![Item No: #362873 The Late Child [Proof]. Larry McMurtry](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362873.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685664985)
Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy in printed yellow wrappers (paper covers), issued prior to the first edition. A sequel to The Desert Rose. 461 pages. Near fine. Minor bend to lower front cover, tea (?) stain on top edge. Signed by McMurtry on the first blank.
Price: $50
First Edition. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but.....
Price: $60
First Edition. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but.....
Price: $75
First Edition. Larry McMurtry was a book scout and antiquarian bookseller before he was a novelist, but he never wrote a novel about a bookseller. This is as close as he got, a story about an antiques scout whose motto, "anything can be anywhere", has endeared his character to generations.....
Price: $50
First Thus. Crews' fourth novel about an outlaw band of karate fanatics. This is a paperback reissue. 218 pages. First printing of this paperback edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy, inscribed on the half-title page, "Tom—back off and re-think the whole thing—all best, Harry Crews."
Price: $60
First British edition. "Car is about a man who, in public and before national TV cameras, will eat a car, eat it, in his own words, 'from bumper to bumper.' He loves the car. And Car is about the love of cars"—from the front flap of the American edition. 152.....
Price: $75
First Edition. Crews's third novel, "the story of the struggle between life (a woman) and death (another woman) for the small body and large soul of a midget masseur named Jefferson Davis Munroe"—the dust jacket. 186 pages. First edition (first printing, with no additional printings noted). Small abraded area on.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The second volume of Spiegelman's holocaust tale, probably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel. It was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992; to date, the only graphic novel so honored. The first Maus graphic novel appeared as a paperback original in 1986, after having been serialized in.....
Price: $750
First Edition. Shelley's classic novel illustrated from woodcuts by Lynd Ward. In his introduction to A Contract with God, the first commercially successful graphic novel, Will Eisner says of this book, "Frankenstein fell into my hands in 1938 and it had an influence on my thinking thereafter. I consider my.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.
Price: $75
First Edition. Excerpts from Bukowski's journals from 1991 to 1993, with illustrations by R. Crumb. "Why are there so few interesting people? Out of the millions, why aren't there a few. Must we continue to live with this drab and ponderous species. Seems their only act is violence"—Charles Bukowski asking.....
Price: $400
First Edition. Crews' fourth novel. First edition (first printing with no additional printings noted). Lower outside corner stained affecting the first several pages, thus good only in a very good dust jacket, which is a bit grubby. Looks okay on the shelf.
Price: $100
First Edition. One of Crews' hard-to-summarize novels, stuffed with weirdness and humanity. 208 pages. First edition (stated). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Small piece missing from bottom of jacket spine, affecting the publisher's imprint.
Price: $75
First Edition. A stand-alone story issued as a promotional item prior to the book's publication. The cover title reads, "Riverhead Books presents a story from This Is How You Lose Her." In 2019, Díaz's UK publisher issued this story as a one-off chapbook. This US edition obviously pre-dates it and.....
Price: $30
![Item No: #245470 The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais [Two Volumes]. Francis...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/245470.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684533806)
Two volume set, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with more than 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Title in full: The Works of Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of.....
Price: $200
Two volumes, complete. One of 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by Lynd Ward, who contributes photogravures. Very good copies in patterned cloth. In a good slipcase; edges cracked; ends tanned.
Price: $100
First Edition. Nine sets of small lift-the-flap-style pages that can be combined into hundreds (1458) different stories. 11-1/4 by 2-1/4 inches. Published in an edition of 526 copies signed by Gorey. First edition (first printing). This is no. 133 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Gorey on the inside back.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in.....
Price: $500
First Edition. Stick figure illustrations with one- and two-word captions in French. 4 by 5-3/4 inches. Toledano, A103. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). Slight spine lean; covers a bit tanned around the edges. Signed by Gorey on the title page.
Price: $85
First Edition. Travelog of the author's cruise through Monte Carlo, Portofino, Leghorn, the Bay of Naples, Capri, and Corsica. Illustrated throughout the text and with four full-color plates. Bemelmans, best known for his Madeline series of picture books, also wrote novels and nonfiction books. First edition (first printing). A very.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Two plays from the great American dramatist. First edition (first printing stated). A very copy in a fine dust jacket (there was also a more common simultaneous paperback version). The blue cloth is sun-struck along the top and bottom edges.
Price: $100
First Edition. The sequel to the Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller, a very plausible first-hand account of a bookseller in difficult financial straits. The book purports to be papers found after the unlucky booksellers' demise. The author was in fact a member of local government in Scotland at the.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The first volume of Spiegelman's holocaust tale, originally serialized in RAW magazine. Maus is probably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel. It was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992; to date, the only graphic novel so honored. A paperback original (the hardcover version was published years later;.....
Price: $250
First Edition. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good copy with some shelf.....
Price: $3,000
First Edition. A historical novel set in Italy. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Sontag to Peter Perrone who is thanked on the copyright page. Sontag writes, "for my beloved Peter—part of everything, nourisher of the Volcano Lover, guardian angel—your Susan. 9.....
Price: $500
