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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A Dirk Pitt novel featuring a shipwreck and Soviet intrigue. 432 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has tanned and faded somewhat at the spine. Signed by Cussler on… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. Wolfe's acerbic take on Modern Art. 121 pages. First edition (stated first printing). A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Board edges faded as usual. This copy is inscribed to Ed and Mary Etta Moose, who owned the Washington… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Wolfe's sixth book, a collection of essays. Illustrated from drawings by the author. 243 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy (slight spine lean; top edge dusty) in a very good dust jacket with a few short tears. This copy is… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of essays by the author of Bonfire of the Vanities. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Ed and Mary Etta Moose, San Francisco restaurateurs. A 1996 New York Times article (April 10) about the… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles." 127 pages. This is one of 26 lettered copies bound by Earle Gray with a cloth spine and signed by both Mrabet and Bowles. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy (slight waviness to the… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel set in Miami, Florida. 704 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed in marker to Mary Etta Moose, who with her husband, Ed, owned two San Francisco restaurants… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A long novel of college life. 676 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. While not especially scarce signed, this copy has a terrific inscription, one of the best… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Wolfe looks at American architecture. 143 pages. First edition (first printing stated). A near fine copy (some discoloration of the endpapers as usual from the binding glue) in a slightly spine faded, else near fine jacket. This copy is inscribed in the month of publication… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Cartoons, caricatures, and drawings by the journalist and novelist. 119 pages. 9 by 11 inches. Second printing. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed in three colors, "Merry Christmas to Ed and Mary Etta from Alexandra Sheila and Tom… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of short pieces, many reworked for this publication. The first edition was 2000 numbered copies. xx, 230 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket that is tanned at the spine and is missing one-inch piece… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The author's first novel. First edition (stated). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has less wear than most, but its back panel and the endpapers are heavily foxed.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The prequel to McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. 477 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry.

Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1960. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine. When Richard Hudson turns from a used car salesman to a movieland producer [like you do], his interests swing to this year's model-sleek, trim lines, an eye-catching front end and a well curved rear.. NSL U137. Fifty-cent cover price. 192 pages. First edition (first printing, "pilot… Read more about this item

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A detective novel set in Vancouver, British Columbia's Chinatown. The main character, Donegal Dawn, is a mysterious amateur detective and master of disguise called in by the police to solve particularly perplexing cases. Dawn is particularly adept at passing unnoticed in the Asian quarter of… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel by this Nobel Prize-winning author who was born in Japan, but grew up in England. Winner of the Whitbread prize and short listed for the Booker. First US edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 300 unnumbered copies signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A fine copy (not issued in a dust jacket) in a fine slipcase. Signed by Welty on the limitation page.

New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The author's last novel. This is one of 300 numbered copies, printed on special paper and signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good example of the original clear acetate dust jacket, which is missing a small chip from the top… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A sort of road novel about a struggling Houston writer who drives to California and back. First edition (first printing stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some fading to the orange lettering on the spine. Signed by McMurtry.

London: Basil Blackwell, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The British poet laureate's first children's books, an adventure yarn about the son of a feared sea captain who takes up the family business and has adventures fighting the Spanish in the 16th century. This is one of Day-Lewis's most sought-after books. Published as Tales of Action… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A novella set in a fictional Mississippi county. It was first published in the December 5, 1953, issue of the New Yorker, where it was the only feature that month. This hardcover edition, officially published on January 7, 1954, is illustrated with line drawings by… Read more about this item