THE KINGFISHER.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition of her first regularly published book. Uncorrected proof, fine in cream-colored printed wraps. Item #45234 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition of her first regularly published book. Uncorrected proof, fine in cream-colored printed wraps. Item #45234 More
London: Michael Joseph, (1952). First UK edition. Her second book. UNCORRECTED PROOF in printed, tan paperwraps. Uncommon thus. Issued in 1952 with "First published .... 1952" on copyright page; the trade edition was not issued until 1953. SIGNED BY CLARK on the title page. Includes the illustrations by Eugene Berman..... Item #47337 More
Washington, D. C. Cosmos Club, 1971. First edition. Clark's speech to the club upon receiving his award. Touch of minor creasing still fine in stapled, light yellow-green paperwraps. Item #52609 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Slightly sloped spine otherwise in near fine condition, in a dust jacket with the barest wear. Item #50865 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). First edition. INSCRIBED by author on title page. Page edges a bit aged, otherwise about fine in dust jacket. Item #50878 More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition. SIGNED BY CLARK on front endpaper in Carson City, Nevada, January 1951. The short-story collection from the author of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT with the first appearance of the title novella, THE WATCHFUL GODS. Barest wear still both book and dust jacket are bright..... Item #46632 More
Portia Rosenberg. New York: Bloomsbury, (2004). First US edition. The author's first novel, a fantasy tale of two magicians in the 1800's.Illustrated by Portia Rosenberg. Large, heavy book in fine condition in near fine dust jacket with touch of flattened creasing to head of spine. Item #53310 More
(New York): Delacorte Press, (1993). First edition. Name on front endpaper, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #40989 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1957). First edition. Precedes U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket with slight edgewear. Item #41487 More
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., 1957. First edition. Pages tanned as usual otherwise fine in good to very good dust jacket with few 1/4 to 1/2" chips including two on front panel just touching the tips of the first and last letter in the title. Item #53314 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition. Her memoirs of her time as first lady. SIGNED on the title page. Spine ends just gently nudged still fine in fine dust jacket with barest wear. Item #54646 More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1919). First edition. Fine in dust jacket, which is lightly aged or soiled. Item #41263 More
New York: Drama Book Specialists, (1978). First edition. Pulitzer Prize winner for best play. Near fine in a very good yellow dust jacket with light soiling, two small chips, one small closed tear and a small nick on spine edge. Item #29105 More
Noel Rooke. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., (1924). Fourth edition. In the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Illustrated by Noel Rooke. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Very good or better with some rubbing, especially to lower front corner, and spine slightly tanned but pages bright and binding..... Item #53302 More
London: Faber & Faber/Harvill Secker, (2013). First edition. One of 100 (of 110 total) numbered and SIGNED copies. The Nobel Prize-winning author Coetzee and the author and director Paul Auster met in person for the first time in February 2008. Soon after, they began exchanging letters on numerous topics. An..... Item #53268 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1988). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Item #36208 More
New York: Atheneum, 1992. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED to author Neil McGaughey, "For Neil/ With my great respect and with my thanks. Jim 7-3-92." Fine in dust jacket. Item #35327 More
Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent Press, (1997). First edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55065 More
New York: William Morrow, (1991). First edition. THE ELUSIVE HARDCOVER ISSUE -- SIGNED on the title page by Collins and dated "Jan 1992." The book was issued simultaneously in softcover and even that issue is scarce. An early selection of poems from the eventual Poet Laureate, exhibiting his usual wry..... Item #53538 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1974). First edition. Autobiography of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut, INSCRIBED TO HIS COPY EDITOR on front endpaper, "For Carmen Gomez-plata,/ with all good wishes -/ Michael Collins." Carmen Gomezplata, for decades the chief copy editor at Farrar Straus, was known for..... Item #72257 More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition, preceding the English edition by a year. An interesting travel book which discusses Irish personalities of the time. Fourteen full-page illustrations by a number of artists including A. E., and John Butler Yeats. Fine in a gold-foil dust jacket which we can't believe..... Item #41858 More
Frederick-Town, MD: no-publ. 1805. First edition. An abstract of Maryland laws of the period "Interspersed with a Variety of Practical Forms and Precedents; For the use of Justices of the Peace and Others." 352 pages plus index. Interior somewhat darkened with some staining but wholly legible. Original leather binding touched..... Item #52991 More
New York: Random House, (1964). First edition. Uncorrected proof in pictorial paperwraps. INSCRIBED inside front cover, "For Francisco Diabb (Frank Heller to you) with awe, respect and much fond admiration. Richard Condon New York Xmas 1903." Some minor wear on edges but still very good or better in stiff paperwraps..... Item #29564 More
Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, (2001). First edition. Bound galley proofs, fine in paperwraps. Item #30615 More
London: Delisle, (1963). First edition thus, with introduction and conclusion by Vincent Long and postscripts by The Very Rev. Dr. W. R. Matthews, Professor John Macmurray and Sir Henry Self. Spine ends and tips very slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing, sticker shadow on..... Item #33073 More