New Arrivals
EFFECTIVE CARD MAGIC: Edited by Jean Hugard
New York: Louis Tannen, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths..... More
REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Book club edition, identical to the first edition save for a small slug on the rear board and the absence of the price on the dust jacket..... More
XENOPHON'S PRINCE: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "For over two millennia, the Cyropaedia, an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work and considered his masterpiece. This..... More
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Norman Mailer on the half-title. The gospel story retold from Christ's point of view. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with black titles. A fine..... More
NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND: Translated by Ursule Molinaro
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. The first printing of this translation of Hesse's acclaimed 1930 novel. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with..... More
RAMBLIN' MAN: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ed Cray to his colleague, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks, on the half-title. The life and career of the most recognized and beloved..... More
LOVE, AGAIN
London: Flamingo, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Doris Lessing on the title page. An introspective novel exploring sexuality and love in older women. Lessing (1919-2013) was awarded..... More
SALT PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES IN ANCIENT CHINA: The Aobo Tu
Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English, translated and revised by Hans Ulrich Vogel. Scholarly treatise on the boiling of sea water and other forms of salt production..... More
DEATH IN THE ANDES
London: Faber and Faber, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated by Edith Grossman. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian..... More
A PLACE ON EARTH
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. The author's second novel. Set in the critical year of 1945, it focuses on farmer Mat..... More
IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING
New York: The Third Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A compilation of essays by Davis (b.1944) and others about not just Davis’s case, but also the political use of incarceration in America. Davis was arrested..... More
THE UNCONSOLED
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page. A renowned pianist finds himself in a mysterious and dreamlike urban maze in this a wicked satire of the..... More
HUSTLER! The Autobiography of a Thief
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Anticipating and informing the popular blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, this account of a...... More
THE UIGHUR EMPIRE According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories: A Study in Sino-Uighur Relations 744-840
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. Hardcover. Limited to 999 copies (this copy is unnumbered). A translation with introduction and notes of those sections of the chuan on the Uighurs in the Chiu T'ang-shu..... More
ULYSSES: A Reader's Edition, Edited by Danis Rose
London: Picador, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Danis Rose on a label affixed to the title page. "...a completely redesigned and comprehensively edited text of James Joyce's masterpiece." Octavo: lxxxiii, 739 p...... More
NEW ORLEANS CITY GUIDE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the marquee productions in the American Guide Series, first published in 1938 and reissued in 1952 and 1983. The New Orleans City Guide was largely..... More
CHARON'S DAUGHTER: A Passion of Identity
New Haven: Liveright, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and a photograph of the author laid in. An "autobiographical progression in prose and verse" by the daughter of revered modernist poet..... More
THE JEWISH AND ALIEN HERITAGE OF ANCIENT JAPAN: Is the Lost Tribe of Israel the Founder of Japan's Imperial Family?
Northridge, California: James Oda, 1997. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed and dated by James Oda on the title page. In this extensive and expansive investigation into Nichiyu D soron (Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory), the author..... More
A FENCE AWAY FROM FREEDOM: Japanese Americans and World War II
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ellen Levine on the title page. The bitter experience of Japanese Americans illegally interned during World War II is told in the voices of..... More
WONDERFUL TOWN: A New Musical Comedy, Music by Leonard Bernstein
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Joseph Fields on the front flyleaf. The Tony Award-winning musical about two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress..... More
BRIGHT SKY TOMORROW
New York: Friendship Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the story of a Chinese family who are forced to flee from home to escape the invading armies and who find a new place for themselves in..... More
THE HANGING TREE
New York: Ballantine Books, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Laid is a typed letter signed (TLS) by Dorothy M. Johnson on her personal letterhead. Western novel set in the gold fields of Montana, which served as..... More
THE DEDICATION OF BOOKS TO PATRON AND FRIEND: A Chapter in Literary History
London: Elliot Stock, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Olive Percival, with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Olive May Graves Percival (1868-1945) was a multi-talented Los Angeles writer, photographer, gardener, artist, and..... More
THE TRUE DIMENSION
London: Martin Secker, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Warrington Dawson on the front flyleaf. Metaphysical novel by the South Carolina writer who was serving as..... More