New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a brilliant, Fine dust jacket. Some tiny stains on the rear board, else as sharp a copy as one could hope for. Not an uncommon title, but rarely found in superior condition.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1969. First Japanese Edition, first printing. Just about Fine in blindstamped black cloth in a Near Fine publisher's printed slipcase and bellyband. Slipcase spine is toned with light rubbing at the corners with a closed tear to the bellyband. The first edition of this important play cycle - translated in 1975 by Donald Keene as "The Man Who.....

Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine in a Fine illustrated slipcase. A hint of rubbing along the board edges of the book with a little darkening at the spine. A historical drama never translated into English. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975. First printing of this edition. Near Fine in a just about Fine printed slipcase and bellyband. The two plays, Todomachi [Friends] and Enomoto Takeaki, issued together with a special bellyband around the slipcase commemorating their having received the Tanizaki Prize that year. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1984. First Japanese Edition, first printing. INSCRIBED by Abe in white ink on the front endpaper to Harvard literature professor Howard Hibbett. Text in Japanese.This title was translated into English by Juliet Winters Carpenter as "The Ark Sakura" in 1988. Fine in a Near Fine publisher's printed slipcase with a couple of short tears to the belly band.....

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1970. First printing of this edition. Near Fine in paper covered boards in a Near Fine printed publisher's slipcase and bellyband. Book lightly soiled at the spine and along the bottom edge. Slipcase has a touch of rubbing and a couple of bumps to the corners. Originally published in 1954. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1974. First Japanese Edition, first printing. Just about Fine in a Near Fine publisher's illustrated, paper-covered slipcase with original bellyband intact. Abe staged this play later the same year and won the Yomiuri Literary Prize for this work. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1971. First Edition. Just about Fine in a Near Fine printed slipcase with original bellyband. Slipcase has a few corner bumps. Never translated into English. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Tojusha, 1965. First printing of this edition. Fine in cream paper-covered boards in a Fine printed slipcase and bellyband. A heavily revised reissue of Abe's first novel, originally published by Shinzenbi in 1948. A novel that established the author's reputation early on. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Togensha, 1964. First printing of this edition. Near Fine in black cloth with white spine title and original glassine, in a Near Fine, illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Spine titles lightly rubbed. An uncommon collection of short stories originally published in 1952. Text in Japanese.

First Edition. Text in Japanese. With publisher's original dust jacket and belly band.Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rear board is very slightly bumped to the top fore edge corner.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975. First Edition. Fine and unread in a just about Fine printed slipcase and bellyband. A play that Abe would stage later the same year. Text in Japanese.

N.p. N.p., 1976. Archive of six autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed from Kathy Acker to fellow experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer, twenty five pages total, undated, but written during the first half of 1976 based on dates mentioned in the body of one of the letters. From the collection of Rudolph Wurlitzer, with provenance. Acker and Wurlitzer were.....

New York: D. Appleton, 1931. First Edition. Author's first novel, after a series of children's books in the 1920s. After graduating from Earlham she attended Columbia University where she graduated as the only women of the first class of the Pulitzer School of Journalism. Addington worked as manuscript and copy reader, and a series of free lance articles garnered her.....

N.p. Midnight Paper Sales / Hungry Mind, 1996. First Edition. One of 90 numbered copies (this being No. 60) SIGNED by the author. An excerpt from Alexie's "Indian Killer," given during a reading at the Hungry Mind in 1996. Near Fine. 10 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Alexie on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris in appreciation of your work Sherman Alexie 5/29/95 Missoula." 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.....

Bee-Line Books No. 166, 1967. First Edition, a paperback original. Very Good plus condition. Light spine crease, light reader's creases, light rubbing overall, small nick at the crown. Photo cover. A very presentable copy. Not in Holroyd.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's first book, preceding the First Edition. Presentation set of bound galley sheets prepared for the friends of Algonquin Books, preceding all but the original manuscript. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in trade-size wrappers (softcover).

London: Moorhouse and Sorensen, 1994. First Edition. One of 100 copies (this being No. 34) SIGNED by the author, out of a total limitation of 326. The first book publication of Amis' first published story, "Denton's Death," published in the October 1976 issue of "Encounter" magazine, along with "Let Me Count the Times," a revised and retitled edition of his.....

New York: Ballantine Books No. 185, 1957. First Edition, published simultaneously in hardcover. A hired gun named Ross Ringler comes to a town where his reputation gets the better of him!Cover art by Mel Crair, whose primary output was between 1954-1963. Slight loss at the crown, else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Schreuders (UK), p. 203.

London: Menard Press, 1982. First UK Edition, preceding all others, and not published in America until nearly a decade later. A paperback original. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Near Fine in wrappers. Light diagonal creasing to lower front corner, light toning to the edges.

Cambridge: Sun and Moon, 1985, 1986. First Edition. Three volumes, with each volume SIGNED by the author on the title page. "City of Glass" in the first issue jacket without the publisher's seal on the spine. Each volume Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the page edges of "City of Glass."

New York: New Directions, 2002. First Edition, a paperback original. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of previously published essays. Fine and unread.

Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1976. First Edition, a paperback original, one of 500 copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers with light soil.

New York: Henry Holt, 2012. First Edition. Copy belonging to Oscar-wining director-producer, Tony Bill, with an inscription to him for his birthday on the half-title page, from a friend named "Augusto."From the collection of Tony Bill, whose credits include "The Sting" (1973, producer), "Soldier in the Rain" (1963, actor), "Shampoo" (1975, actor), and "Five Corners" (1987, director-producer). Fine and unread.....

Paris: Living Hand, 1973. First Edition. SIGNED by Paul Auster on the Table of Contents. Lightly soiled, else Near Fine in wrappers.

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. First Edition. Part of the "Understanding Contemporary American Literature" series. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member, Betty St. Clair, who was a costume designer, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text. Based on the 1938 collection, "Trader Horn: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies," edited by Ethelreda Lewis (foreword by John Galsworthy), detailing.....

New York: Putnam, 1964. Third printing. INSCRIBED by the author-screenwriter on the half-title page to actress Joanne Woodward: "To Joanne / Who has more than a touch of Jacataqua / With warm regards / Elliott." File copy belonging to Metro-Goldyn-Mayer film studios, with their rubber stamps and annotations in holograph ink on the front endpaper, including a date of 06/23/64.....

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. First edition. Octavo, brown buckram with gilt titles and patterned paper-covered boards. One of 500 numbered copies (this being No. 451). Twelve wood engravings by Clifford Webb. A novel about the Amazons and the lost city of Atlantis. Near Fine, lacking the onion skin dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Virginia Allan / from Margaret Ayer Barnes." Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within a changing.....

College Station, TX: Texas AandM Press, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED by the Rick Bass on the title page. The author's first book.From the collection of author 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.....

London: W. and G. Foyle, 1931. First Edition. One of 300 copies (this being No. 42) SIGNED by the author. This copy is also INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, wherein the author additionally adds a manuscript quote of a passage from the book: "The girl also watched him intently, her dark eyes full of a solemn curiosity. / H.E. Bates.".....

New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in trade-size wrappers (softcover).