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New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, 1991. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this legal thriller, John Grisham's second book and first bestseller, later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Cruise. 9.25'' x 6''. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket with embossed elements, illustrated by Ellis Chappel and designed by Whitney Cookman. Yellow endpapers. 422 pages. Faint toning to jacket. Some sunning to top and lower boards. A bit of soil to top edge. Else sharp and sound.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition, first printing of the acclaimed tragedy of ill-fated love amidst the fighting of World War I. Based in part on Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, this novel is a disillusioned indictment of war. Heavily influenced by the modernist approach to fiction developed by Gertrude Stein (especially in THREE LIVES), Hemingway's prose largely directed the critical judgments of style in the second half of the 20th century. "Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a brook. They live and shine, each in its place. So one of his pages has the effect of a brook-bottom into which you look down through the flowing water" (Ford Madox Ford, intro to the Modern Library Edition, 1932). 7.25'' x 5''. Original full black cloth, gold metallic printed paper labels on front board and spine. Original unclipped ($2.50) blue pictorial dust jacket… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First printing of the book at the heart of the Hunter S. Thompson legend - a beautiful copy, boldly inscribed by illustrator and longtime collaborator Ralph Steadman. A desperate, drug-fueled experiment in 'gonzo' journalism, FEAR AND LOATHING was written during Thompson's stint as Washington Correspondent for ROLLING STONE, and first appeared in the magazine in serial installments. Straddling the hazy border between thinly-veiled fiction and experimental journalism, first composed in feverish hotel-room notebook-scribbling sessions, the book remains HST's best-known and most influential work. Rather uncommon signed by Steadman. Surreal, hallucinatory, endlessly quotable. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original blind-stamped grey boards, backed in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. In original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket, designed by Susan Schwab and illustrated by Ralph Steadman. With additional black-and-white… Leer más

Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First issue. Near fine.. First edition of Twain's final travel book, following his lecture tour through Hawaii, Australia and the South Pacific, India, and South Africa, an unusually bright copy. Best known for his children's books today, in his own lifetime Twain achieved fame first through his travel writing. FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR makes an interesting companion to the earlier travel writings, beginning with INNOCENTS ABROAD (1869), his most popular book at the time. Here Twain offers characteristically witty and cutting Gilded Age opinions with the confidence of an established humor writer and veteran voyager. While already famous by this time, Twain booked the tour of worldwide lectures and planned this book because he was in fact deeply in debt. The success of EQUATOR did indeed put him back in the black. A heavy book, over 700 pages on thick paper, it is usually found in rough condition: this is a beautiful copy. Octavo. 8.75'' x… Leer más

(New York): Random House, 1954. First printing (stated). Fine in near fine jacket and very good slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in the trenches of the First World War, the grandly conceived FABLE was Faulkner's most overtly political novel and the product of a decade's labor. Marketed by its publisher as the controversial crowning achievement of a career studded with honors and bespangled with praises, A FABLE was also perfectly crafted to give Ernest Hemingway fits with its religious symbolism: whatever his own many faults, Hemingway wrote, at least "I did not write A Fable by William Faulkner." Faulkner, meanwhile, considered it his masterpiece. A handsome copy, in the unusually well preserved original glassine jacket. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth stamped with blue and silver crosses. Dark blue topstain. Grey endpapers. In original glassine jacket. Original publisher's slipcase with printed blue and white label.… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition, first printing of this mammoth anthology, including Hemingway's only play and four previously uncollected stories. This anthology leads with Hemingway's play about an American spy in the Spanish Civil War, THE FIFTH COLUMN, but the meat of the collection has always been his short stories. Two of the best of his career, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," appear first in book form here (after their appearances in ESQUIRE and COSMOPOLITAN respectively in 1936). This anthology also collects many of his best short works from the previous collections IN OUR TIME, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN, and WINNER TAKE NOTHING, such as "Big Two-Hearted River" and "Hills Like White Elephants." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth stamped in black and gilt. In original unclipped ($2.75) red and gilt typographic dust jacket designed by Neely. Scribner's A and seal on copyright page. x, 597, [1] pages.… Leer más

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. Fine.. First US edition (probably preceding the British), a beautiful copy. After Potter finished her Peter Rabbit series, it was her intention to stop writing. It was only with the persuasion of her American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this book meant only for the American market. Linder notes that Potter's Lakeland friends "were quick to recognize many of the pictures with their local settings." This is a stunning copy in clean cloth, with strong hinges. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on. Lacking original dust jacket. Illustrated by Potter with 6 color plates and 20 full page and 42 smaller black-and-white drawings. 225, [1] pages. Only a touch of rubbing to spine ends.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First edition (stated). Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the phenomenon that captured women's exploration of the newfound freedoms in second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution. A novel of sexual awakening from the perspective of a married woman living in the "post-Pill paradise" of the 1970s, FEAR OF FLYING struck a nerve with women across generations. Compared by male critics like Updike to CATCHER IN THE RYE and PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, Jong's book is a messy exploration of sexuality, but its feminist perspective also created a roadmap for many women readers and women writers, including Jennifer Weiner, Meg Wolitzer, Naomi Wolf, and others in third-wave feminism. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in red. In original price-clipped c olor pictorial dust jacket designed by Judith Seifer. Red endpapers. [12], 340 pages. Jacket lightly toned with mild edgewear. Book with slight lean. Else clean and sound.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Very good in very good minus jacket.. First edition of the National Book Award-winning novel of intersecting lives in Hawaii in the months before the attack on Pearl Harbour - adapted into a star-studded, Oscar-winning film. James Jones drew on his own experiences as an infantryman to set the stage for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY; his portrayal of the interplay and clash of personalities at a Hawaiian barracks earned him the 1952 National Book Award. The film adaptation of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY features several changed narrative elements to appease the Production Code Office and the US Army, including the removal of references to homosexuality and venereal disease. In return, the Army allowed the production to film on-location and to use aircraft. With a cast including Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra, it was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture, which it won. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original black paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In… Leer más

