A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
First trade edition of the first volume in Truman Capote's two semi-autobiographical Christmas stories, nostalgic tales of rural family holidays spent in the company of his older cousin.
First trade edition of the first volume in Truman Capote's two semi-autobiographical Christmas stories, nostalgic tales of rural family holidays spent in the company of his older cousin.
Inscribed first edition of Bowles' first collection of short stories and second book, follow-up to his classic THE SHELTERING SKY — with an additional letter signed by Bowles.
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
First US edition of Southern's first novel (published just after the UK edition), inscribed "with great admiration" to V.S. Pritchett.
First edition of Southern's first novel, inscribed to legendary editor and critic Malcolm Cowley, who appreciated the younger writer as well as he was able.
Signed limited first edition of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel.
Complete set of first editions, tracing the rise and fall of the Snopes family from first murder to last.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Sylvia Plath's annotated copy, read in her first year of study for the Tragedy Paper at Cambridge, with marginal notes connecting the text to her own 1953 breakdown immortalized in THE BELL JAR and a prophetic description of Ariel as a poet.
First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.