New York, NY, USA: Viking/ Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvelously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letters throughout his long life (1915-2005). Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to his fellow writers- William Faulkner, John Cheever, John Berryman, Ralph Ellison..... More

New York, NY, USA: The American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1965 number of the venerable literary & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv Features a (somewhat snooty if you ask us) review of Saul Bellow's (1915-2005) now-classic novel Herzog by Richard Poirier (1925-2009), the noted American literary critic who co-founded the canonical Library of America (pgs. 264-271). Also in..... More

New York, NY, USA: Added Enterprises, 1949. First Printing. Softcover. "I am an American, Chicago born- Chicago, that sombre city- and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "My mother would be a falconress, | I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, | would fly to bring back | from the blue sky to her, bleeding, a prize, | where I dream in my little hood, with many bells | jangling when I turned my head." (excerpt "Lammas Dream Poem" pg. 74, Robert Duncan). This vintage number..... More

New York, NY: Penguin, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Saul Bellow (1915–2005) was a Nobel laureate, three-time National Book Award winner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and generally beloved by critics and readers alike. Bellow’s work often focused on the disorientation of contemporary society, and the ability of people to overcome their frailty and achieve greatness or awareness. Bellow saw many flaws in modern civilization, and its ability to foster madness..... More

Amherst & Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed for Allen Tobias by Jules Chametzky. "In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers...not only do these various writers emerge as interesting and often complicated human beings, but Chametzky reveals himself to be a warm and gracious storyteller." (from back cover) A compilation of..... More