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: 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, first printing. Fine in a Fine publisher's illustrated paper-covered slipcase with original bellyband. This title was translated into English by Juliet Winters Carpenter as "The Ark Sakura" in 1988. Text in Japanese.

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.

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.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1971. First Edition. Fine in paper covered boards in a Near Fine printed slipcase with bellyband. Tiny ink dot to top page edges, else FIne. Slipcase lightly rubbed at the corners and along the spine. A collection of essays. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975. First Japanese Edition, first printing. Fine in beige cloth in a Near Fine publisher's illustrated, paper-covered slipcase, with original bellyband intact. Cloth slipcase is rubbed under the glassine in a couple of places, else Fine. An interesting collection of short works by the author. Text in Japanese.

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1971. First printing of this edition. Previously published in 1959. Just about Fine in a Near Fine printed slipcase and bellyband. First staged in 1958, this play won the Kishida Drama Prize. Never translated into English. 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: Henry Holt, 1958. First Edition. INSCRIBED to versatile concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant on the front endpaper: "To Oscar / May this book sell half as well as 'A Smattering of Ignorance.' Steve Allen." Additionally SIGNED by Allen on a bookplate belonging to actor Frank Buxton. Full provenance available.The author's fifth book, a collection of short stories.....

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.....

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.".....