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1929. Fine in near-fine jacket.. First US edition (probably preceding the British) in the original dust jacket. After Potter finished her Peter Rabbit series, it was her intention to stop writing. It was only with the persuasion of her American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this book meant only for the American market. Linder notes that Potter's Lakeland friends "were quick to recognize many of the pictures with their local settings." This is a magnificent copy with the jacket clean, white and bright, rare thus. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on, gilt-lettered spine. In original dust jacket. Illustrated by Potter with 6 color plates as well as 20 full-page and 42 smaller black-and-white images. 225, [1] pages. Jacket with two short closed tears and minor edgewear.

New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, 1971. Near fine in like dust jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this political mystery-thriller, following journalist John Cotton's efforts to bring corruption to light - Tony Hillerman's second book. "Tony Hillerman knows what he's writing about because he is a fly on the wall," noted the LAWTON CONSTITUTION AND MORNING PRESS - indeed, he was THEIR fly on the wall for a number of years in the 1940s as a political editor (48). Best known for his Leaphorn and Chee mystery/thriller series, Hillerman used his intimate knowledge of journalism to craft a suspenseful ride through the intrigues of an unnamed capitol city, in which newspaper man John Cotton is party to a "political chess game in which murder becomes a play" (jacket). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter blue cloth binding with blue boards, blue and white lettering to spine. Original unclipped ($5.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Spina. Fore-edge machine-deckle. Blue… Leer más

London: Macmillan, 2002. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this tale of an elderly couple's secrets that surface after one of them is murdered, winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. 9.25'' x 5.75''. Original black boards. Original unclipped (£12.99) color pictorial dust jacket. 416 pages. Signed by Walters to title page. Jacket with "signed by the author" sticker and larger price sticker to front panel, a hint of edgewear. Tight.

New York: Scribner, 1995. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed review copy of this oil field mystery in which talented geologist Em Hansen must contend with on-the-job misogyny and an executive's suicide - or was it murder? 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original two-toned boards. Original unclipped ($20.00) color pictorial dust jacket. 286 pages. Signed by Andrews to title page. Publisher's review slip and newsletter loosely laid in. Sharp.

New York: Clarion Books, 2006. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of the Caldecott award-winner, a wordless picture book in which a little boy discovers the treasures washed up by the ocean. David Wiesner's knack for scale and perspective - from illustrating tiny fish at play or the imposing hulk of an enormous felled tree to entirely wordless stories - have earned him three Caldecott Medals, only the second artist to do so. 9'' x 10.75''. Original quarter red cloth, blue paper boards. In original unclipped ($17.00) color pictorial dust jacket, with added Caldecott Medal and New York Times Book Review stickers. Cream endpapers. Illustrated by Wiesner in rich colors covering every page. [40] pages. Signed by Wiesner and dated 2013 on half title.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Perry's eleventh Victorian mystery novel starring husband-and-wife investigators William and Hester Monk. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with blue boards. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket. 344 pages. Signed by Perry on title page. Minor edgewear. A few very small ink marks to fore-edge.

New York: Bantam Books, 2001. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing of this Duncan Kincaid mystery, in which the detective superintendent begins to deepen his relationship with his former partner on the force as they investigate strange occurrences with ties to a long-hidden medieval manuscript. 9.25'' x 6''. Original brown boards. Original unclipped ($23.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 326 pages. Black-and-white promotional headshot of Crombie loosely laid in. Clean.

(New York): HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Massey's fourth mystery featuring Rei Shimura, antiquarian and part-time journalist, on assignment in Tokyo investigating the art of pre-war Japan (and murder). 9'' x 6''. Original black and red boards. In original unclipped ($24.00) dust jacket. 293, [1] pages. Signed by Massey on title page. Minor edgewear.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing of the first Hawkenlye mystery, featuring an unlikely team of a royal emissary and and Abbess on the trail of a murderer in medieval Kent. 9.25'' x 6''. Original green boards. Original unclipped (£16.99) color pictorial dust jacket. 242 pages. Sharp and bright.

(New York): (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 2003. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Barr's eleventh Anna Pigeon, set in the Dry Tortugas National Park and drawing on the author's own experience as a park ranger. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with silver-stamped red boards. Pictorial endpapers by Jackie Aher. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 387, [1] pages. Signed by Barr on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition, review copy with publisher's press sheet, of Cunningham's sweeping novel, following four generations of a Greek-American family. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter ochre cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($22.00) dust jacket. 465, [1] pages. Signed by Cunningham on title page. Publisher's press sheet laid in. Minor edgewear to jacket.