THE GIVING TREE
(1964)
Very scarce first edition of the allegorical children's classic, rarely found today in the first printing.
New Arrivals
INHERIT THE WIND
(1955)
First printing of one of the best-known American plays of the 20th century, tackling freedom of thought with the contemporary threat of McCarthyism as underlying subtext.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
(1947)
First printing of Williams's most enduring play, a New Directions publication in the original dust jacket (carefully restored).
COUNCIL OF DOGS
1808
First edition of this illustrated verse polemic against the wicked Dog Tax of 1796 and its introducer, John "Dog" Dent.
INDEMNITY ONLY
(1982)
First edition of the author's first mystery, the start of the immensely successful V. I. Warshawski series.
DEADLOCK
1984
First edition of the second title in the V. I Warshaki series, following a woman private eye on the trail of criminal actions on the Chicago waterfront.
THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER
(1976)
Signed first edition of Patterson's first book, following an investigative reporter on the trail of a genius killer.
PHYSICA CURIOSA, SIVE MIRABILIA NATURÆ ET ARTS
1667
Second edition, expanded with additional plates, of this encyclopedic natural history work, published in the era when observational science began to eclipse superstition.
ALONG CAME A SPIDER
(1993)
Signed first edition of the first installment in the epic Alex Cross series, later adapted to the film starring Morgan Freeman.
MOON SHOT
(1994)
First edition of the story of the moon landing, signed by astronauts Alan Shepard and James Lovell.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME
(1991)
First edition of this tale of a baseball great at the edge of retirement, later made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.
THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE
(1995)
Signed first edition of this classic Depression-era golf story, later a film starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize Theron.
EXODUS
1958
Inscribed first edition of this epic novel about the founding of Israel, later adapted into a movie starring Paul Newman.
THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ
1904
First edition, second printing of the second Oz book, and the first illustrated by J.R. Neill – who would define the iconography for the series as a team with Baum.
A PICTURE OF WASHINGTON
1841
Second edition of this travel guide written by the third Librarian of Congress, capturing antebellum Washington's socio-cultural atmosphere.
THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO AND HIS PEOPLE
[1913]
Second edition of the re-issue of A NEW WONDERLAND (1900), brought out under a new title after the success of the Oz books.
OZMA OF OZ
(1907)
Scarce first edition, first printing of the third Oz book, "the first to have been consciously written as part of an ongoing series" (Bienvenue) -- this copy carefully restored and with ownership leaf excised.
HARALD FIRST OF THE VIKINGS
[circa 1911]
Early edition of a novelization of the life of Harald I Harfagre, first king of Norway, in a terrific pictorial cloth publisher's binding.
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
(1951)
First UK edition of the classic mid-century botanical disaster novel that inspired the 1962 film of the same name.
WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT?
(1981)
First edition of the hilariously hard-boiled cartoon crime drama, the inspiration for the 1988 Disney movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Q AND A
(2005)
Inscribed first edition of the novel that would be adapted into the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
THE SHOOTIST
1975
Inscribed first edition of the classic western, in which a grizzled gunfighter confronts his mortality.
THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE
[1883?]
First edition of this hybrid household manual and Victorian novel with feminist undertones, in which a young housewife learns to trust her instincts and become more independent.
OUR TOWN
(1938)
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about small-town life.
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
[1938]
Early edition, published only three years after the elusive first edition, of the best-known book in the children's series on prairie life.
