New York: Pantheon, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 13 short stories, each followed by a brief epitaph - another even shorter story - by one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. Steven Moore in reviewing his books in the Washington Post described his books as' tower[ing] over the works of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation and sardonic wit...' SIGNED by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-679-404392.

New York: Viking Penguin, (1997). 53 interconnected tales from his travels over 5 years - from San Francisco and New York to Phnom Phen, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Jerusalem, Mogadishu and more - all populated by the lost and the lonely, whores and drug addicts, and more. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. Sources. xxii, 459 pp plus 7 pp of photographs at beginning of book, 8 pp at end. ISBN: 0-140254498.

New York: Grove Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Typically indescribable novel by Vollmann - 'Butterfly Boy' is searching for love, in the company of a hedonistic photographer, in Cambodia and Thailand where 'Bendadryl and prostitutes with AIDS are his ever-present companions.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-8021-15020.

New York: The Viking Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Massive novel by one of our best and most innovative modern writers - from the front flap: "Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, a Korean-American woman named Irene - who happens to be married to his brother John - commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn grief and guilt into something precious, he employs his professional skills to track down the supernatural Queen of the Prostitutes, who first gives him a false Irene (in reality a heroin-poisoned whore), and then herself." 780 pp. Dust jacket photograph by William Vollmann. ISBN: 0-670891673.

New York: Norton, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book by this award-winning writer which "provides a highly personal and philosophical gloss of all six chapters of Copernicus's De revolutionibus (1543). [He discusses] the contemporary mindset, the limits of observation at the time and the scientist's quiet, provincial career. What seems most remarkable about Copernicus's book after reading Vollmann's version is how firmly his work is based on Ptolemy's. It's also striking how close he came to modern astronomical values." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with many diagrams. Includes chronology, sources, bibliography. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-393059693.

New York: Pantheon, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of his 4th novel, a gritty story of a man's attempt to recreate his love among the prostitutes of San Francisco's Tenderloin. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 138 pp. ISBN: 0-679-403426.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1993. First edition - The true first edition, preceding the US edition, and only issued as a trade paperback in the UK. Typically indescribable novel by Vollmann - 'Butterfly Boy' is searching for love, in the company of a hedonistic photographer, in Cambodia and Thailand where 'Bendadryl and prostitutes with AIDS are his ever-present companions.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-233-988084.

New York: Pantheon, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of his 4th novel, a gritty story of a man's attempt to recreate his love among the prostitutes of San Francisco's Tenderloin. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED on the half title page. 138 pp. ISBN: 0-679-403426.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The true first edition, preceding the US edition, and only issued as a trade paperback in the UK. Typically indescribable novel by Vollmann - 'Butterfly Boy' is searching for love, in the company of a hedonistic photographer, in Cambodia and Thailand where 'Bendadryl and prostitutes with AIDS are his ever-present companions.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-233-988084.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a very highly praised collection of twelve short stories. Among those commenting are Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan and Lee Smith who said "There are large cracks in America, and a person can fall right down into them, and never be seen again. Many of Matthew Vollmer's characters are on the verge of doing that. Wacked-out teenagers, mountain survivalists, Adventist evangelists, compulsive gamblers, estranged mothers, Goth girls, world-class skateboarders, English department dopeheads, broken-hearted dentists, every one of them caught in the midst of an unimaginable situation." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1596923126.

London: Putnam, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in a now vanished colonial world - set in Mozambique in East Africa, with a Viennese actress has come to recover her health, an English sisal planter, an Anglo-Portuguese elephant hunter and more, who become involved in the investigation of a Mau-Mau murder. First published as 'Der Koloss', Austria, 1959. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 423 pp. Dust jacket design by Oscar.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, based on the few records of a young woman who died in childbirth in 1683, and set against the backdrop of the Turkish siege ofVienna.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. 143 pages.

New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.

New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.

New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second book, an 'extravagantly sensual novel' about discovering and rediscovering love and friendship, set in a small California town. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938907.

New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "to... with all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.

Waukeeshka, Wisconsin: Cultural Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes eleven love stories linked together by a quotation from Shakespeare, and set in ancient Greece, Judea, and in more modern Europe. Introduction by William Miller and twelve illustrations. 399 pp.

New York: Delacorte, 1979.

New York: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, 1953. First edition - Great cover art by Schomburg ("Still Life in Space"). Includes 3 novelets: "Made in U.S.A." by McIntosh; "University" by Phillips; "The Sentimentalists" by Leinster; 2 short stories: "Seventh Victim" by Sheckley; "Unready to Wear" by Vonnegut; and nonfiction: "Origins of Galactic Law" by Wellen. Article: "The Birth of the Space Station" by Ley.

New York: Crown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a woman rock musician, and popular disk jockey, who finds her life in a shambles after a night of partying ends in a horrible accident. The author worked for years in the music industry, which gives this novel an authentic feel. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609-608924.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - "a road map to the locations of American political violence and ruminates on their lessons ....much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue--it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and--the author's favorite--historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored.... there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult." 258 pp. ISBN: 9780743260039.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America as only Vowell can write it. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489990.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the bumpy roads in her own life. Her second full length book. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-743223527.

New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the coast of British Columbia in the early years of the 20th century, and based on the life of Emily Carr, painter and naturalist. Illustrated with reproductions of some of Carr's work, author's afterword. Map endpapers. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-670-032670.

New York: Viking, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. SIGNED by author on title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.

New York: Viking, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. . 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.

New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, many set in the art worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031771.