Two typescripts: One, stapled at corner; minor wear. Second version, three-hole punched and stapled along side, with some edgewear and staining. Third verson: minor wear. Paperback: Perfect-bound, side-stapled original wrappers. Light shelfwear; two marker strokes across cover. Together with the Centaur Publications version of Angelo (1970).VG overall. Gay erotic fiction..... More
Guadalupe Theatre. San Antonio, TX. 11” x 17” Calendar of Events (folded for mailing) SIGNED by Sandra Cisneros the year after publication of The House on Mango Street. Additionally signed by Bryce Milligan, Editor of Pax. Cisneros gave a reading, introduced a number of panels, and spoke in an Editors..... More
London: Varsity/Cherwell, 1996. First Edition. Selected and Introduced by Penelope Fitzgerald. Near Fine softcover. An anthology of 10 short stories by students and recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge. SIGNED by Zadie Smith at her story "The Newspaper Man." ,At the time of publication (reportedly her first), Smith was an..... More
[n.p.]: [McSweeney's], [2001]. 70[2] pp. VG+ softcover, with toning to edges and two small smudges on front cover. Excerpts from forthcoming or recently published books by Donnell Alexander, Lydia Davis, Dave Eggers, Amy Fusselman, Ben Greenman (Superbad), Lawrence Krauser, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Pollack. SIGNED by Lethem at his contribution..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2001. Series Editor: Larry Dark. The 2001 Prize Jury: Mary Gordon, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson. Bound Galley. SIGNED by George Saunders at his story “Pastoralia” and includes a doodle by him, and SIGNED by Antonya Nelson at her story “Female Trouble.” Near Fine softcover. An unusual..... More
1938. [n.d. but ca. 1938]. Approximately 8.5” x 12”. Near Fine, printed on yellow stock, with pencil alterations to dates. Hughes and Bontemps began their lecture tour in Illinois, traveled through the Southwest, and continued on to California. The Philippa Pollia Foundation, which sponsored educational programs for children, engaged them..... More
Hand-addressed envelope and SIGNED note from June 1983 on Naropa Institute invitation to President of University of Charleston (WV) Thomas G. Voss, who served in that position from 1978-1984. Ginsberg writes about his availability to travel to the University, noting that he’ll be teaching at Naropa through the fall. Included..... More
VG+ softcover (light edgewear and crease to top corner). Eleven short stories, including those by Ellen Gilchrist and Rick Moody and an early story—preceding his first book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by one year—of George Saunders’s “Sticks.” SIGNED by Saunders at his contribution. More
SIGNED by George Saunders at his Interview (p. 68-84) with James Schiff. Near Fine with a soft bend to lower corner. A long-ranging, honest, and revealing interview with the future National Book Award finalist, conducted after his early successes with CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (2000). More
Atlanta: Toni Morrison Society, 1994. 12 pp. Near Fine. Stapled to the rear cover is a membership information card. The Toni Morrison Society was founded in 1993 as the 41st author society of the American Literature Association. Five months later, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and this first..... More
Oxford, MS: Square Books, 2009. [12 pp.]. Limited to 500 copies. VG+ in stapled wraps. SIGNED on front and back by 14 of the 16 contributors. "This serial short story was created as a request by Richard Howorth of its authors, all of whom live and write in the Oxford..... More
New York: Knopf, 1992. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of the First American edition of Ackroyd's novel. 400 pp. VG+ in illustrated wraps (edgewear, "Discarded" stamps on ffep and half-title). SIGNED by Ackroyd on half-title page. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. Special Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Advance Proof. First Printing. SIGNED by Alexie on title page, where he has also written "Mr. Jefferson was not pure!" VG+in illustrated wraps (light edgewear, fold to lower front cover corner). More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1999. Near Fine sewn pictorial wrappers, with a crease to upper left corner of cover from previous owner storage. Illustrated with frontispiece from a painting by Charlene Teters. From a letterpressed edition of 750, 100 of those being signed by author and artist. Although not called..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine in glossy illustrated wraps. More
New York: Warner Books, 1996. VG+ Softcover (some loss to top of spine, edgewear). INSCRIBED by Alexie to the African-American poet and National Book Award winner Ai on title page: "For Ai Peace and Friendship Sherman Alexie." A nice association. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket. SIGNED by Alexie on title page. Alexie was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best American fiction writers under 40. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED by Alexie on title page. Near Fine glossy illustrated wraps (edgewear). More
New York: Knopf, 2000. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in pale orange wraps. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. VG+ black boards with blue spine lettering in an about Very Good unclipped dustjacket (3” tear at rear flap fold, 2” tear with loss at front lower flap fold, tear at spine, toning, rubbing, edgewear). Jacket design by Tony Palladino. 15 “Science Fiction..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. Jacket design by Ruth Ray. VG (soiling to boards, a few bumps to edges, offsetting to endpapers, slight spine lean) in a Good + unclipped dustjacket (soiling and rubbing, chipping and loss to edges, light creasing to upper third, dampstaining to flap edges..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. First Edition. Jacket drawing by Harry Nonnamaker. SIGNED by the author on ffep. VG green cloth binding (ownership signature on ffep, foxing to endpapers) in a Good or better unclipped dustjacket (chipping and sunning to spine, rubbing and foxing, one inch closed tear to..... More
New York: Speak/Penguin, 2005. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by Boyle on title page. More
New York: Viking, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by Boyle on title page. VG+ (a touch of rubbing to boards) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (toning to inner folds, small indentation to top of spine). His third collection of short stories. More
