Search Results: Titles starting with N from Sawtooth Rare Books

New York: Grove Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Rechy's second novel, following City of the Night, about an aging hustler named Johnny Rio. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. An uncorrected proof of the first U. S. edition.† †A very good plus copy with some wear to the extremities and a snag on the front cover.† Light sunning to the spine.† Previous owner name on front endpaper.† Signed by Umberto Eco on the title page. † The basis for the movie that starred Sean Connery.† This was Eco's first novel,† one that many critics now call a more sophisticated--and more insightful novel than another blockbuster† that was set in the Middle Ages--the Da Vinci Code.† †.

New York: Doubleday, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page.

New York: Viking, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear to the extremities and minor soiling to the rear panel. Foxing on the rear and front pages and soiling to front pastedowns. Jacket flaps are clipped slightly but still has the printed price of $2.50 on the front flap. State map is in a pocket on the rear pastedown.

New York: Viking, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear to the extremities and minor soiling to the rear panel. Owner name on front endpaper. Jacket flaps are clipped slightly but still has the printed price of $2.50 on the front flap. State map is in a pocket on the rear pastedown.

New York: Atlantic, 1989. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first collection of stories. Signed by the author.

Denver: Verb Publications, 1965. First paperback edition. Paperback. Paperback. First paperback edition. A near fine book in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some rubbing and toning to the front and rear covers. This is the first paperback edition of the the scarce collection of poetry by John Williams, author of Stoner, Augustus and Butcher's Crossing.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. First British edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First British edition. The true first edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Portland: Binford & Morts, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Later printing. A later printing. Jacket is in very good condition with sunning to the jacket spoine and wear at the head and foot of the jacket. Some soiling and overall wear to the rear panel of the jacket. Book is solid and in fine condition. State map is not present.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edges. Dust jacket trimmed by 1/4 inch. A lengthy novel cited by Walter Rideout in his influential study of the American radical novel. One critic called the book "a dense, intermittently eloquent and erratically penetrating Tolstoyan odyssey framed as a New York psychoanalystís session transcript.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A close to fine book in a light tan cloth binding. A stated first printing. NO dust jacket. Map in rear pocket is missing.

Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Seattle, WA: University of Washington, 1930. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. A near fine copy in green French wraps. A chapbook in a series by the University of Washington. McWilliams would later be a leading voice for liberalism during the Depression years and editor of The Nation magazine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. An uncommon book signed by the author.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. A fine book in publisher's original wrappers. A paperback original. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. 75-100. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Critics frequently call him one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

New York: Knopf, 1991. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in publisher's plain, peach-colored wraps. This is a substantial representation of the poet's work. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Fleet, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The British edition was published about a month after the U.S., but is much more uncommon. This is the scarcer British edition, signed by the author on the title page and not signed on a tipped-in page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the second to be won by Colson Whitehead. It is the story of two black boys who are sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow era Florida. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Knopf, 1971. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Modiano, a French author, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2014. This is his second novel and the first to be published in English. The book won two French literary prizes, the Prix Felix Feneon and Prix de la plume de diamant. A very uncommon book in hardcover.

New York: Riverhead, 2006. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The story of four Londoners--three women and a man--whose lives intersect during World War II. By the author of Fingersmith. Signed by the author on the title page.