New York, NY: Random House, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. "Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker Magazine, possesses an uncanny ability to discover (every other year or so) a new writing star who brings added luster to the pages of his sparkling periodical...the bright new luminary of the past two seasons has been, without question, John Cheever. This volume, his first collection of stories in book form, is a literary..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Written with ferocious intensity, this novel is a fictional re-creation of the seven-year exile of perhaps the most controversial figure in all of twentieth-century literature. Celine: author of Journey to the End of the night and Death on the Installment Plan...dedicated doctor, vociferous anti-Semite, accused Nazi sympathizer...on the lam, hunted and haunted by the French Resistance..... More

Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1979. First Limited Hardcover & Softcover Editions. Hardcover; Softcover. Hardcover signed & with original drawing by Tom Clark; softcover signed by Tom Clark. "The Master came from a high country beyond the mountains where it's said the adepts of the faith walk over the stones without touching their feet to them, and the masters are skilled at teleportation. He came to the United States when political..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. "When a lonely South African sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of his black foreman's young bride, his transgression brings to an end an uneasy feudal peace. His embittered spinster daughter, Magda, dreams of and executes a bloody revenge, then shuts the farm off from the world to play out with the foreman and his wife her sexual..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "Unlike most first books of stories, this one exhibits the versatility and explosive force of a talent already mature. From the title story, which deals with the remarkable lecture an art class receives from its usually taciturn master, to "The Yellow Raft," an unforgettable sketch of a downed flyer, these are stories with a wide range of subject matter..... 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

Paris, France: Les Editions Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2013. Second French Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of autobiographical-fictional stories by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition No. 3075). First published in 2007 as "A House..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2019. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Natasha Dennerstein. The title story by Natasha Dennerstein, an acclaimed Australian-born poet & writer whose former career as a psychiatric nurse has given her "...an interesting perspective on the human condition." (from short biography, final page). Chapbook in sewn binding, a handsome, high-quality production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of Tangerine Press..... 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

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. "With eyes wet and huge the deer watched; the young man watched back. The youth was crouching over a spring as though talking to the ground, the water pluming up bright through his turquoise-ringed hand, then eddying back in the bottomless whorl it had sculptured neat and sharp in the orange rock. The rock retreated to a blue then again..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Last Notes from Home is the long-awaited and triumphant third volume of Frederick Exley's trilogy, which began with A Fan's Notes. Exuberant, witty, perceptive, paranoid, outrageous- half fantasy, half fact- Last Notes from Home is ostensibly the story of Exley's journey to Hawaii from upstate New York to visit his brother, "the Brigadier," an Army officer who is dying of..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "Richard Farina's tragically short odyssey began in Brooklyn in 1937. Its places included Cornell University, Paris, Northern Ireland, Havana--once while Castro's army was entering the city--cities and countries across America and Europe. Its roles included poet, composer, IRA Revolutionary, singer, dulcimer-player, novelist--always developing and refining his own unique insights into our world and himself. Son of an Irish mother and a...... More