Search Results: Authors starting with B from Sawtooth Books

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. The author's first book. Bumping to the foot of the book. Closed tear at the top of the front pane of the jacket and wear at the foot of the dj that has been repaired. Light toning to the rear panel. Signed and dated on the title page. Baca endured a tough childhood growing up in Santa Fe, NM and wound up in prison where he wrote most of these poems. He has since produced more than a half dozen poetry collections and has several screen writing credits.

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975. First Australian edition. First Australian edition. A fine book in a close to fine dust jacket. Evidence of a small sticker removed from the front panel. a collection of short stories by one of Australia's best known novelists. This is his first book. It was published primarily as a paperbound book with a small hardcover printing intended for libraries. Bail won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999 for his novel, Eucalyptus. This copy is signed by Bail on the title page. Signed by the author.

Text Publishing, 1998. First Australian edition and true first edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Australian edition and true first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The 1999 winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Wear at the extremities of the dust jacket and some chipping to the head of the jacket spine. Slight spine lean. Some browning to the front and rear pastedowns. The author's first book and winner of the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship award. A thinly disguised story of coronet player Bix Beiderbecke who tragically died of alcoholism at the at the age of 28.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's second book. Signed by the author.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. This is the uncorrected proof of the first British edition. A very good copy in gray wrappers. Uneven cement wrinkles on the spine and some wrinkling to the front cover. Light edgewear. Bound in publisher's gray wraps printed in blue, with rubber date stamp and price written in ink on front cover. Considered by some to be the most influential book on race relations in the 1960s. Upon its publication 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation The Fire Next Time was praised "as one of (James) Baldwin's most important collection of essays..his prose with its apocalyptic tone...and its passionate yet distanced sense of advocacy sounded a warning and a hope about race in America." The 120-page book contains two essays that previously appeared in The New Yorker (Down at The Cross) and The Progressive (My Dungeon Shook).

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Baldwin examines a series of child murders in Atlanta in 1979 and 1980. Publisher's advance review slip laid into the book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in red, printed wrappers. An uncommon proof of Ballard's novel about a young man who steals an airplane and crashes it in the Thames River. He is taken as a supernatural figure. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of stories and the author's first hardcover book after several chapbooks of poetry. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Knopf, 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in illustrated wrappers. An early proof of the first American edition by the author of The Book of Evidence and Mefisto. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Knopf, 2008. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. As new copy. Signed by the author on the title page.

Delta, 1988. Uncorrected proof. Uncorrected proof. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The author's first book, a paperback original. This is similar to the paperback, but is slightly smaller. Signed by the author.

Putnam, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price clipped.

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Light toning to the rear panel. The author's first novel.

Livingston: Clark City Press, 1992. Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in green, plain wrappers. An unread copy. The printed publication date on rear cover is whited out and "June 15" written in ink.

Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A very good book with some sunning to the spine and soiling to the front and back boards. Front hinge a bit loose. This is the original red cloth binding, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Numerous illustrations and black and white photographs. Signed on the title page by the principal author, Robert H. Bates.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A study of the elusive and mysterious author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Doubleday, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. Light rubbing to front panel. The author's first book, issued simultaneously with Chilly Scenes of Winter. This is a collection of short stories. Signed by the author.

New York: Viking, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine in a fine dust jacket. The author's first book. He is a Granta 20 author. Signed by the author.