A Thief of Time.
by Hillerman, Tony.
NY, Harper & Row, 1988, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery set in prehistoric sites in Chaco Canyon and elsewhere in the Four Corners area, map endpapers, Hieb bibliography A10a, this copy Signed by Hillerman, it was with this title that Ernest Franklin, a Navajo artist, first started to illustrate Hillerman titles, when found, Hillerman's books usually have one original drawing by Franklin, but this copy has 17 original color... Read More
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The Dark Wind.
by Hillerman, Tony.
NY, Harper & Row, 1982, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. His second Jim Chee mystery, this one set in the eastern Hopi and adjacent Navajo reservations, this copy Signed by Hillerman, Hieb bibliography A7a, Hillerman thought this was his best plot, this copy includes a phenomenal 23 original color illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin depicting many plot elements and at least two of Jim Chee, very scarce thus, with slipcase. Faint erasure of pencil notation on... Read More
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Listening Woman.
by Hillerman, Tony.
NY, Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, this is a Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A5a, it includes 22 original b&w drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, including one of Leaphorn, only a handful of these early Hillerman titles were so illustrated, very scarce thus. Lettering on the book's spine fading, as usual, else fine.
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Skinwalkers.
by Hillerman, Tony.
NY, Harper & Row, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, a Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee (their first pairing) mystery set in Shiprock and the nearby Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A9a, this copy with 22 original drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, 19 of which are in color, very scarce thus, with slipcase. Fine.
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The Blessing Way.
by Hillerman, Tony.
NY, Harper & Row, 1970, first edition, first printing.. This is the ultimate copy of Author's First Book, it is an Inscribed Presentation/Association Copy of the highest order, inscribed by Hillerman to Navajo artist Ernest Franklin who went on to create a cottage industry wherein he illustrated many of Hillerman's titles in an after-market situation where individuals brought him copies of Hillerman's books for Franklin to illustrate, the vast majority of such books include just one illustration by Franklin,... Read More
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The Grapes of Wrath.
by Steinbeck John.
n.p., 20th Century-Fox, 1940, first edition.. A complete set of 11X14-inch color lobby card posters for the original release of this classic story and classic film which was directed by the famed John Ford and which starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, the set also includes its original printed housing envelope which is probably even more scarce than the posters, the fragile housing envelope is plain brown and... Read More
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American Ideals and Other Essays.
by Roosevelt, Theodore.
NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903, early printing.. Gray cloth with gilt rules and with author, title, and publisher in gilt, TEG, front edge rough-trimmed, includes a biographical sketch by Gen. Francis Vinton Greene, this copy Inscribed by Roosevelt ("Lyman L. Pierce Esq./with regards of/Theodore Roosevelt"), Pierce was considered to be the originator of the fund-raising campaign and was widely regarded as one of the country's foremost philanthropic fund raisers, he conducted the first ever capital campaign for the... Read More
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Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal.
by Stegner, Wallace.
Salt Lake City, University of Utah, n.d. (1935), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Author's First Book, a legendary rarity, the text is followed by a bibliography of Dutton's writing, the text is a condensation of Stegner's thesis at the State University of Iowa in 1935 (that titled Clarence Edward Dutton, Geologist and Man of Letters), Colberg A1, Colberg indicates two copies found - one belonging to Stegner and one at the Library of Congress, Stegner himself indicated to this bookseller... Read More
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Cup of Gold.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present, with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, one of only 1,537 copies, published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling... Read More
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To A God Unknown.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Robert O. Ballou, 1933, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. First issue of his third book, one of only 598 copies actually bound and sold, Goldstone & Payne A3a, Morrow 22, endpapers, title page vignette, and dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, this book is Steinbeck at his most powerful and his most mystical. Black top edge stain still very black, book cloth somewhat mottled, jacket with one short tear, this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of... Read More
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The Grapes of Wrath.
by Steinbeck, John.
London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With the very scarce wrap-around band noting this was a Book Society Fiction Choice, this copy with a small slip affixed to the title page that is Inscribed by John Steinbeck ("For L. Downing/John Steinbeck"), Goldstone & Payne A12b, Morrow 108. Near fine.
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The First Watch.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn, 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First and only edition, No. 7 of only 60 copies printed by Ward Ritchie, with its original white paper envelope which is also No. 7, the first 10 copies went to Steinbeck with the remainder going to the Cohns (House of Books) for Christmas gift presentation, this elusive "A" item is a letter from Steinbeck to Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire," thanking him for sending a watch as... Read More
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Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269, this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page ("For Lou Robinson/with pleasure,/John Steinbeck"), very scarce thus. Fine.
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Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269, this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck under his frontispiece photo, very scarce thus. Fine.
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Cannery Row.
by Steinbeck, John.
n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Advance copy, an uncorrected galley proof, bound in plain, unprinted tannish wrappers, printed on rectos only, a very scarce advanced state of this minor, or not so minor, Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor, all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage,... Read More
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In Dubious Battle.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Covici Friede, 1936, first edition.. With publisher's black paper-covered slipcase with orange spine label, this is No. 23 of just 99 copies Signed by Steinbeck, this is also the best strike novel of the 20th Century, Steinbeck's best friend and philosophical mentor, Ed Ricketts, makes his first of many appearances in a Steinbeck novel, he appears as Doc Burton, Steinbeck would use Ricketts and their shared philosophy in many other novels, this was also Steinbeck's first foray into... Read More
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The Grapes of Wrath.
by Steinbeck, John.
NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, one of the true... Read More
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Tortilla Flat.
by Steinbeck, John.
London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book, it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos, Goldstone & Payne A4c, Morrow 31, scarce. Very good.
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The New Journalism.
by Wolfe, Tom.
NY, Harper & Row, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Wolfe first writes about the new journalism which is followed by an anthology of just that - new journalism by distinguished authors, the anthology is edited by Wolfe and E. W. Johnson, it includes selections by Truman Capote (from In Cold Blood), Terry Southern (Twirling at Ole Miss), Hunter S. Thompson (The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Norman Mailer (from Armies of the Night), Tom Wolfe... Read More
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