Rare books from Linden Avenue Books

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. Very Good / Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine. Square, sharp cornered and unmarked. Minor foxing at top edge. Dustjacket is fine, bright and unclipped with no chips or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. The book is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". "…McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Fine/ Very good. First edition, first printing. Signed. Light green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. Tight binding, square, and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped else fine, no chips or tears and protected in a mylar cover. "A continental tetrology, gathering under the title "Annals of the Former World, beginning with Basin and Range (1980), and continued with In Suspect Terrain (1982) and Rising From the Plains (1986) is now completed in Assembling California." From the Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First edition, First Printing. Signed. 149pp. Near Fine/Fine. Clean, square, tight and unmarked in green cloth-covered boards with minimal edgewear. White glossy dustjacket is unclipped and price intact with protective mylar cover. Illustrated with many photographs. Second book from Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful copy! Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. First edition, Signed. As New/ As New. A pristine copy, never read and only opened for signing. Dustjacket is as new, unmarked and price intact with no chips or tears. Seven essays from Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. "This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains and carry lobsters through the air: the people who work in freight transportation." A New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2006. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Andrews and McMeel, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Fine / Very Good. Signed on the title page, no inscriptions. A beautiful copy in light green cloth covered boards with silver colored text on the spine. Clean and unmarked with tight binding and sharp corners. The unclipped dustjacket is very good, bright with rubbing on spine and small closed tear top edge of back panel. Protected in Gaylord mylar cover. Author's second work of fiction, following the acclaimed Desert Notes. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition, first printing. NF / Fine. Clean and unmarked, square with tight binding and sharp corners. Slight wear at head of spine and faint sunning along the top edge, else fine. Fine dust jacket is unclipped and flawless. Protected in mylar cover. Semi-autobiographical novel of a young Jewish boy and his aunt posing as Catholics during the Nazi occupation in Poland. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. This is the first novel from the author of About Schmidt. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition, first printing. Signed. NF / Fine. Clean with no markings of any kind, tight binding and square with sharp corners. Faint sunning along top edge else fine. The fine dustjacket is price-intact and without flaws. Protected in mylar. Signed by Louis Begley on the title page. Author's fourth novel and basis for the 2002 film with Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

Harper & Row, 1987. First edition, first printing. Near Fine / Fine. Bound in publisher's white cloth with grey title on spine. Book is clean and without markings of any kind, square with tight binding. Lightly bumped at base of spine. The fine unclipped dust jacket is clean and bright with no chips or tears. Protected in mylar cover. Author's first novel and basis for the outstanding 2009 film with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Bridges received an Oscar for his performance as the down and out country music singer / songwriter "Bad Blake." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First American edition, first printing. As New / As New. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Bright red publisher's top stain and decorative endpapers. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Made into the 2006 psychological thriller film with Ben Whishaw, Alan RIckman and Dustin Hoffman. The book is as new, clean, square, with tight binding and sharp corners. No p.o. names, not remaindered, no markings of any kind. The price-intact dust jacket is crisp and bright with no chips or tears. Protected in mylar. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1996. First edition, first printing. Fine / Fine. Signed by the author on the title page, no inscriptions. A beautiful and collectible copy in a crisp, bright dustjacket with original $27.50 price intact. Protected in mylar cover. McPhee selects from his eleven books published since 1977 to sample from his Alaska book, the geology quartet, and his other fine books on shipping, Switzerland, agriculture and art. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good dustjacket. Signed. Orange cloth with gold enpapers and yellow publisher's topstain. Binding is solid and book is square, with minimal wear and one corner lightly bumped. Interior is clean and free of any markings. The dustjacket is unclipped with original price of $5.95 intact, worn at exremities, several closed tears and a bookstore sticker on back panel. Protected in mylar. This is the author's fifth book, signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Near Fine in a Good+ dustjacket. Light green cloth with red-banded gilt lettering on spine. Solid binding, square with sharp corners. A previous owner stamp on FFEP dated 1954, otherwise clean and free of any markings. The unclipped dustjacket shows original price of $3.95, with edgewear and a 1/4 inch chip at head of spine, and with a date stamp "1954" on back inside panel. Protected in a Brodart archival cover. Historical fiction that provides valuable insight into a misunderstood woman, both in her own time and in history. Signed by Irving Stone on the front free endpaper. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Good+ dustjacket. Signed by the author. Yellow and beige boards with red lettering on spine. Binding is solid, book is square with one corner lightly bumped and minimal shelf wear. Interior is clean with no bookplates, previous owner names, etc. The dustjacket has original $4.95 price intact, rubbed with chipping at head and foot of spine. Protected in archival Gaylord cover. Fourth novel from the author of The Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor. This is an association copy, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper to legendary Random House senior editor Joe Fox, signed and dated by Richard Condon on January 18, 1962. Basis for the 1969 British-American comedy Western film directed by Richard Quine and starring Richard Widmark, Chaim Topol, and Cesar Romero with a screenplay by Condon. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Binding is tight, book is square. Interior is clean and free of any markings. There is some paper residue on rear pastedown under the jacket flap (see photo) and a light bump on one corner, else fine. Appears unread. The unclipped dustjacket is fine with original $8.95 price and gilt lettering intact. No chips, tears or other defects and protected in Gaylord archival cover. A first-person account of Herr's experiences in Vietnam as an Esquire war correspondent. An essential book for anyone interested in the Vietnam War from an on-the-ground perspective. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.