New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person... Item #30775 More about ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right
Norman Laliberte. Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, (1980). First edition. Illustrated by Norman Laliberte. Number 21 of 100 copies SIGNED by Norman and Laliberte. Publisher's letter and advertising broadside laid in. This copy in acetate and scarce publisher's dust jacket, which appears to be from the trade edition (there were 2000... Item #51181 More about THE WOE SHIRT: Caribbean Folk Tales
New York: Random House, (1996). First U.S. edition. Review copy with publisher's information and review slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #30838 More about BABEL TOWER
New York: Random House, (1986). First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author Doris Grumbach's copy, with her initials on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket with just a touch of minor edge rubbing. Item #29699 More about ULTRAMARINE
New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Association copy. From the library of Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to Grumbach from John Casey on the title page. Review copy with slip and publisher's letter offering praise from author Brendan Gill laid in. Near fine with... Item #29423 More about AN AMERICAN ROMANCE
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dust jacket with very minor edge rubbing and a few barely noticeable imperfections in finish (production error). Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Item #33923 More about FROM MEMPHIS & PEKING
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Publisher's publicity folder with reviews, articles and photo included. Item #29616 More about LETOURNEAU'S USED AUTO PARTS
New York: Harper & Row, (1988). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #36208 More about THE ORGAN BUILDER
New York: Poseidon Press, (1992). First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #32336 More about SCAR LOVER
New York: Crown Publishers, (1992). First U.S. edition. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award in England. Review copy with promotional material and review slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #27568 More about THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS An Inspector Morse Mystery
New York: Dutton, 1960. First U.S. edition. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936 when he was just 24. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Comprised of the unbound signatures (i.e., groups of pages) from the book laid into the trade... Item #51983 More about THE BLACK BOOK: (Advance review copy
New York: Knopf, 1990. First U.S. edition, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. A review copy with review slip and promotional photo laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #29658 More about THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985). First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her intitials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip and publicity letter laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Item #29465 More about HABITATIONS OF THE WORD Essays
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1975. First edition. Minor rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine in dust jacket with light soiling, shallow chip to bottom of spine and light edgewear. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Item #34602 More about THE COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM GOYEN
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered... Item #51502 More about BEAT THE DEVIL
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971). First edition. Her first book, although she went on to become more famous for her FEAR OF FLYING. Presumed review copy, without a review slip but with photo of Jong laid, which differs from the one used on the back of the dust... Item #49470 More about FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1955. First U.S. edition, an advance "Reviewers' Edition" with proposed publication date of February 21, 1955, stated. Original printed paperwraps with minor creases on front cover and one corner otherwise very good or better. Scarce. ADVANCE ISSUE SENT FOR REVIEW. Item #54961 More about THE MINT
New York: Scribner's Sons, (1994). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a biblio mystery of sorts featuring a mystery reviewer attempting to write his own mystery. SIGNED and dated 6-30-94. Review copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54804 More about OTHERWISE KNOWN AS MURDER: A Mystery Introducing Stokes Moran
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1988). First U.S. edition. A review copy, with publisher's blurb laid in. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. Item #48516 More about THE MARSHAL AND THE MADWOMAN: A Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of only two novels to be published in his lifetime--25 years apart. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for the "best work of imaginative literature," the oldest literary award in the UK. Fine in a very good... Item #40297 More about KINDERGARTEN
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1967). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in bright dust jacket with closed tear in rear panel (with tape repair on verso) and light foxing along flap folds and top edges of flaps. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper. Item #36198 More about DYING: An Introduction
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #51174 More about THIN MEN OF HADDAM
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., 1979. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light edge wear. Review copy with review slip and publisher's promtional letter laid in. Item #36193 More about THE LAST ENCHANTMENT
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's note laid in. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Fine in very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips. Item #47579 More about PICTURE PALACE
New York: Viking Press, (1972). First U.S. edition, printed and bound in England from the English sheets. Review copy with publisher's slip (with publication date Oct. 19, 1972) and publisher's "News from Viking" laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54990 More about THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE And Other Stories