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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof of this collection of short stories by this critically acclaimed author.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof of this collection of short stories by this critically acclaimed author.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A penetrating portrait of a modern American family.
n. p. [New York]: n. p. [Privately Printed ], (1963). First Edition. Wraps. Tall (4" x 14") printed red wraps. A self-published collection of poems in a most unusual format. There is a small ink stamped number "103" at the top of the front endpaper indicating a possible limitation number.....
Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890 & [1891]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in dark green publisher's blindstamped cloth. Illustrated with 22 bright chromolithographs of flowers. The 1891 volume ends with the October issue and contains the final chromolithograph of the series. The October 1891.....
[1692 - 1779]. First Edition. Wraps. A string-tied manuscript (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") of Japanese Flower Arrangements (Kadou), author unknown, from the middle of the Edo era (1692-1779) consisting of 32 leaves with no text and a total of 63 lovely hand-colored drawings, one per page, of flower arrangements.
(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."
(London): Editions Poetry London, (1949). First Edition. cloth. Cover and drawings by Francizska Themerson. Neat owner name on front endpaper.
Philadelphia: Asbury Dickins, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary sheep leather (5-1/8" x 8-1/2"); [ii], 232, [2] pages. Complete with half-title and errata. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Presented to the Library of Harvard College by the Author." An answer to Thomas Paine by a distinguished New Jersey.....
New York: Abrams, (1989). Andy Warhol. Hardcover. Quarto. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates.
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.
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......
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover.
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.....
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.
New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. hardcover. Possible review copy with promotional leaflet, lightly tanned at edges, laid in.
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.
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.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a collection of short stories, SIGNED by the author on the title page.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's first book, SIGNED by him on the title page and dated 12 September 1995.
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Boyle's second collection of stories.
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.....
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.
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.
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.