..... More
Last One Home
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.25 in. 345 pp. Signed by Ehle on the front free endpaper. More
The Boston Review: Spring–Summer, 1968, Vol.2, No.1
Cambridge, MA: Boston Review, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 107 pp. Illustrated with six reproductions of Michael Mazur's drawings in sepia. Includes John Irving's debut printing "Weary Kingdom," which preceeded his first novel "Setting Free the Bears." More
A Well Behaved Woman
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 392 pp. More
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories
New York: Books of Wonder / William Morrow, 1997. Second Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo. 7 x 9.25 in. 205 pp. Occasionally illustrated with color reproductions of drawings by Dooling. Inscribed by the illustrator, Dooling, on the title page. More
Jesus' Son: Stories (Picador Modern Classics)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 3.75 x 6 in. 183 pp. Signed by Denis Johnson on front free endpaper. Designed by Steven Seighman. More
The Assassination
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 6 x 8.75 in. 18 pp. From a limited edition of 1,000 copies, of which 43 are signed by the author, this being number 25. Signed by Metcalf on the copyright page. "The Assassination" forms part of a...... More
A Poem for Christmas
Mountain View, CA: Artichoke Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin folio. 11 x 15.25 in. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being No.17. Signed by Miriam Patchen and publisher/printer Jonathan Clark on colophon. More
Early History of a Sewing-Machine Operator
New York: Charles Reznikoff, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.5 x 7.75 in. 129 pp. Note from author: "This is the second part of a family chronicle of which the first was published as the first part of "By the Waters of Manhattan." More
Mari Sandoz (Boise State University Western Writers Series: Number 63)
Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 5 x 8.5 in. 51 pp. Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. More
The Waterfront Journals
New York: Grove, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.5 in. 127 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards and near fine in original pictorial dust jacket. More