The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Random House, 2000. First printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Two Jewish cousins, Czech artist Joe Kavalier and Brooklyn-born writer Sammy Clay, bond over their shared love of comics.
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Four Souls: Preview Edition
Harper Collins, 2004. First Edition. VG/VG. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Preview editon of the Ojibwe saga that Erdrich began in the bestseller Tracks (Love Medicine # 3).
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2018. Advanced Readers' Copy. More than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers.
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
New York: Random House, 2021. Signed First Edition. Fine copy. An under-the-hood study of four short stories written by Russian masters, exploring not just how great writing works but how the mind itself works while reading.
A Miracle of Catfish
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. Advance Readers Copy. VG/VG. Bound in is a letter to readers from Richard Howorth, a bookseller and friend of the author, that does not appear in the trade edition. Unfinished at the time of Brown's death in 2004.
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1976. First U.S. edition, first printing. VG+ in black cloth over blackboards with silver titling to spine. DJ VG w/some minor wear but no tears or rubs. Showing 7.95 price. A collection of modernist essays by Argentinian writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo.....
Selected Poems
New York: Knopf, 1945. Good condition. Small tear on back DJ. Interior VG. Ransom's poems are characterized by subtle irony and a sympathetic understanding of human nature.
Intruder in the Dust
New York: Modern Library, 1948. VG.
Sketches by Boz
London: Chapman and Hall. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; black embossment on front cover. Good condition.
Christmas Stories
London: Chapman and Hall. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; black embossement on cover. Smudge on cover. Name inscribed with pencil on front fly leaf.
Curiosity Shop
London: Chapman and Hall. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; front cover with black embossment. Slight foxing interior.
Bleak House
London: Chapman and Hall. Green cloth cover with black lettering/illustration; gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing to interior pages; slight damage to spine.
Education of a Lifetime
Oxford MS: Nautilus Publishing Company, 2013. Signed First Edition. VG/VG+. Chancellor Khayat's story of leading the University of Mississippi during a challenging and developing period.
Yonder Stands Your Orphan
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. Uncorrected Proof. NF. Signed a the title page. Scarce.
Yonder Stands Your Orphan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. Uncorrected Proof. NF.
Sanctuary
New York: Random House, 1982. The Original Text. Edited, with a foreword and notes by Noel Polk.
Absalom, Absalom!
New York: Random House, 1986. The Corrected Text. VG in VG DJ.
Eudora Welty Photographs
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Second Edition, first printing. Signed by National Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, who wrote a new introduction for this edition. Uncommon.
North Woods
New York: Random House, 2023. Signed First Edition. Signed at Square Books. The story of a house in New England, told through the lives of those who inhabited it for centuries.
God Help the Child
Knopf, 2015. first. First edition of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison novel, GOD HELP THE CHILD signed on first free end paper. Fine in fine dust jacker wrapped in protective mylar cover.
Home
Knopf, 2012. First edition of Toni Morrison's novel HOME signed on tipped-in page. Fine condition in fine dust jacket in protective mylar cover. An angry veteran of the Korean War is back in racist America with more than physical scars.
Light in August
New York: Modern Library, 1950. Modern Library edition. Modern Library logo on front with green/gilt lettering. Interior VG/dust jacket with few minor tears.
Knight's Gambit
New York: Random House, 1949. Some tearing on cover. Otherwise, good condition. Interior VG+. Gavin Stevens plays the major role in these six stories of criminal investigation.
Intruder in the Dust
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. First Edition, third printing. UK Edition. VG+ in VG+ DJ.
Enzio's Kingdom and Other Poems
Yale University Press, 1924. Green cloth cover with some stains. Interior VG. Third book of poetry by Mississippi author and guardian to Walker Percy.