Signed first printing of this amusing travel book that blends fact and fiction, by the winner of the first National Book Award.

First printing of this collection of eight short stories by the acclaimed mid-century writer.

First printing of Block's first hardcover publication, a revenge thriller he wrote because he couldn't shake the plot idea suggested by another writer.

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 edition, paperback original, of this Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel combining the physics of Einstein, the philosophy of Godel, and the mythology of Orpheus.

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.

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 impression of the James Bond thriller set in Japan, often cited as one of the best in the series.

Handsome first printing of Fowles's postmodern evocation of the Victorian novel.

First printing, in which a dying philosopher travels from San Francisco to Batavia, New York (Gardner's own hometown) for his last days, to do as much thinking as possible before terminal illness, childhood memories, and Upstate gloom join forces to drag him to his end.

First printing of Sue Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.

Signed first paperback printing and movie tie-in edition of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.

First edition of this anthology of three centuries of Black American poets, edited by the first Black Poet Laureate of America.