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First Edition thus, First Printing (Limited Edition Club, 1987). Fine in a fine, sand cloth clamshell box. Presents as new. Limited to 800 copies, this being number 783.Includes four full-page lithographic plates by artist Michael Hafftka; printed on hand-made Japanese paper and protected by fine tissue guards. Signed Hafftka on the colophon. Octavo (7" x 10-1/4"). 53 pp. A stunning work and edition.

In the Penal Colony is one of the best-known short stories by Franz Kafka. Indeed, it's widely regarded as Kafka's most acclaimed and widely discussed shorter work after The Metamorphosis. Kafka wrote In the Penal Colony over a period of two weeks in 1914, while he was at work on his novel, The Trial. He revised the story in 1918, as he was dissatisfied with the story's original ending, and it was published in 1919. Equal parts autobiographical, political, and theological in nature, it's a gripping tale that is as compelling and relevant today as when it was written.

Michael Hafftka (b. 1953) was born… Read More

Limited Edition, number 63 of only 250 copies. Signed by Robert Kelly. Additionally inscribed by Kelly to Jonathan Williams and Tom Meyer on preliminary page. Fine in original hunter green quarter-cloth over paper boards, with printed paper title label affixed to spine. A wonderful copy!

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original green paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Kesey on front free endpaper. Illustrated in color by Barry Moser. Small quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. 26 pp. A terrific copy.

First Edition, First Printing (with 'A' on title page). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Published posthumously, it is understood that she and her editor held back publishing it hoping to expand it into a larger work. Richly illustrated by Weisgard, the story is lovely in its own right and was Rawlings only true "children's" book. Tight, bright and unmarred. Dust jacket shows very minor edge wear. Lovely brown cloth boards, white ink lettering and pictorial elements, brown paper leaves. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (black and white ink plates). A fine, handsome copy of Rawling's sole children's book!

First Edition, First Printing (with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page). Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic memoir of life in the Florida hamlet of Cross Creek. Inscribed by her on the front free endpaper. A wonderful and rare copy!
"Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water."
Near Fine in a very good plus dustjacket with slight chipping and wear along the edges. Near fine copy in publisher's original green cloth, green titles ruled in silver, in a bright, fresh Robert Camp, Jr. designed beautiful pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations by Edward Shenton throughout. "It is hard to see how anyone can read Cross Creek without pleasure amounting to glee." (The Atlantic Monthly). Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall. A wonderful and rare copy!

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing, of Rawlings' heartwarming cookbook. With Scibner's 'A,' octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with only a tiny imperfection on the upper front cover, one below the title, and chip on top of spine. Illustrations by Robert Camp. Readers of Rawlings' 1942 pastoral idyll Cross Creek took special notice of her ability to describe food, and responded to the book with hundreds of letters asking for recipes. Rawlings obliged in Cross Creek Cookery, interweaving her instructions for Florida Backwoods Biscuits and Aunt Luella's Boiled Salad Dressing with nostalgic vignettes and insightful reflections on the many meanings of meals. A wonderful copy of this classic! Used/Near Fine.

The Swan Thieves. Signed limited edition. (Asheville, North Carolina: The Captain's Bookshelf, 2010). First edition. One of 180 specially-bound signed and numbered copies bound in garnet cloth, lettered in silver with a Monet pictorial onlay and endpapers and housed in a slipcase covered in a reproduction of a Jamie Blankenship photograph of a swan and a Ralph Gibson photograph of a female torso. The first thirty copies are reserved for the author, Little, Brown and Company and The Captain's Bookshelf. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Swan Thieves were used in the production of this limited edition. Octavo. 564 pages.

First Edition thus, First Printing. Limited Deluxe Edition, #34 of only 150 printed. Signed by Kostova (25 copies were retained by the author for personal use). Fine, as new. No jacket as issued. Specially-bound and housed in a beautiful slipcase covered in a reproduction of a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans by Sebastian Munster. Dragon illustration to front board by Luis Campos. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Historian were used in the production of this special limited edition. The title has been translated into medieval Latin, "Historiographus." Octavo. 642 pp. An amazing deluxe edition of this famous work. A perfect collector's copy.