The Progress of Love

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred Knopf: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 20644

Condition: Near fine

Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 309. Gray quarter cloth over blue boards with silver spine titling. Purple publisher's ink on top edge, deckle edge. Small spot on half-title page, nearly invisible dampstaining to lower right corner of text block. Jacket has light edge wear and one 1" closed tear. Nobel Prize winner Munro gave back the advance money to MacMillan for this collection, in order to follow her long-time editor when he started his own company, according to the Toronto Star. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info

The New Montana Story: An Anthology

By: Newby, Rick, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Helena, MT, Riverbend Publishing: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 24747

ISBN: 1931832374

Condition: Near fine

Octavo (22.3 cm), pp. 335. Signed by editor on title page. Blue cloth with gilt spine text. Pictoral jacket featuring the oil painting "Prairie Storm" by Dave Livezey. In blue slipcase. Featuring short stories by many of the best new Montana authors, the "third wave of modern Montana storytellers" according to Newby, including Dierdre McNamer, Ralph Beer, Debra Magpie Earling, Matt Pavelich, Pete Fromm, Aaron Parrett, Allen Morris Jones, Melissa Kwasny, Kim Zupan and others. Sun fading to fore edge of slipcase, else fine. A stunning, gift-quality copy of this limited edition. D... View more info

The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest

By: Nichols, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 2016

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18950

ISBN: 0826357202

Condition: Fine

Octavo (21 cm), pp. 214. Yellow boards with blue spine text. White jacket with fish illustrations by Dennis Haggerty. A comic fishing novel by the author of The Milagro Beanfield War. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info

Passion is a Woman

By: Nickerson, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Venus Books: 1952

Seller ID: 20799

Condition: Good

Second printing. 12mo (19 cm), pp. 129. Stapled pictorial wrappers with art work by renowned pulp cover artist Rudolph Belarski. Wrappers are well-worn with crases, chips and tears. View more info

Mile High Mile Deep

By: O'Malley, Richard K.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Livingston, Montana, Clark City Press: 2004

Seller ID: 22345

ISBN: 0944439543

Condition: Very good

Quarto (26.5 cm), pp. 263. First Clark City Press edition. Tan buckram boards with green text and author's facsimile signature on front board. Pictorial jacket with artwork by publisher Russell Chatham. Photographic endpapers. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white photographs of historic Butte, Montana. Includes publisher's introduction recounting his discovery of the original edition of this book, the process of producing a new edition, and background on the author and his widow. Slight edge wear, spine tilt and smudging to jacket. Dust jacket present. View more info

Laughter on the Hill: A San Francisco Interlude

By: Parton, Margaret

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Whittlesey House: 1945

Seller ID: 24508

Condition: Good

Third printing. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 245. Red cloth boards, cartoonish drawings throughout. No jacket, boards with moderate edge wear, rubbing; hinge starting at bibliography. This copy stands out because it appears to have belonged to a friend of the author's named John. There are two typewritten letters from Parton to John--one signed--laid and tipped in expressing regret at having published the book. The previous owner--presumably John--made notations on the front free endpaper as to the actual identity of six characters in the book (Charles=John, for instance). As well, there are two black ... View more info

Blood Line: Stories of Fathers and Sons

By: Quammen, David

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Press: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 20691

Condition: Near fine

Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 169. Signed by author on title page. Black wraps with cover art by Kris Ellingsen. Stated first printing with number line beginning with "2" (Graywolf's method for designating a first until around 2000 --Zempel/Verkler, p. 238). Light bumping to corners, rubbing to back. Includes the short stories "Walking Out" (recently adapted into the film by Alex and Andrew Smith), "Nathan's Rime" and "Uriah's Letter." Early fiction by the author best known for his science and environmental writing such as Song of the Dodo and Spillover. First Edition. View more info

Blood Line: Stories of Fathers and Sons

By: Quammen, David

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boulder, CO, Johnson Books: 2000

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 25028

Condition: Near fine

Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 182. Signed by author on title page. First Johnson Books edition. Black and gray wraps with illustration by Adam DeKraker. Light shelf wear. Includes the short stories "Walking Out" (recently adapted into the film by Alex and Andrew Smith), "Nathan's Rime" and "Uriah's Letter." Early fiction by the author best known for his science and environmental writing such as Song of the Dodo and Spillover. View more info