DRIFTGLASS
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.
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.
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").
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.
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.
First printing of the "most ambitious of John O'Hara's novels" (front flap), the basis for the 1960 film starring Paul Newman.
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.
Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s.
First edition, first printing of this posthumously published novel about the Midwest during World War I, by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
The uncommon first printing of this inspirational and hugely popular bestseller.
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).
First edition of this journalistic account of the Swiss Army by the veteran NEW YORKER writer, following the army service of a Swiss winemaker.
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.
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
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.
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.
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.
First printing of the Lost Books Club edition (second overall), a long out-of-print modern classic that served as inspiration for the documentary "The Stone Reader."
Later Grosset and Dunlap printing of this Jazz Age Morley novel in an uncommon, lovely Art Deco dust jacket.
First printing of this classic Beat novel, written on a large continuous scroll over a ten-day period, much the same method Kerouac used when composing ON THE ROAD.
First printing of this script for the rather hallucinatory TV movie based on the works of Kurt Vonnegut.