New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on to the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for the 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh, written for the.....

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 duplication. Fine, housed in original Near Fine red publisher's box. An attractive copy of.....

New York: Viking Press, 1994. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Includes a 40-page segment excised from the published book. Not to be confused with the more common advance reader's edition, which has a pictorial wrapper and does not include the excised text.Spine panel lightly faded, else Fine in pictorial wrappers.

London: William Heinemann, 1938. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Basis for the Academy Award-nominated 1940 film directed by Raoul Walsh starring John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Claire Trevor; the only film in which Wayne and Rogers appear together, and the second of only two films on which Wayne and Walsh worked together after Walsh discovered Wayne as a......

New York: Harper and Row, 1987. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. A single vertical crease at the front wrapper, with a hint of fading at the titles on the front wrapper. Basis for the acclaimed 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the story concerns marginalized country singer-songwriter Bad Blake, a good.....

London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Setting Copy and Publisher's Uncorrected Proof for the 1984 novel "Lies, Inc," the posthumously-published first appearance of author Philip K. Dick's revised novel written from his earlier short story "The Unteleported Man." First published in 1964 in Fantastic Magazine, the rights to "The Unteleported Man" were subsequently purchased by Ace Books, and Dick then revised the.....

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good plus in brown wrappers as issued. Very slightly cocked, small stray red pen mark near the fore-edge of the front wrapper, vertical wrinkling at the spine. A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.

London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Near Fine in red publisher's wrappers. Light fading to the top of the front panel, with fading and a few mild reading creases at the spine. An attractive copy of this set of short stories.

New York: William Morrow, 1942. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. A presentable copy of the earliest state of the second Grandpa Wiggins mystery.About Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of January 6, 1942 and projected price of $2.00 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Slight lean, vertical creasing to the spine panel, some splitting to the front.....

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition, in the publishers white comb binding and printed light blue wrappers. The author's first novel, basis for director John Huston's critically acclaimed 1972 film starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell and Candy Clark. Publisher's notation to the front wrapper, with shadows present where labels where.....

N.p. [G.P. Putnam's Sons / Viking Press], 2007. Archive containing the author's original corrected printed typescript and corrected galleys for the 2007 novel, both dated February 2006. Annotations in both documents by author William Gibson and a proofreader in various colors of holograph ink (typically Gibson’s are in red and proofreaders’ are in green). The second novel in the loose.....

New York: Random House, 1942. Advance Review Copy of the First American Edition. Basis for the superb 1945 film starring Laird Cregar and George Sanders. Good to Very Good in illustrated self-wrappers, with the same illustration (and odd laminate) used on the jacket for the first edition of the book. Numerous vertical creases at the spine, and a slight roll.....

New York: Henry Holt, 2003. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in trade size wrappers (softcover), with promotional material.

New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 2003. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in Trade sized wrppers (softcover). Originally published as a novella in the New Yorker, "The Namesake" explores many religious, social, and ideological themes related to immigration. Author's first novel.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1966. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Unbound signatures in dust jacket with "Color Proof" on the front flap, lacking the third blurb at the rear flap, with faint pencil annotations at the rear flap from the proofer. Signatures are Fine; jacket with light creasing and tiny closed tears at the top edge.

New York: Vanguard, 1976. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition, Near Fine and unread in tall gold wrappers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. A collection of essays. Fine and unread in red printed wrappers.

New York: Delacorte, 1980. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. A Spenser novel. Fine in tall green wrappers as issued.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Duodecimo. Publisher's date and proof stamps, with an ink notation, on the front panel, faint stamp on the rear panel. Published in 1965 by Hamish Hamilton; copyright here states "First Published in Great Britain in 1964."Very Good plus in blue wrappers. Light toning overall, with a couple of tiny dampstains, and a few faint.....

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's second novel, preceding the first edition. Copiously annotated, sometimes quite critically, other times effusively, by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Scarce in an advance issue, with an association. In a custom blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label and titles in gilt.Pink card wrappers.....

New York: Putnam, 1986. UNCORRECTED PROOF, published before the first edition. Near Fine in yellow wrappers. Gently read, with a few creases at the corners and the spine, with a hint of soil. A tight, attractive copy.

New York: William Morrow, 1975. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Fine and unread in green wrappers.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. The author's fifth book. Very Good in printed wrappers. Spine faded, light dampstain to the lower front wrapper, separation to the front hinge.

San Francisco: MacAdam Cage, 2009. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED to fellow writer Chris Offutt on the title page: "To Chris, This is the second inscription I'm writing today. If I see this on eBay later, you're dead.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in trade size wrappers (softcover).