New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Brautigan. “It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. The Continental Op has been drafted and is a sergeant in the Aleutians. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. Lew Archer is in the army..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Book Club(?) Edition. Hardcover. "Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech is Back (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren “’THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ is Algren’s finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka’s gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards as if he could talk to them and they understand. Frankie was as tough as any of the regulars at Schwiefka’s but he..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Max Apple. "So what's a nice Jewish boy like Ira Goldstein doing managing a flashy Puerto Rican middleweight named Jesus? What is his mother, a vital but previously chaste widow, doing in the brutal arms of Solomon, the scrap-metal king of Detroit? How is Ira's skeptical grandmother going to cope with a boxer in the house..... More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated near time of publication by Charles Baxter. "...here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of..... More

Bath, England: Morrigan Publications, 1991. Special First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by James P. Blaylock (Author), Lewis Shiner (Postscript Author), & Ferret (Illustrator). American fantasy author James P. Blaylock seemed to fictionalize his own life in this fantastical story about two young boys, named after his own sons, drawn into a mysterious world by a pair of magic spectacles found at a curiosity shop that seemed to appear out..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Labeled by the wonderful promotional copy on the back of the book as one of the “NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST” Random House was publishing in 1950, they wrote the following about Paul Bowles’ “The Delicate Prey,” a strikingly dark and now-legendary collection of short stories from the celebrated author: “The short stories by the author of ‘The..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "All day the cafe was full of men in djellebas and turbans. They even filled the tables on the pavement outside, and Abdeslam ran without stopping between the fire and the tables, carrying tea and coffee and Coca-Cola. Most of the customers smoked kif, and many of them tried to sell it to him. He never bought any, because whe he..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Group/ Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Geraldine Brooks. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes, we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice. Convinced by a visionary young minister, they elect to..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Fredric Brown. "When Frederic Brown joins forces with Lewis Carroll a heady brew is almost certain to result, making it hard to decide which holds the greater kick for the reader, Brown or Carroll. Doc Stoeger, owner and editor of the Carmel City Clarion, hopes that before he dies he can get out just..... More

Belen, NM: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-numbered & signed by William Campbell Gault, author of Introduction; also signed by publisher Dennis McMillan. "The palms of my hands were wet with sweat, and I wiped them on my whipcord breeches as I turned into the dark alley leading to the back door of the bus station. I had no business driving this run, because I was scared..... More

New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever-" (first chapter "Last Words," first paragraph) The third & final volume in..... More