First Edition. A children's picture-book about the late, great tennis player and his six-year-old daughter, written by his wife. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing their father-daughter relationship. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket. This copy.....

First Edition. The signed, limited edition of the first in what became a series of poetry anthologies with work inspired or somehow connected to William Shakespeare and his works (however tangentially). This volume includes contributions from the following writers, all of whom have signed the book: Cecil Day Lewis, Robert.....

First Edition. Brennan (1904–1997) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990 (when he had the good sense to retire). Brennan was a key member of the liberal wing of the court and two of his early, still influential decisions, are included here: Baker v. Carr.....

First Thus. First Australian edition of this semi-autobiographical novel featuring Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski. This edition uses sheets from the Black Sparrow edition, with a new title page while preserving the Black Sparrow colophon at the back. A relatively uncommon version of one of Bukowski's most popular books. 291 pages.....

First Edition. An autobiography published by George H. W. Bush while he was Vice-President under Ronald Reagan. Bush served as the forty-first U.S. president for one term, from 1989 to 1993. xvi, 270 pages plus unnumbered pages of halftone photographs. Written with Victor Gold. First edition (stated). A near fine.....

First Edition. New poems, 1980 to 2005. A substantial collection from a leading Chicana poet, incorporating some of the 1998 collection of the same name (which was limited to 10 copies), with many previously unpublished poems. This limited edition, in a faux quarter-leather binding, was published in a trade edition.....

First Edition. The Irish poet's second novel, a story of a woman looking for love and happiness in the Celtic era. Like Clarke' first novel, The Bright Temptation, this book was banned in Ireland under the Censorship of Literature Act (per Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). 382, [2] pages. First.....

First Edition. An anthology of Chicago Latino poets. The contributors are Beatriz Badikian, Sandra Cisneros, Carlos Cortez, Carlos Cumpián, Cynthia Gallaher, Margarita Lopez-Castro, and Raúl Niño. Cisneros contributes "Original Sin" and "César Martínez Jumping Off Roofs," both of which would be reprinted in "Loose Woman." The cover illustration is based.....

First Edition. The acclaimed writer's first book, a comic novel about a baseball player, an elephant, and a nine-year-old runaway who adopts them both. Everett is finally gaining a wider readership because of the award-winning film American Fiction made from his novel, Erasure, a farce about the contradictions facing Black.....

First Edition. The memoirs of "Colonel Smokey", a former undercover narc for the federal government. According to the dust jacket, "a former secret agent of the U.S. Treasury Department reveals amazing details of the illegal traffic in narcotics and the government's ceaseless war against it." Collectors of modern first editions.....

First Edition. Weldon Kees mysteriously disappeared in 1955 and is presumed to have committed suicide; this book collects Kees's three published collections as well as uncollected poems. This book was an attempt (largely successful) to establish Kees's reputation as a major mid-20th century American poet. In his introduction, Donald Justice.....