Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by NORMAN on title page.
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.
Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY O'NAN on title page, with a short hand-written note from the author laid in. His first book. The 1993 winner of the Drue Heinz Prize and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. A collection of twelve short stories.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Boyle's 1st book, 2,500 copies printed, dust jacket unclipped w/ light nicks to top edge. The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author's first book, a collection of 17 short stories gathered from various literary magazines and journals.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 231 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on half-title by Wachtel.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 235 pages. INSCRIBED BY FORD on title pg.
Hardcover. NY, Hearst International Library, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. 21 captioned illustrations by E.W. Kimble. Brown cloth boards, stamped black image of Mirandy on front board, with pale yellow stamped text on front and spine. Tales told in black dialect.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1ST, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Now, Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love."
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st limited, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Hardcover with original slip case. (1st LIMITED EDITION #1337 OUT OF 2000. Monthly letter laid-in.)(SIGNED AT BACK PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR) Bound in green/blue, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout by Charles Raymond. Slip case has a little bit of age wear. Spine has a touch of shelf wear. In very good condition, clean and bright inside.
Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Maroon cloth, white lettering. Spine faded. Illustrated in b&w by Gluyas Williams
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PROSE on half-title page. Tight copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Lousiana State University, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER TO JOHN GARDNER in 1973 on half title page. dust jacket with closed tear to front cover, light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on title page. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Softcover. New York, Clarion, Ltd. Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 244 signed (#176). SIGNED BY TREVOR AND ILLUSTRATOR HOGARTH. Color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Cardboard covers. 20 pages. The story first appeared in the October 30, 1995 issue of The New Yorker.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth covers. Covers moderately worn. Bookplate on front end paper, previous owner's name written on front fly leaf, otherwise tight copy. Brick cloth covers w/a green & pink floral design by Margaret Armstrong was stamped on the front cover & spine. Five tales from the author's native Georgia. In the first story set in 1850, Free Joe is a freed slave whose serious demeanor and energy are a bit troublesome to slave-owners.
Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY WENIG. Czech language. Black & white pen-line drawings in color by Mikolase Alse. Red cloth with gilt decoration.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. More than seventy b/w engravings by the author. Some tanning to pages due to age. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Some foxing at gutters and endpapers. Binding good. Spine straight. Here is a record of English village life. Several stories out of Leighton's imagination accompanied by her detailed engravings.
Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st Edition, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth cover boards, Blind-stamped with decoration, gilt title on spine. Very Good condition. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Gilt top edge (faded). Edges and pages have tanning from age. Dark endpapers. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked except title page with original owner's name and address in top right corner. 19 tales.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st Thus, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 437 total pages, two volumes. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. B/w illustrations throughout (tipped in plates). Gilt top edges. Half leather bound, marble gilt boards, gilt title on leather spine with raised bands (gilt slightly faded). As is with agewear: Volume 1 has front cover board completely detached and cover board of Volume 2 is partially detached, pages unmarked with tanning from age. Previous owner attached (via old style paperclip) a relevant document within. "Edition De Luxe. 500 Copies Printed, of Which This is No. 204". Collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving under pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Author's 1st book. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Gluyas Williams. Two-color drawing. on front cloth cover. Previous owner's signature front end paper, mild tanning to end papers. Slight wear to cloth hinges.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 page, illustrated by Gluyas Williams with black & white drawings and two-color illustration on front cloth cover. Benchley's 2nd book. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Mild wear.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. WInner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. One of his landmark, defining works. Ha Jin has seamlessly and eloquently melded historical fact with personal experience. His short stories have been compared to the works of Isaac Babel, the greatest Russian short-story writer of the 20th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. B/W illustrations by E.W. Kemble, A.B. Frost and others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (dated 1891). Light fraying to top and bottom edge of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY LEAVITT on title page. Pristine copy.
Hardcover. Emmaus, PA, Story Classics, Ltd Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white linen cloth with black and maroon lettering on spine. # 827 of 3000. Contents include: Cavalleria rusticana. The Saint Joseph's ass. Ugly weather. Property. The mystery play. Home tragedy, and more. illust. by Aldren Watson in 2 colors. No translator credited. Slipcased.
Paperback. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, uncorr. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NELSON on title page at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference 2000. Yellow wraps. A proof of Nelson's 1st book.
Hardcover. New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with a 3-color design. Tales of New York City before the turn of the century. Decorated green cloth. Frontispiece of the author, black & white illustrations by F.A. Nankivell. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover shows wear but otherwise tight and internally clean. Black & white illustrations by the author. previous owner's bookplate front paste-down. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FORD on title-page. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket price-clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US advanced review copy , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Laid-in: review slip.
