Recent Arrivals from acornbooks

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1949 Fading on blue cloth-covered front board, lightly darkened edges of text block, no prev. owner name. DJ price-clipped, slightly darkened, and light wear to extremities. Signed by both authors with signatures only on blank page before half-title page. Detailed description of buttons with over 570 illustrations. Illus. in B&W with frontispiece… Read more about this item

London, UK: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., 2001 Unread. Signed by Ian Rankin on the title page, plus a drawing of a 'tic-tac-toe' (naughts and crosses).

New York, New York: El León Literary Arts & Grove / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010 Fine; price corner intact. Author's first novel. Signed by Karl Marlantes with signature only in blue ink on the title page. On "The New York Times" Best Seller List within the first week of publication in March 2010. One of "The New York Times" 100… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994

New York, New York: Scribner, 1996 DJ in plastic cover. Signed by A. M. Homes with signature only on the title page. New York Times Book Review calls [Homes] "exhilaratingly perverse" who (from front endflap) "lures us into the lives of characters simultaneously repellent and seductive".

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1926 Rubs to extremities, light soiling, short tear on front cover, and 1 inch separation tear of covers from lower end of spine. Covers secure with three binding staples. Lightly penciled children's markings on several pages. No missing pages or text. Illus. in color and blue tone and white.

New York, New York: William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2009 Unread, no prev. owner name; bumped spine ends, heavily on foot of spine. DJ with wrinkled ends of spine panel. Signed by Christopher Moore on the title page.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 DJ price-clipped and with hint of rub to upper corners, otherwise book and DJ Fine. Signed by Patrick deWitt with signature only on the title page. Author's first book.

Portland, Oregon: Self-Published, 1995 Assumed First Edition. Fine, no stains, no markings, except signed by Roy Pingo with personalized inscription and dated "9 Nov. '96" on the first page. Indexed. (vii) 247 pp.

New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005 Fine. Illus. with aquatints. A story in pictures and minimal text, illustrated and written by the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife". Signed by the author on the title page.

New York, New York: Capitol Publishing Co., 1944 Missing front cover and possibly first page. Starts with title page with name of prev. owner. Rubs to extremities, light soiling. Nine farm animals, five of which have a movable mouth/beak. Tab for first farm animal's (rooster) movable beak missing.

San Francisco, California: A Byzantium Book / Chronicle Books, 1994 Audio tape is unused, new. Book and tape in Fine slipcase box. Shrinkwrap on slipcase opened only for author's signature, which Nick Bantock has signed on both inside spine panel of box and on title page of book. "...twenty-three playful and savage poems about the social life of animals and… Read more about this item

Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1998 Fine. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Barry Lopez with signature only on the title page. Illus. in B&W with woodcuts. Lopez' story, written after a road trip from Oregon to Indiana, explores the moral and emotional upheaval he experienced in tending gently to animals dead from vehicular… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 Tail of spine slightly softened, otherwise book Fine. DJ with light scuffs on rear panel, and very slight rub at tail of spine panel; price corner intact. Signed by Susan Sontag with signature only on the half-title page. Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction.

Westborough, Massachusetts: Madras Press, 2010 Fine. Limited edition of an excerpt from a story in "Tin House", Winter 2009, Issue 42. Signed by Ben Marcus on the first page (dedication page).

New York, New York: Penguin Press, 2017 DJ with light rub to lower corners; price corner intact. Longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Bogard Weld Prize for Biography. Illus. with maps and photos in B&W. Incl. Notes, Biblio, Illustration Credits, and Index. (xxx) 1074 pp. Very heavy book.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1994 Hint of rub at corners of boards, otherwise Fine. No prev. owner name. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Michael Connelly with signature (initials) only on the title page.

New York, New York: Broadway Books, 1998 Fine. Signed by Tim O'Brien with signature only on the title page.

New York, New York: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., 1999 Hint of rub to spine ends, otherwise Fine. Signed by Jonathan Franzen with signature only at the start of his story, "The Failure". Stories by the "20 Writers for the 21st Century", deemed so by The New Yorker: Sherman Alexie, Donald Antrim, Ethan Canin, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz,… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 Author's first picture book for children. Signed by Julia Alvarez with signature only on the title page. Illus. in color.