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: 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: Pantheon Books, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in trade size wrappers (softcover).

London: William Heinemann, 1960. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all other editions. Rare.Basis for the 1966 Academy Award-winning film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, and Robert Shaw. Very Good plus in publisher's card wrappers, with a tiny nick to the front wrapper's bottom edge, a faded spine panel, and light foxing to.....

New York: Harcourt, 2001. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Fine in red trade size wrappers (softcover).

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.....

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.

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

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.

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.....

London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. While the UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity, this proof likely the only surviving copy. Found in the author's attic after his death. Very Good in brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and tight with a few creases to the spine panel. Housed.....

New York: Putnam, 1988. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First American Edition. Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. A single reading crease at the spine, with light bumping to the extremities. A lovely copy.

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.