The Invention of Solitude
New York: SUN, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. 174 pp. Includes "Portrait of an Invisible Man" and "The Book of Memory." Auster's first book of prose. More
Literature
This Earth, My Brother...
London / Nigeria: Heinemann, 1981. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Duodecimo. 4.75 x 7.5 in. 183 pp. Cover design by Joint Graphics. More
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The Transylvanian Trilogy [Two Volume Set]
New York: Everyman's Library / Knopf, 2013. Second Printings. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. lxi, 624 pp.; 830 pp. Translated from the Hungarian by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen (daughter of Miklós). Volume I: They Were Counted. Volume II: They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided. This two..... More
Encyclopaedia Acephalica
London: Atlas Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Small square quarto. 8.25 x 9 in. 173 pp. Translated from the French by Iain White. Illustrated in black & white. Atlas Arkhive Three, Documents of the Avant-Garde. More
The James Joyce Songbook
[New York]: Garland [Reference Library of the Humanities], [1982]. [First Edition, First Printing]. Paperback. Quarto. 8.5 x 11 in. [xxii, 711 pp.] Illustrated with black & white facsimiles of musical notations and scores alluding to the writings of James Joyce. Over 180 songs include: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes..... More
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
New York: Touchstone Book / Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. 226 pp. Review copy with laid in slip from publisher. "This novel is about the romantic possibilities of a public library in California." More
Arcanum 17
Copenhagen / Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer, 2004. First Thus. Paperback. Sextodecimo. 4.25 x 6 in. 184 pp. Translated from the French by Zack Rogow. With an introduction by Anna Balakian. Green Integer 96. Includes the pieces Arcanum 17 and Apertures. More
Ham on Rye
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 283 pp. More
The Weight of a Piano
New York: Knopf, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.5 in. 323 pp. Signed on title page by Cander. More
Breakfast at Tiffany's
New York: Signet / New American Library, 1959. First Signet Printing. Paperback. Mass market. 4.25 x 7 in. 127 pp. This edition was published one year after the novella's original publication in 1958 and two years before the eponymous film starring Audrey Hepburn. Also includes the following stories: House of..... More
The Prince of Tides
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 567 pp. Signed by Conroy on the title page. More
The Water is Wide
Atlanta, GA: Old New York Book Shop, 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. Suite of black & white reproductions of photographs. Inscribed by Conroy on title page. More
62: A Model Kit
New York: Bard / Avon, 1976. First Bard Printing. Paperback. Mass Market. 4 x 7 in. 288 pp. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. More
Jurassic Park
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xi, 400 pp. More
American Dirt
New York: Flatiron Books, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 386 pp. Signed by Cummins on publisher's tipped in endpaper. More
The BFG
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. Quentin Blake. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. ix, 221 pp. With black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. This American edition from 1982 was published the same year as the UK edition. An attractive and bright copy..... More
Bottom Dogs
San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1961. First, Thus. Paperback. Duodecimo. 4.75 x 7.75 in. xvii, 269 pp. First City Lights Edition. Originally published in London in 1929. Cover photo by Simpson Kalisher. More
Wolf in White Van
New York: Picador, 2014. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 207 pp. Signed on title page. More
Le Marquis de Sade Illustré: Justine & Juliette, Toutes Les Estampes
Fribourg, Switzerland: Liber, 1984. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 9 x 11 in. 111 pp. Fully illustrated with color of drawings. Text in French. Preface by Robert Short includes facsimiles of articles and letters. More
The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. xxxvi, 379 pp. This comprehensive collection includes twenty-five addresses from 1833-1871 on American culture, literary theory, aesthetics, moral and intellectual philosophy. More
West of Rome
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.75 x 9 in. 188 pp. More
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830–1857, 1857–1880 [Two Volume Set]
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. Vol. I: Second Printing, Vol. II: First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xvii, 251 pp.; xviii, 309 pp. Edited and Translated from the French by Francis Steegmuller. More
English As She Is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation, in Portuguese and English, in Two Parts
San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's, 2002. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. x, 133 pp. First book in McSweeney's Collins Library series. More
Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 281 pp. Inscribed by Gibson on title page. GIbson is the co-host of the Throwing Shade podcast. More