The Coast of Chicago $100.00

by • First Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Knopf (1990) Very near fine in dust jacket. Signed on the title page. The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder’s inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to … Continue reading The Coast of Chicago →

Read More →

So Brave, Young and Handsome $35.00

by • 2008 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Grove (2008) A stunning successor to his best selling novel “Peace Like a River,” Leif Enger’s new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. In … Continue reading So Brave, Young and Handsome →

Read More →

A Song Flung Up to Heaven $40.00

by • Uncorrected Proof

Sorry. This title is currently unavailable. New York, NY: Random House (2002) Fine in publisher wrappers.

Read More →

Finding Spring $17.99

by • Hardback • OZ Young Readers

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Greenwillow Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Press (2015) Instead of hibernating as he should, a little bear cub goes out in search of spring—and he thinks he’s found it! Gloriously illustrated with dioramas and cut-paper collages by the award-winning designer and illustrator Carin Berger, this stunning picture book celebrates the changing … Continue reading Finding Spring →

Read More →

Smonk $13.95

by • Paperback • Unsigned

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Harper Collins (2007) It’s 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty, … Continue reading Smonk →

Read More →

The Miniaturist $26.99

by • First Edition • Signed

Sorry. This title is currently unavailable. New York, NY: Ecco Press. (2014) Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam–a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion–a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant. “There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . … Continue reading The Miniaturist →

Read More →

You Know When the Men Are Gone $23.95

by • 2011 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Amy Einhorn (2011) An army of women waits for its men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families.

Read More →

Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears $200.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York: St. Martin’s Press (1982) One of 250 numbered copies signed by Buckminster Fuller specially bound in blue cloth with design on the front boards and silver lettering on the spine. This copy has some fading to the spine and slipcase. Otherwise a very good copy.

Read More →

The Cavalry Charges $25.95

by • First Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press (2007) Near fine in dust jacket. Barry Gifford’s diverse interests, varied influences, wide travels, and multitudinous acquaintances have fueled his prolific writing career. In a series of anecdotal reflections, Gifford relates many of the key experiences that shaped him as a writer . . .  Part memoir, part literary … Continue reading The Cavalry Charges →

Read More →

The Crossing $325.00

by • Uncorrected Proof

Loading Updating cart...

London: Picador (1994) Near fine in decorated wrapper.

Read More →

Mr. Peanut $40.00

by • 2010 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Knopf (2010) David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and after thirteen years of marriage he still can’t imagine living without her–yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she “is “dead, and he’s both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. The officers investigating her death are intimately familiar … Continue reading Mr. Peanut →

Read More →

The Last Precinct $150.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Putnam (2000) One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author. Unopened in slipcase.

Read More →

Suttree $850.00

by • First Edition

Loading Updating cart...

New York: Random House (1979) Top and side page edges slightly spotted. Otherwise very good. Dust jacket has very light edge wear.

Read More →

Tidewater Morning $65.00

by • 1993 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Random House (1993) In this brilliant collection of “long short stories,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.

Read More →

Frost and Flower $350.00

by , • Limited Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press (1995) One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and by the artist Barry Moser who designed the frontispiece engraving. Specially bound in green cloth with a black cloth spine. Very fine.

Read More →

The Error of Nostalgia $10.95

by • First Edition • Paperback • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

USA: Texas Review (2013) The poems in The Error of Nostalgia explore the relationships between individuals and their natural and urban environments in the American South and South America. These disparate locations serve as sites where, among other things, humans confront the perils of natural catastrophes, expatriation, urbanization, and crises of identity. “Richard Boada’s brilliant … Continue reading The Error of Nostalgia →

Read More →

Just Before Dark $300.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

Livingston, MO: Clark City Press (1991) One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Decorated boards with cloth spine. Near fine in slipcase that has slight fading. Jim Harrison’s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. … Continue reading Just Before Dark →

Read More →

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down $300.00

by • First Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Free Press (2002) Near fine in dust jacket. William Gay firmly established himself as “the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit” (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner’s Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy’s American West, Gay’s … Continue reading I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down →

Read More →

Ripper $28.99

by • First Edition • Signed

Loading Updating cart...

New York, NY: Harper. (2014) Isabel Allende–the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world–demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in … Continue reading Ripper →

Read More →

Dalva $16.00

by • Paperback • Unsigned

Loading Updating cart...

New York: Washington Square Press (1999) Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, forty-five year old Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Longing for the Nebraska prairie where she was born and for the son she gave up for adoption years before, she returns to the half Sioux lover of her youth, and to her … Continue reading Dalva →

Read More →