Russian Hide & Seek
London: Hutchinson, 1980. First UK edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. First UK edition. A 239 pp melodrama by the author of Lucky Jim and many other books. A lovely fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Modern Literature / First Editions
Heavy Water and Other Stories (Signed)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. First UK edition of this short story collection. 231 pp. A clean fine hardbound book in equally fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. More
Night Dogs
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's second book, a dark crime novel set in Seattle. A fine clothbound copy in fine price intact dustwrapper. Unread. This copy SIGNED by Anderson on title page. Highly recommended. Signed by Author. More
Writings of Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist At Work
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Very thick clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 583 pp. Biography of Benedict by her star pupil, Margaret Mead. Inked name to front pastedown else a beautiful near fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition stated of this important work. More
The Poet Assassinated
New York: The Broom Publishing Company, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the French with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Matthew Josephson. One of 1,250 hand numbered copies. A very good plus copy in pale blue boards with vellum spine. Unclipped dustwrapper shows wear and..... More
Color Of Time
New York: Zone, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 52 pp. Translation and introduction by Barbara Gerber. A play. This is a clean very good or better copy in printed and bound blue wrappers. Uncommon title. More
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Four Books in Two Volumes)
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1954. First edition thus. Cloth. Four clothbound quartos contained in two hard slipcases. These volumes contain the sixty-five stories told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to divert Shahryar the Sultan from the execution of a vow he had made to avenge the disloyalty of his first Sultness..... More
Vada Nothing Personal Just Politics (Inscribed by Vada's Son); My Life in the Arkansas House and Senate
Mountain Home, AR: Sheids Corporation, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 250 pp. A memoir of Vada Sheid and her life in the Arkansas statehouse. A fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Vada Sheid's son, Richard. More
The Fair
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 154 pp. With illustrations by Barbara Whitehead. First American edition of the author's only novel. Translation by John Upton. A very good example in very good unclipped dustwrapper. Remainder dot to lower edge. Latin American fiction..... More
Waterscapes, Landscapes
New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this book of paintings by Gornik with introduction by Kurt Vonnegut. One of 100 SIGNED copies by Gornik and Vonnegut. A fine copy in blue cloth in fine slipcase. No dustwrapper, as issued. Signed by Author. More
Alice (with several related promotional inserts and an Original Drawing)
Germany: Thalia Theatre, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Oblong paperbound quarto. 63 pp. With illustrations by Robert Wilson. A new "take" on the Alice In Wonderland story by Wilson, Waits and Schmidt. Clear tape reinforcement to spine else a very good copy in bound wrappers. Laid into this copy are several..... More
Marsden Hartley The Biography of an American Artist (Inscribed by Ludington)
Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1998. First Paperbound Edition. Paperback. Thick trade paperbound volume. 327 pp. First paperbound edition. The first full-scale biography of one of the great American painters of the twentieth century. A clean very good copy. INSCRIBED by Townsend Ludington and dated in year of publication... More
Dutch Treat Year Book 1924
No Place: Rogers & Co., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 89 pp. Decorated boards. The Year Book of the Dutch Treat Club for 1924. Includes naughty cartoons, art deco designs, poems and more. With wear to spine, but otherwise clean and well-bound. One of 800 numbered copies... More
Where Flies The Flag
London: Collin's Clear-Type Press, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this title, an adventure story illustrated by Arthur Rackham with all six colour plates present. Very good indeed in variant red decorated boards. No date specified but 1904. One of the earlier books to feature Arthur Rackham's work and..... More
The Robber Bride (Signed)
London: Bloomsbury, 1993. First UK edition. Hardcover. Thick hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 470 pp. A novel by the author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. A handsome near fine copy in near fine price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. More
Exit Lady Masham (Signed Leatherbound Edition)
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1983. First edition. Leather Bound. Full leatherbound first edition of this 169 pp novel by Auchincloss. SIGNED by the author as called for. A fine copy in decorated red leather binding with all gilt edges and integral silk bookmark. More
The Ascent of F6
London: Faber and faber, 1936. First edition. Cloth. Cloth-covered octavo in dustwrapper. 123 pp. A play in verse and prose. Prior owner name on the half-title page. Generally lightly worn. A very good copy in very good price-intact dustwrapper which has some small chips at the edges. Nice copy overall..... More
The Art of Hunger - Essays, Prefaces, Interviews (Inscribed)
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo in dustwrapper. Quarter green cloth over boards. 312 pp. Includes essays and interviews with literary figures from Franz Kafka to Samuel Beckett to Charles Reznikoff. A handsome fine copy in near fine price-intact dustwrapper. This copy has been..... More
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (Signed Limited Edition)
New York: The Delos Press, 1992. First edition. Leather Bound. Small paper quarto. A 17 pp short story by Auster published here in a fine press edition by William Drenttel and The Delos Press in an edition of four hundred and fiftycopies. Fifty were bound in goatskin; one hundred were..... More
City of Glass
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page proof of Auster's breakout novel, the first in the New York Trilogy. Near fine in gray wrappers. Laid in to this copy is the scarce one-page publisher's promotional sheet. Folded, else fine. One of the scarcer uncorrected proofs..... More
Facing the Music
New York: Station Hill Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Fine copy in decorated wrappers, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies. There was no hardcover edition. More
The Locked Room (Uncorrected Proof)
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page PROOF of the third book in Auster's New York Trilogy. A near fine copy in beige wrappers. A scarce proof. More
Man In The Dark (Signed)
New York: Henry Holt, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. A 180 pp novel by the author of The Music of Chance and Oracle Night. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Front panel of wrapper has faint evidence of a sticker removal. SIGNED by Auster on the title page..... More
The Music of Chance (Proof Copy)
New York: Viking Press, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound format. 217 pp. Uncorrected Proof copy in pale blue wrappers, printed in black. An uncommon proof of an early Auster title. Clean near fine condition. More