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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy "A" of 26 lettered copies of this collection of five stories that imagine Franz Kafka in a modern American setting. This is the correct first edition, preceding the Norton edition by two years. 100 pages. There were also 600 numbered copies. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a fine slipcase. Signed by Lethem and Scholz on the limitation page.

New York: Pocket Books, 1972. First Thus. Mass market paperback. Fine. Crews' fourth novel in massmarket format described on the cover as "An outlaw band of karate fanatics... a young man and woman locked in a savage and erotic contest." 160 pages. First massmarket edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). A lovely bright copy. Signed by Crews on the title page.

New York: Rizzoli, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A color photo monograph on one of the masterpieces of Japanese architecture. Over 200 illustrations; 192 in color. 267 pages. 10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. Translated from the Japanese. First US edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Boards slightly splayed (bowed out).

London: Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A classic study of Keats's annotations in his copies of Shakespeare and a foundational work in the study of marginalia. "Spurgeon describes the two texts of Shakespeare marked by Keats, transcribes (mostly accurately) the markings on five plays, lists what she considers to be parallels between The Tempest and Endymion, and presents a fondly appreciative Introductory Essay on the links between the writers. Her book is now difficult to obtain..."-R. S. White, Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare (1987). viii, 178 pages, with 20 plates of facsimiles of Keats's marginalia. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in brown cloth, in a very good dust jacket with a short snag at the top of the front panel, tanning to the spine and edges, and chipped at the spine ends, else very good. Scarce in jacket.

(N.-pl.): Sponsored by Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company in Cooperation with the U.S. Government, 1944. Ephemera. Near fine. A World War Two-era homefront poster from private industry urging compliance with federal energy conservation goals through the purchase of consumer products (i.e., storm windows). Compared to official government posters, business propaganda posters are rather scarce. This private poster, compared to official US posters, is also much more sexist than government-issued pieces. The central image shows a rear view of a woman in a suggestive pose bending at the waist while wearing a short skirt. Old man winter futilely blows cold air outside her window. A toddler crouches at her feet. 13-1/2 by 20 inches. Near fine. Never folded. Ships flat. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A novel. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (spine perhaps a bit faded). Inscribed by McGuane on the front free endpaper, "To Charlie from Thomas McGuane 1989.

New York: Warner Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With a foreword by Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Denfeld, an amateur boxer, takes on traditional notions of women's peacefulness. 182 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both Denfeld and Dunn (at her foreword). Uncommon signed by both Portland, Oregon authors.

London: Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. All three volumes of this detective series based on a British TV show written by Soren Szeistrup. First editions (first printings of all three volumes, with numberlines ending in 1). Fine copies in fine dust jackets, all signed by Hewson on the title page.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 750 copies of this collection of very short stories, signed by Lansdale. Eighteen stories in 98 pages. Illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Numbered and signed by Lansdale on the limitation page. This copy also has an original pen-and-ink drawing of a bird on the title page drawn by the illustrator Glenn Chadbourne. Uncommon "remarqued" with a drawing.

London: Gollancz, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second book in the Memory of Flames (dragon) series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Deas on the title page with a quote from the book (signed and lined, as they say). A terrific copy.

London: Goldsboro Books / Gollancz, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second book in the Memory of Flames (dragon) series. This is one of 150 numbered copies signed by Deas and housed in a slipcase. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a very near fine slipcase with minor shelfwear. Signed by Deas on the limitation page. This is copy 26 of 150.

New York: Minotaur Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The fourteenth volume in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Published simultaneously in the US and UK. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with two short tears at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. With an information card from the Parnassus Books Signed First Editions Club laid in.

London: Harper Voyager in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second volume in the acclaimed Daevabad fantasy series. One of 250 copies with green dyed edges, signed by the author on the title page. First UK edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 20, signed by Chakraborty.

London: Harper Voyager in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 250 signed and numbered copies of the UK edition of this debut fantasy novel that incorporates elements of voodoo and African American folklore. Bound with black-dyed page edges. First UK edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 25 of 250 signed by Barron on a limitation page.

New York: Holiday House, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture book retelling of the King Arthur legend by Margaret Hodges, with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyamn. Hyman won the Caldecott Medal for an earlier book collaboration with Hodges, Saint George and the Dragon. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Hyman on the front free endpaper.

Weaverville, CA: Journal Print, 1906. Ephemera. Fine. A promotional card, illustrated with a half-tone portrait, of an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools for mountainous Trinity County in far northern California. This card most likely dates from before 1911, when women won the right to vote in California. Katherine "Kittie" or "Kitty" O'Neil was born in California in 1861 to Irish immigrant parents. She began teaching at the Indian Creek public school near Weaverville in 1881 (see Pacific School and Home Journal, May 1881). In the 1900 census, she was living with her brother James, a gold miner, and her sister Mary, who taught school in the region for more than 40 years. In 1904, Kittie was listed as the president of the County Board of Education for Trinity County (see 1904 edition of the California Educational Directory). By 1910, Kittie had disappeared from the O'Neil siblings' household and I could find no trace of her after that, suggesting she had either married or died by… Read More

Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Fishing essays, each devoted to a different river. This is one of 100 numbered copies bound in quarter leather and marbled-paper-covered boards. With a fishing fly, the "wooly bugger" tied by the author, mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). The page edges are slightly spotted, but the book is otherwise fine. In a handmade slipcase.

Sacramento, CA: Michael W. Silvey, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Covers SOG, Randall, Gerber, John Ek, and other knives. 139 pages. Full color. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Trade paperback. Fine. 368 pages. Reproduced from a clean typescript. A fine copy in printed brown wrappers. Uncommon in this format. Inscribed by Crews, "To Phil May, all best, Harry Crews. Gainesville, Flor." The recipient is probably the TV producer and film historian of that name.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A boxing novel. 269 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket (general shelf wear, just not crisp enough to be fine). Signed by Crews.