New York, NY; London, England: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; The Artemis Press, 1927; 1955. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two rarities by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author whose literary innovations were & remain acclaimed & influential- but whose legacy is forever darkened by his having supported Adolf Hitler & the Nazis during World War II (as with Louis Ferdinand Celine, Ezra Pound et al.): (1) Mysteries, first American..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. "The time is now. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname- Buffalo Bill- is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral..... More

New York, NY: Summit Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kent Haruf. "Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged is in the finest tradition of American storytelling. Spare and resonant, it is the tale of the betrayal of a small Colorado town by its local hero, and of the town's insidious revenge. Everyone loved Jack Burdett. He was the best football player his town had ever seen. His high school..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "With a feeling of real excitement the editors of Direction present, in The Cannibal, the first novel of a new American writer of extraordinary promise...The Cannibal is a story of Germany, but of a fantastic and hallucinated Germany, something half-way between nightmare and myth. The action is set in two different periods- 1914 and 1945- and we follow the lives..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by John Hawkes. "Out of his experiences as a wartime ambulance driver in Italy- mainly in the area of the Inferno- John Hawkes has distilled two haunting, obsessive short novels of strange happenings in a landscape which is partly Italian and partly the author's own brand of myth and fantasy. The Owl is laid in a medieval..... More

New York, NY: Riverhead Books/ Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paula Hawkins. "There she sits, the girl on the train. What she sees, gazing out the window, will change everything...Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch..... More

London, England: Fig Tree/ Penguin Books Ltd., 2008. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Zoe Heller. "A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Zoe Heller. "Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary existence; aside from her cat, Portia, she has few friends, and no intimates. When Sheba Hart joins St. George's as the new art teacher Barbara senses the possibility of a friendship. It begins with lunches and continues with regular invitations to meals with Sheba's seemingly close-knit family. But..... More

London, England: Victor Gollancz, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Ever the contrarian, “A Moveable Feast” is Your Devoted Managing Curator’s favorite work by the canonical early-Modernist titan, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). “A Moveable Fest” is like a great documentary. The only difference is the prior’s having been printed to page and bound between boards, — an effect that fans of vivid, film-like prose are quick to praise, and happily “get behind.” This..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1985. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tony Hillerman. "A car thief, a killer, an infected hogan, a ghost kept from its journey into death's underworld: the search for a lost girl leads Tribal Policeman Jim Chee to a case of false identity and the ultimate revenge- murder. The Navajo "Big Reservation" is a land of snakeweed and buffalo grass, a searing wind that..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. "GO deals with a group of young people whose lives are frenetic and even violent. Because they want passionately to believe in something and cannot find it, they create strange illusions to live by, and they are driven by a craving for excess. Their long nights involve liquor and marijuana, with the beat of bebop in the background, and they..... More

New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. / … / She sparks an email correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanesque songwriter who stopped making music twenty two..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Neville Books, 1995. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jon A. Jackson. "I'm glad to write about Ray, who was without a doubt the most career oriented writer I've known, but who was also a splendid pal. He was the ur-writer. He practically had no sense of himself outside of that identification. Chekhov was a doctor, others might think of themselves as teachers, or public figures, but..... More