The Great Santini by Pat Conroy's - 1976

NY: Popular Library, 1971. First paperback edition, first prnt. Perfect-bound pictoral wraps. Signed by Burke on the title page. Laid in is a 3 x 5 postcard with Burke's holograph note. "My wife and I are starting on the promotional circuit... I hope to meet you on our next trip to New York." Signed "Jim Burke." Aprx sixty words. The book has minimal edge and corner wear and a shallow corner crease on the rear panel; it is bright and tight. The postcard has two small discolor spots in addition to postal cancellation stamps and the correspondent's stamped address. Near Fine condition. Burke's third novel and first Hackberry Holland.. Signed By Author with Note. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Not Issued.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1987. Inscribed by author "For Jill, Best wishes to you always! Fannie Flagg Oct. 8th 1987. P.S. Ruth was in the freezer for two years.....". Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931. 1st. hardback. Near fine, limited & numbered edition (no 4 of 250), signed by all 17 authors: Thomas Burke, Martin Armstrong, H.R. Barbor, Elizabeth Bowen, Gerald Bullett, G.K. Chesterton, A.E. Coppard, E.M. Delafield, L.P. Hartley, Storm Jameson, Margaret Kennedy, Edward Shanks, Helen Simpson, J.C. Squire, L.A.G. Strong, Frank Swinnerton, and Rebecca West. Green leather-bound boards, gilt cover design and spine titling bright; discolouration on spine otherwise protected in mylar sleeve; text block firm, top edge gilt, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot:A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary way, marries her and drops the academic correspondence. Happiness, then friction. He writes again to the unknown woman… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton. London.,1953. REPRINT. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.-- To my very dear friends Charlie and Jane, with fondest love from Freddie.-- A very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. The book is protected in a red cloth chemise housed in a red morocco spined slip case, made by James Macdonald Co. New York. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Lettered in gilt.:

Los Angeles: Ward Richie, 1929. Octavo. 2pp. This is the second production noted in the bibliography of premier Southern California printer, Ward Richie. The edition consisted of 150 copies; it was a student project, done while Richie attended Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. The choice of a Carl Sandburg poem is significant, as Sandburg and Richie shared a longtime friendship with Los Angeles bookseller and publisher, Jake Zeitlin. This is one of the scarcest of early Sandburg editions. 1printed sheet printed on [2]pages folded laid into 1 printed folded sheet (wrapper) lightly finger soiled with small chip to rear wrap. A very good copy.

MODERN LIBRARY, with 95 cents on DJ Spine BTM, 1925. ,SIGNED by William Beebe, Forward by Theodore Roosevelt, 95 Cents Inner DJ Flap ,HBDJ, 1925, STATED 1ST Modern Library EDITION,FINE-/GOOD-, VERY EARLY Dustjacket with 265 Titles on inside & Back of DJ & 95 cents & Pre ZipCode Coupon on Back DJ .DJ SPINE Foxed with Long Crease , Beautiful and very special little book. Brown Leatherette cvr with gilt Title on Spine cvr Bright condition is Fine Minus, the spine is straight and the hinge and binding are Fine-. The hinge is tight There is nice dark top stain, but with Small Stain, This has no bleed on to the pages. The leatherette is a bit dry around the edges, yet there are no cracks. Slight bowing along the ends. The endpapers are wonderful. There is a small rectangular book label on the BACK of the right side endpaper near the spine. Jacket is in Good Minus condition, toning front/spine/back and along the folds. LARGE chip at the back at the top edge at the spine. Nicks are the… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

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