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London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition thus, the first to be published with the author's real name, following its initial UK publication in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." Plath's self-described 'potboiler' was damned with dismissive praise in its own day as a sort of girl's CATCHER IN THE RYE (though as Heather Clark notes, if Esther Greenwood has a male antecedent, it is not Holden Caulfield but Joyce's Stephen Dedalus). Harrowingly personal and famously autobiographical, infused with a "cold, unfriendly humor" (Hardwick), THE BELL JAR is also overtly political: an "indictment of the fifties in America," an adolescent girls' book "written by a woman who has been to hell and back and wants to revenge herself on her tormentors. It is a girls' book filled with poison, vomit, blood, and volts of electricity" (Malcolm). 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (25s) black and white dust jacket. 258 pages. Jacket with… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1985. First edition (stated). Very good plus in very good jacket.. First printing of McCarthy's grim epic Western. The jewel of McCarthy's oeuvre, and one of few resoundingly great novels to have so far escaped the peril of film adaptation-most recently slipping nimbly from the grasping hands of James Franco-as its greatness rests in large part on its unadaptable prose. BLOOD MERIDIAN is a book from which those who love it best can recite unprompted; even those who love it somewhat less have the last paragraph by heart. McCarthy's great and terrible Judge Holden is one of a select few twentieth-century characters to achieve immortality without inspiring ten thousand easy imitations: no warmed-over archetype, but a whole new monster. A landmark in US literature. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter red cloth with red boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($17.95) dust jacket, designed by Richard Adelson. [8], 337, [1] pages. Large chip to top of jacket spine and front… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. Near fine in restored jacket.. First printing of Chandler's first novel, the inimitable book that marks the apex of noir. An existential confusion pervades this Los Angeles novel, kept at bay only by the sheer stoic will of detective Philip Marlowe, who is first introduced here. Chandler is a master prose stylist, subtly building atmosphere with deceptively simple prose. (In a 1948 letter, Chandler described his goal as "the creation of emotion through dialogue and description" [May 7, to Frederick Lewis Allen]). It is the perfect tone for the American-born subgenre of mystery called noir. An unforgettable work of craft and grit. 7.5'' x 4.5''. Original full orange cloth, stamped in blue on spine and boards. Original unclipped blue and red dust jacket designed by Hans J. Barschel. Blue topstain. pages. [8], 277, [1] pages. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Toning to front pastedowns and hinges, old tape marks expertly repaired with archival Japanese… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase.. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and illustrator. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. Ably illustrated by Quentin Blake, Dahl's frequent collaborator, whose frenetic gestural drawings quiver with life and indelibly define the characters. After CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, one of Dahl's best and most beloved titles. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market. 9'' x 5.75''. Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles. In original blue-grey slipcase. x, 222 pages. Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page. Clean, sharp, and bright throughout.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1954. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor. 7.5'' x 5''. Original black-stamped blue cloth. In original unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket. 274 pages. Inscribed by Anderson on front free endpaper: "For Reg & Helen Bretnor - in memoriam: God knows how many gallons of wine / Poul Anderson." Light scuffing to boards at extremities, light edgewear and toning to jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Near fine.. First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of Carson's "fictional essay in 29 tangos," a sequence of poems on Keatsian themes. 8.5'' x 6.25''. Original printed wrappers with trade issue cover design as first leaf. [8],147, [5] pages. Faint sunning to spine, light touches of soil.

(New York): (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 2009. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of the fifteenth book in Barr's Anna Pigeon mystery series, set in West Texas's Big Bend National Park and drawing on the author's experience as a park ranger. 9'' x 6''. Original blue boards. In original unclipped ($25.95) dust jacket. 399, [3] pages. Signed by Barr on title page.

