New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. Thousands went searching and the beatniks of the jazzy fifties gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic sixties, a generation lost on the American highway. But one person inherited Jack's legacy like no other..... 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

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Doris Lessing's new novel- which she defines as "inner-space fiction"- is a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner man. We are inside the mind of professor Charles Watkins (Classics, Cambridge). He is doomed to spin endlessly on a raft in the currents of the Atlantic. He makes a landfall on a tropical shore. He discovers..... 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by Valeria Luiselli. "A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home. Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father. In their..... More

New York, NY: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "Norman Mailer would rather dramatize the unthinkable than write a safe book. Here is An American Dream, his first full-scale work of fiction in nearly ten years. Mailer undertook to write An American Dream under the same conditions of serial deadline that Conrad, Dickens and Dostoevsky met in their day. The novel appeared in slightly different form in eight successive..... 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: Random House, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "The setting of this wild, beautiful and haunting novel is the Amazon jungle, at once majestic and malevolent; the principal characters are four fundamentalist missionaries and a soldier of fortune; and the plot concerns their fanatical conflict over the fate of a primitive and dangerous tribe of jungle Indians...With this new novel Mr. Matthiessen far exceeds his previous achievement. At..... 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: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by Maza Mengiste. "A gripping novel set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record." (from front flap) The acclaimed second novel by Maaza Mengiste (b. 1974), the award-winning..... More