DELIVERANCE
Inscribed first edition of this suspenseful tale of a backwater rafting trip gone horribly wrong, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight – James Dickey's first novel.
Inscribed first edition of this suspenseful tale of a backwater rafting trip gone horribly wrong, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight – James Dickey's first novel.
First edition of the first novel by "one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature" (CAMEROON LITERATURE IN ENGLISH), the story of an African student in an interracial relationship while studying in Paris.
Pristine slipcased first edition of this gripping Pulitzer prize-winning novel of two children growing up on either side of a world war.
Signed first printing of the second volume of Donaldson's Mordant's Need duology.
First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
Beautiful set of first editions of all three books in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy, a semi-historical, semi-autobiographical story of intersecting lives in early 20th-century America — one a publisher's review copy.
First edition in English, introducing Dostoevsky to British readers on a large scale for the first time, a gorgeous copy.
First edition in English of Dostoyevsky's first book, in beautifully sinister pictorial cloth designed by Aubrey Beardsley.
First printing, US issue of this story of a woman who is as talented at surfing as she is at medicine, following her path to the surfing World Championships in Australia and her budding romances with two surfer brothers.
Signed copy of this rare limited (and only) edition of Drucker's early short fiction.
Signed limited first edition of this keystone of the fantasy genre, one of only 250 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator.
First edition, first printing of this mid-century American noir novel in the style of Chandler, and the basis for the 1948 film LARCENY.
First edition of this novel about an African American Korean War veteran's experiences of violence while trying to exercise his right to vote in the segregated South.
First edition of this National Book Award finalist and the basis for a film adaptation starring Tom Hanks.
Signed first edition of this nonfiction narrative of a Yemeni-American man who travels to Yemen from San Francisco with hopes of reviving and innovating the coffee trade.
First edition of Eggers's novelization of the true story of a Sudanese boy trying to escape his country's violence and political strife.
First edition of Elkins's first novel, introducing the smooth-talking, mystery-solving physical anthropology professor Gideon Oliver.
Original poster advertising Ellison's University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lecture on the history and development of the novel.
Inscribed first printing of Ellroy's noir detective novel, second in his Lloyd Hopkins trilogy.
Inscribed first edition, first issue, second printing (before publication) of this transcendentalist approach to the Great Man theory of history — an important copy, early among Emerson's inscriptions.
First edition of this western about the hazards of being a lawman in Montana, the fourth Page Murdock book.
Signed first edition, second printing of this thrilling mystery, part of the Stephanie Plum series following a woman bounty hunter.
Inscribed first printing of Farmer's dystopian science fiction novel of a future overpopulation crisis, later followed by two sequels.
First printing of Faulkner's consideration of Southern racism, explored through the unusual (for Faulkner) device of a murder mystery.
First printing of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning final novel, containing "some of the most hair-raising and bizarre horse racing in the history of fact or fiction" (jacket).