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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of short pieces, many reworked for this publication. The first edition was 2000 numbered copies. xx, 230 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket that is tanned at the spine and is missing one-inch piece… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The author's first novel. First edition (stated). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has less wear than most, but its back panel and the endpapers are heavily foxed.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The prequel to McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. 477 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry.

Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1960. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine. When Richard Hudson turns from a used car salesman to a movieland producer [like you do], his interests swing to this year's model-sleek, trim lines, an eye-catching front end and a well curved rear.. NSL U137. Fifty-cent cover price. 192 pages. First edition (first printing, "pilot… Read more about this item

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A detective novel set in Vancouver, British Columbia's Chinatown. The main character, Donegal Dawn, is a mysterious amateur detective and master of disguise called in by the police to solve particularly perplexing cases. Dawn is particularly adept at passing unnoticed in the Asian quarter of… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel by this Nobel Prize-winning author who was born in Japan, but grew up in England. Winner of the Whitbread prize and short listed for the Booker. First US edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 300 unnumbered copies signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A fine copy (not issued in a dust jacket) in a fine slipcase. Signed by Welty on the limitation page.

New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The author's last novel. This is one of 300 numbered copies, printed on special paper and signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good example of the original clear acetate dust jacket, which is missing a small chip from the top… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A sort of road novel about a struggling Houston writer who drives to California and back. First edition (first printing stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some fading to the orange lettering on the spine. Signed by McMurtry.

London: Basil Blackwell, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The British poet laureate's first children's books, an adventure yarn about the son of a feared sea captain who takes up the family business and has adventures fighting the Spanish in the 16th century. This is one of Day-Lewis's most sought-after books. Published as Tales of Action… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A novella set in a fictional Mississippi county. It was first published in the December 5, 1953, issue of the New Yorker, where it was the only feature that month. This hardcover edition, officially published on January 7, 1954, is illustrated with line drawings by… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. A Franklin Library edition preceded this trade edition. First edition (stated first trade edition with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Morrison on the front free endpaper.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "specially autographed for presentation to friends, in the book trade, of the author and the publishers." These copies are signed with initials on a tipped-in sheet. A collection of short pieces, mostly humorous and mostly published originally in The New… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. A limited edition of 1500 copies with lithographs by Lynd Ward printed over solid color backgrounds. Signed by Ward on the colophon. A near fine copy, with mild fading to the tartan-cloth binding. The slipcase has minor wear to the corners. The LEC monthly notes are laid in. Copy no.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of nine previously published stories. This is Proulx's first work of fiction after writing many gardening and how-to books. 151 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. McMurtry's first collection of essays, covering Texas history, Texas writers, cowboys, and as a coda to The Last Picture Show, sex in Archer City, Texas. At the time, McMurtry was best known as the writer whose first book Horseman, Pass By had been made into the movie, Hud. … Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Barthelme's second book, a comic re-imagining of the classy fairy tale. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with very little of the discoloration typical of this book. An above average copy.

London: Macmillan in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 150 signed copies of this Swedish thriller, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. First edition in English (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy no. 113 of 150 signed by Edvardsson on a tipped in page. "Signed copy"… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of essays published in the New Yorker between 1954 and 1961, with a foreword by the author and following many essays, a postscript bringing the essay up to date. E. B. "Andy" White and his wife, the New Yorker editor Katherine White, gave copies… Read more about this item

New York and Archer City, TX: Simon and Schuster and Three Dogs Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The most substantial of McMurtry's topical memoirs, this about bookselling (the others were about writing and Hollywood). This is the Three Dog Books issue, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author below an ink-stamp limitation statement. Three… Read more about this item