Search Results: Authors starting with E from Sawtooth Rare Books

New York: Harper Bros, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of a book that wears easily. The author's first book, a novel of contemporary life on the Navajo Indian reservation.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. An uncorrected proof of the first U. S. edition.† †A very good plus copy with some wear to the extremities and a snag on the front cover.† Light sunning to the spine.† Previous owner name on front endpaper.† Signed by Umberto Eco on the title page. † The basis for the movie that starred Sean Connery.† This was Eco's first novel,† one that many critics now call a more sophisticated--and more insightful novel than another blockbuster† that was set in the Middle Ages--the Da Vinci Code.† †.

New York: Viking, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The newest novel by the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Doubleday, 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book in illustrated wrappers. An unread copy. The author's second book, a collection of stories. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Knopf, 1998. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in publisher's plain, brown wraps. A look at the New West by a former New York Times Pacific Northwest correspondent. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Random House, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine copy in blue printed wraps. A review of an early book by Egan, winner of the National Book Award for his outstanding story of the 1930s Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. This copy was sent to author Ivan Doig for a jacket blurb. Laid into the book is a TLS by Doig explaining why a bad back and other complications prevented him from writing the blurb. A nice association between two of the Pacific Northwest's best known writers.

Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2000. First Dutch edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Dutch edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. This is the first Dutch translation of Dave Eggers first book. Browning to some of the pages because two different kinds of paper stock were used. Signed by the author on the title page.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2001. First edition. First edition. Edited and designed by Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. This is 7th issue of Eggers' inventive and readable magazine. Actually a collection of staple bound stories in folding binder. Contains pieces by William Vollmann, Michael Chabon, Ann Cummins, Chris Ware, Kevin Brockmeier and Allan Seager.

San Francisco: Oddi Printing, 1999. Second Printing. Paperback. Paperback. Second Printing. A fine book in black and white illustrated wrappers. This is the third volume of Dave Eggers charming and funny editon of McSweeney's magazine. This unread copy contains stories by Rick Moody, SarahVowell, Arthur Bradford, Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem and Magnus Mills.

Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Anthology of poetry by 75 poets who examined the the brutality and mayhem of the Vietnam War. Among the poets are Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, Gustav Hasford, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, Thomas McGuane, Richard Shelton and William Stafford. Signed by the author and editor W. D. Ehrhart.

London: Covent, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy. An edition of 100 copies signed and numbered. Signed by the author. This book is from the collection of the late, noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg, unknown. Hardcover. Hardcover. An early edition, though the book is missing the frontispiece and the copyright page. The book was first published in 1907, so this is likely an edition between 1907 and 1913. Book shows considerable wear, tape holding the front board in place. Binding on the spine worn and faded. The book is a collection of letters from the son of a Hopi chieftain to the Lady of the New Moon, a white woman he fell in love with, sent to her in his dreams. The author went to live among the Hopi in Arizona in1909. According to The New York Times, Ryan "claimed to be the only white woman ever admitted to the secret religious rites of the Hopi.

London: Gollancz, 1953. First British edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First British edition. The first British edition of Ellison's classic work, published a year after the U.S. edition. A near fine, price-clipped book in a very good dust jacket. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Some soiling to the uncoated and iconic Gollancz jacket. Sunning to the spine. Tape reinforcement to the interior spine ends of the jacket. Small Australian bookseller label on front pastedown.

Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book, a collection of stories. Signed by the author.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. Winner of the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the 1985 L.A. Times Book Award. The author's first novel and the first in a series of four novels to date. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Light soiling to the front panel of the jacket, some fading to the jacket spine. The story of a displaced national seeking an identity card in a maze of Iranian indifference. In this comic masterpiece we follow this alienated man on a journey to freedom against the backdrop of a society dominated by ceremonious formalities, politeness, responsibility and confusion. A scarce book.

New York: FSG, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Basis for the movie of the same name. a lovely copy. He was chosen as one of the top 20 young writers in America by Granta magazine. This is the first book by Eugenides who won the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel, Middlesex.

New York: FSG, 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The first published collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Signed by the author on a special publishers' page tipped into the book.

New York: Macmillan, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a very good plus dust jacket. Some wear at the extremities and at the head and foot of the jacket. All four corners of the jacket are clipped, but the price of $3.50 is present. The author's first book.