BREAK EVERY RULE
(2000)
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
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THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS 1940-1971
(1979)
First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel.
SCHOOLING
(2001)
First edition, first printing of this coming-of-age novel about an American girl in an English boarding school, praised by Jonathan Lethem and Alice Hoffman, and named "Best Book of the Year" for 2001 by NEWSWEEK.
RAVEN
(2007)
Lush manuscript artist's book from the noted calligrapher exploring the mythology, etymology, and poetry of the raven – each page a beautiful swirling of structure and abstraction.
DE LITERATORUM ET EORUM QUI MAGISTRATIBUS
1561
First Paris edition of this pocket-sized medical book, offering advice on exercise, bathing, sleep, a healthy diet, and sex, with several rather telling sections underlined by an early owner.
A STUDY OF TWO PEARS; ETUDE DE DEUX POIRES
2003
First printing of this limited deluxe edition poetic ode to a pair of pears, illustrated in lovingly executed mezzotints – with original copper plate included in the original box.
THE LUCK OF BLIND GULCH
1925
First edition of this popular western, in which a Missouri farmer migrates to California during the gold rush, by a pseudonymous J. Allan Dunn, prolific and genre-crossing king of the early pulps.
SATIN ISLAND
2015
"Special limited first edition," one of 100 copies signed by the author, of the "dizzyingly ambitious" novel (THE TELEGRAPH).
SPRINGER'S PROGRESS
1977
First edition of this "Rabelaisian" novel, in which a "muchly vodka'd novelist" becomes entranced by a woman half his age, from the author of WITTGENSTEIN'S MISTRESS.
NEVER PICK UP HITCH-HIKERS!
1976
Uncorrected proof copy of this stand-alone contemporary crime novel by Peters (Pargeter), best known for her Brother Cadfael historical mysteries.
HISTORY OF A PLEASURE SEEKER: A Novel
2012
First US edition, a story of a hedonist during Europe's Belle Epoque by the South African and British author of THE DROWNING PEOPLE.
THE STONES OF SUMMER
2003
First printing of the Lost Books Club edition (second overall), a long out-of-print modern classic that served as inspiration for the documentary "The Stone Reader."
LIFE OF PI
2001
Advance reading copy of this metaphysical adventure and winner of the Man Booker Prize, adapted by Ang Lee in 2012 into the film of the same name.
THUNDER ON THE LEFT
(1925)
Later Grosset and Dunlap printing of this Jazz Age Morley novel in an uncommon, lovely Art Deco dust jacket.
CASANOVA'S ESCAPE FROM THE LEADS: An Excerpt From the Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova Di Seingalt
1929
Early Knopf Pocket Book edition, in the lovely and uncommon Art Deco jacket, of Casanova's account of his bold midnight escape from solitary confinement in 1750s Venice.
ATONEMENT
(2002)
Signed limited first edition, a pristine copy, of the acclaimed novel, with leaf signed by McEwan as issued by the publisher.
BIG SUR
(1962)
First printing of this classic Beat novel, written on a large continuous scroll over a ten-day period, much the same method Kerouac used when composing ON THE ROAD.
THE RULES OF THE GAME
(1970)
First edition in English of the script of one of the most-acclaimed films of all time, a satyrical dark comedy about the frivolties of the French bourgeoisie on the eve of WWII.
MY FAIR LADY
(1956)
First printing of the script of the beloved Tony-winning Broadway musical based on Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION.
BETWEEN TIME AND TIMBUKTU, OR, PROMETHEUS-5
(1972)
First printing of this script for the rather hallucinatory TV movie based on the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
POWER & MARKET: Government & the Economy
(1977)
Signed second edition of this critique of government interventions in economy by a major figure of the 20th-century libertarian movement.
ART OF HUNGARIAN COOKING
(1954)
First printing of this cookbook illustrated by Golden Age great Willy Pogany, written by his sister Paula about the food of their homeland – the last Pogany work published during his lifetime.
WAY STATION
1963
First edition in book form of this Hugo-winning tale of a Wisconsin farmer who is granted immortality in return for maintaining a galactic WAY STATION, where he meets and converses with a profusion of aliens.
SERMONS AND SODA-WATER; I: The Girl on the Baggage Truck; II: Imagine Kissing Pete; III: We're Friends Again
(1960)
Early printing of this complete set in the publisher's original slipcase, featuring three partially autobiographical novellas by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
HOMEBOY
1990
Signed first edition, review copy, of the author's first and only novel, including a character based on Janis Joplin, to whom the author was once engaged.
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