Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Rarely does a publisher introduce a novel of such devastating power. We invite you to open to the first page of The Collector. We believe you will be compelled to read on. He tells the story first- Frederick Clegg, an obscure little clerk and a collector of butterflies who one day goes on to net his finest specimen, Miss..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this novel...John Gardner has created an entire world, that of Peter J. Mickelsson, professor of philosophy, a brilliant man, once fanatically orderly, devoted to precision (despite his love of Nietzsche), distrustful of passion, but now, since the breakup of his marriage, a man who has lost control of both his life and himself: drinking too much gin, eating..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Now, with The Sunlight Dialogues, (John Gardner) gives us his most ambitious and most astonishing work: a world-size novel in which the complex life of an American small town is perceived as an all-encompassing medieval romance in modern dress, a pathless forest for twentieth-century knights, ladies, and wizards. The central plot concerns the quest of a noble but somewhat..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is probably no contemporary writer better qualified to discuss the "art of fiction" than William H. Gass. His knowledge and understanding of his subject come from the point of view of both a practitioner...and a theoretician...His discussion returns fiction to the issues, including language and the individual trademarks of various writers. He makes an important distinction between the..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Jean Genet needs no introduction to American readers. During the past decade his plays- The Maids, Deathwatch, The Balcony, The Blacks, and his soon-to-be performed The Screens- have acquired the status of modern classics and established their author in the forefront of contemporary dramatists. (Genet) first burst upon the literary scene with this novel, Our Lady of the Flowers..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2022. Limited, Numbered First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jim Gibson. Here’s something delightful—if your idea of delightful is torturously good short stories, that is. Preceding the inaugural piece (“The Devil”) in Jim Gibson’s debut short story collection, “The Bygones” is the following lengthy epigraph, integral enough to the totality of the work to merit its lengthy quotation here. “In the midlands,” it begins, “there is a...... More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books/ Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in..... More

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Jocelin's Folly they called it; the great spire that the Dean drove upwards until the stone pillars that held it shrieked and the earth beneath it crawled and crept. For the spire had no foundations; and a spire, if it is to stand, must go down as far as it goes up. But an angel stood behind..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, Inc., 1975. First American Edition. Hardcover. "A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women and not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white privilege in a black country can bring him. With a luxury flat in the city and an expense-account farm in the country, what he is prepared at all costs to conserve is his way of life. Neither his leftist mistress nor his..... More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books/ Random House, Inc., 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already a best seller in Europe, this book introduces to American readers the most brilliant novelist to appear in Germany since the Nazis destroyed the freedom of German writers. The Tin Drum shows clearly that Gunter Grass has begun a new movement in German letters; yet he is also steeped in the great tradition of Goethe and..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Not intended for publication, the journal of Graham Greene's trip to the Belgian Congo in 1959 was the raw material for the novel that became A Burnt-Out Case. A shorter journal, of a wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941, was a prelude to the writing of The Heart of the Matter. Together with the author's introduction and plentiful..... More

Oakland, CA: Inkblot Publications, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. "My Morocco was always loving and funny. THE DEATH OF LOVE is really called MOROCCO TWO and is dedicated to Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper. It came about because of movie commitments & hopes..." (author's introduction, in its entirety) A screenplay by Brion Gysin (1916-1986), the great artist, writer & raconteur closely associated with William S. Burroughs in Tangiers..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by Jane Hamilton. "...A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved- in ways that are beyond imagination. One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for her family's shortcomings. Six years..... More