New York: John Day, (1967). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY ACHEBE on the title page. Final book in his acclaimed African trilogy. Winner of the first-ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing. Near fine to fine with gilt spine lettering just slightly dulled; in near fine dust jacket with..... Item #72287 More
![Item #72371 COME AND GO: Dramaticule; [scarce signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First edition in English, limited issue. Number 93 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. (Note: limitation unstated and not in Federman & Fletcher). Illustrated with photographs by Ilse Buhs from the January 1966 production at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. Small 8vo buckram..... Item #72371 More
![Item #72362 MURPHY; [signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72362.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752693673)
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First U.S. edition of his first published novel. Number 52 of 100 specially bound copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 282 pages. Near fine with spine..... Item #72362 More
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First U.S. edition of his first regularly published book. Number 5 of 250 specially bound and numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 72 pages. Near..... Item #72369 More
(Stamford, CT): New Overbrook Press, 1984. First edition thus: Number 73 of 250 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT (beneath the colophon) AND KLABUNDE. The first and only publication of the New Overbrook Press, a reissue of Beckett's short story about a place "where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost..... Item #72690 More
![Item #72688 STIRRINGS STILL; [signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett, illustrated by Louis Le...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72688.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777502104)
New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder, (1988). First edition. His final prose piece. Written for his publishers Barney Rosset and John Calder. Number 189 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT AND LE BROCQUY (from a total edition of 226). Folio gilt-lettered imitation leather (vs. parchment)..... Item #72688 More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First edition. Unifies three novellas in a trilogy "which describe old age (Company), the ending of the world (Ill Seen Ill Said), and the creation of life (Worstward Ho)--John Calder, essay in the Monthly Newsletter (laid in). Number 156 of 550 numbered copies SIGNED..... Item #72689 More
![Item #55883 THE FRAGMENTS OF PARMENIDES; [Limited edition -- the only edition]. Robert...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55883.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651529688)
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, and only edition. Bringhurst’s translations from the Ancient Greek of surviving fragments of the circa 475 BC poem generally titled “On Nature” written by the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides of Elea. ONE OF 26 COPIES in the “Deluxe” issue SIGNED BY BRINGHURST, WAGENER..... Item #55883 More
![Item #72131 REPORT FROM PART ONE and REPORT FROM PART TWO; [Two volumes of memoirs, BOTH SIGNED]....](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72131.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691262672)
Detroit / Chicago: Broadside Press / Third World Press, (1972 / 1996). First edition of each volume. The first one, “REPORT FROM PART ONE,” IS INSCRIBED on the half-title page, “For Richard and Joan, Warm regards!/ Sincerely,/ Gwendolyn Brooks”; and the second one, “REPORT FROM PART TWO,” IS SIGNED TWICE..... Item #72131 More
[Chicago: circa 1986]. Brooks’ letter is written in red ink on the lower third of the recto and upper half of the verso of Henderson’s typed letter dated August 20, 1986 (her response is undated). Her letter reads in part, “I, too, hope the package your aunt sent you will..... Item #72134 More
(Cottondale: Plain Wrapper Press, 1985). First edition. Short story exploring the personal connection to the telephone as mode of communication. Number 19 of 75 copies (entire edition) SIGNED BY CALVINO & FRASCONI. This copy designated as printed for Jeffery Alan Hoffman. Bilingual, with original Italian followed by English translation. Illustrated..... Item #72712 More
(London): Folio Society, 2016. First edition thus. Number 923 of 1,000 copies numbered and SIGNED BY VAN SANDWYK on original copperplate etching tipped in at front (from a total edition of 1,030). Issued to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first edition. Text follows the revised edition of 1897 with..... Item #72713 More
(New York): Viking, (1985). First edition. National Book Award winner and basis for the 2022 movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, et al. INSCRIBED on half-title page, "To Barbara [underlined]/ Don DeLillo," Near fine with black page opposite the title page showing few light spots (appears they occurred..... Item #72137 More
![Item #72395 LADY FREEDOM AMONG US; [signed by author and artist]. Rita Dove](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72395.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727567705)
(West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1994). First edition, and only edition. Just 110 copies in total. The thought-provoking poem written (and read) by Dove in commemoration of the return of the repaired and refurbished "Freedom" statue to its perch atop the then-newly restored Dome of the United States Capitol, October..... Item #72395 More
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. TWO-PAGE INSCRIPTION (recipient not named) beginning on the front endpaper and continuing on the pastedown -- "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934. They contain -- obvious to a reader who is fair minded and intelligent --..... Item #54602 More
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. First edition. Number 38 of 350 numbered copies SIGNED BY HARRISON and the illustrator, RUSSELL CHATHAM. Together with a suite of FIVE 14 x 18" PRINTS, EACH SIGNED BY CHATHAM. The prints are all designated "AP" (i.e., Artist's Proof") and numbered "31/40." A separate colophon sheet..... Item #52697 More
(New York: 1951). First edition. One page on Hughes' personal, printed letterhead watermarked "Old Edgeland Bond." Dated May 8, 1951, it reads in part, "Carl Van Vechten showed me copies of Swanson's 'IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN' and 'PIERROT' the other day, which I had not seen before. I'd love..... Item #56044 More
New York: Random House, (1968). First edition of his first book. Decorative bookplate SIGNED BY IRVING laid in. Fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with touch of minor wear and few light creases to corner of front flap. Housed in custom, molded clamshell case lettered in gilt on..... Item #55106 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1928. First edition. Number 76 of 310 copies SIGNED BY BOTH JEFFERS AND ADAMS, with Jeffers signature at front and Adams at bottom of his frontis photograph of Jeffers. Introduction by B. H. Lehman; decorative initials by Valenti Angelo; printed by The Grabhorn Press..... Item #55932 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY KIPLING on title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket with internal archival tape repair to few splits and tears. Housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-stamped leather titling labels on spine. Scarce to rare signed..... Item #54125 More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. First edition. Three volumes. Number 41 of only 100 copies SIGNED BY KIPLING IN EACH OF THE THREE VOLUMES. 8vo full gilt-stamped vellum, top edges gilt, rest untrimmed. Very good to near fine with covers lightly soiled, spine on volume one a little darkened, a...... Item #54119 More
May Wilson Preston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1917). First edition. SIGNED BY LARDNER on half-title page, "Sincerely,/ Ring W. Lardner,/ September 24th 1918." Five short stories: "Carman," "Three Kings and a Pair," "Gullible’s Travels," "The Water Cure," and "Three Without, Doubled." Endpapers and frontispiece illustrations by May Wilson Preston. 8vo., dark..... Item #55200 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1918). First edition. First issue without the poem by H. H. Howland on page [6]. Brief typed letter SIGNED BY LARDNER affixed to front pastedown. Measures approximately 6.5" x 4"; typed on Chicago Tribune letterhead (where Lardner worked for years) and dated simply "August 30th", it reads..... Item #55208 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN, "For Paul, My maiden effort / with Best wishes" and signed "Larry McMurtry" with his usual scrawl. Light foxing to page edges and pastedowns and faint unavoidable offset from the binding to the endpapers..... Item #54149 More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. (There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing.) 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim..... Item #54177 More