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: 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.

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...

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1992. First Edition, first printing. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Dorothy Allison to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "Chris / Thank you for being in the world and writing what you do / I need your words / Best / Dorothy Allison."From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight”...

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.

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 (20 x 25 cm). Brief emulsion defect to one of the photographs, else Fine.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1992. First American Edition, greatly expanded from the UK edition published ten years early. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Not to be confused with the more common signed limited edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

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.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1996. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First American bililingual Edition. An early work of translation for noted author Paul Auster. Near Fine and unread in card wrappers and a Near Fine dust jacket as issued. Book and jacket lightly toned at the extremities.

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 notations 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...