(New York): Viking, 1997. First edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. Signed first printing of the best-selling serial-killer thriller, first in a continuing series starring detectives Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs. Bones! The human body has so many of them. Deaver's breakout success came with this story of an eccentric private collector and his diligent efforts to acquire a great quantity of Bones, continually hindered by uncultured police detectives who simply do not understand the 'gentle madness' driving the gentleman amateur; and so, in the end, the power and financial resources of an institution defeat the lonely antiquarian who does, it is true, commit an awful lot of murders. Adapted into a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and again into a short-lived television series in 2020. 9'' x 6''. Original half black cloth with cream boards. In original unclipped ($22.95) dust jacket. Black endpapers. [8], 421, [3] pages. Signed by Deaver on title page. Bright, clean, and sharp overall. Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition. Fine in very good plus jacket.. Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds. Fitzgerald's second semi-autobiographical novel, holding an outstanding place in the literature on what it is to be young, beautiful, gifted, drunk, and useless. A rich boy sent to Harvard because "there was no other logical thing to be done with him," the cheerful, pleasant Anthony Patch sees his inner foundations slowly corroded by the sure expectation of coming into great wealth; while Gloria Gilbert, who likes to talk about her legs "as though they were a sort of choice bric-à-brac," fulfills the prophecy given her before her birth: "You will find much that is bogus. Also, you will do much that is bogus." Anthony and Gloria find each other, fall in love, and stylishly fall apart as the Jazz Age dawns and the Great War looms. A beautiful copy in the uncommon dust jacket. 7.25'' x… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First printing. Very good plus.. Uncorrected advance proof of the first Cliff Janeway mystery. Cliff Janeway, ex-policeman and Denver bookstore owner, investigates the murder of Bobby the Bookscout. A thrilling and classic bibliomystery in a scarce format. 8.25" x 5.25" Original publisher's printed wrappers. 324 pages (two numbered by hand). Publication date hand-corrected in red. Some rubbing and soil, slight lean. Else bright and sound.

(New York): Equinox / Avon, 1977. Near fine.. First Equinox printing of Blish's short novel on the cosmic consequences of Californian political demonology, first published in shorter form as Faust Aleph-Null in Galaxy magazine and issued here as no. 27 in the SF Rediscovery Series. 8'' x 5.25''. Original pictorial wrappers. 165, [3] pages. Text figures by Judith Lawrence. Light edgewear, minor creasing and one tiny closed tear to wrappers.

(New York): (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 2008. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Paretsky's fourteenth novel, a stand-alone story of persecuted Wiccans and family feuds set in the author's native Kansas. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($25.95) dust jacket. 431, [1] pages. Signed by Paretsky on title page.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this poetry collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black boards with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($20.00) dust jacket. 76, [4] pages. Only minor edgewear.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. Fine.. Signed first paperback edition of this coming-of-age story of an autistic boy who harbors suspicions about his family's loyalties during the Vietnam War, even as he contends with his developing sexuality - issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial… Leer más

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. Fine in a fine jacket.. First edition, first printing of Patterson's third novel of terrorism on Wall Street, set in the 1980s - an exceptionally clean copy. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original quarter cloth. In original unclipped ($17.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 363, [1] pages. Touch of wear at spine extremities, else about fine in like jacket.

New York: Avon Books, 1999. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Jance's fourteenth J.P. Beaumont mystery, set in a pre-millennium Seattle in the middle stages of descent into fancy-coffee-and-hipster-driven gentrification. 9'' x 6''. Original grey and white boards. In original unclipped ($23.00) dust jacket. 343, [1] pages. Signed by Jance on title page. Minor pencil marks to front free endpaper. Slight edgewear.

London: Constable, 1912. Fine.. Deluxe signed limited edition, one of only 380 numbered copies signed by Robinson, a fine copy. Because the book is printed entirely on handmade paper, the quality of the black and white illustrations in this limited edition is far superior to those in the trade edition, and the mounted color plates seem to be sharper and richer in color as well. The story features a boot cleaner named Bill who ends up baby sitting, or becoming the Minder, for a disagreeable group of children and they have marvelous adventures with Bill. Really an amazing copy of Robinson's best work, issued in a small limitation. 11'' x 9''. Original full gilt-stamped vellum with original silk ties. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Robinson with frontispiece and 15 other full-page color plates, plus many full-page and vignette black-and-white images throughout. xvi, 256 pages. Signed by Robinson on the limitation page. Offsetting to endpapers, else fine: vellum unbowed and unsoiled,… Leer más

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Ellroy's noir detective novel, second in his Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. Dark crime novel following Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins as he pursues a quasi-Hannibal Lecteresque master manipulator with a god complex (that is to say, a psychiatrist) through the dark alleyways of the human psyche (that is to say, Los Angeles). Preceding his breakout 'LA Quartet' by a few years, the Hopkins trilogy consolidated Ellroy's cult following, though the author himself has never required the kind of critical acclaim he later received in order to believe in his own talents: "I am a master of fiction," he explained to THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE in one memorable interview; "I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music." How does he know? "I just know." 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original dark green cloth with… Leer más

New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2007. About fine.. First US edition of Higgins's Dickensian fantasy of a wicked book and a wicked bookseller, first in the Sinister City series. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original glossy pictorial boards. All edges tinted black. 273, [1] pages. Minor bumping to extremities.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of Perry's eighteenth late-Victorian mystery featuring husband-and-wife detectives Charlotte and William Pitt, here investigating Darwinism, Catholicism, and their respective influences on a murder. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter green cloth with burgundy boards. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket. 389, [1] pages. Minor edgewear to extremities. Inscribed by Perry on title page.