New York: Pantheon, 1984. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the US Edition. Letter from the Publicity Director of Pantheon laid in. Winner of the Booker Prize. An abrasion to the top of the front wrapper obliterating the o in uncorrected and the a in page, otherwise a sharp, fine copy in printed red wrappers.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1963. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. As with the first UK edition, this proof contains an afterword by Malamud and a 10-page glossary of baseball terms not found in the American edition. Basis for the iconic 1984 film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close and Kim Basinger. Very.....

London: Peter Davies, 1958. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceded by the First American Edition published by Coward-McCann the year prior, in 1957. Rare.Very Good in publisher's card wrappers, with spine lean, moderately worn spine, and moderate foxing to wrappers and title label.

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

London: William Heinemann, 1955. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all others. With a date stamp on the front wrapper reading "14 MAR 1956." Rare.About Very Good in wrappers, with dampstaining to the bottom half of the rear wrapper and correspondingly the bottom half of page 87 through page 269 (the final leaf). Pages, however, are all still.....

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.

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: Michael Joseph, 1957. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all other editions. Rare.Very Good plus in publisher's card wrappers, with light soil to the wrappers and moderately foxed page edges.

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: 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 on 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.....

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. Light fading at the spine and extremities, else just about Fine and unread in light green wrappers. A lovely copy of a scarce proof.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film classic, Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, and a bunch of kill-crazy Devon townies, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films. Very Good in orange printed wrappers. Address label on the.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Just a hint of a bump to two top corners, else Fine and bright in white trade size wrappers (softcover).

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).

Los Angeles: Marvin Moss, Circa 1974. Uncorrected proof of Owen's 1975 novel, "The Indian-Lover," here under the working title, "Simon Girty, Indian-Lover." This proof is an early draft of the novel, produced for purposes of film development. Agency photocopy, with the Marvin Moss agency label on the title page and accompanying cardboard box lid, and photocopied corrections throughout. A fictional.....

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: 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: 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.

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: Jonathan Cape, 2006. Advance Reading Copy for the First UK Edition. Fine in publisher's wrappers.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. With the author's copied annotations (both holograph and typed) throughout the book. The first novel in the Zuckerman series. Near Fine in publisher's wrappers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine in publisher's wrappers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. Fine in publisher's wrappers.

New York: The Library of America, 2005. First Edition. Fine and unread in publisher’s shrinkwrap, with no dust jacket as issued.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1977. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good plus in the publisher's wrappers, with light foxing to the rear wrapper. The second Kepesh novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine and unread in publisher's wrappers with a tentative publication date and price.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Awards.About Fine in wrappers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in wrappers.

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

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.

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.....

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......