New York, NY: The Modern Library/ Random House, Inc., 1950. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In his revealing introduction written specially for this edition, W. Somerset Maugham expresses his own preference among all the novels in his long and distinguished career. He says: "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work...But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale." The same..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Nobody's Angel is about Patrick Fitzpatrick- a former Army tank captain and sometime whiskey addict- who goes home again to his family's Heart Bar Ranch near Deadrock, Montana. His father is dead, his aging grandfather living now for Western movies, his troubled sister Mary at the moment a missing person, the ranch in need of repair, the Big Sky country..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton/ Seymour Lawrence, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "To Skin a Cat assembles thirteen stories of astonishing range, both in approach and subject: a homicidal rancher, tank-town socialites, children facing mortality, good men and women frozen by life passing them, self-aggrandizing cads, publicity hounds, heartbreakers, a young girl confronting motherhood, and the childless old. Each story demands its own approach but the subject remains the human heart..... 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Advance Readers' Edition/ Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Susan Minot. "A woman on her deathbed relives the greatest love affair of her life in a stunning new novel from Susan Minot..." (from back cover) The acclaimed novel by Susan Minot (b. 1956), the great American author, playwright, poet, screenwriter, academician & all-around Woman-of-Arts-&-Letters. This compelling novel was the basis for the..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones- of longing and alarm, or urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "All day the cafe was full of men in djellebas and turbans. They even filled the tables on the pavement outside, and Abdeslam ran without stopping between the fire and the tables, carrying tea and coffee and Coca-Cola. Most of the customers smoked kif, and many of them tried to sell it to him. He never bought any, because whe he..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances, the development of which resembled a clumsy conspiracy, with nonsensical details and a main plotter who not only knew nothing of its real object but insisted on making inept moves that seemed to preclude the slightest possibility of success. Yet out of those very mistakes..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1977...As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume contains twelve brilliant new stories, all written in the two years following the completion of Waiting for Winter (1966). One of them, "A Few Trips and Some Poetry," is a novel of medium length...The quality of And Other Stories- which contains some of the author's finest work- shows what a great amount of his energy and time has..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1945. First Softcover Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. "First published in 1945, Kenneth Patchen's Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer has been reprinted over the years in various editions and is now recognized as a classic of American humor and satire. It is the hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent whose comic misadventures hold up a distorting mirror to our..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press/ Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "This long-awaited novel by Katherine Anne Porter is destined to take a permanent place in the literature of our time. Over a period of many years Miss Porter has devoted her creative energy and her great gifts as a storyteller to this major work, weaving its many strands into a rich, varicolored fabric. It is a novel..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Quammen. "Color is the subject of this serious, funny, scary, and human novel- color as a signal for tragic hostility and for farcical misunderstanding, color as a test for the young who want to change the world. The author tells the story of a young white Ivy Leaguer who makes an awkward alliance- built on..... More