First, Special, Limited, Signed, Inscribed

The Argot Merchant Disaster: Poems, New and Selected, by George Starbuck.  Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1978, 1st ed.  One lightly bumped corne r. Near VG/VG.  $40

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A short novel and three stories, by Truman Capote.  NY:  Random House, 1958, second printing.  Light chipping and small closed tears to dust jacket, which has sketch of Capote on back.  Nice copy.  VG/VG-.  $400

Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Closet, by Somerset Maugham, with an original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland. This is #790 of a limited edition of 1,000, signed by both author and artist. Lovely dark blue and ivory leather binding.  Book is in VG condition. Slipcase has done its job of protecting the book but has otherwise no claims to virtue, being very worn. $400

Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1951, reprint from that year but not a book club edition.  Price on cover $3.00; author’s photograph on back of dust jacket.  Jacket is chipped and heavily sunned.  G/G-.  $400

The Diamond Bogo, by Robert F. Jones.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Prentice-Hall, 1977, first edition.  VG in VG dust jacket.  $100

The Drowning Pool, by John Ross MacDonald.  NY: Knopf, 1950, first edition.  Stamp on front-facing endpaper reads: “Loaned to the Crew by The American Seamen’s Friend Society, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y.”  Light wear.  Good+.  $65

Evil Under the Sun, by Anton Myrer.  NY: Random House, 1951, first edition of author’s first book.  Myrer went on to write best-sellers The Last Convertible and Once an Eagle.  VG in lightly chipped dust jacket.  $35

The Friendship Game: Reflections on the most pleasurable and the most difficult of human activities—friendship, by Andrew M. Greeley.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, 1970, first edition.  Light chipping.  VG/VG-.  $30

The Good Stuff, by John D. MacDonald.  NY:  Harper, 1982, first edition.  Signed by author on title page and inscribed to Jim Harrison on half-title page.  VG/VG. $350 

It Didn’t Start with Watergate, by Victor Lasky.  NY: Dial Press, 1977.  Inscribed “With best wishes, Victor Lasky” on front-facing endpaper.  VG/VG.  $40 

Love Poems, by Pulitzer winner Anne Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969, 1st.  VG/VG.  $45

Nothing Can Go Wrong, by Captain John H. Kilpack and John D.MacDonald.  NY: Harper, 1981, first edition.  Inscribed by John D. MacDonald to Michigan poet and novelist Jim Harrison.  VG/VG.  $125

Nostoi: Children of Prometheus, by Kai Hong.  Seoul, Korea: Space Publishing, 1987.  Paperbound with illustrated dust jacket.  Beautifully illustrated.  Long inscription by author to one of his former professors at the University of Michigan.  $95

The Potomac, by Frederick Gutheim, illustrated by Mitchell Jamieson.  From Rivers of America series.  NY: Rinehart, 1949 limited edition, signed by author on half-title page.  No dj.  $40

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters  and Seymour, An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1963, first edition, later state.  VG/VG.  $80

Shadow Train, poems by John Ashbery.  NY: Viking, 1981, 1st ed.  Fifty 16-line poems concerned with the contradictions and paradoxes of language and experience.  VG/VG.  $60

Snow Country and Thousand Cranes, by Yusunari Kawabata.  NY: Knopf, 1969, Nobel Prize Edition.  This is copy #429 of a limited edition of 500 reserved by the Japan Society of New York.  $50

Tacey Cromwell, by Conrad Richter.  NY: Knopf, 1942, first edition.  Clothbound boards designed to complement The Awakening Land trilogy books.  (Richter also wrote the prize-winning Sea of Grass.)  Tacey Cromwell is set in the historic past of Bisbee, Arizona.  Good in lightly chipped dust jacket.  $30

The Vampire Lestat: The Second Book in the Chronicles of the Vampires, by Anne Rice.   NY: Knopf, 1985, first edition.  Slight shelf lean.  VG-/VG.  $45 

We Lived as Children, by Kathryn Hulme.  NY: Knopf, 1958, signed first edition.  Spine sunned/no dj.  $175