TRAGIC MAGIC
First printing of Brown's acclaimed first novel, edited and championed by Toni Morrison.
First printing of Brown's acclaimed first novel, edited and championed by Toni Morrison.
Inscribed first printing of Brown's acclaimed first novel, edited and championed by Toni Morrison.
First edition in book form of this "man on the run" spy novel, in which Richard Hannay escapes to Scotland just ahead of accusations he has murdered a secret agent.
Limited edition of this translation of the classic Chinese 14th century tale of a group of rebel outlaws, an attractive production issued by the Limited Editions Club.
First printing in the first-issue dust jacket, with the original last chapter as Burgess intended.
Signed limited deluxe edition, one of 26 lettered copies signed by James Lee Burke, this letter "O."
Signed limited deluxe edition, one of 26 lettered copies signed by James Lee Burke, this copy "Q."
First edition of this Kentucky coming-of-age story, following Perry James as he struggles to break free of his poverty-stricken coal-mining community – James Lee Burke's second book.
Deluxe limited edition, one of only fifteen copies signed by both Burke and Reid.
First edition in book form of these popular comedic stories, featuring a simple midwestern man who learns detective work via a correspondence school course advertising: "We can make you the equal of Sherlock Holmes in twelve lessons."
Bound galley (stated) of the first edition of Butler's post-apocalyptic novel, sent by the publisher to James Sallis, who was one of Butler's instructors "where Octavia got her start" (Carl Brandon Society) — at the 1970 Clarion Writers Workshop.
First printing of this novel about Black man just released from prison, "the bright boy of infinite promise [...] and the very old parolee of twenty-two, who sees little difference between the prison world and the world outside."
First UK edition of the bleakest and most shocking of the 20th century's classic crime novels, in the scarce original dust jacket.
Scarce unnumbered copy of the signed limited edition of Caldwell's short fiction.
First printing of this work on the history and future of making films appear more three-dimensional, in part to compete with the rising popularity of home TVs.
Monograph accompanying an exhibition on the first 15 years of Ernst's career, 1912 to 1927. With a preface by Walter Hopps and introductory essay by Werner Spies.
First printing of the first volume in Campbell's four-volume work, THE MASKS OF GOD, examining cultural variations on the so-called "monomyth."
Signed limited edition set of Truman Capote's two semi-autobiographical Christmas stories, nostalgic tales of rural family holidays spent in the company of his older cousin.
First printing of the pivotal true-crime book — signed by Capote, and with the ownership signature of Dorothy B. Hughes, author of the inverted noir masterpiece, IN A LONELY PLACE (1947).
Signed limited edition of one of Capote's last stories, a fond semi-autobiographical recollection of a childhood Christmas -- entirely unopened and in the original shrinkwrap.
Rare inscribed first edition of this long influential, but now discredited, early study of lesbian women.
Scarce first printing of this grim tale of Red, a miner in pre-WWII England whose longing for more out of life breaks him – in a stylish Art Deco dust jacket.
First printing of this miniature book about four prominent people from the Battle of the Alamo.
Limited edition re-issue of this major bibliography of French novels first published in 1925-28, a formative reference work for book collectors and scholars on the subject.
Association first edition of Cartland's fourth novel — and one of only a handful of her 728 published books without a happy ending — inscribed by the Cartland to her uncle.