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McCarthy, Cormac. The Road . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 8vo., original printed blue wrappers over jacket cover. Uncorrected proof. A fine copy of the author's Pulitzer prize winning novel. McCarthy considered this work among his most personal. It is the story of a father and son struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic world gone made which McCarthy dedicated to his own son John (who was around 8 at the time of publication). Though published late in McCarthy's career, Knopf appears to have distributed very few copies of this proof (perhaps to curtail their appearance on the market before the book's publication) and they are now scarce. . Photos supplied upon request.

Signed first edition Angela's AshesSigned on Title Page 10 Sept. 1996 Frank Mc Court- signature only no inscription

190 p.; 24 cm. Jargon (Jargon Society); 43. Jargon; 43. A remarkable montage of history(Columbus) and literature (Melville). Metcalf's poetry and prose was unique in American letters. First edition. First Edition, First Printing.
'Paul Metcalf was an original writer. A writer who had to follow his own path, at significant cost to himself, over many decades, without a large following. A writer who took the forms that were at hand and shook them up, recast them, repurposed them, so that a traditional approach, after beholding his model, seems almost ludicrously simplistic. A writer of the new, the surprising, the arresting.
'Genoa was first published in 1965 by the Jargon Society, a small press associated with the Black Mountain school of American poetics. Its story, to the extent that it has one, is not hard to relate: a certain clubfooted, non practicing MD, Michael Mills, ponders his relationship with his murderous and broken sibling, Carl. In the process, he burnishes their lives and upbringing in a… Read More

First edition hardcover with dust jacket published in 1971 by The Jargon Society,Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose, but his work generally defies classification. Its small but devoted following includes Robert Creeley, William Gass, Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Howard Zinn, and Bruce Olds. His many books include Will West (1956), Genoa (1965), Patagoni (1971), Apalache (1976), The Middle Passage (1976), Zip Odes (1979), and U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1980).He was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville.

Title: LOVE (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Book Condition: Fine/NEW
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition

Hardcover. Condition: New 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 545 pages. Published in 1996. Retrospective collection of short stories. Advance Reader's Edition/Limited Edition of 200 signed copies. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Alfred A. Knopf: Regular-sized volume format. Cream cloth boards with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Short stories by Alice Munro. Purple pictorial slipcase with titles on one side. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Gathers and presents Alice Munro's "Selected Stories". Twenty-eight of the most representative and finest short stories by arguably its greatest writer of our time. "