Modern Fiction
The Family Curse.
Fairburn, GA: Breaux Books, 2000. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 244pp. Near fine. First edition (issued in paperback only) of this Louisiana-based tale, bearing an enormous author inscription and signature running vertically in funky metallic blue fineline on the title page: "To: / A.J. / May each / word..... More
Into Deeper Waters.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1968]. Hardcover. 8vo. Goldenrod cloth with blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 277pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and superb first edition. Allen Tate introduces these eight tales all set in Greece. More
The Life and Death of Little Jo.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1944. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 216pp. Line drawings. Very good/very good. Bit of jacket rubbing and a few small edge chips (mainly at head and tale of jacket spine). Tight, nice first edition of this tale of peasants in..... More
Inner Passages.
Dallas: Top Publications, 2000. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 263pp. Near fine. First edition of this novel "about love, loss, murder and redemption, set against the mountains of British Columbia on the waters of the Inside Passage, between Vancouver Island and the mainland...." Boldly inscribed and signed by the..... More
A Song for Satawal.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 218pp. Near fine/near fine. Abrasion on front flyleaf. Tight, nice first U.K. edition of this unusual novel set in Miicronesia. More
Conspiracy of Knaves.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 392pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Rousing Civil War tale of double agent Belle Rutledge and her role in the Northwest Conspiracy, a Confederate plot to free southern prisoners..... More
Family Politics.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and blue paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. 332pp. Very good/very good. Jacket spine slightly sunned. Tight, nice first edition. More
Flying Leap: Stories.
New York: Picador USA, [1998]. Hardcover. 8vo. White and black paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 244pp. Fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition of this author's first book, handsomely signed and inscribed by her in blue fineline on the title page: "To Pam -- / Hope you enjoy..... More
The Ontelles Odyssey.
[Fairfax, VA]: Xulon Press, [2002]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 245pp. Fine. First edition, tight and nice, and signed in full by Burks in black ballpoint on the title page. More
Cage a Man.
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 151pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome. Just a book club edition -- BUT inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf ("To Mike. / Best wishes, / Buz"), signed in full on the title page..... More
The Mutual Friend.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Near fine/very good. First edition, tight and nice, "of this most exraordinary fiction" involving Charles Dickens. More
The San Franciscans.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth spine with black lettering and yellow pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 349pp. Very good/very good. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn. First edition. Compelling novel of the power games and rivalry between a wealthy banking family and an unknown attorney..... More
They Whisper.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and white paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 333pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this fiction by the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist -- boldly signed in full in black fineline on the title page. More
In Such Dark Places.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 230pp. Very good/near fine. Tight and attractive first edition. YOUNG 568. More
Don Juan's Bar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Hardcover. Translation by Barbara Shelby. 8vo. Black cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 271pp. Near fine/very good. Tight, handsome first edition of this fiction set in Brazil in the 1960s. More
Brothers in Arms.
N.p. Pantheon Books, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 220pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. More
Aissa Saved.
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Very good/good plus. Blind-embossed ownership stamp on first few pages; small chunk missing from upper right corner of front jacket panel, which is otherwise bright and attractive. First U.S. edition..... More
An American Visitor.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 247pp. Near fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear. A tight and nice early printing of the Irish novelist's second book, first published in 1933. More
Why Do They Call Friday Good?
Lake Forest, IL: Happy Face Pub. INK, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Kelly Harbach. Small 4to. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 168pp. Line drawings. Near fine/near fine. A tight, attractive first edition of this short fiction collection. Signed bold and enormous by Case in black fineline on the front pastedown, where..... More
A Broken Branch.
N.p. 1stBooks, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue buckram, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 207pp. Near fine/near fine. Edition not ascertainable, but oddly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on the front pastedown (the inscription of which has been obliterated in thick black marker, yet is still easily legible)..... More
That Capri Air.; Foreword by Francis Brett Young.
London: Wm. Heinemann Ltd., n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, slipcase with paper label. v, 201pp. Partly uncut. Near fine/very good. Some small splits in slipcase neatly, archivally mended. Handsome copy of this well-made production, limited to 500 numbered copies (this #270). More
Bullet Park.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 245pp. Very good/very good. Ownership statement on front flyleaf. First edition. More