New Arrivals
I WAS LOOKING FOR A STREET: A Memoir
Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Personal reminiscences of Willeford's childhood and the period when he took to the road as a teenager during the Depression, before joining the U.S. Army. Octavo..... More
NEW HOPE FOR THE DEAD
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's promotional material laid in. The second Hoke Moseley crime novel. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine..... More
THE DIFFERENCE
Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. A reprint of the author's scarce second novel, which was published as The Hombre from Sonora in 1971. This edition restores the original title and includes..... More
THE WAY WE DIE NOW
New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and promotional material laid in. The fourth Hoke Moseley crime novel. Octavo. A fine copy in a...... More
WRITING & OTHER BLOOD SPORTS
Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of autobiographical essays, profiles of, and opinions about fellow writers, including John D. MacDonald, Jim Tully, and Chester Himes. Also contains the book-length study..... More
A PRAYER FOR THE SHIP
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition of the author's debut novel. Reeman (1924-2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical..... More
THE CASE FOR DE GAULLE: A Dialogue Between Andre Malraux and James Burnham
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. "This dialogue is a result of conversations that took place between Malraux and Burnham in Paris during the winter of 1947-1948. In it is set forth the..... More
STRANGE DEFEAT: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
London: Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. Published posthumously, this book focuses on the causes of the French defeat in the Battle..... More
THE CONQUERORS
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the French by Winifred Stephens Whale. The author's first novel. Set in the summer of 1925 against the backdrop..... More
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS: Translation by B. Frechtman
Paris: Morihien, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, limited to 500 copies. The author's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison, penned on the brown paper which..... More
THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis. An important work of Caribbean and Latin American literature, this novel tells the story..... More
MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899. Hardcover. An early printing. The Russian revolutionary and geographer Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement. Although he achieved renown in a...... More
THE GUALENGHI-D'ESTE HOURS: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. This volume includes full-color reproductions of all the illuminations in the Getty Museum's lavish Gualenghi d'Este Hours, along with selected text pages, each with..... More
THE SETTING SUN
New York: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated by Donald Keene. The author's best-known work, which depicts the decline of the Japanese nobility after World War II. Octavo. Original brown..... More
THE TREE OF DEATH
New York: Walker and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Inscribed and dated by Marcia Muller on the title page. The first mystery novel..... More
SUMMER OF NIGHT
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Dan Simmons on the title page. Terror comes to Elm Haven, Illinois, when..... More
THIRST FOR LOVE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Japanese Alfred H. Marks. A portrait of the corrosive power of frustrated desire, this novel was published shortly after..... More
PRISONER OF GRACE
London: Michael Joseph, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. A psychological exploration of the politics of marriage, this is the first novel in Joyce's Second Trilogy. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket..... More
MARCEL PROUST: Letters to His Mother
New York: The Citadel Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated and edited with an introduction by George D. Painter and with an essay by Pamela Hansford Johnson. "Proust's mother was perhaps..... More
OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life.
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1871. Hardcover. An early printing. "Travels and adventures in Kamchatka, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Chinese Tartary, and European Russia, with full accounts of the Siberian exiles, their treatment, condition, and mode..... More
THE AGE OF PROJECTS
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily..... More