New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934; 1935. First Editions. Hardcovers. "In this scoffing strange book Mr. (Branch) Cabell has written the only existing novel whose reality is the astounding reality of that world of dreams in which we pass a third of our lives. Lewis Carroll alone has guided his readers on a similar journey in the company of his world-famous Alice; but Alice was both immature..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Eight extraordinary stories by the author of Other Voices, Other Rooms, including the celebrated "Miriam" and "Shut a Final Door," both of which have won O. Henry awards. Mr. Capote's reputation was made by his short stories long before the success of his novel. This, the first collection to be published in book form, (also) includes "A Tree of Night,"..... More

London, England: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1982. First UK edition. Hardcover. "In Raymond Carver's fiction, the door is always open because someone is always leaving- and the TV is always going because it is safer to look at television than at people. "I've seen some things," insists the startled son in "Mr. Coffee & Mr. Fixit," offering in mute explanation the kind of vague, dazed admission that might..... More

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, farm "The Vision," a property in the Welsh Borders, with the green fields of England on one side and the black hills of Wales on the other. Here they were born in 1900, and here for eighty years they share one life- eat the same food, sleep in the same bed, swing an..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by John Cheever. "The Wapshot family settled in the little village of St. Botolphs in the 17th century. Mr. (John) Cheever rings up his curtain on St. Botolphs on a snowy Christmas Eve in the second half of the 20th. With these traditional matters dispatched, the affairs of the Wapshots carom around the United States and Europe..... More

London, England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Michael Collins. "Small town America is Michael Collins's heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace. Almost thirty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Michigan town. Now, Frank's uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger with a dead..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. 'In FIRSTS, Thomas Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of autobiographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "girls" are what has formed him, and we follow..... More

New York, NY: Warner Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed twice & inscribed by Nicholas Delbanco. "One of the nation's most accomplished writers, Nicholas Delbanco now enters the realm of the romantic novel with an intensely affecting, supremely moving work. A chronicle of desire and tragedy, of love in defiance of fate, it portrays two people making new choices while settling...old scores...Paul Ballard is a handsome, thirty-six-year-old college professor. He..... More

London, England: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1986. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Like In MIlton Lumky Territory, this novel was written over twenty years ago but not published until now. Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, it is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom (Philip K.) Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy." (from front flap) A posthumously published earlier..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1980. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed by E.L. Doctorow. "Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow's first novel since Ragtime, resembles its famous predecessor only in the power of its prose and its author's continuing challenge to the reader's expectations of what fiction can be. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, a tempestuous young man...finds himself lost one night beside a single-track railroad in the Adirondack..... More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by J.P. Donleavy. "Its budding stirs so faintly, one never seems to know exactly when a book is first born. It grows slowly or rapidly, coaxed gently or fiercely by sights, people, places and memories. Till finally it begins to glow, nurturing deep in the very survival of one's life. And it must be written for both..... More

Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "What about pot? A frank and contemporary story of one girl's experience with the drug scene. It was a wonderful feeling to start all over again in a new place. Marihuana had been one of the problems between Chris and Mark, but there were many others. When Chris was tired of crying she transferred to another college- and really did forget..... More