A Brief Vignette from Tar Baby
[Minneapolis]: The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1981. Broadside. Approx. 14 x 10.5 in, bottom edge deckled. Limited edition, numbered 40 of 90 copies and signed by Toni Morrison. Scarce. More
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Fitzgerald Newsletter
Washington DC: Microcard Editions, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. [x], 327 + [4] pp. Corrected and revised compilation of 'The Fitzgerald Newsletter', in forty vols. (plus the additional winter 1963 number) issued from 1958 to 1968. More
The Professor's House
New York: Knopf, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 7.75 inches. 283 pp. A superior copy of one of the author's major books. More
The Geography of the Imagination; Forty Essays
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. x + 384 pp. Signed by Davenport on the title page. Uncommon signed. More
The Song of the Percival Peacock
Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 144 pp. Signed "with a Roxy Video pen" by Edson on the title page. "In this playfully complex novel of banter between master and servants, Russell Edson creates an allegorical narrative in which forbidden sexual desire meets rigid..... More
Last One Home
New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. [vi], 345, [1] pp. Signed by John Ehle on front free endpaper. More
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda; The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2002). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. xxxi + [i], 400 pp. Illustrated with several reproductions of black & white photographs and a suite of color photographs. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. More
Scott Fitzgerald
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1962). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. xi + [blank] + 364 + [vi] pp. Illustrated with a 16-page suite of black and white reproductions of photographs. Nicely inscribed by Turnbull on the front free endpaper: "For Ruth Sturtevant Smith who..... More
The Collected Writings. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; Introduction by Mary Gordon
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991). Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Small octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 448 pages. Scarce proof. More
Independence Day
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.125 in. [x], 451 + [2] pp. Limited edition, numbered 126 of 150 copies (out of a total of 176) and signed by Richard Ford on limitation page. Pulitzer Prize winner. PEN/Faulkner Award winner. More
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Nightwoods [Signed, Limited]
Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf, 2011. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.75 in. 259 pages. Signed by Charles Frazier on colophon. In a departure from his fine historical fiction Frazier offers here a compelling third novel, an early '60s noir thriller that features a strong..... More
The Letters of William Gaddis
Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, (2013). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 554 + [3] pp. Edited by Steven Moore. Afterword by Sarah Gaddis. More
An F. Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. xviii + 526 + [ii] pp. An exhaustive reference source to the great American author. More
Visitors from Oz; The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1998). First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. xvi + 189 pp. Colorful endpaper maps and four color plates. Signed by Martin Gardner on the title page. More
A Second Life: A Collected Nonfiction
Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf, 2001. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xvi; 256 pages. One of 100 numbered copies. Signed by Gerber. More
Sacrificial Couples and the Splendor of Their Failures: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf / F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 32 pages. Cover illustration, frontispiece and two portraits by Gurganus. Design and typeset by Jonathan Greene. One of 250 numbered copies. Signed by Gurganus. More
Hiroshima; With a New Poem by Robert Penn Warren and Silk-Screens by Jacob Lawrence
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 9.75 x 12.75 inches. Unpaginated. 8 original silkscreens printed in eleven colors. 1500 copies were printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. This is copy number 207 and is signed by John Hersey, Jacob Lawrence, and Robert Penn Warren on the..... More
To Kill a Mockingbird; The 40th Anniversary Edition (First printing)
(New York): HarperCollins, (1999). First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 323 pp. Signed on the half title by Harper Lee. Pulitzer Prize winner. More
The Wedding; With an Afterword by Lillian Bernard Gilkes. Postscript by the Author
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1976). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. 322 pp. Published as a volume in the Lost American Fiction series, Matthew Bruccoli, editor. Inscribed by Lumpkin on the half-title to her friend, Lillian Gilkes. Additionally signed by Matthew Bruccoli. A splendid association copy..... More
CliffsNotes O'Brien's The Things They Carried by Jill Colella
Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, (2001). First Edition, First Printing. Thin octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 118 + [2] pp. Signed by Tim O'Brien on title page. Very scarce signed. More
Thomas Wolfe: A Reference Guide
Boston: G.K. Hall, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. xiii + [i], 218 pp. Inscribed to Wolfe scholar Floyd C. Watkins on front free endpaper in year of publication. More
A Shower of Summer Days
New York: Rinehart, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5.5 x 7.75 in. [iv], 244 pp. Inscribed by May Sarton on front free endpaper in year of publication, "For Sigrid / with a shower of love / from / May / Nov. 1952" More
Black Mountain College Dossiers. No. 6: Michael Rumaker
Asheville: Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin quarto. 7 x 10 in. v, 98 pp. Illustrated with several reproductions of black & white photographs. More
Early Stories
Arlington, MA: Tough Poet's Press, (2021). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.5 inches. + 357 + [iii] pp. "Alexander Theroux who links every link is an author who has all the words - the rest of us merely borrow." _ William Gass "Alexander Theroux reads like a...... More
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9 inches. 432 pp. With marginal illustrations. More