New arrivals, including uncommon signed first editions of recent books, including Roxane Gay, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Colson Whitehead.
First Edition. A book about insects and animals in comic-book form. Published in a series edited by Art Spiegelman and Francois Mouly, the writer Nadja Spiegelman's parents. This is the first book from both the author and artist. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in illustrated boards (not issued.....
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First Edition. A picture book adapted by Kushner (Angels in America) from the opera libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, signed on the title page by both Sendak and Kushner.
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First Edition. Cult movie-themed artwork from a gallery serving the underground/urban art scene. Illustrated in full color, with reproductions of several hundred paintings based on iconic films. Introduction by Seth Rogan. 176 pages. 9 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A locked room mystery (I think). There is no date in this book, but it was serialized in the New York Daily News in 1948. First edition (first printing stated). A very good copy in a like dust jacket. Some wear to the edges. With a 2/- price.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A novel about a Haitian woman kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang of young men. This book was published as a paperback original in the United States (and in hardcover a year later in the UK). First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1).....
Price: $100
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First Edition. One of 250 deluxe copies of Elizabeth Gilbert's (Eat, Pray, Love; The Signature of All Things) book on creativity. Each book has a unique binding, with a design based on a scan of a watercolor by Lourdes Sanchez. The books are numbered and signed by Gilbert on a......
Price: $300
First Edition. A critically acclaimed and popular novelistic retelling of the story of the Greek goddess Circe. HBO acquired the rights for a miniseries based on the book. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with tiny.....
Price: $400
First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian explores Frederick Law Olmstead's journey through the South just before the Civil War. (Olmstead later became the great American landscape architect of the 19th century.) Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending.....
Price: $300
First Edition. The second novel from the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, inspired by the legend of the black railroad steel driver who sought to out-work a new machine. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Whitehead on.....
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First Edition. Winner of the National Book Award, the story of a young enslaved boy who finds refuge with the abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket but for a......
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First Edition. An acclaimed memoir that "explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen." First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Gay on the.....
Price: $100
First Edition. Short stories by one of the most trenchant social commentators in America today. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Gay on the title page. Uncommon signed.
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First British edition. The British edition of this acclaimed collection of short stories. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $125
First Edition. A critically acclaimed dark comic novel. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $300
First Edition. An acclaimed collection of short stories. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The pen she was using ran out of ink and Moshfegh re-wrote her last name on.....
Price: $100
First Edition. A collection of essays about New York. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's third book. 158 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Whitehead on the title page and uncommon thus.
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First Edition. The two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner's first book, a novel centered around the first black female elevator inspector in a large metropolis. 255 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket with a bit of wear along to the top edge. Signed by.....
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First Edition. A portfolio of 13 color offset lithograph prints laid in. Each print is signed by the artist. Limited to 248 copies. The artists are (with likely first names): (Philippe) Berthet, (Philippe) Buchet, Cosey (a.k.a. Bernard Cosendai), (Jean-Pierre) Danard, (Philippe) Francq, (Jean-Pierre) Gibrat, Hermann Huppen, (Nicolas) Malfin, (Félix) Meynet.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Three volumes in the Belladone series of graphic novels in the publisher's slipcase. Text in French. Full color throughout. 9 by 12-3/4 inches and 48 pages each. First editions? Tome 3 (Louis) states "premiere edition" on the copyright page; the other two books do not have a first.....
Price: $125
First Edition. The first American hardcover edition of the 13th Travis McGee mystery. Originally published in paperback in 1972. The UK hardcover came out in 1973. First hardcover edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. No remainder spray.....
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First Edition. This is the first American hardcover of the 9th Travis McGee novel, which was first published as a paperback in 1968. This is one of the scarcest Travis McGee hardcovers. First edition (first printing). This is possibly an ex-library copy, as there is glue residue on the rear.....
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A short letter to Peter Howard, the late owner of Serendipity Books, in Berkeley. "Dear Peter Howard: Thanks for sending the catalogues. I'm glad that Larry [prob. McMurtry] has put us in touch and I look forward to coming by and looking around the next time I'm in Berkeley. Yours.....
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First Edition. A novel featuring Downing's recurring character, the US Customs Service inspector Hugh Rennert. Like most of Downing's novels, this one is set in Mexico. The scene here is a remote ranch in Tamaulipas where three murders take place. Downing was a member of the Choctaw Nation, born in.....
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