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(Wichita): Watermark Press, 1990. First edition. About fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of O'Brien's stunning narrative of self-destruction. The author's first novel, and the only one published within his lifetime. Heavily autobiographical and drawing from O'Brien's own experience of screenwriting, alcoholism, and despair, the novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1995 film, released after O'Brien's death the year before. Though praised as spectacularly dark and unflinching, the adaptation substantially lightened the brutality of the novel, which was in turn a shade more romantic and less devastating than the real life behind it. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver spine lettering. In original unclipped ($19.50) dust jacket. Black endpapers. [6], 189 pages. Signed by O'Brien on title page. Gift inscription to half-title verso. Minor edgewear.

New York: Atheneum, 1971. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the Newbery Award Winner that mixes science fiction with fantasy, in which lab rats gain incredible abilities. A wonderful tale featuring mom as the heroine: widowed mouse Mrs. Frisby goes to great lengths to save her children in an adventure that uncovers her resilience and grit. Made into the animated film THE SECRET OF NIMH that lives vividly in the minds of late Gen Xers and early Millennials. A lovely copy. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original tan cloth, purple-stamped vignette on front board, purple-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket. Maroon endpapers, including triple fly leaves at front. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein in black-and-white throughout. [6], 233, [1] pages. Jacket with one short closed tear to front panel, some light spotting, and typical darkening around the edges. Book sturdy and crisp.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of O'Connell's standalone missing-girl thriller, the author's first departure from her popular Kathy Mallory mystery series. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter grey cloth with gilt-stamped grey boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 340 pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($23.95) dust jacket. 278 pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page. Four-page glossy fold-out mockup of the forthcoming paperback edition, publisher's press release, and radio advertising schedule laid in. Minor edgewear. Faint red stamp to lower edge of text block.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of the fourth novel in O'Connell's mystery series starring "sociopathic" detective Kathleen Mallory, a New York police sergeant investigating murder in Louisiana. 9'' x 6''. Original grey boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 341, [1] pages. Signed by O'Connell on title page.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this thrilling tale of how American Eagle (a young boy in a cape and excellent hat) shows that he is a true superhero by telling the truth - with original drawing of the hero. George O'Connor's twin loves of superhero comics and the childish wonder of CALVIN AND HOBBES is showcased in KAPOW!, his first picture book. He has since entered the world of comics and graphic novels wholeheartedly, working alongside greats like Warren Ellis. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [40] pages. Inscirbed by O'Connor to front flyleaf "I hope you / enjoy reading / KAPOW!" with original drawing of the child alter-ego of American Eagle.

New York: Harper, 2013. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed special first US edition of this darkly humorous and sometimes harrowing novel of the lives of two girls following the deaths of their abusive parents, and their elderly neighbor who takes them in - part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original blue and purple boards. Original… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1992. Fine in like dust jacket.. First American edition, first printing, the story of a little wolf coming to live with a family of pigs, who think he is a dog. 11.5'' x 8.75''. Glazed pictorial boards. In original dust jacket. Charming full page and smaller color illustrations by the author.

New York: Random House, 1969. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s. A provocative work informed by the countercultural movements of the 1960s, about the lives of lesbian women in the early part of the 20th century. The contemporary NEW YORK TIMES review of it noted about O'Hara: "he surely has the most authentically dirty mind in American fiction. His in not the stale narcissism of a Roth or the gentle romanticism of a Hemingway, but the true dirtiness of the locker room and the barracks" (NYT, Richard Rhodes, 30 November 1969). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original full brown cloth stamped in gilt and blue. In original unclipped ($5.95) purple jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Orange topstain, green endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. [6], 249, [1] pages. Trace handling wear, otherwise bright, sound, unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of this collection with twenty-two stories by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, chosen from his first nine volumes of work, covering the years 1935-1966. 8.5'' x 5.5''. In original full white cloth stamped in gilt. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Blue topstain, fore-edge machine deckle, blue endpapers. xii, 491, [1] pages. Trace shelf wear, bit of discolor to lower front board, otherwise clean, bright, unmarked.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First edition. Very good plus.. First edition, scarce advance "presentation" copy, of O'Hara's acclaimed novel, in the original pictorial wrappers. "To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald," Fran Lebowitz once said; underrated "because every single person who knew him hated him." Untrue; unkind; but fair enough. This is O'Hara's best known book, a sexually frank, Hemingway-endorsed narrative of Pennsylvania miseries, enacted in the person of Julian English, who magnifies his troubles with bitterness, alcohol, and finally carbon monoxide. The title of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, taken from a parable retold by Maugham and used as the book's epigraph, serves to signal its inevitable end: fate and death come for us all, even unto the car dealerships of Gibbsville. A great American novel. 8'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers with flaps. Front fly leaf stamped with "TO BE PUBLISHED" and "PRICE," completed in pen with "Aug. 16" and "probably 2.50". 301, [1] pages.… Read More

New York: Random House, 1972. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First edition, first printing of this posthumously published novel about the Midwest during World War I, by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original mustard colored cloth stamped in blue and gilt. In original unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Green topstain, green endpapers. [8], 312 pages. Ink owner name on front fly leaf, ink "H" stamp on second fly leaf. Approximately 1.0" square cut-out from front inner jacket flap to left of price. Jacket with some other rubbing and a tiny chip to rear panel. Otherwise sound.

