Literature

London: Printed for J. Parsons, 1796.. vii,[1],[9]-32pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Half-title not present, but very good. First edition of this satire occasioned by the "lost letters" of the Prince of Wales. ESTC locates only six copies (Yale, Huntington and Harvard only in the U.S.). NCBEL II:672. ESTC T9346,

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award. 2013 Winner of the $100,000.00 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, given for lifetime achievement.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 2004. First U.S. edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied. Finalist for the Booker Prize. Number 9 on the 2019 Guardian List of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century. Basis for the 2012 Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski film, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. First trade edition / First printing. Brown cloth, Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

London Jonathan Cape, 2011. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The British precedes all other editions.

New York: Random House, 1993. Signed by the author on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Blue and white patterned wrappers. Very fine.

New York: Viking, 1997. Signed on the title page by Saul Bellow. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Saul Bellow Is the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: The Modern Library, 1926. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. 1926 first thus, Toledano 115.1, binding/jacket style 4b, 95 cent jacket price on spine, yellow Bernhard endpapers. Good in fair jacket. Jacket panels adhered to covers, loss along all jacket edges, jacket spine toned. viii, 371 pp. With a new introduction by the author. Poor White is an American novel by Sherwood Anderson, published in 1920.[1] An episode in the novel inspired Bertold Brecht's poem "Kohlen für Mike" ("Coal for Mike"), published in his 1939 collected Svendborger Gedichte. It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the banks of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America.--Wikipedia

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions (1991). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Fine, Like New condition. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appears unopened / unread. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.Translated by Basil Creighton.Beautiful gift book!

New York: Random House, 1997. First U. S. edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, slate paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the Booker Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1997. The author's first book.

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0525241280 . Text is clean. Binding is tight, showing limited wear. Dust jacket shows minor edgewear and traces of rubbing along edge of rear flap. DJ is not price-clipped and has the Susan Sontag quote on the rear panel. All in all a very nice copy. This is a second printing with number line missing '1'. ; 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches; 218 pages .

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959 First printing of the first American Edition. Light toning to upper cover margins and faint toning to page margins, else the book is in fine condition; dust jacket with shallow creasing to top edge of spine, light wear to corners, and light toning to upper flap margins, else fine. A sharp copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Signed by Kazuo Ishiguro. First U. S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2021. Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Doubleday, 2024. Signed by Percival Everett. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.