Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Dahl, Roald · 1972

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Random House Children's Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, less tha...

The Lay of the Land

Ford, Richard · 2002

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Yet another fine Frank Bascomb-appearing novel by one of my favorite authors, author also of Independence Day, Canada and the Sportswriter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and justifiably so. F...

The Enchantress of Florence

Rushdie, Salman · 2008

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Random House, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the...

The Lay of the Land

Ford, Richard · 2006

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, being inscribed warmly to a fan. Stated First Edition. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight ...

The Sacrifice

Oates, Joyce Carol · 2015

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the beloved author at title page, being a not-all-that-fictionalized account of the 1988 Tawana Brawley case that rocked New York and catapulted the Reverend A...

Bone by Bone

Matthiessen, Peter · 2002

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in this state and condition, being a stated First Edition, with "2" in the "number" line as the wont of Random House at that time (2002), and SIGNED by him in his inimitable hand at ti...

Bone by Bone

Matthiessen, Peter · 1999

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Random House, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The capstone to the trilogy of Matthiessen's recreation of the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors just before World War One (Killing Mister Wats...

Lush Life

Price, Richard · 2008

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Black paper over boards, brick-red cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrate...

Shelters of Stone

Auel, Jean M. · 2002

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Crown Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound as an Imperial octavo format copy, with unbruised tips, neat an...

Lush Life

Price, Richard · 2008

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Black paper over boards, brick-red cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrate...

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Davis, Mike · 1998

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Metropolitan Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. An uncommonly good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of a classic in critical sociology by an acknowledged master ...

Seven Gothic Tales

Dinesen, Isak · 1934

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Tan paper over boards, gilt-stamped lettering and ...

Assembly: A Collection of 26 New Stories

O'Hara, John · 1961

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Handsomely produced exemplar, tan cloth over boards, gilt-stamped lettering to front cover, over red...

Freedomland

Price, Richard · 1998

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Broadway Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author in Sharpie (TM) at title page. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities, Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustra...

August 1914

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Michael Glenny · 1972

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First American Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the stated First American Printing, published simultaneously by John Lane at the Bodley Head, in London, and in Toronto, Canad...

Eskimo Boyhood

Hughes, Charles C. · 1974

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This is a fine ethnographic study of a particular boy, Nathan Kakianak, his childhood and youth, set among Eskimo peoples of Alaska on Saint Lawrence Island and invo...

August 1914

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Michael Glenny · 1972

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, The Bodley Head, 1972. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the stated First English Edition, published simultaneously by John Lane at the Bodley Head, in London, and in Toronto, Canada. The author published this...

A Man without Shoes

Sanford, John A. · 1982

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Los Angeles, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine and absorbing novel by John Sanford, in this case chronicling the life of a fictional character Daniel Johnson and his journey to "discover" his country (1909-1...

Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources

French, William P., William P. Fabre and Amritjit Singh; Genevieve Fabre, · 1978

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Detroit, Michigan, Gale Research Library, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Gale information guide library, in a stated First Edition. Bound in decorated, printed blue cloth over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and dist...

A Bibliography and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P.G. Wodehouse

Jasen, David A. · 1970

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

, Archon Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Fine black-and-white fr...