HOW TO WRITE PHOTOPLAYS
1920
First printing of the legendary Anita Loos's first book, a detailed insider's guide to writing for the screen and a classic of film history.
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THE HISTORY OF EMILY MONTAGUE
1769
First edition of the first novel in English written in and about British Canada.
BEAU BRUMMELL
1930
Signed limited edition, one of 550 numbered copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink – this copy once part of Pearl S. Buck's library, with her collection bookplate.
THE WIND'S TWELVE QUARTERS
(October 1976)
First paperback edition of this short story collection, including tales that would connect to her acclaimed novel THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS ("Winter's King") and the Earthsea seris ("The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names").
EDGES
(November 1980)
First edition, paperback original, of this science fiction anthology on the theme of "outsiders, threshold people, edge-dwellers," with contributions by many acclaimed New Wave writers.
A MAN OF NO MOON
(2007)
Signed first printing of this novel set in 1948 "giddy and chaotic" Rome, the story of a writer amid American expats in the burgeoning postwar film world.
BREAK EVERY RULE
(2000)
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
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.
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.
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