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book JOHNSON, Charles. Middle Passage. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page: “For Patrick,/with my Thanks!/Charles/Johnson-” $150
book KENNEDY, William. The Ink Truck. New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1969.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the title-page: “To Tom Davidson/William Kennedy.” With publisher’s review materials laid-in. $750
book L'AMOUR, Louis. The Walking Drum. Bantam Books: Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, [1984].

First edition, first printing. $250
book LEWIS, Alfred Henry. Wolfville. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1897].

First edition of this work, the author’s first book, and the first in a series of works consisting of tales told by old cowboys. $200
book MALAMUD, Bernard. God's Grace. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1982].

Signed limited first edition. Number 189 of only 300 copies signed by the author. $100
book MATTHIESSEN, Peter. At Play in the Fields of the Lord. New York: Random House, [1965].

First edition. $135
book MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1851.

First American edition (preceded by the British edition by a month), one of 3,000 copies printed. $32,000
book NAYLOR, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place. New York: The Viking Press, [1982].

Uncorrected Proof Copy of her first book. Inscribed to “George” on the half-title, who is one of the dedicatees as listed on the dedication page (“And George, who applauded loudest in his heart.”): “To George -/This book came from you/over a lot of miles +/took me back many years./All the best -/Gloria Naylor.” $500
book PELECANOS, George. A Firing Offense. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992].

First edition. $125
book SALINGER, J. D. Franny and Zooey. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1961].

First edition, first printing. $600
book SIMONTON, Ida Vera. Hell's Playground. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1914.
$200
book SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Love and Exile. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984.

Signed limited first edition. Number 84 of only 200 copies signed by the author. $200
book STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: The Viking Press, 1961.

First trade edition (after a limited edition of only 500 copies). $250
book STEINBECK, John. Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press, [1945].

First edition. $150
book STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.

First edition of the author’s first book. Signed by him on the half-title. $450
book TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

First edition, first issue. $3,500
book TWAIN, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins…. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894.

First edition of this scathing social commentary on the evils of racism. BAL’s first state (text bulks to 1 1/8” and the title page is conjugate. With the width of Twain’s facsimile signature at 1 7/16” on the portrait frontispiece, BAL’s A variant, priority undetermined). $1,500
book TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. [Hartford]: The Limited Editions Club, 1966.

One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 168. $65
book TYLER, Anne. Breathing Lessons. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

This limited first edition has been privately printed, and personally signed by Anne Tyler, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. $150
book UPDIKE, John. Bech is Back. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

Signed limited first edition. One of only 500 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, signed by the author, and numbered. $100

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