Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell - 1990

New York: Delacorte/Lawrence (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages yellowing, dust jacket has a couple of very small tears. The price is intact. This award-winning author's first book by a major publisher. "These stories of America's disenfranchised - men and women light-years away from the American dream - are quite unlike any in our literature. She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty." - Raymond Carver

316+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Has the "A" on the title verso. First edition. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930s. These stories were used as the basis for a… Read More

Alexandria, Va: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Full imprint: "Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, for Robert and John Gray, Alexandria; and for Conrad and Co., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington City." 2 volumes: 256, 248 p.; 18 cm. 12mo. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco spine label in second compartment of each volume. Gilt-tooled volume number in fourth compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled decoration in the first, third, and fifth compartments. All page edges yellow. This is the First American edition, after the British 1799 edition. Each volume has a label on the front fixed endpaper indicating that the volumes were given in 1855 to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College by Samuel M. Dickson (1837-1866) and John W. Cornelius (1835-1894), graduates of the college who became Methodist ministers. Dickinson College Library oval stamp also on front fixed endpapers and embossed… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

John Lehman, London, 1952. First edition, UK. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning, unobtrusive previous owners name in ink on last page, slight bumping at corners and spine. Dust jacket has edge wear and creasing, dust shadow and light soiling on rear cover, tears at top edge, price clipped. Blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine.In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

Row, Peterson, and Company ILLINOIS, 1935. . and several corner creases and short tears. B&W illustrations are generally clean throughout, though.HB NODJ,1935, 1st edition, GOOD+/GOOD-, NO JACKET, SOLD AS-IS, Interior Some rub, Wear, Light FoX stains some pencil mrks, Few cuts, chips Tears some pages EDGES, Tan Beige & Dark Green ? Pictorial Cloth cover shows light Soil, Stains, Rub & tiny Chips Pieces Extremities, Cloth Spine Tears along Edges, chips Spine Engs, 304 pgs, No Additional Printings On Copyright Page, heavy edgewear and some scuffing to green-printed cover illustration. Fraying to corners and split to cloth along rear spine edge; some loss to spine ends. Still, a fairly tight copy with solid text and hinges.. This is an exceptionally rare book to find in any condition!. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Wellington: Spiral, 1983 first issue in first NZ edition, light handling wear with rubbed or creased edges, lacks blank front endpaper, crossed out name in pen to first (title) page, no errata page as called for, [x],469,[1]pp New Zealand native maori culture based novel. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited. Very Good. 1892. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 256 pages: 4.75 x 7.5 in.: 1: KB#011155: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are original Dark Blue with wear at corners and gilt lettering on spine. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright (except for endpapers being lightly age-darkened), tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Raffles Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. " and "The attempts by Raffles Haw, a rich eccentric, to help the poor only backfire, as his wealth brings out the worst in those around him." .

New York: Vertigo, DC COMICS, 1991. Book. Fine. Signed by Author. First Edition, Second Printing. SIGNED by NEIL GAIMAN on the Half-Title page. Signature with drawing of a mouse Morpheus and the note, "Sweet Dreams". A first edition, second printing of the first trade paperback Sandman comic, collecting issues 1-8. Book is in fine condition with minimal wear to front corner. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges are clean. Interior is clean and legible. Unread copy. Includes flyer from 1991 event when and where the copy was signed. Extremely rare edition and signed copy. Please see photos for details.

Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Fine in fresh near fine dust jacket with a hint of toning to the spine. Ownership name of Northwest Poet Joan Swift. A student of James Wright and Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington in the early 1960's. She mentored Tess Gallagher and was friends with Richard Hugo and Sister Mary Gilbert later known as Madeline DeFrees.