New York; (1951): Harcourt, Brace and Co. First Editions. Octavo. Advance review copy. In two volumes. 494, and 496-899pp., with 15 plates at the front of volume 2. An extensive work culled from documents, letters, and books that have been written about him. A day by day biography from birth... More about The Melville Log, a Documentary Life of Herman Melville 1819-1891
Atglen, PA: (1998): Shiffer Military History. First Edition. Quarto. Signed by the author.350pp. illustrated in color and in black and white showing uniforms of all ranks and includes all parts of the uniform with detailed descriptions of buttons, badges, shoulder straps, various hats, and more. An essential guide for those... More about Army Blue, the Uniform of Uncle Sam's Regluars 1848-1873
New York; (1993): Tom Doherty Associates Book. First Edition. Octavo. 448pp. inscribed by the author along with a drawing, also signed on the title page. 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was also nominated for the 1994 Hugo, Locus, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, each in the same... More about Moving Mars
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Fourth in a series published yearly. A collection of short stories or poems by various authors including Mary Austin, Paul Horgan, Norman Macleod Erskine Caldwell and others. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettered in green, previous owner's name in... More about Folk-Say OV, the Land is Ours
New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1862. First Edition. Small Octavo. Half-title, frontispiece, 232pp., Nevins1:p. 163 states "A highly excitable author's account of his almost bizarre adventures in trying to re-gain the Union lines; the study was probably written primarily for propagandistic purposes". A very good copy bound in publisher's... More about Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army: Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry,...
New York; (1965): Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Edition. Octavo. 339pp. Signed by the author. Wolfe's first novel, a collection of his writings from the Herald-Tribune, Esquire, and other publications, stories of the younger Americans during the 60s in California and Las Vegas. Race cars, the Beatles, teenage hairdos, the... More about The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Philadelphia; (1966): J.B. Lippincott Co. First Edition. Octavo. Author's second novel. 183pp. The story of Oedipa Maas, a California housewife who finds she is to become executor of her ex-lover's estate. Oedipa begins an adventure seeking information pertaining to a set of stamps from the estate that may have been... More about The Crying of Lot 49
New York; (1966): Harper and Row. First Edition. Octavo. 202pp. A fictionalized memoir of Howard W. Campbell Jr. Howard is in a prison in Israel, awaiting a fair trial for the war crimes he is accused of committing during the Second World War. Howard was born an American but a.... More about Mother Night
Cologne: Aux Depends De La Compagne, 1739. XL, 533p. copies at Bibiotheque Nationale; Grenobel, Paris and Gottingen. No US copies reported. Du Fosse's father did not want him to have a Jesuit education, so at age 10 he began his serious studies at Port Royal under the Jansenists who already... More about Memoires Pour Servir a L'histoire De Port-Royal