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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Little Brown, 2021. Signed on the title page and dated 23 Aug 2022 by Rebecca Donner. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Mildred Fish Harnack was an American citizen who was part of the resistance underground in Germany during WWII. She was executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler in early 1943. Winner of the 2022 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Biography. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2021. Rebecca Donner is the Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. The publisher seriously underestimated the demand for this book and it was out of print within days of publication. With the supply chain issues during the pandemic, it took weeks to get a second printing to stores and warehouses. Also due to the pandemic, all author publicity for hardcover publication was Virtual, meaning that few signed copies of the first exist. This is… Read More

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition / First Printing. Black cloth spine, black and white printed boards, with a lenticular (hologram-like) black and silver illustration glued to the front board. Near fine. Issued without dust jacket, clear archival jacket supplied. Pop-ups, fold-outs, attached items and black-and-white photographs. Balloon has melted and fused two pages, also slightly coloring adjacent pages. Tear-out sheet is gone, all other objects are present and in fine condition: a pop-up castle, a fold-out accordion, a pop-up airplane, spring-mounted Chelsea Girls disc, a dodecahedron paper sculpture, Lou Reed flexi-disc is detached but is present, Rainbow nose with overlays, a pop-up Hunt's Tomato Paste can.

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Signed by the Barbara Kingsolver and Stephen Hopp on the title page. First edition / First printing. paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Seattle: The Seal Press, 1992. Signed by Barbara Kingsolver on the title page. First edition / First printing. 1,700 copies in cloth. Black cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.

New York: Crown, 2006. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Paris: Bibliotheque Litteraire Jacques Doucet, 1976. First edition / First printing. White wrappers. Fine. Exhibition Catalogue. Text is in French. Documents and letters of Natalie Clifford Barney [1876-1972], an American writer who hosted a literary and art salon in Paris for over 60 years. She was perhaps best known for being the inspiration for a major character in The Well of Loneliness, considered to be the first Lesbian novel.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1986. Signed by the author on the first blank page following the front endpaper. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket The first hardcover publication of Bloom County strips.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science and history of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed then. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. Spillover was Winner of the 2013 Science and… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed and dated 9/17/22 by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science and history of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed and dated 2.5 weeks before publication. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the… Read More

New York: Random House, 2005. First edition / First printing. Advance uncorrected proofs. Blue and white printed wrappers. Very fine.

New York: Abrams, 2016 Signed on the title page by Lawrence Weschler, Weschler has added the adage: To see things clear & dear. Additionally signed in both cursive and block letters by Ramiro Gomez, who has added: Thank you. First edition / First printing. Aqua blue boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Times Books, 1995. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Tiny spot offset to the inside back of the jacket near the spine from the black cloth, It is not visible on the outside of the jacket. Book does not appear to be affected. A sharp attractive copy. Chosen as number 10 in The New York Times 50 Best Memoirs of the last 50 years. Barack Obama's remarkable first book, a memoir. Published 9 years before his Keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention propelled him into the National spotlight and four years later into the Presidency. This is the correct First Edition. The book was reissued in 2004, in both paperback and hardcover, and became a bestseller.

New York: Viking, 2003. Signed and dated 03/25/03 by the author with publisher's promotional postcard laid in. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, teal paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Dutton, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Very fine.

New York: New American Library, 1967. Signed on the half-title page by the author and inscribed: For Judy Schwab, Best, Budd Schulberg. First edition / First printing. Orange cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight spine fading and a couple closed tears. Previous owner's vintage bookplate on the front pastedown.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, gray paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. An Hour Before Daylight was a 2002 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Jimmy Carter is the 2002 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Signed by Susan Sontag on a bookplate, which is laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Subtle fading to extremities, else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.