New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The Thunder's Mouth Press edition of Jan Kerouac's (1952-1996) novel, "Trainsong," is exemplary not only because it contains what some feel to be her greatest work, but because its contents (in their organizational totality) combine to make for what is perhaps the "ideal" Reading-Working copy. The organizational combination of the unexpurgated text (of a given work) paired with a...... More

Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, n/d (Circa 1895). First Edition Thus (?). Hardcover. A volume of stories by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great British poet, novelist & story-writer whose prolific output celebrated the colonial British Empire. Current censure (if not outright censoring & "cancelling") of imperialism & native cultural appropriation (which he indeed upheld & practiced) aside, the quality & adventuresome excitement of Kipling's evocative writings bestow on them a time-tested..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Hardcover. The iconic novel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial British Empire. While he may be out-of-favor if not entirely "canceled" by our current, intolerant "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed extreme advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now often viewed as appropriation of native cultures..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two works by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist, in one rare volume: Kim, the novel which is among Kipling's most acclaimed & famous works, in which Kim (Kimball O'Hara), an Irish orphan living by his wits in British-ruled India during the late 19th century, gets deeply involved in adventures as he is brought into..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & with self-caricature by Jerzy Kosinski. "Fabian is a knight-errant, driving his VanHome, his only refuge and a stable for his two horses, across the American landscape, up into the northern hinterlands and down through the arid southwest, searching, judging, testing everything and everyone- himself most of all. His livelihood is polo, not the modern team sport of..... More

St. Paul, MN; New York, NY: Graywolf Press; Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Griffin, 1996; 2002. First Hardcover Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. First hardcover & softcover editions, first printings, both signed by Lewis Libby. 'At a remote mountain inn in the northenmost reaches of Japan, a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear, distrust, and suspicion of one another. In the winter of 1903, the..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "We believe The Fixer to be a great novel. Bernard Malamud has put a lifetime of working at his craft into this extraordinary book. What makes the difference here is that the author's consummate skill has been applied to a great theme- injustice- and embodied in a great story. The Fixer is the story of a little man, a...... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. "England is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and Catholic Europe oppose him. The king's quest for freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and creates a...... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "Thomas McGuane's extraordinary first novel, The Sporting Club, aroused an immediate sense of delight and discovery in all who read it...reviewers compared him to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Pynchon, Bellow, Barth, Updike and Terry Southern- yet he is really distinguished by a wildly inventive comic vision, by a felicity of style and maverick energy that are absolutely his own. The Bushwhacked..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "Something to Be Desired is Thomas McGuane's wisest and wittiest novel to date. Yet it deals with the serious themes of misguided sexual obsessions, the anguish of separation, the rekindling of a child's alienated affections, and the satisfaction of putting to rest a desire that has diminished all others. Lucien Taylor has two loves. He is a man whose inexplicable..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This is the last book of the trilogy called The Rosy Crucifixion, of which the first two are Sexus and Plexus. In these three novels Henry Miller fictionalizes the seven years of his "crucifixion" before he left this country for France. His first wife, his second marriage to the great love of his life, his struggles to make a...... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this collection of short fiction Howard Frank Mosher returns to the scenic but rugged hill country of northern Vermont that provided the setting for his highly praised first novel, Disappearances. The characters who people the six stories are natives of this isolated remnant of an earlier New England. They are fiercely proud, resourceful, determined to the point of stubbornness..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More