Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1973. First Edition. Text in Japanese.Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed and faded to the spine.

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: Chuo Koronsha, 1965. First Japanese Edition, preceding all others. Text in Japanese.Very Good plus in a Very Good plus illustrated cloth slipcase. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown, with lightly soiled boards. Slipcase lightly soiled, with faint toning to the spine and light wear to the tips.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1984. First Japanese Edition, preceding all others. This title was 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 lackinging the bellyband. Slipcase corners lightly rubbed.

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.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1956. First Edition. First issue, with the requisite blue title page and "Walking" on the first line of page 80. Small owner bookplate to the top right corner of the front endpaper. Agee's final novel, published posthumously, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Near Fine in an unclipped Very Good plus dust jacket. Topstain and extremities.....

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 Book [Beeline], 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, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 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. He has also written for.....

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.

New York: Ballantine Books, 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.

Los Angeles: Lorimar, 1980. Two borderless photographs from the 1980 film. Though most often remembered as Peter Sellers' final role, it also was the last success for the great Hal Ashby, as well as Jack Warden's first shot at portraying the President of the United States. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Brief emulsion defect to one of the photographs, else.....

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."

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.

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.....

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.

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.....

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.....

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.....

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

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both very slightly sunned, with some minor wear at the spine.....