New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First edition, third printing. "INSCRIBED for Ruth Thompson, in hope of seeing her again. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers Buffalo -- March 11, 1941." During his tour to the East Coast. Very good, lacking dust jacket. Item #55803 More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with a hand drawn "ph-autograph." Johnson drew a sketching of a man's profile using his name and date (1923). Very good with a skinned section on back panel. Item #39245 More
New York: Viking Press, (1967). First edition. Basis for the 1970 film, "I Walk the Line," starring Gregory Peck and with soundtrack by Johnny Cash. INSCRIBED BY JONES on half-title page, "For Jane & Walter,/ With affectionate regards,/ Madison." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor..... Item #72198 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First edition. "... the gripping story of a young man inexorably drawn into the drug underworld." -- from the dust jacket flap. INSCRIBED BY JONES on title page, "For Jane & Walter/ with best regards,/ Madison Jones/ 10/13/89." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an..... Item #72197 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. INSCRIBED BY KENT on tipped-in leaf, "To my friend John J. Kozoy[?]/ with all good wishes, / Rockwell Kent / Asgaard, August 5, 1965." Kent’s own writings on art illustrated with over 130 black-and-white reproductions, including 90 full-page, and a full-color..... Item #55611 More
(New York): Viking, (1986). First edition. INSCRIBED TO KEN LUDWIG, playwright best known for "Lend Me a Tenor" prior to the play's arrival here in the states. (It ran at London's Globe Theatre beginning in March 1986 where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for "Best Comedy of..... Item #71678 More
Evanston, W. M. Carpenter, 1929. First edition. One of 100 copies for private circulation. [Richards B83]. First book appearance of "Speech on Behalf of the Old Boys" and first appearances of several letters. A history of Kipling's prepatory school by Chicago manufacturer William Montelle Carpenter, whose Kipling collection is now..... Item #56078 More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1961). First edition. Her first book, a collection of poetry. INSCRIBED on first page and on her laid-in business card "to Elaine and Sam, her guardian angels." Very good in pictorial paperwraps (a simultaneous hardback was also published) with minor fading on spine and edges and..... Item #54401 More
![Item #55201 HOW TO WRITE SHORT STORIES [WITH SAMPLES]. Ring Lardner](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582831887)
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1924. Fifth printing issued August 1924, just three months after the May 1924 first printing. Scarce in any circa 1920's printing. Newsclipping of paragraph from "Ring Lardner Tells Prospective Auto-Owners All They Need to Know" (1920) in which Lardner describes how "a lamp post jumped right..... Item #55201 More
New York: Random House, (1967). First edition. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play "Auntie Mame" by Lawrence and Lee; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. INSCRIBED BY LEE on the title page, "For -- With friendship, admiration and a woeful lack of cleverness! Bob Lee 8..... Item #14216 More
London: Heinemann, (1965). First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed..... Item #55552 More
New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First edition, INSCRIBED on half title page in year of publication "For - - Long live theatre. Joshua Logan Tysons Corner 10.13.76." Very good to fine in like dust jacket. Item #49538 More
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1966). First edition. Collection of 16 essays including one on "the making and meaning of one of the author's own novels, THE VELVET HORN." Foreword by Allen Tate. RAMBLINGLY INSCRIBED (covering most of the title page and with a few crossed out false starts)..... Item #72133 More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1992). First edition. Critical study of Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset’s SAGA OF KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER, “a wonderful addition to the corpus of Andrew Lytle, as well as a meaningful contribution to the study of Nordic literature” (from the jacket flap). INSCRIBED BY LYTLE in a somewhat..... Item #72160 More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). First edition. Nominated for a National Book Award and considered by many to be his best work. INSCRIBED, 'To Walter and Jane/ Sullivan -/ With old affection -/ for those condemned, too/ Andrew Lytle -/ Nashville, 1958." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) studied under Lytle at the..... Item #72132 More
No-place: Privately Printed, (1937). First edition. Second collection of essays by the "saloonkeeper" profiled in The New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell. INSCRIBED BY MADDEN on the front endpaper, as most copies seem to be. Page top edges foxed and unavoidable offset from binding to pastedowns otherwise near fine in very..... Item #54112 More
(Greenfield Center / Cuttack, India): (Greenfield Review Press) / Chandrabhaga Society, (1980 & 1982). First edition of each. Prints the 12-part epic poem considered to be his best. Winner of India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award -- the first English-language book of poetry to receive the award. TWO VOLUMES: the true..... Item #72135 More
Boston: Little Brown, (1972). First edition. One of the dedication copies. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED on dedication page below the printed names, "Could this be for your distinguished service in Maidstone dear old editor darling? / Love / Norman." A collection of essays, excerpts, etc., written from..... Item #49634 More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1971). First edition. INSCRIBED "To Elizabeth / Again with pleasure. Norman." Few underlinings and margin marks, base of spine faded, otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped, black dust jacket showing rubbing to spine ends and corners. Item #48205 More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2004). First edition. A Southern comedy that "springs from a love of human speech and compassion for the minor geniuses in the dusty corners of life" (from the dust jacket). ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAJORS on front endpaper, "January 19, 2005/ For Walter Sullivan,/ My..... Item #72200 More
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1984. First edition. Number 24 of 130 numbered copies signed by Mamet and Koren. Frontispiece etching SIGNED and numbered (24/130). This copy signed on colophon page by Koren, as called for, but INSCRIBED BY MAMET on half-title page, "Dear Sara -- Merry Christmas +..... Item #54629 More
New York: Henry Holt, (1990). First edition. Generically INSCRIBED on blank leaf opposite the title page, "Best wishes to the Grandchildren - from Christopher Manson 9/95." Isaac, servant to emperor Charlemagne, travels home to France with a gift from the caliph of Bahjdad -- an elephant named Abulabaz. "Based on..... Item #71963 More
Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, (1983). First edition, a paperback original. Sshort stories preceded by introductory headnotes written by Marshall expressly for this collection. Also includes an autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," and "Merle," a novella reshaped from her 1969 novel "The Chosen Place, The Timeless People."..... Item #42060 More
[No-place]: (Rock Foundation, 1986). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with line drawings by Ralph Carpentier and photographs from many sources. Two volumes in matching slipcase: one with Matthiessen's text, the other with photographs. INSCRIBED BY MATTHIESSEN on first blank of volume containing his text, "For Pat and Allen/ With Kindest..... Item #56013 More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1990. First edition. Her 4th book, a young girl's coming-of-age story -- "On one side is the pull of reason and safety. On the other, the lure of mystery and adventure" (from the cover). Uncorrected proof in yellow and black paperwraps. INSCRIBED on title page, “For..... Item #72201 More