New York: Pantheon, (1991) dj. 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...' 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, 1996. SIGNED first edition - 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. SIGNED on the half title page. 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. 461 p.

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: 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.

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.

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: 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: The Viking Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of two men, worlds apart, who are both enthralled by women who exert unexpected power over them. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-670538256.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book publication of fifteen of Wallace's essays, issued posthumously. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0316225144.

London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fifth adult novel - "serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. . . Set in Comenia, a fictional Czech- and German-speaking Eastern European country, the book chronicles the swift and brutal progress of communism in the years following WWII. Walsh follows nine characters over four decades, from 1945-1990, as their lives - already shattered by harrowing wartime experiences and now dislocated by political tyranny - intersect." (PW review) 333 pp. ISBN: 0-385601212.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny -but serious - look at our financial meltdown. After gambling everything on an internet business, Matt wakes up one morning to find himself jobless, saddled with debt, reduced to spying on his wife's online flirtation and six days away from losing his house. Scoring some weed doesn't help the situation at all. Walter has proven he can do it all - non-fiction, Edgar award winning mystery and National Book Award finalist. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1916048.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2013). First edition - First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to never hip Spokane" and more. Issued as a trade paperback original, 177 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel.

New York: Pocket Books / Simon and Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel set in Baltimore in the 1960s - Beth Henley called it a "wild poem that unravels like a flying carpet ride.." 324 pp. ISBN: 0-671795686.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Scottish author's highly praised third novel. E. Annie Proulx described it as follows: In a spill of vivid and corruscating language, 'The Sopranos' is an account of Catholic girls om brief hot flower that reads like a compressed fantasy. Alan Warner has emerged as a writer of great inventiveness. ISBN: 0-374-26670-0.

New York: Random House, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this prize winning author - a complex story of love, betrayal, revenge and murder. ISBN: 0-394-46141x.

New York: Random House, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this prize winning author - a complex story of love, betrayal, revenge and murder. ISBN: 0-394-46141x.

New York: Random House, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer set in a small town in Tennessee in the 1950s where a young man is believed to be trapped in a cave, and the town becomes the center of national attention - a catalyst which changes the lives of many in the town. 403 pp.

New York: Random House, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419748.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly praised young writer.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.

New York: Random House, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419748.

New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which is at once a thriller, a love story, and an exploration of identity by one of the best young American novelists. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-179952.

New York: Random House, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419748.

London: Faber & Faber, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which is at once a thriller, a love story, and an exploration of identity by one of the best young American novelists. Although Watkins is an American writer, this is the true first edition, preceding the US publicatiion, INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-312-179952.

London: Century Hutchinson, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first printing of Watkin's second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-091739144.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.