Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd., [2009]. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 220 pp. From a limited Amereon edition bound in cloth. More
American Literature
Fog: The Jeffrey Stories
Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 278 pp. Inscribed by Brookhouse on the title page. More
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
It Is Time, Lord
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 183 pp. Signed by Chappell at the top of the title page. This book is in great shape, with clean pages free of foxing, and marked only with the remnants of a small sticker on the..... More
Dermaphoria
San Francisco, CA: MacAdam / Cage, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 214 pp. Inscribed by Clevenger on the title page. More
The Boo
Verona, VA: McClure Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 174 pp. Near fine in the original blue cloth boards with minor toning on the interior covers from the dust jacket, and a very good pictorial dust jacket that has toning and rubbing typical of..... 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
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 some 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
Nightwoods
New York / Asheville, NC: Random House / The Captain's Bookshelf, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 259 pp. With a black & white reproduction of a photograph by Debbie Fleming Caffery on slipcase, with black & white illustrated endpapers. From a limited printing of..... More
Legends of the Fall
London: Collins, 1980. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.5 in. 276 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 Hot Jazz Trio
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. 153 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings by Joe Servello. Signed by Kotzwinkle on publisher's book plate. More
All the Pretty Horses (Uncorrected Proof)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 298 pp. Faint soiling to one fore-corner of text block. otherwise fine in original lettered wrappers. Volume One of The Border Trilogy. 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
Rootabaga Pigeons
Rahway, NJ: Harcourt Brace, & Company, 1923. Maud and Miska Petersham. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8 in. 218 pp. Illustrations and decorations by Maud and Miska Petersham. With a color frontispiece. More