Search Results: Authors starting with S from Sawtooth Books

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1943. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Second Printing. A fine book with edgewear. No dust jacket, as issued bythe publisher. Browning to the pages. (Printed on cheap wartime paper.) Housed in the original shipping box which is slightly faded. No stamps or address on the shipping box. This small book contains the first published appearance of J. D. Salinger, a story called "The Hang of It." Second issue with the copyright page stating 1943 printing. Examples with the shipping box have become quite uncommon.

Walker, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A new and powerful biography of the long neglected Chester Himes, famed for his series of Harlem novels.

Buffalo: W Paul Ganley Pub, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Seattle, 19975. Limited edition. Limited edition. A fine book in dark blue wraps. A collection of poetry. Limited to 75 copies printed for the 1995 winter holiday season. Signed an inscribed by the author on the title page.

Seattle, 19975. Limited edition. Limited edition. A fine book in dark blue wraps. A collection of poetry. Limited to 75 copies printed for the 1995 winter holiday season. Signed by the author on the title page.

Seattle, 1997. Limited edition. Limited edition. A fine book in light gray wraps. A chapbook limited to 75 copies presented as a giftbook in December, 1995. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Counterpoint, 2000. First edition. hardcover. hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Salter set out to revise his second novel, The Arm of Flesh. Instead he wound up rewriting it from start to finish and this book is the result. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Picador, 2013. First British edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's final novel, published when he was 87. Signed and inscribed by Salter on the title page.

Knopf, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The author's first and ambitious first book. Closed tears to the head and foot of the dust jacket and wear on the extremities. The silver dust jacket is notoriously fragile. Signed by the author.

Capra Press, 1977. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight rubbing and chipping to the uncoated jacket. A overview of American literature as history. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. With correct edition statement and letters on the copyright page. The late Portuguese author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. Signed and dated by the author in 2002 on the title page. This book is from the library of noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A close to fine book in a fine dust jacket. Slight pinching to the spine ends of the book. This is Saramago's story of a potter who must confront the twin evils of bureaucracy and anonymity. Saramago, who died in June, 2010, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. The book is signed by Saramago on the title page. Signed by the author.

New York: St. Martin's, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Some toning to the jacket flaps. The second book by the author of Wall of Glass. This book is from the collection of the late, noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: St. Martin's, 1987. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Some toning to the jacket flaps. Price clipped. The author's first book. This book is from the collection of the late, noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Signed and inscribed to Larry Owens. Signed by the author.

New York: Random House, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Signed by the Saunders and dated in 2017 on the title page. Signed by the author.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book without dust jacket, as issued. Sayles' mammoth book, a tour de force of nearly 1000 pages. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. A beautiful, unread copy. The second volume of Steven Saylor's Novels of ancient Rome. Signed by the author on the half title page.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fie book in a near fine dust jacket. Toning to the edges of the white jacket. A review copy with publisher's slip and author photo laid in. A collection of movie reviews and essays written when Schickel was a movie critic for Life Magazine.

New York: Pantheon, 2001. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A collection of stories by the author The Reader. Signed by the author on the title page.

Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 1999. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in cloth black boards without dust jacket, as issued. Signed by the author.