New York: Random House, 1960. Very good plus.. Early printing of this complete set in the publisher's original slipcase, featuring three partially autobiographical novellas by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA. 8'' x 5.5'' each. Third printing. Original boards. In publisher's slipcase. Blue topstains. 106; 112; 110 pages. Individual spines lightly faded, slipcase with bits of handling wear. Overall, three bright, sound, unmarked volumes.

New York: Random House, 1967. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original light green cloth stamped in gilt. Original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Small blacked out spot on front endpaper; ink owner name to fly leaf. Jacket mildly worn, more at spine ends. Cloth lightly faded, spine extremities a bit worn. Overall clean, sound.

Northampton, MA: Chameleon Books, Inc, 1995. First edition. Very good plus.. Selected striking images by Old, street photographer and onetime collaborator with Lou Reed. Black and white photographs of men and women boxing, clubbing, smoking, wrestling alligators, wearing beards of bees; in street parades, psychiatric hospitals, county fairs, and elsewhere. Introduction by Miles Barth, curator of New York's International Center of Photography. 10'' x 8''. Original black and white wrappers. 36 pages. Minor edgewear and soil to covers.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel. MISTS OF DAWN was originally published in 1952 as part of the Winston Juvenile Series of science fiction novels for young adults, brought back into print by editors David G. Hartwell and L.W. Currey. All books in the series featured an authorial introduction discussing the scientific foundations of the story to follow; in MISTS OF DAWN, a time-travel adventure, Oliver provides a brief essay on "The Science of Man", with such subheadings as "How to travel in time" and "What is Anthropology?" He regrets to inform the reader that there are no dinosaurs in this book. A beautiful copy of this uncommon edition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original pictorial dust jacket by Mike Symes. 208 pages. Light foxing and wear to top edge of text block and upper edge of jacket flaps.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition thus. Fine in fine dust jacket, with original slipcase.. Limited signed special edition of this Existentialist anti-Capitalist play, which sees a working man descend into madness after realizing he matters little to the rich people of New York. THE HAIRY APE was initially produced in 1922, incorporating expressionistic set design and staging typical of O'Neill's works. This illustrated edition elevated the play to high Art Deco, lending it an additional sense of urgency on the eve of the Great Depression, which upended the lives of so many laborers like Yank. 10'' x 7.5''. Original black cloth-backed color patterned boards. Original unclipped (no price) dust jacket with pictorial onlay. Black endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece with eight plates. 116 pages, many folds unopened. Signed by O'Neill to limitation page and numbered 105. In original black slipcase with pink title label. Top edge of slipcase split to one side; light edgewear. Jacket with a hint… Read More

New York: Frederick Stokes, 1913. Near fine.. First edition of this early Kewpie book - with the rare boxed set of 3 Kewpie handkerchiefs. 10.75'' x 7.75'' (book); 10.75'' square (handkerchiefs). Original boards with pictorial paste-on. Red pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by O'Neill with 2-color illustrations on every page. viii, 80 pages. HANKIES: silk screened with color images of the Kewies; in pictorial publisher's box. Book with rear hinge cracked before fly leaf, still firm; boards with slightest bit of rubbing and bumping. Hankie box with strengthened along joints.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913. Near fine in good jacket.. First edition - in the rare original dust jacket - of this early Kewpie book with numerous illustrations depicting the adventures of the beloved Kewpies, among the best known US cartoon characters of the early 20th century. One of the biggest fads in comics and children's books before World War I, the Kewpies combined the cherubic aesthetic of cupid figures with the rambunctious, fun-loving character of brownies as popularized by contemporary authors like Palmer Cox. Today copies are exceptionally difficult to find with the original dust jacket. 10.75'' x 7.75''. Original brown paper boards, large color pictorial paste-on, spine lettered in dark brown. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with single color images. viii, 80 pages. Scarce jacket with large sections missing (top inch+ of rear panel, 2'' corner of front panel and head of spine, a few other chips), rear panel detached… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. First edition. Very good plus.. Inscribed first printing of this uncommon Kewpie adventure, in which the adorable little ones are enlisted to find a lost baby mouse - with original drawing of a small feathered wing. Rose O'Neill's Kewpies were "most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse" (Historic Missourians), and brought her tremendous financial success. This is an uncommon title among her numerous Kewpie works, made even more special by her inscription and drawing. 8'' x 5.75''. Original red cloth boards. Orange endpapers. Illustrated in black and white and orange. 114 pages. Inscribed by O'Neill to front flyleaf, "To Janet with / most Kewpish love from / all the Kewpies and / little Alphus and / Rose O'Neill / P. S. / Many and many a / thought will be flying / back to you, dear Janet" followed by a small drawing of a feathered wing, dated November 1928. Binding a bit toned, particularly to spine and edges; front joint… Read More