Tokyo: Kodansha, 1970. First printing of this edition. Paperback edition from the "Gendai Bungaku Meisaku Shireezu." Fine in printed wrappers with original bellyband. Translated into English as "Inter-Ice Age 4." A dark science fiction story about human responsibility to the present, and about a future over which mankind often has little or no control. 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. SIGNED by Abe in silver ink on the front endpaper. This title was later translated into English by Juliet Winters Carpenter as "The Ark Sakura" in 1988. Text in Japanese. Fine in a Near Fine publisher's printed slipcase. Slipcase has very minor rubbing.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1974. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket and publisher's bellyband. A collection of lectures never translated into English. Text in Japanese.

n.p. Presse Bibliomane, 1973. First printing of this edition. One of 585 copies printed, this being copy No. 223. A short novel that first appeared in the magazine "Ningen" in 1950. Text in Japanese. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with titles and top edge in gilt. Housed in original oatmeal Presse Bibliomane chemise. Chemise is Near Fine with just a hint...

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1974. First Japanese Edition, first printing. SIGNED by Abe on the verso of the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine publisher's printed slipcase with bellyband intact. Faint sticker residue to the rear free endpaper. Abe staged this play later the same year and won the Yomiuri Literary Prize for this work. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1964. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine printed slipcase and bellyband. Slipcase toned at the spine with a touch of corner rubbing. A collection of works never translated into English. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1965. First Japanese Edition, first printing. Just about Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket with bellyband. Some toning to the page edges, else Fine. A collection of essays never translated into English. Text in Japanese.

n.p. Presse Bibliomane, 1971. First printing of this edition. One of 435 copies printed, this being copy No. 221. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with titles and top edge in gilt. Housed in a Fine original black Presse Bibliomane chemise. The play was initially staged in 1969 as the second part of "The Man Who Turned into a Stick" trilogy. Text in Japanese.

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.

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.

New York: Harmony Books, 1993. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Light fading to the spine, else Fine and unread in wrappers.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Small quarto. First printing of this edition. First published in 1842 by Rudolph Ackerman in London. Thirty-five color illustrations by Henry Alken, all present. One page of ads at the rear. Marbled boards in half-bound red morocco leather, compartments, titles and designs all gilt, marbled endpapers, top page edges gilt, all other page edges...

New York: Atria Books, 2006. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author and film director on the title page. Basis for Arriaga's still-unreleased 2006 film, about a schizophrenic man who commits suicide after he learns his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend.

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.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1994. First printing of the omnibus edition, which combines the three novels in Auster's "New York Trilogy," originally published in three separate volumes by Sun and Moon Press in 1985-86. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

London: Faber and Faber, 1995. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Uncommon. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1980. First Edition, a paperback original, one of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in lightly soiled and rubbed wrappers.

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...

Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Advance Preview Edition, preceding the First Edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. Promotional publication of two stories by the author, "Florence Green is 81" and "Me and Miss Mandible," in anticipation of Barthelme's first book, a collection of stories. Loose leaves, mimeograph. Fine, housed in original Near Fine red publisher's box. An attractive copy of this...

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Bass on the half title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris — Take good care — Rick Bass." The author's second book. 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...