New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Elizabeth Gilbert. "Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this sweeping novel follows the fortunes of the Whittakers- a family of botanical explorers, led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker, a poor-born Englishman who makes his fortune in the South American quinine trade and swiftly becomes the richest man in the New World. His daughter..... More

New York, NY: The Modern Library, Inc., 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "It is almost a hundred years since Dead Souls was written. During that time it has made a permanent place for itself in the world's literature beside such books as Gulliver's Travels and Don Quixote. To the Russian, whatever his political allegiance may be, Dead Souls is more than a satire that flays the weakness of the Slavic..... 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

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library/ Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., n/d (c. 2000). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Sam Spade is a knock-out detective and yet, personally, he cares not a hoot for the law; so little so that constantly is he just on the verge of being pulled by the 'Frisco cops. When Spade goes out after anything neither lead slugs, women, nor the Old Nick himself can stop him..... More

n/p (Winston-Salem, NC): Palaemon Press LImited, 1982. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Barry Hannah. A short story by Barry Hannah (1942-2010), the acclaimed American writer & academician who resided & worked in Mississippi, & largely focused on the Southern region in the great gothic-grotesque tradition of William Faulkner (who also lived in Oxford, MS where Hannah taught), Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams et al. A beautiful hand-crafted letterpress..... More

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kent Haruf. "In the tradition of Willa Cather's finest writing about our Western (USA) lands and people, The Tie That Binds rings with the authority and passionate voice of an American classic. Set in the spare country of Colorado's high plains, Kent Haruf's stunning story explodes with the force and directness of Greek tragedy. It introduces Edith..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. " "Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes' new novel, The Blood Oranges, is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "Death, Sleep & the Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. It is pure, brilliant, profound- a short masterpiece of comedy and myth." (front flap) The tenth published work by John Hawkes (1925-1998), the acclaimed &..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "John Hawkes is widely regarded as one of the masters of modernism, a narrative virtuoso who is as innovative as he is accomplished. Both of these qualities are richly displayed and even extended in Virginie: Her Two Lives. The novel is inspired by the tradition of French erotic fiction from de Sade to Bataille. But Hawkes goes his mentors..... More