San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author. Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he’s done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. When..... More
New York: New Directions Book, 2019. First New Directions Clothbound Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz. Edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser. Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her..... More
London: Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. More
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, 1952. Barye Phillips, L.R. Summers (cover art). Softcover. Rare. First ever issue of this magazine. First issue of this long-lived magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Front cover art by Barye Phillips and L. R. Summers; rear cover color photograph by Frank Lerner. Includes "Six and Ten..... More
London: Heinemann (Afircan Writers Series), 1991. Angela J. Hogg (cover illustration). First Edition. Paperback. Set in Southern Africa, this powerful collection of short stories highlights Nadine Gordimer's outstanding ability to pierce the core of the human condition. Personal experiences are set against the turmoil of a violent world where the..... More
New York: Scribner, 2018. Peter Mendelsung (jacket design). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2019. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Tom Phillips (illustrations). Second Edition. Hardcover. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a handwritten dedication signed by author. More
Hong Kong: Swindon Book Company, 1972. Cheung Shu-sun. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Random House, 1990. Milton Glaser (jacket design). Facsimile of the First Edition. Hardcover. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. John Woodcock (jacket design). Collected Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Very rare. A rare edition of William Faulkner’s crowning achievement, The Sound and the Fury, published by London-based Chatto & Windus in 1978. Starting in 1966 Chatto started to reissue Faulkner’s works as part of a...... More
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