PERMIT ME VOYAGE
First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard.
First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard.
First edition thus of the classic collaborative portrait of three Depression-era tenant farmer families, an expanded second edition with a new foreword by Walker Evans and 30 additional photographs not included in the first edition.
Signed first printing of this Agatha and Anthony-nominated mystery introducing China Bayles, a lawyer-turned-herb shop proprietor who finds that murder has followed her in her efforts to make a fresh start.
First printing of this tale of a WWII veteran struggling with a morphine addiction – winner of the 1950 National Book Award for Fiction.
First printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans.
Inscribed first printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans – inscribed to the founder of the Lord John Press.
This volume includes the induction of new members Arthur Miller, James Dickey, W.S. Merwin, Eudora Welty, and Walker Percy, with commemorative tributes to Padraic Colum, Marianne Moore, John Berryman, and others.
Inscribed first printing of this scientific mystery, in which geologist Em Hansen must turn sleuth when she is accused of the murder of a notorious paleontologist.
Signed review copy of this oil field mystery in which talented geologist Em Hansen must contend with on-the-job misogyny and an executive's suicide – or was it murder?
Signed first edition of this bizarre story of a family of taxidermists coming to terms with the suicide of their patriarch and with their own secrets — as issued with slipcase from the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series.
Signed special first printing of this fraught character study of a young teacher trapped by his past mistakes — part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series.
Signed limited first edition of this reboot of the story of miniaturized scientists venturing inside the human body – from the library of Hugo-nominated SF author and reviewer D. Douglas Fratz.
Inscribed first edition of the Honolulu-based author's mystery novel, the first in a series starring detective Storm Kayama.
First printing of these collected essays and journalism, including Baker's 1994 piece on the destruction of library card catalogs.
Signed special first printing of this surreal tale of a very unusual census undertaken by a dying man and his disabled son – issued with slipcase as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series.
Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's second murder mystery set in the fast-paced, high-stakes, violence-ridden world of American antiquarian book and manuscript collecting.
Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's first mystery novel, set in the chilling cutthroat world of rare book dealers and their mortal enemies, other rare book dealers.
Signed first UK edition of this tale of warring werewolf gangs in Los Angeles – a lycanthropic "heroic epic" (NPR).
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
Inscribed first printing of this high-tech (for the 90s) mystery, in which the hardboiled, cab-driving PI Carlotta Carlyle takes her business online with unexpectedly deadly consequences – signed in the year of publication.
Inscribed first printing of the fifth Carlotta Carlyle mystery, in which the hardboiled, redheaded Boston PI must take on a hospital full of conspiracy and corruption to find answers for a grieving mother.
Signed first edition of Barnes's SF noir novel, the first in a trilogy starring Black martial artist Aubry Knight.
Signed first edition of Barr's sixth mystery novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.
Signed first edition of the fifteenth book in Barr's Anna Pigeon mystery series, set in West Texas's Big Bend National Park and drawing on the author's experience as a park ranger.
Signed first edition of Barr's fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set on Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore.