First Edition. The author's first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the William Faulkner Award. [6], 409, [1] pages. First edition (stated first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a surface scar on the spine and shallow chipping at the.....

First Edition. Three short pieces and an introduction by the author, published in an edition of 26 lettered copies bound in brown bonded leather stamped in gilt. In 2000, Thompson's regular publisher issued this book in a trade edition with a dust jacket based on the title-page design. [2:blank], [2].....

First Edition. Collects three previously unpublished Klondike stories, The Devil's Dice Box; The Test: A Klondike Wooing; and A Klondike Christmas. This is one of 26 lettered copies with an original check signed by Jack London mounted on the colophon page. Edited and with a foreword by Earle Labor. [2:blank].....

First Edition. A signed first edition of Babitz's second book. When the New York Review of Books reissued Slow Days, Fast Company in its Classics series, they described the collection of stories as "a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California... In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches.....

First Edition. An inscribed copy of this early Koontz title. 312 pages (including the preliminaries). First edition (first printing, with a numberline including a 1). A very good copy in a spotted and darkened dust jacket, which has two one-inch closed tears on the rear panel. This copy is inscribed.....

First US edition. The seventh James Bond novel, with a striking skull design on the front board. One of 7,500 copies bound from British sheets. First American edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). Fine in a slightly spine darkened, else fine jacket. Upper price clipped leaving $3.00.....

First Edition. A first edition of this book about Kesey's cross-country trip in the old bus nicknamed "Further" and immortalized in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, signed by Kesey and Ken Babbs. In this book, Kesey presents the history of his Merry Pranksters as a trial transcript. Heavily.....

First Edition. Late Michener. One of 500 signed copies still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. The book is a short novel set in Seville during Holy Week. An American sportswriter comes to report on a rancher's attempt to revive his once-proud line of fighting bulls. Michener died in 1997.....

One of 500 signed copies of the English translation of de Beauvoir's novel, which won France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. The book is set in the world of the French intelligensia in the years immediately after the end of the Nazi occupation. The book is not strictly.....

First Edition. One of 400 signed and numbered copies of Michener's bullfighting novel. First edition, signed and numbered issue. This is copy 36 of 400 signed by Michener on a limitation page. The spine is very slightly faded, else fine in a fine slipcase.

First Edition. A copy of this follow-up to the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy inscribed by James Norman Hall. The novel is set on a small, fictional French colony in the South Pacific. The plot revolves around an escaped Polynesian convict who returns to the island. John Ford directed the.....

First Edition. A signed first printing of the first book by the author of Black Like Me. This novel about temptation takes place inside a monastery. The author, blinded for many years from injuries suffered during the Second World War, eventually regained sight. This novel was dictated into a tape.....

First Edition. A signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. [2:blank], [4], 32, [2:blank] pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first and.....