First Editions
New York: The Womans Press, 1950. 2nd edition, 3rd printing, originally published in 1936. Green boards stamped with black; spine and edges faded; vertical line of discoloration down rear cover; text clean and bright. G+
New York: The Womans Press, 1942. Second edition, second printing. No dust jacket; decorated paper boards over green cloth spine; spine rubbed and faded; binding good; text clean. G+
Dark Harvest, 1988. Deluxe first edition limited to 500 individually signed and numbered copies; this is number 99. Black cloth slipcase; dust jacket protected; binding good; text clean. VG/VG
The bestselling true story of a Texas congressman’s secret role in the Afghan defeat of Russian invaders is “a tour de force of reporting and writing” (Dan Rather).
A New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller.
Charlie Wilson’s penchant for cocktails and beauty-contest winners was well known, but in the early 1980s, the dilettante congressman quietly conducted one of the most successful covert operations in US history. Using his seat on the House Appropriations Committee, Wilson channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to support a ragged band of Afghan “freedom fighters” in their resistance against Soviet invaders.
Weapons were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an outcast CIA operative named Gust Avrakotos, who stretched the agency’s rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of Washington to secret chambers at Langley, and from arms-dealers’ conventions to the Khyber Pass, Wilson and Avrakotos helped the mujahideen win an unlikely victory against the Russians.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. 1st edition, signed by author; dust jacket in protective mylar cover. F/F
Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.
1st printing; dust jacket in protective cover; spine creased and rubbed; head of spine chipped with small tears; corners chipped; edges creased and worn; black cloth over green paper; bottom edge worn; endpapers tanned; PON in ink to ffep, also later gift inscription dated 1975; pencil notes from beginning to page 50; binding good. G/G-
Inge Morath's photographs of Chinese scenes from Peking to Shanghai are complemented and expanded upon by Arthur Miller's incisive, informative commentary on Chinese politics, artistic expression, and life.
Inscribed by Miller on half-title; dust jacket in protective cover; very slight wear; dark blue embossed cloth with silver lettering on spine; top edge very slightly faded; inscription on ffep; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
Inanout Press, 1992. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; binding tight; text clean. VG/VG
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq is a collection of short fiction that Jorge Luis Borges wrote in collaboration with his fellow Argentinean, the novelist Adolfo Bioy-Casares. Their stories explore the playful, imaginative, and sometimes fantastic relationship between fiction and reality which Borges was to make his hallmark in works such as the famous collection of stories Fictions. His collaborator Casares was a writer, journalist, and translator best known for his science fiction novel The Invention of Morel.
E.P. Dutton & Co., 1976. Co-author Adolfo Bioy-Casares; translated by Norman Thomas DiGiovanni. Dust jacket in protective cover; flap edges tanned; black paper over cloth with silver lettering on spine. Binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
1st edition; ex-library copy with usual library markings; dust jacket protected; top edge of dj trimmed; edges creased with some small tears; flaps have tape residue; illustrated blue cloth with some light soiling, edges lightly worn, corners bumped; binding good; text edges have some soiling. G-/G
1st edition, signed by author on half-title; dust jacket protected; minor wear, if any. VG+/VG+