Greenwich, CT: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First Edition. Wrappers. This iconic 1923 number of the venerable literary, critical & art journal is most famous for the short story "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), the canonical & most influential British Modernist author & publisher. The story was woven into the great novel Mrs. Dalloway two years later (1925). Also in this issue are contributions including..... More

London, England: Picador, 1982. First Edition Thus. Softcover. “It will have been realized by now that I believe Wiliam Burroughs to be a very important writer indeed and one of the most significant of our time—as innovatory, as theorist and as creator of a new form of picaresque novel that stems as much from the history of painting and European art and thought as from his American background and the..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Loren D. Estleman. Michigan native, and master of the detective procedural and western, Loren D. Estleman is a criminally undersung novelist. Estleman is as prolific as he is skilled, his oeuvre contains roughly 70 books, each and every one of a quality many writers strive for but few ever achieve. “Sweet Women Lie”, is the eleventh volume in Estleman’s “Amos..... More

New York, NY: The Broom Publishing Co., 1923. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "There are men who cannot bring themselves to conform with the rest of human society, who cannot conceive of a secure and honorable career even at the hands of a tolerant age. They flee, they are eternally escaping from the fold by some particularly outrageous or suicidal action. (Arthur) Rimbaud having mastered the art of poetry in..... More

New York, NY: Dutton/ Penguin Group, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Senator. The girl. The Fourth of July party on the island. The ride through the night. The accident. The death by water. Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. The point of view is that of the girl herself, Kelly..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Loren D. Estleman  “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”-- Stephen King, “On Writing” (2000). Michigan native, and master of the detective procedural and western, Loren D. Estleman is a criminally..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”--Ralph Ellison, “The Invisible Man”. Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) is widely considered one of the finest writers to ever put a pen to the page. While known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Group/ Dutton, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "You will not read a novel more enthralling, more moving, more unforgettably illumined by profoundly human truth than this story of the rise, the fall, and the ultimate redemption of an American family. That family is the Mulvaneys, seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet...yet something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976- an incident involving sixteen-year-old Marianne that is hushed..... More

New York, NY: Baen Books, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. “ ... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”--George R.R. Martin, “A Game Of Thrones”. George R.R. Martin is one of the most recognizable names in literature today. With massive successes such as “A Song of Ice and Fire” (HBO’s “Game Of Thrones”), his series “Wild Cards”, “Fire and Blood” (HBO’s..... More

New York, NY: William Morrow/ HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Aaron Elkins. "Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pate de foie gras, truffles, and ancient bones. This small French village is home to the largest concentration of prehistoric fossils in Europe and headquarters of the prestigious Institut de Prehistoire, which studies them. So when the local police inspector, Lucien Anatole Joly, finds reason to suspect foul play..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent...The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit—a spirit that..... More

New York, NY: Vintage Books / Random House, 1998; 2000. Uncorrected Proof; First Printing Periodical. Softcover; Loose Folded Sheets. "A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death and published here in book form for the first time. "Call If You Need Me" includes all of the prose previously collected in "No Heroics, Please," four essays from..... More

New York, NY: Amy Einhorn Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Harry Dolan. “I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” Cormac McCarthy, The Washington Post, Nov. 13, 2009. Harry Dolan is the best selling author of novels such as: BAD THINGS HAPPEN (2009), VERY BAD MEN (2011), THE LAST DEAD GIRL (2014)..... More