BUFFALO GIRLS.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper. Tiny crimp at base of spine still fine in fine dust jacket. Item #52327 More
INSCRIBED
DESERT ROSE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition. INSCRIBED "For Vance M --" and signed with his usual scrawl. Lower board corners creased and bumped otherwise near fine in like dust jacket with just a little tanning to lower half of spine. Item #19824 More
DESERT ROSE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Pat" and SIGNED quite legibly "Larry McMurtry." Blind stamp to half-title otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Item #48210 More
HORSEMAN, PASS BY.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN, "For Paul, My maiden effort / with Best wishes" and signed "Larry McMurtry" with his usual scrawl. Light foxing to page edges and pastedowns and faint unavoidable offset from the binding to the endpapers..... Item #54149 More
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul and Katie Zimmerman, How it is in Texas - or, at least, how it was - With my Best wishes, Larry McMurtry." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges..... Item #54150 More
MOVING ON.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul & Katie Zimmerman, This extremely long & probably Burdensome Book, with good wishes--- it's almost longer Than marriage" and signed very legibly "Larry McMurtry." Page edges foxed otherwise very..... Item #54147 More
MOVING ON: A Novel.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Uncorrected proof in tall, narrow, yellow paperwraps as issued without paper spine. INSCRIBED, "For Sally & Charlie/ in friendship/ Larry McMurtry/ 6-9-70." McMurtry's long-standing policy against signing proofs makes this inscribed copy a rarity. Very good or better with few tiny staple..... Item #55071 More
ZOMBIE JAMBOREE.
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., (1986). First edition. His second book, INSCRIBED by author on the half title page. "Lew - A little light reading for the happiest of birthdays. Bob Merkin 26 Aug 86." Fine in white dust jacket with a faint crease in front flap, spine..... Item #36366 More
THE CITY & THE CITY.
New York: Ballantine Books, (2009). First edition, second printing. INSCRIBED by author on title page, "To Britt, Glad we agree on the scary democracy. Cheers!" Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #53589 More
SWEET MAN.
New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front free endpaper, "Inscribed for my friend George Woodruff with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore Millen/ Los Angeles June 11, 1930." A novel of John Henry, set in Memphis on Beale Street in the 1920s. Gilmore..... Item #42578 More
MONEY: and How It Gets That Way.
Paris: Booster Publications, (1938). First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE PAINTER HILAIRE HILER, "To Hilaire Hiler -- monetary expert. Henry 10/38. Hiler, a fellow expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, tutored Miller in art. (He and Miller, together with William Saroyan, authored a 1945 book on the subject called WHY ABSTRACT?)..... Item #54161 More
THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI.
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941). First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD [Shifreen & Jackson A26b]. INSCRIBED..... Item #53844 More
THE RETURN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition of the journalist and author's first novel. A WWII veteran returns to Sicily after the war to work as a geologist and search for his lost love. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Colonel [Egbert] White/ the finest commanding officer/ of..... Item #71889 More
STRANGERS AMONG US: Enlightened Beings from a World to Come.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1979). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author. Fine in barely sunned dust jacket. Item #47099 More
EPITAPH ON GEORGE MOORE.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1935. First edition. INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper, "A. T. Chenhalls / by, with or from / Charles Morgan / The White House / East Claydon / January 22, 1938." Near fine copy in marbled boards with slight tanning on front inner joint and..... Item #50716 More
BEDROCK.
No-place: Aralia Press, 1998. First edition. One of 160 unnumbered copies. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht, "To Tony Hecht with fond wishes for a prolific New Year. Tim Murphy 28 December 1998." Also with a four-line inscription on an early page signed "Timothy of Shrewsbury." Fine in..... Item #54404 More
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1986). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To --- in appreciation - with best wishes always! Phyllis Naylor." Page edges slightly age darkened, otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. Story set in the Chesapeake Bay area..... Item #36374 More
THE SALT GARDEN: Poems.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., (1955). First edition. His third book of poetry. INSCRIBED "for Virginia Albee, with best wishes, Howard Nemerov 7 ii 55." The black paper-covered pictorial boards show wear on corners and spine ends; in dust jacket with matching wear and tape on verso at top..... Item #43007 More
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LUMINOUS: [VARIATION #1, HOT DOUG'S SAUSAGE SUPERSTORE].
(No-place: no-publisher, 2012). First edition. An artist's book exploring themes loosely related to food, eating and appetite via abstract narrative. NUMBER ONE OF EIGHT COPIES, each one being unique. INITIALED AND NUMBERED at base of rear pastedown, "2012 SN 1 of 8." Additionally THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED "For Allen Mears..... Item #55466 More
SHADOW HAWK.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1960). First edition. A historical novel based in Egypt by the first woman to be named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and SFWA [Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] Grand Master and to be inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. INSCRIBED..... Item #55112 More
CHILD OF SILENCE.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "To . . . 'There is nothing [underlined] but reality!' Abigail Padgett/ 7 May, 1994." Fine with small remainder mark on bottom page edges; in a bright dust jacket. Item #34341 More
STRAWGIRL.
(New York): Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "To . . . "Grasp for it! Abigail Padgett May, 1994." Fine in dust jacket. Item #34342 More
POEMS.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Second issue, with "Preface to the Letters" p.[11] and pp.[11] to 14 cancels. INSCRIBED, "To Mrs. Lucy A Willard, with the love and kind remembrance of T. W. Parsons October 1854." Top quarter-inch of spine worn away and a few soiled spots, otherwise..... Item #39876 More
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS AND OTHER EPHEMERA FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE POET ERNEST KROLL: 6 Christmas Cards with poems by Pauker (4 printed by Pipers Press); inscribed Julliard Concert Brochure; items tracing the genesis of Pauker's poem "The Poet in Washington."
[No-place: Pipers Press, et al, 1953 - 1969. First edition. This small gathering from the collection of Washington poet Ernest Kroll includes four holiday greetings printed by Doris & Harry Hoehns' Pipers Press: "ANTIPHONAL: The Cross Town Omnibus" (1953), 13 x 6.5" peach-colored leaf with "Season Greetings/ John & Gini..... Item #56198 More
BLOOD HEAT.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "6/88- Best wishes from the Shirley Madison Inn and owner/author Steve Pieczenik." Fine in dust jacket with light edge wear and two small closed tears in rear panel. Item #36157 More