New York: Aperture, 1989. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in and a wraparound band advertising a series exhibitions of Adams' work. Fine and unread in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dust jacket. Wraparound band lightly toned at the folds.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Considered by...
New York: Crown, 1997. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Review copy, with publisher's letter laid in. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. First American Edition, preceded by the German edition published earlier the same year. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 190) SIGNED by the author. Review copy, with "compliments of the publisher" slip laid in. The author's scarce first novel. Very Good plus in a Near Fine publisher's acetate dust jacket. Light fading to the board edges and spine, light foxing to the top page...
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with laid-in slip. A penetrating book on O'Connor's characters, use of metaphor, scriptural and theological resources, and more. Foxing to the page edges, and front board slightly bowed, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in. Publisher's letter "A" on the copyright page. Gordon’s reputation as a literary socialite--she was married to poet Alan Tate and counted Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford among her friends--has overshadowed the excellence and enduring qualities of her own work, which won her.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1975. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Collects twenty-six stories by the author of the MacMurray Award-winning novel, "The House of Breath" (1950). Foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Author's first book, winner of the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Foxing to the page edges and jacket verso, and slight fading to the jacket spine, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First American Edition. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Author of "Notes on a Scandal" (2003). Light foxing to the page edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1977. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with promotional photograph, slip, and letter laid in. Author's first novel, written while she was still a graduate student at Stanford University. Light foxing to the extremities, else Near Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. REVIEW COPY, with laid in materials (review slip, author photograph, promotional postcard, photocopied book reviews), all SIGNED by the author. Author's first novel. Light foxing to the top page edges, extremities lightly bumped, and a hint of toning to the jacket verso, else Near...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's card laid in. Also laid in is the additional perforated fold out reviews that originally accompanied the first issue jacket. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Just a slight lean, with light rubbing to the cloth on...
New York: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with laid-in slip. Loosely based on a true incident, depicting a series of murders by strangulation in a small Southern town in the 1960s. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, foxing to the page edges, extremities lightly bumped. Jacket is rubbed and slightly toned, with staple...
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. REVIEW COPY with publisher's material laid in. Foxing to the page edges, jacket spine faded, and a small bruise to the jacket crown,else Near Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1994. First Edition. Review copy with promotional postcard laid in. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first book, which would herald the entrance of one of the most original and acclaimed voices in contemporary literature. Nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. Issued in conjunction with a traveling exhibition held between August 20 and December 18, 2003 in Syracuse, NY, Garden City, NY, Mexico City, and Rome. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and basis for the superb television film about the life of Gary Gilmore, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti and Roseanne Arquette. Fine and unread in a lovely, about Fine dust jacket.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1961. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. First state dust jacket, with glassine mounted to the die-cut window on the front panel. One of few McCullers titles not adapted to film, yet still a classic portrayal of good and evil. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to the top...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Mary Ann / From / Joseph McElroy." REVIEW COPY, with publisher's materials laid in. One of the longest novels in history, with a page count of 1,192 and a word count of approximately 800,000, and the third longest novel in the English language...
New York: Atheneum, 1960. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's laid-in material. Finalist for the 1960 National Book Award. Spine lean, light foxing to the top page edges, and light fading to the jacket text, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1957. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Finalist for the National Book Award. Slight lean, and light foxing to the top page edges, else Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's material laid in, signed by Nick Lyons, Chairman of The Lyons Press. Light foxing to the top page edges, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. A Depression-era tale of one family's migration from coal country to an industrialized town. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, light foxing to the top page edges, and a vintage seller label on the rear pastedown. Moderate toning...
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's materials laid in. Author's first collection of stories, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Light foxing to the page edges, and fading to the jacket spine, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1952. First French Edition, preceding all others. Review copy, with with the letters "S.P." (Service de Presse) punched onto the rear wrapper. Text in French. A foundational document on the development of musique concrete by composer and musicologist Schaeffer, who had coined the term four years earlier, which would influence not only 20th century experimental composers.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. A Hollywood set novel by the author of "The Amboy Dukes" and screenwriter of "Rebel Without a Cause." Light foxing to the top page edge and boards, else Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly foxed to a portion of the rear panel...
New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. First American Edition. First issue, tan boards and price of "$3.50" on the front jacket flap. REVIEW COPY, with slip and author photograph laid in. Photograph by Avakian. Southern's first novel. Light foxing to the top edges and jacket verso, and a hint of toning to the jacket, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust...
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with laid-in slip. The author's first collection of stories, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Foxing to the page edges and jacket verso, and slight fading to the jacket spine, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Viking Press, 1984. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's material laid in. Author's first book. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, foxing to the top page edges, and previous owner's personal library blindstamp. Jacket spine slightly faded, with light foxing to the verso, and light shelfwear.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with promotional author photograph laid in. Foxing to the top page edges and jacket verso, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in. A posthumous study of W. Eugene Smith's illustrious career. Some very light rubbing to the jacket, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1989. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's material laid in. Author's first collection of short stories. Foxing to the top page edges, and fading to the spine, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Light foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Also, this is a REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Novel by the screenwriter of the 1971 Monte Hellman film, "Two-Lane Blacktop," and the 1987 Alex Cox film, "Walker." Light foxing to the top page edges, and light toning to the jacket spine text and verso...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. From the author-screenwriter of the 1971 Monte Hellman film, "Two-Lane Blacktop," and the 1987 Alex Cox film, "Walker." Light foxing to the top page edges, and jacket spine slightly sunned, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.