Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose
New York: Broadway, 1999. Softcover.
Creative Nonfiction
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. Okrent explores the origins, implementation and failure of Prohibition. Light wear and soiling.
The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. 557 pp. Frontispiece is photograph of Edmund Wilson in 1920. Preeminent 20th century literary critic Wilson provides perhaps the largest authentic document of the 1920s delivered through the observations of one of the principal actors in the American twenties. Covers Hollywood, the.....
News of a Kidnapping
Knopf: New York, 1997. Hardcover. 281 pp. 8vo. Translated by Edith Grossman. A chronicle of the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar. Author is winner of the Nobel Prize.
Capote A Biography
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Hardbound. Authorative biography. And basis for the award winnng film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Underneath New York
New York: Fordham Univ. 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First edition.
The City of Falling Angles
New York: Penguin, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice Teatro La Fenice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who, through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned.....
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Basin and Range
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
The Crofter and the Laird
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Price-clipped dust jacket has a few vertical irregularities on the front panel.
The Crofter and the Laird
London: Angus and Robertson, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
The Curve of Binding Energy
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Bing Swain/with all best/John McPhee. Nice association copy. In a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Jonathan Swain/A Princeton Story/all best/John McPhee" A nice association copy.
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country." In a very lightly rubbed dust jacket.
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country."
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Bing Swain/All Best/John McPhee." A nice association copy. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country."...
Irons in the Fire
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover.
Irons in the Fire
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York, 1997. Hardcover. 216 pp. 8vo. Collection of essays.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket has a few wrinkles on the front panel.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Lt. Col. J.F. Swain, USMCR/with a crisp Alpine salute/and all best/John McPhee/10/27/84." A nice association copy.
Levels of the Game
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For H_____/With best wishes/John McPhee." In a price-clipped dust jacket which has a short closed tear and some creasing on the lower rear panel. Very uncommon title, especially signed.
Pieces of the Frame
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "For Jonathan Swain/regards/John McPhee." Laid in is a two page letter to John McPhee from Jonathan F. "Bing Swain, who was a classmate of McPhee's at Princeton. A very nice association copy.
Rising from the Plains
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Bing Swain/All Best/John McPhee." In a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A nice association copy.