New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition of the book which is near fine in a very good dust jacket darkened on spine and edges. Promotional letter laid in from Kroch's & Brentano's with sales pitch for A CHILD OF THE CENTURY, Hecht's 1954 autobiography which Adolph Kroch calls "the..... Item #55558 More

(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2006). First edition. One of 50 copies (each broadside with stated limitation of 100 however, according to Sarah Nicholls, Program Coordinator for the Center, only 50 were to be made). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- in portfolio..... Item #55776 More

Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1974 - 1978. First edition, first printing of each of the volumes except "22," which is a second printing. Whole issues of Sparrow 22, 48 and 66, respectively, and each in stapled wraps. A fine set. Item #55123 More

Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BURROWS on front endpaper to "The Honorable Judge McCurdy/ From his old friend & Most [illegible] Servent [sic]/ Silas E. Burrows." Burrows' record of the proceedings before the court in the case of the American citizen Silas Enoch..... Item #56131 More

New York: Anchor Books, (1993). First edition, a paperback original. Illustrated with photographs by John Lueders-Booth. SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. His first book, a non-fiction narrative in which "after a brief look at the plight of 'undocumented workers'' crossing into the U.S., Urrea focuses on..... Item #55449 More

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1978. First edition. Styron's tribute to Warren. Number 197 of 250 SIGNED copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). Black-and-white frontis photograph of Warren. Plain white heavy wraps and blue dust jacket with printed paper label. Fine. Item #54474 More

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1981. First edition. One of an undisclosed number of copies of this SIGNED limited edition published for members of "The Signed First Edition Society." Precedes the first trade edition. Includes an introductory "special message for the first edition" by Snow and illustrations by Howard Rogers not..... Item #71909 More

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Slightly sloped spine otherwise in near fine condition, in a dust jacket with the barest wear. Item #50865 More

(London): Septre, (2014). First UK edition. SIGNED by Mengestu on the title page. "....a transfixing portrait of love and grace, self-determination, and the names we are given and the names we earn" -- from the dust jacket flap. 8vo gilt-stamped black cloth boards; 256 pages. Fine in fine gold-foil dust..... Item #72165 More

New York: Doubleday, (1998). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #28319 More

New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First edition. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on title page, "For Walter Sullivan/ All best to/ one of the great ones/ Harry Crews." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature. "A virtuoso blending of despair and hope..... Item #72100 More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1971). First U.S. edition. Translated from the Yiddish by Singer and Elizabeth Shub. Generically SIGNED BY SINGER on title page, "Love/ I B Singer." Fine in good dust jacket toned on edges and tanned at spine with small stains where 2 thumb-nail tears were internally..... Item #54062 More