Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren “’THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ is Algren’s finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka’s gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards as if he could talk to them and they understand. Frankie was as tough as any of the regulars at Schwiefka’s but he..... More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & illustrated by Steve Amick. "It's 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, has arrived in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him an unwanted discharge from the service. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton- the wife of Wink's buddy, still stationed in the Philippines-..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Carlos Baker to George Bornstein. "These twelve quietly engaging stories by Carlos Baker capture a wide variety of people as they confront the ironies of their daily lives. We meet, among others, the boy Griff, who, having been caught long ago in a lie, is never believed when telling the truth; the long-suffering parish secretary..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Dunyazade, kid sister of Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights, (has) her own way with words. There is also Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and yet finds himself at forty "sea-leveled, parched and plucked, every grain in my molted sandals raising blisters, and beleaguered by the serpents of my past." And bellerophon, the hero who tames..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. " "There is nothing unusual about the foot except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen men are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead...In an austere..... More

New York, NY: Arcade Publishing/ Riverrun Press, 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Here, more than 60 years after it was written, is Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett's first novel. Written in a "white heat" in the summer of 1932 at the Hotel Trianon in Paris, when the author was poor and struggling, Dream of Fair to middling Women offers us a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Amy Bloom. “Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine” (from front flap). The second full length novel by short story and nonfiction writer Amy Bloom (b. 1953) dives deep into the life and experiences of a young Jewish immigrant from Russia establishing a new life in..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "To Tangier, outpost of unrestrained freedom, morass of ruthless greed and opportunism, comes a young American, Nelson Dyar. Fed up with his job in a New York bank, he has accepted a position in this swarming Moroccan city where nationals of many countries mingle in a frenzy of smuggling, espionage, vice of every description. Quickly caught up in the stream of..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Brautigan. “It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. The Continental Op has been drafted and is a sergeant in the Aleutians. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. Lew Archer is in the army..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. "'With the publication of 'The Hawkline Monster,' Richard Brautigan, author of 'Trout Fishing in America,' revealed a new dimension to his talent that amused and entertained his many readers. 'His writing has an exemplary control and precision, a fine-tuned tension...he belongs at literature's main table.’ (Chicago Tribune). In this stunning new novel, Brautigan explores contemporary values in America and their..... More