North Point Press, 1987. 8vo, navy buckram cloth, gilt titles, 171pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (16.95) toned to flaps, mild rubbing to panels. Discreet ex library stamping to text block edges, else unmarked, light fading to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Twenty essays on a range.....
Harper & Brothers, 1960. 8vo, indigo buckram cloth, gilt titles, blue top stain, 228pp. First thus. Unpriced dust jacket moderately rubbed to panels, gentle toning to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The complete text of the long lost devotional prose-poetic classic by the seventeenth century Anglican metaphysical poet.....
The Newman Press, 1955. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt stamped titles, 165pp. Stated third printing. Price-clipped dust jacket toned to panels, light wear to corner edges. Moderate toning to endpapers and pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Complete treatise on the three theological virtues, known as the Enchiridion, by the.....
Coombe Springs Press, 1983. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 70pp. Wrappers ever so gently worn at edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First English language edition of a comparative religious study on the concept the ‘Lord of the World’ or figural manifestation of the activity of God on Earth within the.....
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1979. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 243pp. Wrappers mildly toned and rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Report on UFO contacts, manipulations and strategists told firsthand from an 18 year investigation by French astrophysicist Jacques Vallee, model for the character of Lacombe in the film Close Encounters of.....
The Viking Press, 1987. Small 8vo, black quarter cloth over sky blue paper boards, black metallic blue stamped titles, green endpapers, 467pp. First Edition, with ‘first published in 1987 by Viking Penguin Inc’ to copyright statement. Unclipped dust jacket (18.95) with light creasing and toning to flap edges, the faintest.....
Little, Brown and Company, 1996. 8vo, blue quarter cloth over blue paper boards, silver titles, 1079pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (29.95), second state with 02962945 code to front flap, corrected Vollmann to rear panel. Light creasing to spine edges, very faint rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 726pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (15.00) heavily rubbed to panels, chipping to spine crown and flap edges, soil mark to corner edge of rear flap. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Circular soil mark to top edge of last fifty.....
University of Nebraska Press, 1982. 8vo, blue cloth, red and white titles, 337pp. First edition. Traces of fading to board edges, faint residue impression to front board, bumping to lower corners. Contents clean, binding firm. The first exhaustive critical reading guide to the 1955 postmodern opus, diligently annotated from chapter.....
Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. 8vo, green buckram cloth, gilt titles, 88pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (19.95) with very faint wear to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First appearing as a three part underground newspaper article in 1962, a scathing critical study of.....
Victor Gollancz, 1973. 3 Volume Set. UK editions. 8vos, brown, lilac grey, and blue buckram cloth, gilt titles, 191pp [I], 206pp [II], 160ppn [III]. 1973 publication set, with the first two volumes being second impressions, the third volume a first impression. Unclipped dust jackets (1.25, 1.60, 1.25) with very faint.....
W.W. Norton and Company, 1966. 8vo, half teal blue cloth over white paper boards, gilt titles, 190pp. First American Edition, with full number line beginning in 1. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) with light wear to edges, small creases to lower edge of front panel, short closed tear to spine crown.....
The Viking Press, 1966. 8vo, black cloth, gilt and silver titles, 243pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (5.75) with light edge wear to panels, fading to corners. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers, boards slightly bowed upwards, fading and spotting to cloth. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second.....
Little, Brown and Company, 1953. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 302pp. Second printing, with reprinted April 1953 to copyright page. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with short closed tears, chipping to top edge of panel, light spotting to panels and sunning to spine. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers. A few.....
Delacorte Press, 1969. 8vo, aqua blue cloth, gilt and red titles, 186pp. Seventh printing. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with heavy toning to panels. Trace of fading to board edges, marginal bump to corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An attractive early printing of Vonnegut’s masterpiece in a first state.....
Harper & Row, 1968. 8vo, quarter purple cloth over orange paper boards, silver titles, black top stain, 385pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) with wear to corner edges of panels, light creasing and chipping to spine edges, toning and rubbing to rear panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper, light.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969. 8vo, quarter orange cloth over grey flecked paper boards, black titles, black top stain, 183pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (5.50) with moderate rubbing to panels, curling to flap edges. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The debut and.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 8vo, quarter black cloth over blue paper boards, gilt titles, 159pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (9.95) with mild rubbing to panels, toning and curling to flaps. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second published story collection and trade.....
Delacorte Press, 1979. 8vo, white cloth, silver titles, 276pp. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (10.95) moderately rubbed and toned to panels, creasing across front panel and front flap. Ownership signature to front endpaper, purple stain to lower edge of text block bleeding to board edges and reverse of.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over teal paper boards, gilt titles, 219pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10.95) moderately rubbed to panels, toned to flaps. Ownership signature to front endpaper, trace of fading to board edges, light bump to lower corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over green paper boards, silver and gilt decorative titles, red top stain, 237pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) moderately toned to panels. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘Occasional prose selected and edited by.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1965. 8vo, quarter black cloth over blue paper boards, silver titles, blue top stain, 269pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) moderately rubbed and toned, short closed tear to front panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second collection of.....
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1960. 8vo, black cloth with white titles, black topstain, illustrated endpapers, 204pp. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, chipping and faint loss to spine crown, a small smudge to outer edge of front panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean.....
Little, Brown and Company, 1983. 8vo, brown paper boards, silver titles, 178pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (13.50) moderately rubbed and toned to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, discreet remainder mark to lower edge. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The posthumously published collected stories by the celebrated West.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 8vo, beige buckram cloth over turquoise paper boards, turquoise titles, 246pp. Book Club Edition, stated First Edition. Dust jacket moderately toned and rubbed to panels. Ownership signature, toning to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third published novel by the Arkansas writer, author of.....