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.
New Arrivals
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.
THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC. FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW
(1895)
First edition of this history of Hawai'i, Samoa, and other Polynesian islands, published "to promote interest in Christian Missions" in the region (Preface) — printed in the year of the final Hawaiian Royalist military resistance, and Queen Liliʻuokalani's abdication.
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.
FROM PLAN TO PLANET
(1973)
First edition of this Broadside Press publication on a practical pan-African movement, "part of the specifically useful methodology of Liberation being created all over the Afrikan world by Afrikan revolutionaries" (Amiri Baraka, rear panel).
STARVE THE SQUANDER BUG: Buy More War Bonds
1943
Original large WWII war bond poster, with Dr. Seuss illustrating a common war-era character in his own unique fashion.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA
1933-1934
Important edition of the monumental visual record of Native American leaders, including an extensive account of the original 1836-44 folio edition, biography of the original authors, and the infamous Smithsonian fire — all new to this edition.
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.
WOMAN'S CO-OPERATION ESSENTIAL TO PURE POLITICS
[1885]
Ephemeral prodution from the American Woman Suffrage Association, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts.
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL: A Story
(1970)
The uncommon first printing of this inspirational and hugely popular bestseller.
NEW BOOK OF CARD TRICKS
1909
First printing of this charming little book of magic tricks, produced by beloved Baltimore publishing house I. & M. Ottenheimer.
QUEEN MARY
1875
First edition of Tennyson's never-staged play, an attractive copy with a hidden fore-edge painting.
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).
MOTION PICTURE CONTINUITIES
1929
First printing of this educational survey that combines advice on screenwriting and directing with the scenario scripts for the films "A Kiss for Cinderella," "The Last Command," and "The Scarlet Letter."
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.
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).
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.
