Modern First Editions from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Walker And Company, NY, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 204 pages. Historical Old West adventure novel involving the capture of Geronimo during Arizona’s Apache Wars. Authored by Andrew J. Fenady, writer and producer of the 1960’s television series "Rebel," feature films "Chisum" and "The Man With Bogart ‘s Face," and the novel "The Secret Of Sam Marlow." Inscribed and… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945; First Edition; 8vo, 64 pages; green cloth; gilt spine, gilt front board graphics, red topstain. Thomas Mann’s compelling novella on the life of Moses, which first appeared in 1943 as part of a larger collection of ten novellas grouped together and edited by literary agent Armin L. Robinson under the title "The… Read more about this item

Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999; First Edition; tall 8vo, 79 pgs. A quirky series of adventures in which Vonnegut is a news correspondent who, with the aid of Dr. Kevorkian, undergoes repeated near-death episodes in order to be able to interview historical and otherwise famous people in the afterlife, after which he returns to this life to… Read more about this item

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 2013; First Edition; 8vo, 486 pgs.; yellow boards, white cloth spine, silver titles. Signed on the title page by the author. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Clean, bright, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Not price clipped.

Harry S. Dube, , 1953; "8 1/2" x 11"; 76 pages; illustrated. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine and Program for 1953, with three-page photo-illustrated lead story by Ernest Hemingway in which he describes his fascination with the circus since childhood and gives his impressions of each of the scheduled acts for the upcoming… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, New York, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 311 pages; blue cloth; gilt titles. Twenty-six remarkable short stories, translated into English and published for the first time in one volume. Arranged in chronological order of their first publication in Spanish, beginning from 1947. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single 1/4"… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1976; First Edition, first printing; 8vo, 249 pages; blue cloth spine; orange titles; blue topstain; orange end papers. Twenty-two quirky short stories by tormented author Raymond Carver, his first published prose work, which made the short list for the National Book Award that year. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, New York, 1976; First Edition, first printing; 8vo, 274 pages. Rumer Godden’s absorbing tale of the experiences of two young English sisters summoned to join their father in New Delhi after he is stationed there as a member of the British foreign service, only to discover upon arrival that he keeps company with a young… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1990; First American Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 192 pages. Muriel Spark’s serio-comic tale of the interwoven lives of the eccentric guests at a posh dinner party hosted by a pair of well-heeled Londoners, with robbery, lust, and murder all part of the fabric. Ingenious, funny, and thought provoking. Fine, in a Fine dustjacket. Signature… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1995; First Edition; 8vo, 209 pages. Essays on personal experiences in India during a six year ambassadorship in the 1960’s, by Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinburger. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

Little Brown, Boston, 1946; First Edition; 8vo, 176 pages; oxblood cloth; blindstamped front board illustration; gilt titles. Mesmerizing novel of entangling cultures, religions, and romantic love in colonial India, made into the 1951 film of the same name by Jean Renoir, for which Godden wrote the screenplay. "The River" was the first Technicolor project made in India, and… Read more about this item

Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York, 1979; First American Edition; 8vo, 183 pgs.; black boards; orange titles. An entry in the series of clever whodunnits featuring inspector Ganesh Ghote of Bombay, authored by popular mystery writer H.R.F. Keating, winner of both the Golden Dagger and Edgar Allen Poe awards. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that… Read more about this item

Viking Press, New York, 1935; First Edition; tall 8vo, 154 pages; red cloth; illustrated. Charles G. Finney’s first novel, a fantasy about a bizarre traveling circus that suddenly appears in the remote desert town of Abalone, Arizona carrying a load of extraordinary creatures overseen by a mysterious Chinaman. Winner of Best Book Of The Year at the first… Read more about this item

Dial Press, New York, 1957; First Edition; 8vo, 223 pages; red cloth; white and yellow titles. Brodkey’s first book and winner of the Prix de Rome, a collection of nine short stories: "The State Of Grace," "First Love And Other Sorrows," "The Quarrel," "Sentimental Education," "Laurie Dressing," "Laura," "Trio For Three Gentle Voices," "Piping Down The Valleys Wild,"… Read more about this item

Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1992; First Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 419 pages. Susan Sontag’s 18th century historical romance based on the explosive lives of Sir William Hamilton, British Ambassador to the Kingdom Of Naples from 1764-1800, his young second wife Emma Hart, and her lover Lord Nelson. Among his other accomplishments, Hamilton, who from his first arrival… Read more about this item

Random House, New York, 1997; First Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 321 pages. Debut novel of Arundhati Roy, four years in the writing, which won the 1997 Booker Prize and was named one of the five best books of the year by Time Magazine, but was nevertheless not without criticism both abroad and in India, where the government brought… Read more about this item

Random House, New York, 1967; First Trade Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 428 pages; black cloth; gilt titles; tan end papers; ochre topstain. William Styron's Pulitzer-winning novelization of the events leading up to the 1831 murderous rampage led by runaway slave Nat Turner, in which over sixty innocent Whites were savagely slaughtered, including an infant hacked to pieces as it slept,… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979; First Edition; 8vo, 255 pages. Third Moses Wine novel by Roger L. Simon, author of "The Big Fix." Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication to notable Hollywood screenwriting couple Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, best known for "American Graffiti" and "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom."… Read more about this item

Random House, New York, 1975; First Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 270 pages; brown cloth; gilt titles and decorations; tan topstain; colored endpapers. His fourth novel, source for the 1981 film of the same name directed by Milos Forman and starring James Cagney and Howard Rollins. Fine, in a Near Fine dustjacket. No chips or tears, no price clipping,… Read more about this item

Anchor Books, New York, 1997; First Edition; 8vo, 338 pages. Chitra Divakaruni’s much-acclaimed first novel, source for the movie of the same name. Signed on the title page by the author. As New, in an As New dustjacket.