First Edition. Short stories. 170 pages. First edition (first printing stated). Near fine in a dust jacket with spine lettering a touch faded, as usual. Signed by Barthelme on the title page.

First Edition. Short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine. 183 pages. First edition (first printing stated). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some patches of discoloration on the white jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

First Edition. Lord John Signatures was a rather strange concept for a book. It is a series of portraits of authors, signed by them, followed by pictures of other famous people with facsimiles of their signatures. The book is bound with blank leaves for the owners of the books to.....

A group of items promoting a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut to the Midway College Friends of the Library group, including an invitation, a small flyer, the event program, and a ticket to the event. Two of the pieces have Vonnegut's signature PRINTED in red. Four pieces in all. All four.....

An essay about Vonnegut and his books, by Jessica Teisch, illustrated with a full-color portrait of Vonnegut. A fine copy of the magazine. Signed by Vonnegut on his portrait photograph and dated 9/11/03. Vonnegut signed in silver Sharpie, which has smudged a bit.

First Edition. An eight-page brochure listing the members of the AAAL, including Kurt Vonnegut in the Department of Literature. 3-7/8 by 9 inches. A fine copy of this pamphlet. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front cover.

First Edition. This is a brochure / exhibition catalog for a show of screenprints by Kurt Vonnegut and Ralph Steadman, with assistance on a few items by Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs. Vonnegut and Steadman both contribute essays. Three works illustrated in color plus various spot illustrations, including.....

This is NOT A VONNEGUT PAINTING, but it is, weirdly, signed by him on the lower right. It's a very odd, comic painting, a Surrealist feline horror scene, reminiscent of a children's book illustration. The action is explained by a caption at the top right: "Claire's lively little invitation: Dinner.....

First Edition. A paperback original Western novel. This is the scarce Canadian issue, with a maple leaf and the legend "published in Canada" on the front cover and "Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks" inside. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). $2.50 on cover. A bit of.....

First Edition. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Murakami has done extensive translation work, including bringing many American writers like Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Ursula LeGuin, Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger, and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) into Japanese. Translation, with running, is one of his main avocations, something he.....

First Edition. A novel about a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York City in the 1950s. The book was filmed from a script by Nick Hornby with Saoirse Ronan in the lead role. This is one of 110 numbered and signed copies bound from the first edition sheets.....

First Edition. Eighteen fairy poems, including "Miss Trust's Incantation" by L. Frank Baum, illustrated from line drawings by the Caldecott Award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman. 32 pages. 8-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches. First edition? (Holiday House first editions can be tricky to identify—they either don't indicate later printings OR they leave.....

First Edition. Ralph Steadman illustrated a journalistic piece written by Roadl Dahl in 1946, about an English farmer who discovered a hoard of Roman silver and was cheated out of it. This is the first separate US edition (this version, with Steadman's illustrations, first appeared in 1999 in the UK).....