Sur Racine (On Racine) by BARTHES, Roland. SIGNED - 1963

Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 2003. Signed by Waro Kishi and Glenn Murcutt. First edition / First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Glenn Murcutt is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2002. Winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal. Winner of the 2009 AIA [American Institute of Architects] Gold Medal.

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1933, hardcover, 256 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Association copy Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper "To Kay Francis - all admiration - Max Ewing" and dated "New York, December 1932" Very Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightly rolled and faded spine, nicks to top edge of front board and head of spine, two small holes and edge nicks to front endpaper, small split to paper at front hinge. The many accomplishments of this multi-talented pianist, composer, novelist, poet, sculptor, and photographer were overshadowed by his homosexuality and his unlikely friendship with the prize fighter Jack Pollock. Max's suicide in 1934, at the age of 31, adds drama and sadness to this remarkable man's mostly happy but short life during which Max mingled with dozens of artists, authors, composers, musicians, politicians, stage and movie stars, and wealthy families in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. An… Read More

Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. First edition. De Luxe edition, limited to 100 numered copies printed on Butten, signed by the author and illustrator. Copy number 9, bound in full suede leather with raised bands, gilt spine titles and ornaments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilting and ribbon marker. Published Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. 8vo., 312pp., illustrated with 10 tissue-guarded stone lithographs by Wilhelm Plunnecke. Signed by author on limitation page, and each lithograph signed by Plunnecke. Some sunning to the spine, minor rub at the crown, else fine. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine. Illus. by Plunnecke, Wilhelm. 8vo.

New York, Doubleday & Co. 1986, hardcover, 394 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the front endpaper, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to top corners and heel of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. The highly regarded author of The Painter Gabriel, Sweet Adversity, and the very personal memoir Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers presents a fictional study in toxic relationships as a recovering schizophrenic and a love-starved alcoholic cling together in a desperate attempt at true love and a semblance of a normal life.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, hardcover, 210 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tiny black spot to bottom edge. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest edge nicks, touch of sunning to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. A brilliant and striking piece by an emerging author and winner of the National Book Award for First Novel. An eccentric young woman whose large plot of land is a refuge for a diverse collection of wild animals, passionately surrenders to a young schoolteacher of blind adolescents. ISBN 9780394510217

New York, New York: Crosby Gaige. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1927. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 58 pages: 5 x 6.5 in.: 0.8: Signed by Author: KB#011157: Bookjacket / dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Liam O'Flaherty) on half title page. Limited, numbered edition "Eleven hundred and ninety copies printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, September 1927. Each copy has been signed by the author. This is number 33". Thin, gray paper dustjacket has some well-repaired bottom edge short tears. Boards are light green cloth with many small dark green "shamrocks" covering front and back. Spine has complete paper title label. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. In fact, some pages remain uncut. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. .

Boston: Shambhala, 1996. Signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. First edition / First printing. Burgundy cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Norwood Press, 2006. Hardcover in slipcase. Used - fine condition. Special signed edition for the Clive Cussler Collector's Society, #27 (of 98 numbered copies). Slipcase shows some evidence of minor shelf wear; book itself shows hardly any wear at all. Book is clean and tight. No markings inside the book. Includes a DVD of the Clive Cussler Grandmaster Address from Cusslercon I in Denver CO, October 2005. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Dublin: Vitrum / Links for Publishing, 1998. Signed on the half-title page by Lino Tagliapietra. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Rare signed. Ours appears to be the only signed copy online.

Hart Davis, MacGibbon. London. 1975. REPRINT STEADMAN EDITION. Paperback issue. 4to. (12.2 x 8.5 inches). Inscribed by Steadman on the dedication page in the year of publication, with characteristic flourishes; "Eleanor. Its only paper. Ralph (Steadman that is). 10. 12. 75". Mono illustrations throughout by Steadman. Original black stiff card binding with a mono illustration to the front panel and purple and white lettering. A little bumping to the corners but overall a very good copy.