CROOKED HEARTS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel about a Kentucky family transplanted to the Sunbelt.
Modern First Editions
DANCING IN THE MOVIES
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.
DANCING IN THE MOVIES
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.
DANCING IN THE MOVIES
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
DANCING IN THE MOVIES
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF DESIRE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "The sensual paradise and the erotic paradise are two separate places. They are not on the same map...."
LIVING TO BE 100
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof of this collection of short stories by this critically acclaimed author.
MYSTERY RIDE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A penetrating portrait of a modern American family.
ARMORED HEARTS: SELECTED & NEW POEMS
(Port Townsend, WA): Copper Canyon Press, (1995). First Edition. wraps. Softcover issue in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the poet on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED by him in 5/95 on the half title page: "To Austin--/Thanks for/your kindness--/looking forward to/more of your fine/poems/Best/David."
AFTER THE RAIN
London: Faber and Faber, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a novel that begins in the basement of Foyle's bookshop. Dustwrapper art by Kenneth Rowell.
ARCHIVE OF 3 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)
Tangier, Morocco: 1986. Letter. Three TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) to Bob Sharrard, publisher/proprietor of City Lights Books in San Francisco, on onionskin paper, SIGNED "Paul Bowles" and "Paul B" (two). Bowles writes from his home in Morocco on various literary matters. Some excerpts: "I think I wrote you that a......
UP ABOVE THE WORLD
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover.
THE LOST TRAIL OF THE SAHARA
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. From the dustwrapper: "This is the story of young, inexperienced Lieutenant Beaufort, who is put in command of an expedition into the wild interior of the Sahara. In exhausting battle against the ancient and eternal enemies of heat, thirst, sand and.....
EAST IS EAST
New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Boyle on the title page to ---- "Greetings from Tarrytown," and dated 5/1/90 by the author.
EAST IS EAST
New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.
DESCENT OF MAN
Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. hardcover. Possible review copy with promotional leaflet, lightly tanned at edges, laid in.
DESCENT OF MAN
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1979). First Edition. Wraps. Beige printed wraps. The uncorrected proof of Boyle's first book, rarely seen in this scarce advance format.
DESCENT OF MAN
Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. hardcover. His first book, a collection of short stories. INSCRIBED to ---- "con amistad" and SIGNED by the author in 1994 on the title page.
DESCENT OF MAN
Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a collection of short stories, SIGNED by the author on the title page.
DESCENT OF MAN
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's first book, SIGNED by him on the title page and dated 12 September 1995.
GREASY LAKE & OTHER STORIES
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Boyle's second collection of stories.
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated blue leather. Color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by Boyle not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf. A fictional account of the beginnings of the Kellogg dynasty in Battle.....
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE
New York: Viking, (1993). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Advance Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps of this novel of Kellogg's beginnings in Battle Creek. Made into a film.
SHE WASN'T SOFT
London: A Bloomsbury Quid, (1996). First Edition. Softcover. A paperback original (there was not hardcover issue) published only in England of this short story that originally appeared in the NEW YORKER in 1995.
WATER MUSIC
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1981). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed blue wraps of Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.