Modern Fiction from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 397pp. Map, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of the first novel by the noted Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist, critic and poet, signed by her in black fineline on title page. Tale of rough settlement… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Atheneum, 1994. Hardcover. Translation by Clifford E. Landers. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 355pp. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition of this novel by the renowned Brazilian writer. Press release and review slip laid in.

New York: Grove Press, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 307pp. Near fine/near fine. Lovely and tight first U.S. edition of this fiction by the late Mexican novelist.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. Small 4to. Quarter salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering and salmon paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 433pp, (5pp). Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first U.S. edition of this thick fiction by the late Paraguayan novelist.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by the author. Small 4to. Quarter navy blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 504pp. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight first U.S. edition of the famed Brazilian author's second novel.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Hardcover. Translation by Margaret A. Neves. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth with black lettering and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 199pp. Near fine/fine. Spine text printed upside down (printer's error). Handsome first edition, tight and bright. Press release laid in.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Dolores M. Koch. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with copper lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. Near fine/near fine. First U.S. edition.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Kathleen Weaver. 8vo. Ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 142pp. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of these nonfiction sketches by the prolific and influential Brussels-born Argentinian novelist, short story writer and essayist (1914-84).

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Hardcover. Translation by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with silver lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 307pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this political thriller penned by the then-current U.S. Second lady (1989-93), wife of 44th Vice President Dan Quayle, and her sister -- and inscribed and signed huge and bold by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 374pp. Very good/very good. Head of spine bumped, else tight and nice. Attractive first British edition of this timely, bestselling political thriller about Russian disinformation: "Are the western media being manipulated by Soviet agents?" screams the front jacket copy. Inscribed and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. Translation by Edith Grossman. Small 4to. Lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 147pp. Near fine/fine. Faintest of spotting to page edges. Superbly tight and nice first edition.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 468pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first edition -- and with choice autograph addition: In 2017 Canadian television broadcast a 6-part miniseries version, and tipped to the front flyleaf is a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed large and bold… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Arbor House, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth with copper lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 318pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this sequel to the1955 bestseller about American life and business, turned into a popular 1956 film starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 403pp. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of this comic apocalypse marvel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 168pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of these ten short stories, signed big and bold by Bass in blue ballpoint on half-title page.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter teal green cloth with pale green spine lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 190pp. Near fine/fine. Superbly bright and tight first edition of the prolific writer's third book and his first short story collection, signed large and bold by him in black ballpoint on half-title page.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth with silver spine lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket.190pp. Fine/fine. Fresh and pristine first edition of the popular and prolific writer's trio of novellas that include "The Myth of Bears," "Where the Sea Used to Be" and the title piece.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 445pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of the popular and prolific writer's first novel.

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1998. Hardcover. Illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes Bass. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with ivory spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 57pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this thinly-veiled fiction "about the ravages of activism and the healing properties of art....