Second Printing. The author's second novel. 212 pages. Second printing (with two dots on the copyright page; in the correct dust jacket with reviews of The Gospel Singer on the rear panel of the jacket). A near fine copy (minor wear to the bottom of the boards) in a very.....

First Edition. The first book in Clavell's Asia Saga, a series of novels set in feudal Japan, and a worldwide bestseller that remains popular in the US as it approaches its 50th anniversary. The book was turned into a hugely popular TV miniseries in 1980 and a new series is.....

Uncorrected Proof. The advance reading copy, in pictorial wrappers, of this substantial collection of early letters from Thompson. Edited by Douglas Brinkley; foreword by William J. Kennedy; and an author's note. [2:blank], xl, 653, [9:blank] pages. ARC. Minor wear to the corners.

First British edition. The author's first book, a novel based on his experience as a soldier in Vietnam. First UK edition (first printing, stating "First published..." with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page, "To.....

First Edition. The author's first book, a novel based on his experience as a soldier in Vietnam. First edition (first printing stated). An ex-library copy, with tape residue on the board and glue residue on the endpapers where a pocket was removed. In a good to very good dust jacket.....

First Edition. A nice copy of Crews’s strange and memorable novel. 208 pages. First edition (stated). The jacket shows minor soiling to the textured cream stock (which, as usual, attracts dirt like a Dustbuster), and the spine is just lightly sunned. The book itself, however, has a large discolored patch.....

First Edition. The final script of the winner of the 1962 Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. It was only published in the UK; there was no corresponding American edition. The script reproduces the final version of the text with considerable fidelity, keeping the original scene numbering even though there.....

First Edition. A collection of essays that mostly first appeared in Playboy or Esquire. The edition was 6,500 copies, according to the Ahearns' bibliography. 213 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy (top edge spotted) in a near fine dust jacket. This.....

Fourth Danish edition (Fjerde oplag), bringing the total number of copies in print to 10,000. A classic book of the 20th century, a memoir of Blixen's life on a coffee plantation in Kenya in the waning years of the British colonial empire. Blixen wrote the book in English; it was.....

First Edition. An earlier novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning James, a retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Glyph is a "tour de farce" (quoting the dust jacket), an experimental novel about all the adults who want control of an infant genius. [vi], 211, [7:blank].....

Uncorrected Proof. An uncorrected proof, issued prior to the first edition, of this look at architecture. This version lacks the first letter of each chapter, later supplied as a larger, drop capital; it also has two handwritten corrections reproduced on page 135. Labeled "uncorrected page proof" at the top of.....

First Edition. Selections from four previous books of poems plus a number of previously uncollected pieces. Johnson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction a couple of times. 225 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy (top edge lightly dust.....

First Edition. "Twenty-four astonishing and memorable accounts of the ways in which the normal individual may run afoul of the bizarre, the occult, and the openly fiendish"—dust jacket. 327 pages. First edition (states "Published in January 1941" with no indication of later printings on the copyright page). A very good.....