New Arrivals
THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
New York: Random House, 1950. Hardcover. An lovely edition of the works of Jane Austen (1775-1817), the beloved writer credited with giving the English novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people..... More
THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Shorter Works (Lady Susan, Love and Friendship, etc.)
London: The Folio Society, 1989. Hardcover. Later printings, based on the definitive texts of Professor R.W. Chapman. An attractive uniform edition of the works of Jane Austen (1775-1817), the beloved writer credited with giving the..... More
CANNERY ROW
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. For this novel, Steinbeck (1902-68) drew on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, interweaving their stories in a world where only the fittest..... More
NORTHWEST PASSAGE
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Special Two-Volume Edition: this is Number 960 of 1,050 copies signed by Kenneth Roberts. Historical novel concerning the life and exploits of..... More
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UPTON SINCLAIR
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Upton Sinclair on the front flyleaf. Lively autobiography of the American novelist and polemicist for socialism and other causes, whose novel The..... More
THE DRIFTERS
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #179 of 500 specially bound copies signed by James Michener. In this poignant novel concerning the intergenerational conflicts of the 1960s, Michener follows the international..... More
THE PAST RECAPTURED: Translated by Frederick A. Blossom
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. The seventh and final volume in Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, which was first translated into English as Remembrance..... More
WHEN THE WHIPPOORWILL-
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing with the "A" on the copyright page. A collection of 11 short stories "about the Florida scene and Florida people" by the..... More
MARINERS, RENEGADES & CASTAWAYS: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
Hanover and London: Dartmouth College, 2001. Trade paperback. The complete text, with an introduction by Donald E. Pease. Octavo: 182 p. Original paper wrappers. The spine is a touch sun faded; else very good or..... More
BLUE OF NOON: Translated by Harry Mathews
New York: Urizen Books, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "Against the backdrop of European revolution and fascism in the 1930s, this classic work of French eroticism explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force."..... More
JOYCE'S BOOK OF THE DARK: Finnegans Wake
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here, in twelve chapters, John Bishop unravels Joyce's obscurities, revealing the Wake more clearly than anyone has done before, making accessible to all readers a...... More
MICROSCRIPTS
New York: New Directions / Christine Burgin, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Robert Walser (1878-1956) wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during..... More
NAKED LUNCH
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, so stated with the $6.00 price on the dust jacket and no zip code in the publisher's address. Hustler-addict Bill Lee travels from..... More
THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen this searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence..... More
THE HORSE’S MOUTH
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. A searing portrait of the artistic temperament, this novel served as the basis for 1958 Ronald Neame film starring Alec Guinness. Octavo. Original..... More
ANNOTATIONS TO FINNEGANS WAKE
London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo: 628 p. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, unread copy. More
THE DIARY OF ANAÏS NIN, Volume VI: 1955-1966
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed by Anaïs Nin on the front flyleaf. The sixth of seven diary volumes and the last to appear during Nin’s lifetime. Dedicated to..... More
A WOMAN SPEAKS: The Lectures, Seminars, and Interviews of Anaïs Nin
Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Anaïs Nin on the front flyleaf, with two handwritten notes from Nin laid in. In this collection, Nin speaks with warmth..... More
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COLLECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, Volume II: Tales and Sketches, 1831-1842 [and] Volume III: Tales and Sketches, 1843-1849
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Second printings. "Here is the collection edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, for more than a generation recognized as the outstanding Poe..... More
THE JUMPING FROG: In English, Then in French, Then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Mark Twain on the front pastedown: “To Lieut. Norman Woolcock, R.N.R. with the compliments & best wishes of Mark Twain, S.S. Minnetonka..... More
GENIUS AND LUST: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Norman Mailer “at Henry Miller’s house” to Jean Sherman, who translated the later work of Anaïs Nin. Additionally signed by..... More
THE WORLD OF SEX
Chicago: Printed by J.H.N. for Friends of Henry Miller, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Though the limitation states only 250 copies were printed, the actual number is believed to be between 750 and 1,000. Signed by..... More
THE CROSSING
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page. The second volume of The Border Trilogy follows two teenage boys across the American..... More