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Association copy first printing of this collection of essays on murderers and others, from the personal library of fellow true-crime pioneer Jonathan Goodman.
Association copy first printing of this collection of essays on murderers and others, from the personal library of fellow true-crime pioneer Jonathan Goodman.
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.
First US edition of Southern's first novel (published just after the UK edition), inscribed "with great admiration" to V.S. Pritchett.
Association first edition of Southern's collected short fiction and essays, inscribed to popular '60s comedy duo Bob Booker and George Foster.
First printing of this Chicago-based murder mystery by Starrett, noted Sherlockian and Chicago man of letters.
Association first edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein in 1957 — and which Toklas repudiated.
First edition of Tidyman's famous novel, with a rare, long, and affectionate inscription from the author to longtime DETROIT NEWS columnist Bill Noble.
Inscribed first printing of this second Callahan Garrity mystery, in which the cleaning lady cum sleuth is hired to track down the diary of a Civil War-era prostitute with surprising connections to a murderous antiques dealer — given to a fellow woman crime writer Janet Dawson.
Association copy (later printing) of this collection of short stories spanning the most productive portion of Eudora Welty's long career, inscribed to Frank Hodsoll, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Signed first edition of White's collected dispatches to THE NEW YORKER, affectionately inscribed to the Sarasota physician whose good advice White cordially ignored.
First edition of this interfaith contemporary romance — the "first American novel written by a Jew on a Jewish theme for an American audience" (D. G. Myers) — inscribed by the author to her brother.
First printing of Wyatt's studies in the American literature of the last century, warmly inscribed to poet Stanley Plumly.
Fine first printing of Yolen's second XANADU anthology, warmly inscribed to the late Susan Steinfirst, a noted scholar of children's literature and folklore.