THE VAMPIRE IN EUROPE
(1968)
Uncommon University Books edition of Montague Summers's second great monograph on the Vampire, its several European cousins, and assorted dark acquaintances.
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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.
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
1928
Signed later printing (published within two months of the first) of Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning work about searching for meaning in death and a divine plan in tragedy.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE II: DESTINATION BRAIN
1987
Signed limited first edition of this reboot of the story of miniaturized scientists venturing inside the human body – from the library of Hugo-nominated SF author and reviewer D. Douglas Fratz.
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL: A Story
(1970)
The uncommon first printing of this inspirational and hugely popular bestseller.
CAROLING DUSK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY NEGRO POETS
1927
First printing of this collection of Black poetry from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance, compiled by one of the period's "most talented writers" (Finkelman, 526).
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.
SAMPLES
(1927)
First printing of this anthology of the leading lights of the Jazz Age, published to benefit the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind.
A GRAVE TALENT
(1993)
Signed first edition of Laurie R. King's first book, the first of her series about lesbian detective Kate "Casey" Martinelli.
HAVE SPACE SUIT - WILL TRAVEL
(1958)
First printing, one of the most beloved of Heinlein's tales of space for young readers, featuring the science prodigy and tomboy Peewee joining the boy hero Kip on his adventures.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(1988)
First printing of the modern thriller, following FBI trainee Clarice Starling's increasingly chilling interviews with Hannibal Lecter while in search of a serial killer.
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
1969
First edition of Michael Crichton's first book written under his own name, an important early techno-thriller that established his career.
DRIFTGLASS
(November 1971)
First paperback edition of this collection of speculative fiction stories, including the 1967 Nebula Award-winning "Aye, and Gomorrah," one of the great queer short stories of science fiction.
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.
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THE JEWELS OF APTOR [with] SECOND ENDING
(1962)
First edition, paperback original, of Delany's acclaimed debut novel and now science fiction classic, published as an Ace Double with White's SECOND ENDING.
FROM THE TERRACE
(1958)
First printing of the "most ambitious of John O'Hara's novels" (front flap), the basis for the 1960 film starring Paul Newman.
THE O'HARA GENERATION
(1969)
First printing of this collection with twenty-two stories by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, chosen from his first nine volumes of work, covering the years 1935-1966.
LOVEY CHILDS: A Philadelphian's Story
(1969)
Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s.
THE EWINGS
(1972)
First edition, first printing of this posthumously published novel about the Midwest during World War I, by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
THE INSTRUMENT
(1967)
Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE SUISSE
(1984)
First edition of this journalistic account of the Swiss Army by the veteran NEW YORKER writer, following the army service of a Swiss winemaker.
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.
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.
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.
