Knight's Gambit by Faulkner, William - 1949

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First English language edition / First printing. Black cloth. About fine with one small corner crease to the front free endpaper in near fine dust jacket with only a slight amount of laminate peel that is so common to this title.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Decorative label signed by Robertson Davies laid in. First edition / First printing. Bright orange cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the top front panel light creases, and wear primarily to the rear top corner of the spine. An exceptional copy of both the book and the fragile dust jacket. Second book in the Deptford Trilogy.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. First trade edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Near fine, slight fading to top and bottom board edges, in fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Gray cloth, with red spine lettering. Red top stain. Gray end papers. 534 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$8.95" price intact) is chipped, with small, closed tears at top of both the front and rear panels.

NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra. The nature of Fuchs and Foster's acquaintance is unknown, though it seems safe to assume that they might have met during Fuchs' long tenure as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His inscription, "From one Brighton Beachcomber to another," also leaves open the possibility that the two had known each other growing up in Brooklyn. Inscribed by Fuchs and signed as "Dan" on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); vii, 380, 301, 314pp.; red cloth boards, gold lettering on spine,… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Signed on the title page by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Fine in a dust jacket with a closed 1/8" tear on the back panel, else fine. Gunter Grass was the 1999 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Signed on half-title with the place noted as Webster Groves and dated 15 September 88. Early signature with full first name. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth spine, light gray-blue paper-covered boards. Near fine in price-clipped, fine dust jacket. The author's first book. Franzen grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. This book was published in September of 1988.

Beautiful Condition: Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dustjacket. Overall, this is a beautiful, clean copy of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama - Very light wear to the dust jacket tips and crown of the spine.

203ChristiePaddington Agatha Christie. 4.50 From Paddington, 1957, Collins, London FIRST EDITION. USED. VG-/VG- UNCLIPPED DJ, ORIGINAL PRICE 12S 6D NET. Protected in a mylar wrap. Synopsis: "4.50 from Paddington (Miss Marple) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November, 1957 by Collins Crime Club. A Collins Crime Club Choice This work was published in the United States at the same time as What Mrs. Mc-Gillicuddy Saw!, by Dodd, Mead. 5 X 7 5/8. 256 pages. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. A Lovely copy. The last collection published during Bishop's lifetime.