CRAZY IN BERLIN
First edition, first printing of Thomas Berger's first novel, the start of a series focused on US army medic Carlo Reinhart in the aftermath of World War II.
First edition, first printing of Thomas Berger's first novel, the start of a series focused on US army medic Carlo Reinhart in the aftermath of World War II.
First edition of Jane Bowles's only novel, one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century.
First edition of Bowles's first novel, the grim and enduring twentieth-century classic of alienated Americans wandering through North Africa towards destruction.
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 printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between.
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 edition of this novel about a great, a spectacular, a really wonderful, terrific, one really might be tempted to say an incredible planet, by the complicated king of science fiction's Golden Age.
First edition of Capote's first published novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a isolated and lonely young boy growing up into self-understanding in an atmosphere of Southern grotesquerie and decayed grandeur.
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.
First edition of Dahl's collected World War II-era stories about flying, drawn from his own experiences as a wing commander in Royal Air Force.
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.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
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 UK edition of Faulkner's novel in seven interconnected parts.
Complete set of first editions, tracing the rise and fall of the Snopes family from first murder to last.
First edition of the fifth Mike Shayne mystery novel, inspiration for the successful 2005 neo-noir thriller KISS KISS BANG BANG.
Complete run of this multidisciplinary surrealist journal, a short-lived little magazine and luxurious treasure-house of a disintegrating avant-garde.
First edition of this story of the men of a WWII Naval Auxiliary ship as they wage "war" against boredom, apathy, and their "pig-headed" captain – adapted into a 1955 film starring Henry Fonda and James Cagney.
Uncommon self-published "condensation" of a longer manuscript entitled DATING SHERLOCK HOLMES, feverishly presenting the "true solution" to a problem of Hill's own discovery, if not his own devising.
Inscribed first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Pacific campaign of WWII, adapted into a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a film.
Signed first edition of this hardboiled thriller, one of only four titles author Ross Macdonald published under his real name.
Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella.
First printing of this collection of vintage Perelman comic pieces, including such classics as "Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy" and "Creepy-Time Gal," all originally published in THE NEW YORKER and THE FUNNY BONE between 1935 and 1943.
Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of this YA novel — signed twice by Plath, with an original drawing by her and her bookplate laid in — the almost-too-apt story of a young Roman girl exiled to the soggy shores of Britain and burdened with a literal-minded mother named Aurelia.
First edition of this collection of short stories, poems, and critical essays from the first five years of ACCENT magazine, with work by Richard Wright, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, John Berryman, and many others.