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: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all others. Rare.Basis for the 1965 film starring Laurence Harvey and Jean Simmons. Sequel to the author's first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957). Very Good in publisher's card wrappers, spine lean and slight roll, with a rubbed and creased spine (some titling affected). Light foxing to.....

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.

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.

London: Michael Joseph, 1976. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in brown wrappers as issued. Spine roll and associated vertical wrinkling to same. 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 roll and associated 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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. With a proposed publication date and price in holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper. Rare, this being the first example we have ever encountered.Front and rear wrappers affixed to a glued gathering of signatures, presumably the way this proof was issued and constructed. Bottom edge sealed from.....

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.

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.....

London: William Heinemann, 1955. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all others. With a date stamp to 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: 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).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Edition. REVIEW copy, with publisher's materials and two postcards addressed to science fiction writer George Zebrowski laid in. Fine and unread in illustrated gray wrappers.

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF in publisher's red printed wrappers. The author's coming-out story, with additional material, first appearing in January in the New York Times Magazine. Binding label at the bottom has been broken, else Near Fine in printed wrappers, with publisher's annotations on the front panel and half-title page.

Los Angeles: Conway and Associates, Circa 1975. Uncorrected proof of Nicolaysen's 1976 novel, "Perilous Passage," here under the working title, "The Basque." Nicolaysen would adapt his novel into a screenplay, and in 1979 a film was made based on his screenplay, called "The Passage." This proof is an early draft of the novel, presumably produced for purposes of film development.....

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page: "For — / Thanks, / Jonathan Safran Foer." About Fine in black and white pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to the corners of the front panel. An attractive copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first edition. Stephenson’s breakthrough title, one that saw him move away from the straightfoward satire of his first two novels into the action-packed and idea-heavy speculative fiction for which he would become known, while simultaneously putting the final exclamation point on the cyberpunk genre. About Fine in off-white wrappers with red.....

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.