BILLY RAY'S FARM.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2001. First edition. Advance, "limited edition excerpt," SIGNED by Brown on title page. Limitation unstated. 28 pp., fine in stapled paperwraps. Item #52252 More
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CIVIL WARS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First edition. SIGNED on front endpaper. Faint sticker shadow on front pastedown, otherwise near fine in dust jacket which just a touch of minor edge wear. Item #29271 More
BLACK LIES, WHITE LIES: The Truth According to Tony Brown.
New York: William Morow & Co., (1995). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Fine in photographic dust jacket. Item #48582 More
THE WIFE OF WINTER: Poems.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1970). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED on the title page: "for Allen and Helen --with love from Michael / West Redding January 21, 1971," with tiny drawing of a flower in a flower pot. In addition, on page 33 under the poem "La Fille..... Item #41374 More
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF ENGLISH AUTHORS: Robert Browning.
Samuel Warner. East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1901. Limited issue, first thus. Number 138 of 940 numbered and specially bound copies SIGNED BY HUBBARD, though it does not appear his signature is called for. Bound in limp, light brown suede with dark brown silk endpapers. Artwork designed by Samuel Warner. Very good..... Item #50043 More
SH-KO AND HIS EIGHT WICKED BROTHERS.
Fumio Yoshimura. New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Illustrated by Fumio Yoshimura. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #45240 More
SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY: Selected Letters 1960-1970.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Number 215 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original color silkscreen by Bukowski. Brick-red cloth backed white paper boards printed in several colors as is the paper spine label. Fine..... Item #55515 More
BUKOWSKI: 24 Photographs 1977-1987.
(Santa Barbara: Graham Mackintosh, 1987). First edition, limited issue. Issued in an edition of 26 special copies hardbound in boards and 470 regular paperwraps copies. This copy an out-of-series HARDBOUND one SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI on colophon page with handwritten “PRESENTATION COPY” in red beneath and small “From the Library of..... Item #71858 More
BURNING ANGEL: A Dave Robicheaux Novel.
New York: Hyperion, (1995). First edition. Fine in dust jacket, SIGNED on half title page. Item #52792 More
MASTER SKYLARK Or Will Shakespeare's Ward.
New York: The Century Co., 1916. Later printing. "A dramatization from the story of the same name by John Bennett." Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "To Jeanie dear, to whom all that the dedication implies belongs, and more, much more. From "the author." Jan. 1916."..... Item #33128 More
ABRIDGED WORK OF ADMIRALTY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL: British Ship Australia, formerly American Ship Rob Roy.
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
DOMESTIC PARTICULARS: A Family Chronicle.
(New York): New Directions, (1976). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author to his editor at New Directions on front free endpaper. Page edges slightly age darkened, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #27799 More
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH: A Photographic Profile.
College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, (1997). First edition. One of 1,250 SIGNED copies. Signed by both the former President and the compiler and principal photographer, David Valdez. Large book, measuring approximately 11 x 11". Includes color and black-and-white photographs from his birth in 1924 until he left office in..... Item #54973 More
DECISION POINTS.
New York: Crown Publ. (2010). First edition. Special "Decision Points" BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BUSH laid in along with a pre-printed card from the "Office of George W. Bush," thanking the recipient for his/her support, etc. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #51658 More
THE ALLEYS OF EDEN.
New York: Horizon Press, (1981). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK--SIGNED. Cloth slightly sunned at spine ends otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Item #11348 More
COUNTRYMEN OF BONES.
New York: Horizon Press, (1983). First edition. Slight discoloration where tape removed on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket with very minor wear. SIGNED on title page. Item #16121 More
A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First edition. SIGNED by author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #50414 More
PAST ALL DISHONOR.
New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper. Near fine with spine ends bumped, minor rubbing along the edges, and a few small marks of soiling to the spine. In a very good or better dust jacket with a touch of soiling and rubbing, and shallow chipping to..... Item #51509 More
THIS VERY EARTH.
New York: Duell , Sloan and Pierce, (1948). First edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with cover art bright and the barest wear to edges. Item #40568 More
THE COMPLETE KIDD SERIES: first editions of THE FOOL'S RUN, THE EMPRESS FILE, THE DEVIL'S CODE and THE HANGED MAN'S SONG, with all but the last one SIGNED.
New York: Henry Holt / Putnam, 1989 - 2003. First edition of each of the 4 volumes in the "Kidd Series" featuring the mononymous artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal "Kidd" (who also appears in SILKEN PREY and EXTREME PREY). Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, John Roswell Camp, had just released his..... Item #71676 More
THE BRANDYWINE; (In the Rivers of America Series).
Andrew Wyeth. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941). First edition, limited issue. Number 25 of 650 copies in the "special Delaware edition ... printed exclusively for the Greenwood Book Shop" SIGNED BY CANBY AND WYETH. Very good or better with light edge wear and spine slightly faded; in like dust..... Item #53698 More
BLUE RIVER: Advance reading copy & signed trade edition in dust jacket.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First edition. His second book. Two volumes -- advance reading copy in pictorial paperwraps and SIGNED first printing in dust jacket. Both are fine. Item #34461 More
ORIGINAL CARICATURE DRAWING OF TRUMAN CAPOTE; Signed by the artist.
1977. Original pen-and-ink drawing on 11 x 14" illustration board depicting Capote as a 1930s gangster wearing a pinstripe suit with combat-style U.S.-flag patch on his left arm, a banded fedora atop his head, and carrying a machine-gun style "violin" case with what looks to be an F-16 protruding from..... Item #56034 More
JACK MAGGS.
New York: Knopf, 1998. First American edition. SIGNED on title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #46038 More