HAROLD AND MAUDE
Doubly-inscribed first edition of the dark romantic comedy, later expanded into a cult-classic screenplay.
Doubly-inscribed first edition of the dark romantic comedy, later expanded into a cult-classic screenplay.
First edition of these collected responses to the award of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound's PISAN CANTOS, the several objections, and the objections to the objections.
Signed limited first edition of this annotated collection of epigraphs (opening quotes) from Greene's novels.
Inscribed first US edition of Bowles's first novel, the grim and enduring twentieth-century classic of alienated Americans wandering through North Africa towards destruction.
First edition of the acclaimed novel about a 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."
Uncommon limited edition of these collected poems on a shared theme — by two Elizabethan conspirators and two 20th century war criminals, all four condemned to death.
Signed first edition of Cameron's second collection of short stories, written between 1985 and 1990 and previously published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Rolling Stone.
First edition of this legal thriller, John Grisham's second book and first bestseller, later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Cruise.
First edition of this play based on E. M. Forster's 1924 novel, a story of scandal and racism that takes place in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement.
First edition of Thomas's collected letters to his friend and fellow Welsh poet.
First edition of Thomas's screenplay adaptation of the classic Stevenson short story, first issued as a novella ten years after Thomas's death in conjunction with a planned but never produced Richard Burton film.
First edition, publisher's file copy, of this unusual Cold War telepathy drama, a study of two men psychically linked by wartime experiments, reunited in the Middle East years later for a final struggle over geopolitical influence and occult corruption.
First printing of McCarthy's grim epic Western.
Scarce uncorrected proof of the first US edition, originally published in French in 1982.
Signed first printing of O'Brien's stunning narrative of self-destruction.
First edition and issue of this enduring portrait of adolescent angst.
Inscribed first printing of the influential literary achievement by a towering figure of the counterculture.
Signed first edition, advance review copy, of Williams's second and last novel, "a kind of autobiographical peep show full of jeux d'esprit" (Korda).
First edition of this uncommon anthology classifying and interpreting the 20th century short story, with commentary by authors and editors including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Saroyan, Kay Boyle — in the scarce dust jacket.
First UK edition of Dahl's first adult novel, a gruesome apocalyptic fantasy on the emergence of Gremlins in the wake of humanity's expected self-annihilation via chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare.
First printing of the modern thriller, following FBI trainee Clarice Starling's increasingly chilling interviews with Hannibal Lecter while in search of a serial killer.
First edition of this surprise National Book Award winner about horse racing in West Virginia, a beautiful copy.
Inscribed first printing of this intergenerational novel built upon the game of mahjong, following the lives of Chinese-American women in San Francisco — a beautiful copy.
First US edition in book form of Thomas's unfinished novel and 20 additional stories, including "The School for Witches," "The Map of Love," "The Holy Six," and others.
Rare inscribed first printing of David Markson's experimental masterpiece, told in statements from the point of view of a woman who believes she is the only person left on earth.