New York: New Directions, 1975. Hardcover. 1975 Green cloth 8vo, 184pp. Near fine in VG+ dust jacket with light age toning and a small bit of shelf woil to the upper left corner. Signed/inscribed on the half title page by Abish to Greg Gatenby. Gatenby was the founding artistic director.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 1976, First edition. 96 pp. Hardcover, illustrated. Signature of the former owner, Canadian literary figure Greg Gatenby, on the fly leaf, otherwise a Fine, tight, clean copy, in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Algren to Roslyn and Bill Targ on the half-title, complete with 3 small sketches (2 cats and a smiling devil face). Targ was Algren's editor at Putnam's. 1965, First Edition. Hardcover. 254 pp. Very Good in a Good+ dust.....
New York: Bantam, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Amado to to the late literary agent Roslyn Targ on the half-title. 1988, First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. A sharp, tight, clean copy. The DJ with light edgewear; spine titles sunned just a touch. An.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1963, First British edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Sunning to the spine of the book; sound binding; clean contents. DJ with shallow wear to the spine ends and corners; minimal fading to the spine panel. DJ.....
London: Menard Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page. 1982, First Edition. Softcover (paperback original). Fine. Barely noticeable shelfwear to the front panel, otherwise a fresh, tight, clean copy.
London: Macmillan, 1985. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1985. First UK edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 239pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pages age toned, as is usual for Macmillan puublications.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the fly leaf. 1968, First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean contents. Mild shelfwear. The DJ is price-clipped; light sunning to the spine; shallow wear to the spine ends and corners; a......
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 1992, First Edition. 293 pp. Hardcover. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Faint foxing to the text-blocks; clean contents. Mild rubbing to the DJ. This book is from the collection of the late bibliographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, and his initials.....
New York: Corsair Press, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the author to literary agent Roslyn Targ on the front blank. 1967, First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. Fading and light soil/handling to the wraps; clean contents.
New York: Dial Press, 1967. ARC (Review). Paperback. 1967, Advance Review / Proof copy, Softcover, in tan wraps. Near Fine copy with minor fading to the wraps; clean contents. Introductory letter from the publisher laid-in.
Boston: Alyson Publications, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the author on the half title. 1985. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. 182pp. Near fine. Minor shelf wear to wraps only.
New York: Random House, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author, complete with a cool drawing of a heart shaped skull, on the half-title page; then signed again on the title page. 2008, First Edition. 417 pp. Hardcover. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 1940, First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth. Illustrated. A Good copy, no dust jacket. Spine cloth sunned, and all of the spine titles have washed out; slight lean to the spine; light soil to cloth. Clean and unmarked contents. Previous owner's small.....
New York: Harper Brothers, 1949. Hardcover. 1949, code B-Y on copyright page (presumed first edition, although no statement on the copyright page, and no date on the title page). Hardcover, black cloth. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Cloth lightly bumped and frayed at the corners and spine ends;.....
New York: Smith and Durrell, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 1941, First Edition. Hardcover. 357 pp. Very Good+ in a Good dust jacket. Minor bumping to the extremities of the binding; former owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown; otherwise a tight, square, clean copy. DJ rubbed along the folds with some.....
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 1935, First Edition. One of 1475 numbered copies. Hardcover, red and white cloth. A Fine, sharp, clean copy in a worn but intact and functional slipcase.
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 1951, First Edition (stated first printing). Hardcover, beige cloth with titles and design in blue and green. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Topstain faded; otherwise a sharp, clean copy. DJ with light fading to the spine and rear panel;.....
London: Harpercollins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 1994. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 223pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
New York: Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 1940. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in light green cloth, with paper title labels. 295pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very minor wear to spine ends of dj. Age toning to extremities of dj, which is now housed in mylar. Light sunning.....
New York: Putnam's, 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. 1960, First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean contents; sound binding. The DJ lightly rubbed; mild wear to the corers; small stain to the rear inner flap. A surprisingly scarce book in the English translation. Cayrol's.....
Pittsburgh: City of Asylum, 2014. First edition thus. Paperback. SIGNED by Israel Centeno on the flyleaf. 8vo. in black wraps. 279pp. Very good. Light edge wear to wraps. Internally unmarked.
New York: William Morrow, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Michael Chabon to Jay's Bookstall Coworker Joe Emanuel on the title page. 1988. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in red cloth and white paper boards, dust jacket. 297pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Toning, light edge wear to dust.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First American edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. c.1912. Hardcover. dark blue cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 220pp. Near Fine. Light rubbing at spine-ends and corners.
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1840. Brown cloth 12mo, 260pp. Good+ with original paper spine label, light general rubbing wear to exterior and gentle foxing throughout. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.