New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American edition, Review Copy. Full cloth. Octavo. 446 pages. An extraordinary novel set in the midst of political upheaval at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in the summer of 1919. Was awarded the Lost Man Booker for 1970 in 2010..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 176 pages. Harrison's second novel, featuring a poet who loves only fishing (and girls), a Vietnam vet who loves only violence (and drugs), and beautiful long-legged girl who loves only one of them (at first). This trio of innocents sets..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1983). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 178 pages. Collection of 12 stories set in the mountain hollows of West Virginia, by an uncannily observant and tremendously promising young writer. Breece D'J Pancake's bright flame was brief, however, as he took his own life at age 27..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1963). First printing, first state. Full cloth. Octavo. 492 pages. Pynchon's innovative first novel, whose appearance in 1963 caused a stir, and had George Plimpton calling Pynchon "a young writer of staggering promise." Pynchon made some final revisions to the text for the subsequent..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., (1966). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 250 pages. Uncommon biography of the charming and tormented ex-pat writer, William Seabrook. His 1929 book on Haitian voodoo, "The Magic Island," introduced zombies into popular culture. Seabrook once paid an accomplice to steal a chunk of..... More