Authors starting with Z from Royal Books, Inc.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1998 Pen/Faulkner award. ... more information

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. First Edition. First Edition. About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From the library of distinguished philosopher George Farre, with his owner name on the front endpaper. Jacket has a short closed tear at the top of the front panel, with light rubbing at the crown and a hint of fading to the red of the spine panel. An attractive copy. ... more information

Venezia / Paris: Canal and Stamperia Editrice, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket with a tiny ink stain to the front panel. Text in English and French. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. REVIEW COPY, with Doubleday review stamp on the front pastedown. Jacket design by Michael Flanagan. Lacking the remainder spray that plagues many copies of this title. The fourth Amber novel. ... more information

Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1992. Fifth Edition, third printing. About Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued. ... more information

Park City, UT: Flying Moose Books, 2006. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. A lovely copy. ... more information

Detroit, MI: Cranbrook, 1972. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in black saddle-stitched wrappers. Twenty-five black-and-white photographs. Light rubbing overall, and slight offsetting at preliminary leaves from a laid-in newspaper clipping. Zimmerman was a teacher of history and political geography. His focus here is on the female nude, nature, and figures in motion. ... more information

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good lacking dust jacket. Rear spine hinge starting, with a tiny tear to the crown and light rubbing. The story of an African-American prizefighter and the first novel of the author later known as Ed Lacy. A very presentable copy. ... more information

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1989. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Robert Stone on the half title page. Fine and unread in a just about Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a small stain to the spine panel, with just a hint of rubbing at the crown and top corners. An attractive copy of this set of essays by these well-known authors, discussing how their work is driven by a sense of social responsibility. ... more information

London: Hutchinson, 1901. First Edition. First UK Edition (and first edition in English), Very Good plus overall. Original red cloth, with design and titles in gilt, lavender and blind. The spine panel has had a bit of professional color restoration (but no rebacking or re-application of title gilt). A very presentable example of a scarce title, basis for the 1954 film noir, "Human Desire," directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford. ... more information

New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Early printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the verso of the front endpaper: "To -- and her daughter who / may be a mother too one day. / Lovely wishes, Charlotte Zolotow." About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Extremities a touch faded; jacket has a half inch closed tear to the rear flap fold, with light fading to the spine and front panel and mild soil. An attractive copy, uncommon to find signed. ... more information

New York: Harper and Row, 1965. First Edition. First Edition. Spine and extremities a touch faded, affecting both book and jacket, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A bright, attractive copy. ... more information

Allied Artists, 1962. Producer-director Albert Zugsmith's copy of the script for the 1962 film, "Confessions of an Opium Eater," produced and directed by Zugsmith, written for the screen by Robert Hill, and starring Vincent Price. Based on the 1822 book, "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," by Thomas DeQuincey. Very freely based upon DeQuincey's book, "Confessions of an Opium Eater" is set in San Francisco during the Tong Wars of the 1800s. Lotus is one ... more information