New York: Viking Press, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 226pp. Fine/fine. Ttight and pristine first edition of this sequel to "Eighty-Sixed" -- "the further adventures of Benjamin J. Rosenthal... A sort of gay Everyman...." Nicely signed in full by..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1998]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and green paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 340pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Tight and lovely first edition of this novel by the Puerto Rican writer. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards, dust jacket. 86pp. Near fine/very good. Abrasion from price sticker removal at lower right corner of front jacket panel. Overall a tight, attractive first edition of this writer's first novel. Uncommon. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 351pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips. Tight, nice first edition of (to quote jacket front panel) "courageous men fighting on without hope of home," set..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 191pp. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition. More
New York: The Viking Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 376pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with spine lightly sunned and small chip at lower right of front panel. Tight, clean and attractive first U.S. edition of the second novel..... More
Chicago: Clarke-McElroy Publishing Company, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 403pp. Very good. Inscribed by Fitzpatrick. First edition. "Moonlight and magnolias" historic fiction bearing a fine presentation inscription on the front flyleaf: "Yours very sincerely / (Author's Edition) / Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick / [illegible] / 6530 [illegible] / Chicago, Illinois /..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. 256pp. Very good/very good. Slight water mark around tail of spine and corresponding spot on jacket. First edition of this Thomas R. Coward Prize Novel, which concerns the murder of a black radical leader at a Los Angeles high school..... More
[Haverford, PA]: [Infinity Publishing], 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. 342pp. Near fine. First edition of this paperback fiction, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "C'est mon / plaisir! / Enjoy -- / Virginia C. Foley." More
Columbus, MS: Genesis Press, [1998]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 80pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. A tight, pristine first edition of this heavily-illustrated medieval fantasy. On the front flyleaf, Fortin boldly inscribes and signs in black fineline: "Shirley / Best..... More
McGregor, IA: Popcorn Press, [1997]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 253pp, (8pp). Fine. Pristine first edition of this historical fiction set a la Mark Twain's Mississippi River, set in the Dubuque and Guttenberg, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin area. Boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 345pp. Map frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this "Novel of Three Generations" set in Norway and Sweden, signed boldly by Fredriksson in black fineline on a bookplate on..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 686pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this epic narrative spanning four generations, handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on the title page..... More
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 252pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
New York: Grove Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and pink paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 293pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this "reproductive adventure, a journey through love, physical intimacy, childbirth, abortion, and birth control" -- boldly signed by Frucht in..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Illustrations. A tight and attractive first edition of this unusual novel, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "To Liz / Thanks..... More
Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 2002. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 305pp. Very good. Would rate higher, as it's tight and superb, but for coffee-type speckling on the outer page edges. First edition of this writer's first novel, set amongst a group of Jewish kids in Cleveland in the late 1960s..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 348pp. Very good/very good. Touch of sunning along top binding edge and very faintest of jacket wear. Tight and nice first U.S. edition. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Near fine/very good. Very slight jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and handsome, of this novel about an expatriate American "set in the golden olive-studded hills of a small Italian town...." More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 192pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with single chip on rear panel; ink spot on title page. First edition. YOUNG 1365. More
London: Putnam, [1963]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 224pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive early (not first) printing. YOUNG 1377. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown and tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 167pp. Very good/very good. Minor stain on bottom page edges. First edition. Whimsical tale of eccentric characters living in Goose Bluffs, an Illinois river town. More
Seattle: Broken Moon Press, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and white paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 421pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition of the first novel by the well-known Chicago poet and editor, tight and handsome -- and boldly signed by Gibbons in black fineline on the..... More