Hardcover. New York, Esquire, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY GINGRICH on copyright page. Slip case slight foxing on label. Top edge gilt. Limited Edition.
Chicago, Judson, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated cloth covers with bold black title, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles H. Steinbacher. A collection of folk tales from Burma. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY BELL on half-title page.
Softcover. Louisville, KY, Sarabande Books, 1st wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, author's first book. SIGNED BY CLARKE on title-page. Original Paperback Edition.
Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McKNIGHT on title-page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small publication date slip laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Nice, bright copy, end papers illustrated in 2-colors.
Hardcover. Paris, Garnier Freres, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text, 589 pages with 4 color gravures by M. E. Bayard bound in 1/2 leather. Calf spine with gilt decorations and title label, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards and end papers.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Top edge dyed. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Viking , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages. SIGNED BY TREVOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. SIGNED BY UPDIKE on half title page. Includes autographed personal note. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket clipped. Light rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and fading to spine.
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Recent titles include Barbara Kingsolver's Homeland & Other Stories, Joyce Carol Oates' The Poisoned Kiss, Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness, Jim Harrison's Julip, and T. Coraghessan Boyle's Descent of Man, alongside signed copies such as Howard Norman's Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Stewart O'Nan's In the Walled City.
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 "Homeland & Other Stories by: Kingsolver, Barbara")
 "Kiss In the Hotel Joseph Conrad (SIGNED COPY) by: Norman, Howard")
 "Poisoned Kiss, The & Other Stories from the Portuguese by: Oates, Joyce Carol")
 "Cowboys Are My Weakness by: Houston, Pam")
 "Julip by: Harrison, Jim")
 "Girls In the Grass by: Thon, Melanie Rae")
 "In the Walled City (SIGNED COPY) by: O'Nan, Stewart")
 "Descent of Man by: Boyle, T. Coraghessan")
 "Because We Are Here/ Stories and Novellas (SIGNED COPY) by: Wachtel, Chuck")
 "Rock Springs/ Stories (SIGNED COPY) by: Ford, Richard")
 "Mirandy by: Dix, Dorthy")
 "How You Lose Her (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) by: Diaz, Junot")
 "Tales of East and West (LIMITED EDITION #1337 OUT OF 2000)(SIGNED AT BACK PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Kipling, Rudyard")
 "In the Sweet Dry and Dry by: Morley, Christopher, & Haley, Bart")
 "Melting Pot & Other Subversive Stories, The by: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon")
 "Handbook for Drowning, A (SIGNED COPY) by: Shields, David")
 "Hunters and Gatherers (SIGNED COPY) by: Prose, Francine")
 "Entombed Man of Thule, The (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Weaver, Gordon")
 "Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (SIGNED COPY) by: Strand, Mark")
 "Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales, The by: Maxwell, William")
 "Piano Tuner's Wives, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Trevor, William")
 "Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by: Harris, Joel Chandler")
 "Country Matters by: Leighton, Clare")
 "Sand-Hills of Jutland, The by: Andersen, Hans Christian")
 "Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (Washington irving (Two Volumes) by: Crayon, Geoffrey (Washington Irving")
 "Of All Things by: Benchley, Robert C.")
 "Love Conquers All by: Benchley, Robert C.")
 "Under The Red Flag by: Jin, Ha")
 "Primes and Their Neighbors, The: Ten Tales of Middle Georgia by: Johnston, Richard Malcolm")
 "Place I've Never Been, A (SIGNED COPY) by: Leavitt, David")
 "Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Narratives by: Verga, Giovanni")
 "Expendables, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Nelson, Antonya")
 "Near a Whole City Full by: Townsend, Edward W.")
 "The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze by: Thurber, James")
 "Letting Loose the Hounds by: Udall, Brady")
 "Rock Springs: Stories (SIGNED COPY) by: Ford, Richard")
 "Bit Off the Map and Other Stories, A by: Wilson, Angus")
 "Esquire '65 (SIGNED COPY) by: Gingrich, Arnold (Ed.)")
 "'Way Away Tales - From Away-Off-From-Anywhere Land by: Harris, Edward Norman")
 "Zero db and Other Stories (SIGNED COPY) by: Bell, Madison Smartt")
 "What We Won't Do - Stories (SIGNED COPY) by: Clarke, Brock")
 "Moustapha's Eclipse (SIGNED COPY) by: McKnight, Reginald")
 "Stories, Dreams and Allegories by: Schreiner, Olive")
 "Collected Stories, The (SIGNED COPY) by: McGahern, John")
 "Hill Bachelors, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Trevor, William")
 "Killing and Dying by: Tomine, Adrian")
 "Assorted Prose (SIGNED COPY) by: Updike, John")
 "Facing the Music: Short Stories by: Brown, Larry")