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First Edition. Hardcover. Lanham: Nixon Library Books / Madison Books, 1992. First Edition. Signed by the author on half title and by Nixon's Director of the White House Office of Presidential Advance Ronald H. Walker as "Roadrunner" (his Secret Service nickname) on dedication page, both with brief inscriptions to journalist... More about China Calls: Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China
Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Eighth Printing, SIGNED by the author without dedication on full title. Illustrated dustjacket over orange and brown boards with bronze lettering and light blue topstain. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a few small chips and tears along edges, with some shallow creasing and some smudging... More about Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Printed dustjacket with original $3.95 price; book in oatmeal cloth with black and red design and lettering. Jacket shows a few clean tears neatly repaired on the inside with tape... More about The Misfits
First Printing with full numberline. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1987. First Printing with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription. Green illustrated dustjacket with original $19.95 price; book in black paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket is rubbed and bumped along edges with... More about The World as I Found It
Second Printing. Hardcover. Orlando: Harcourt, 2005. Stated First Edition; Second Printing with letter line ending in B. SIGNED by the author without inscription on title page, then again along with poet Kevin Young on laid in Library of Congress National Book Festival Poetry Pavillion program. Illustrated dustjacket with original $22.00... More about My Noiseless Entourage
First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 352pp. Illustrated dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a couple small tears along edges with creasing to top back and some fading to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Old phone... More about The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Advance Readers Copy. Paperback. New York: Doubleday, 2011. Bound Galley (Advance Readers Edition). Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 259pp. Illustrated paper covers with publication info on back. Covers lightly edgeworn, but no tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More about Zone One: A Novel
First Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. First Edition with full numberline. Signed twice by the author, once on front free endpaper and again on full title, both with the inscription "To Harold, Stay Strong & Prophetic! In Struggle, Cornel West." Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); [xiv], 105p. Photographic dustjacket with original... More about Race Matters
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Scribner, 2004. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on full title with inscription to fellow writer and columnist William Safire. Additional signed, handwritten letter and pop-up greeting card with envelope laid in. Octavo; 300pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $25.00... More about An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Stated First Edition. Signed by Reed with brief inscription on full title. Quarto (11.25" x 10.25"); 176p. Original dustjacket with $29.95 price; book in gray cloth with black lettering. Jacket is crisp with light edgewear but no chips or tears... More about Black in America
First Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1939. First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.5" x 6"); 199p. Printed yellow dustjacket over matching yellow cloth boards. Jacket chipped at spine ends with a number of small tears and creasing along edges and smudging... More about Immortality and Other Poems
New York: International Publishers, 1950. First Editions with no additional printings listed. First two volumes of Foner's five-volume set. Octavos; 448 & 576 pages with photo frontis in each volume. Printed dustjackets showing original $4.00 and $4.50 prices, respectively. Book in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. First volume jacket... More about The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early Years; Life and Writings of Frederick...
Hardcover. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Second Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription to friend and fellow writer William Safire and his wife Helene on flyleaf. Large octavo; 693pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $24.95 price; book in two-tone blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is clean... More about The Hope: A Novel
Paperback. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012. Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the author and by translator Philip Boehm without inscription on full title. Octavo; 290pp. Pictorial paper cover with plastic spiral binding and clear mylar cover. Mylar has two stickers, one with publication info and the other states "uncorrected proof." Back... More about The Hunger Angel: A Novel
First Edition. Hardcover. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 177pp. Printed dust jacket with original $4.95 price; book in half yellow and beige cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at spine ends with a couple small tears along flap folds, a small dampstain along... More about Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
First Thus. Paperback. New York: Grove Press, 1969. Stated First Evergreen Black Cat Edition / First Printing. SIGNED by the author with inscription horizontally inside front cover. Mass-market paperback (7" x 4"); [iv], 282p. Covers lightly edgeworn, with front cover and first 26 pages curved outward at fore-edge and a.... More about Sammy Younge, Jr.; The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Eleventh Printing. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 289pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $26.95 price; book in white paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket is crisp with very light scuffing to corners and spine ends... More about All That Is: A Novel
First Edition. New York: Coward-McCann, 1963. First State First Edition with no W on copyright, three blurbs on back, and reversed lines on p 138. SIGNED by the author without inscription on title page. Original dustjacket showing $4.50 price; book in gray paper-covered boards and red cloth spine with gilt... More about The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Jack Murray. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Stated First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); xxxi, 254p. Illustrated throughout with full-color frontis. Orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering and illustration. Missing dustjacket. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with light shelfwear and some sunning to... More about Spinning for Fresh Water Game Fish
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription: "Bill, Trust my subject is recognizable. Joe Perico." Octavo; 314pp. 16pp photo gathering at middle. Printed black dust jacket with original $16.50 price;... More about The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition with numberline to "2" in keeping with publisher's methods at the time. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription to author, columnist, and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire. Octavo; 261pp. Printed dust jacket with original $14.50... More about Post-Conservative America: People, Politics, and Ideology in a Time of Crisis
Advance Reader's Edition. Paperback. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009. Advance Reader's Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (7.75" x 5.5"); [viii], 226pp. Illustrated paper covers with publication info on back. Light bumping to spine ends, but no chips, tears, or marks. Slight overall curve to... More about Don't Cry: Stories
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); 256p. Original dustjacket with $5.00 price; book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket cleanly separated down back joint, with some toning to spine, a few small chips... More about The Defense
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 100pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with original $15.00 price; book in dark blue and white paper-covered boards with blue lettering to spine. Jacket lightly... More about Blues: For All the Changes