TBCL The Book Collector's Library

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition of this poem by Governor General's Award winning poet Raymond Souster. A single leaf folded and printed on three sides. Near fine with some browning. Whiteman A16, pp. 43.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in dustwrapper [with a small closed tear].

Soft cover. 1st Edition, Thus. 1st Edition, Thus. Soft cover. [Faulkner, William] STORIES FOR MEN. New York (1949). 12mo., 244pp. First Permabooks Edition. Edited by Charles Grayson. With Faulkner, Caldwell, Burnett, Cain, Farrell, Edmonds, etc. An unusual format for a paperback in hardcover glossy prited boards. A fine copy with the usual light brownig to the text endemic to every copy. Very uncommon. Contains TURN ABOUT by Faulkner.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hardcover. First Edition. Thick 8vo., pp. 1033. Original orange cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. First book appearance in England of Salinger's "For Esme- With Love and Squalor, " In England, "Nine Stories" was published as " Esme-With Love and Squalor " in 1953, by Hamish Hamilton. Stephen Spender devotes an important essay on Bloomsbury and James Thurber contributes five stories (Bowden D213). With contributions by many others as well. A near fine, lightly spine-faded copy lacking the dustwrapper . Reprinting many of the most famous stories first printed by Hamilton.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Sm. 8vo. Silver & gold decorated red cloth. Blanck 2518. A near fine with type on the spine still quite clean. An attractive copy. Numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Durrell, Lawrence. SICILIAN CAROUSEL. London: .Faber and Faber, 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. "Sicilian Carousel is the personal perception of a place and a people by an artist who has the selectivity to see and the style to decribe what he sees as well as any prosodist currently writing." - Harper's.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Hope, Christopher. KRUGER'S ALP. London: William Hienemann, 1984. First Edition of this 1984 Whitbread Literary Award Winner. A very fine copy in like Robin Rout designed dustwrapper in the publisher's gilt-lettered black buckram. 8vo., 279pp., tiny ink dot on the bottom edge.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. FOR LOVE & MONEY. Writing. Reading. Travelling. 1969-1987. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. A fine copy in like dustwrapper. The author gave up teaching in 1969 to become a professional writer. This book is a record of nearly twenty years in the trade, the picaresque adventure story of a life in print: setting up shop as a writer; pubs, little magazines; hunting commission.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. HUNTING MISTER HEARTBREAK: A Discovery of America. New York: Harpercollins, 1991. First American Edition. 8vo., a fine copy in like dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine copy in pc dustwrapper. An excellent encyclopaedic compilation of the vast field of the paranormal. An outstanding, fascinating & readable modern metaphysical reference. With Notes & bibliography.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Raban, Jonathan. OLD GLORY An American Voyage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. 8vo., 312pp. A fine copy in like dustwrapper. Neat name to second free endpaper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in pc dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery. A near fine copy in black cloth, (tiny bump to the top and bottom edge of the front board) gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper with some overall light use. 8vo. 277 pp.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Marah Ellis Ryan. TOLD IN THE HILLS. A NOVEL. Chicago Rand, McNally,1905. Publisher's decorative designed & blocked green cloth. 8vo., 362pp. First Edition, second printing. Sm. 8vo., 362pp. A very good or better copy showing light use at the spine extremities & tips. This novel is set in New Orleans & the Pacific Northwest.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition of Williams second book of poetry. 8vo., pp. 93. Aquamarine cloth. Title stamped in silver on the spine. The pictorial dustwrapper is a reproduction of one of Williams' paintings. The last poem, 'Tangier': The Speechless Summer' , is dedicated to Paul and Jane Bowles. A fine fresh copy.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo., pp. 293. Purple topstain as required. A fine copy in dustwrapper, publisher's (file copy) stamp of Penguin Book, Markham, Canada on front pastedown. Author's superb fourth book. A profoundly philosophical and speculativ e book on man and nature in Aboriginal Australia.

Soft cover. Soft cover. Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy by this highly acclaimed, seasoned novelist, essayist, reviewer and tennis aficionado, whose cudos from authors Graham Greene, Larry McMurtry, William Styron, Robert Pen Warren, Pat Conroy and James Jones have proven w ell-deserved. Once again, Mewshaw brings to his craft a unique voice, introducing 'literary journalism' to his crime fiction, as investigative reporter, Tom Hiller, Jr., akin to Woodward and Bernstein and Joe McGinnis, returns home to his native Ba l timore to solve the murder of his own father. 8vo. 288 pp. Fine in wraps as issued.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery. A fine copy in orange cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper with some light use and one miniscule short tear on the back panel. 8vo. 253 pp. A bright, fresh copy. An international bad guy known as 'the Jampot' sets sail on the steamer Zodiac, & mayhem ensues of course. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cleeve Brian. HESTER. London: Cassell, 1979. 8vo., 377pp. First Edition. A fine fresh copy in illustrated dustwrapper with wraparound colour art depicting a Revolutionary battle scene. "Mr. Cleeve's powers of story-telling have developed even more surely: this is his most fiery, most dramatic novel yet. in Hester he has created a character with a truth and a depth of passion which bring her vibrantly alive." A novel of the French Revolution & its times.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of Chatwin's personal selection of his own stories, profiles and travelogues. Published posthumously. 8vo. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo., pp. 275. Beige cloth backed peach boards, A fine copy in the delicate copper & silver coloured dustwrapper marred only marginally by the presence of a lightly stamp RH/house remainder ma rk on the bottom edge. Lovely copy.

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition of Ephrom's "wickedly funny" first novel. 8vo., pp. 183. A fine fresh copy in duswrapper. The perfect recipe for the entertaining film starring Jack Nicholson & Meryl Streep.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine lovely copy in a pc dustwrapper notwithstanding a very light remainder stamp on the bottom edge. Scarce.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Buckley. William F. AIRBORNE. New York: Macmillan, 1977. 8vo., 252pp. Black & white photo illustration throughout plus 8 color plates. Blue cloth with orange & white titles. plus 8 color plates. Author Barnaby Conrad's comment that "Airborne is a book about sailing the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling" A fine example in a neatly price-clipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. King, Captain Charles. WAR-TIME WOOING. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First Edition. 8vo., 195pp. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Frontis. Plus 7 b&w full page llustrations. A very good copy showing light use.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in publisher's poorly laminated dustwrapper [minor sticker residue in the front flap]. A nice copy of his last novel.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fisher, Vardis Fisher. PEMMICAN. New York: Doubleday, 1956. 8vo., pp319. Beige cloth with black titles, green color map endpapers. First edition, first printing. A near fine copy, red topstain, blemish free text block in a near fine dustwrapper illustrated by Daniel Schwartz that is in very good or better condition showing a couple of tiny chips at the spine crown. A very decent copy. Fisher's tale of the nineteenth century conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company & the North Westers . "Pemmican is an important novel written by a master of historical fiction.".

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hodges, Carl G. BENJIE REAM. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. First Edition, First printing. 8vo., 153pp. An adventure story for older children set in Illinois & the Kansas Territory in 1856. Benjie, is a 12 year old runaway searching for his older brother who joins a band of anti-slavery forces led by General James H. Lane. A fine copy in slightly dusty like dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First British Edition of this French author's first mystery awarded the Grand Prix de la Literature Policiere and the Inner Sanctum Mystery Award. A fine copy in wine cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh, very good indeed dustwrapper with some light use, a few miniscule nicks and one small closed tear. 8vo. 144 pp. Adapted into the 1982, 3-part mini-movie for PBS's "Mystery" series with Jonathan Pryce.