(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1963). First UK edition. About very good with page edges foxed and evidence of erasure to front endpaper but covers crisp and bright; in good to very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several glass rings (most evident on rear panel) and some light staining but only..... Item #72122 More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1983). First U.S. edition. SIGNED IN FULL on title page and INSCRIBED BY SILLITOE on front endpaper to Walter Sullivan, "A ripping yarn! --/ that took 25 years/ to struggle out./ In all friendship/ and with warm and/ sincere feelings to/ Walter from/ Alan/ Nashville/ 23/3/85." Walter..... Item #72118 More
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page, "For Walter & Jane/ With warmest personal regards,/ Bill." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature, and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His..... Item #72115 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2002). First edition. INSCRIBED BY RUBIN on title page to Walter and Jane Sullivan, "To Walter & Jane -- L." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Rubin -- one of the..... Item #72113 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First edition. "In his eighth novel Madison Jones unfolds a powerful allegory of good and evil, innocence and guilt as he tells the gripping story of a young man inexorably drawn into the drug underworld." -- from the dust jacket flap. Fine in..... Item #72112 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942). First edition. One of 750 copies. Issued to raise funds for WWII relief efforts. Includes recipes from Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Cecil B. De Mille, Lillian Gish, Fannie Hurst, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Christopher Morley, Cole Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington, et al. 4to metal..... Item #72111 More
No-place: no-publisher, 1964. First edition, first separate appearance [Broomfield A50a]. One of 250 copies "printed for their friends of the Roxburghe Club and for their other friends at Christmas, 1964, by Kerwin Whitnah and Arlen H. Philpott." Prints the text of Jeffers' letter to Sister Mary James beautifully answering her..... Item #72110 More
Santa Cruz: Peter and Donna Thomas, 2012. First edition. Number 3 of only 50 numbered copies. Printed for the Tor House Foundation in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jeffers' death. 10.5 x 15" poetry broadside printed in black and red on heavy cream paper; illustrated with Killion's woodcut, "Tor..... Item #72109 More
(Amador City, CA): Quintessence Publications, (1986). First edition. One of the 100 copies SIGNED by Herbert Klein (there were also 1000 unsigned copies). This one additionally INSCRIBED BY MARLAN BEILKE and signed by him and wife Irene (the printers and publishers), to Jeffers collector Allen K. Mears, “for our dear..... Item #72108 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First edition. The influential Southern novelists first book of short stories. 8vo teal cloth boards stamped in reddish brown; 245 pages. Near fine with spine slightly toned; in about very good dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and corners and spine somewhat faded..... Item #72107 More
London: Collins, (1985). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page, "To Philip --/ with all best wishes -/ Patricia Moyes/ Bouchercon, Baltimore, 1986." Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base of spine. Item #72105 More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1986). First edition. The longtime Democratic senator's thoughts on the condition and breakdown of the American family. INSCRIBED to Washington Post reporter Spencer Rich in the year of publication, "For Spencer Rich/ with great/ respect/ Dan/ June 1986." Near fine in very good to near..... Item #72104 More
London: Michael Joseph, (1964). First edition. The second short story collection from the British judge and writer Henry Cecil Leon (1902-1976). INSCRIBED on front endpaper, 'To Mrs. Wood & Miss Brand/ With all good wishes/ from/ Henry Cecil/ September 1964." Near fine with minor spotting to top edge and unavoidable..... Item #72103 More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1977). First U.K. edition. "....early versions of descriptions, ideas, and anecdotes ... [and] ... collections of pickpocket lingo and jailhouse slang" as well as essays and a short story, "The English Summer," which is illustrated by Gorey. 8vo gilt-stamped dark red textured paper boards; 113 pages;..... Item #72102 More
![Item #72101 WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? [Inscribed association copy]. Wendell Berry](/pictures/thumb/72101.jpg?v=1675286653)
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Essays and two poems. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED on endpaper, "To Walter Sullivan/ in return, with thanks/ and many good wishes./ Wendell Berry." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding..... Item #72101 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First edition. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on title page, "For Walter Sullivan/ All best to/ one of the great ones/ Harry Crews." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature. "A virtuoso blending of despair and hope..... Item #72100 More
New York: Grove Press, (1965). First U.S. edition, published the same year in the UK. An erotic novel first published in Paris in 1954 by the Olympia Press. Some 40 years after publication, Anne Desclos -- as "Dominique Aury" -- claimed authorship and revealed the story was written as a...... Item #72099 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 More
![Item #72097 CONTINENT'S END: A Collection of California Writing; [Inscribed by Jackson]. Joseph...](/pictures/thumb/72097.jpg?v=1678579991)
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, (1944). First edition. Selections from "modern California writing" with title borrowed from the poem by Robinson Jeffers that opens the book. INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "For Lucille Phelps/ who has earned the author's thanks/ many times over./ Cordially and sincerely/ Joseph Henry Jackson/ San..... Item #72097 More
![Item #72096 THE WOUND AND THE WEATHER; [Inscribed association copy]. Howard Moss](/pictures/thumb/72096.jpg?v=1675286650)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946). First edition. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED "WITH LOVE" TO COMPOSER DAVID DIAMOND. The National Book Award-winning poet's first book, written when he was just 24 years old, two short years before he was to become the longtime poetry editor at The New Yorker. INSCRIBED on..... Item #72096 More
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. SIGNED BY BENTLEY on front endpaper. More essays from "our most distinguished critic of the theatre" (from the dust jacket flap). 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth boards; yellow top edge and endpapers; 241 pages plus brief biography. Fine in very good dust jacket with spine..... Item #72095 More
(Chicago): David Company, (1991). First edition. Poetry collection written from the points of view of imagined young students that sometimes reflects the all too harsh realities existing in some children's lives. INSCRIBED BY BROOKS on first blank page, "For Bethany,/ Sincerely!/ Gwendolyn Brooks/ February 26, 1993." Published by Brooks' own..... Item #72094 More
Nashville: Tennessee State Museum, (2001). First edition. SIGNED BY HERB ALPERT. Hardcover catalog for exhibition of the legendary trumpeter's art work at Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Aug. - Sept. 2001, and The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, Dec. 2001 - Jan. 2002. Square 4to gilt-stamped purple..... Item #72093 More
![Item #72092 THE ELECT and THE DAMNED; ["The DeCasseres Books" Book Number 7]. Benjamin...](/pictures/thumb/72092.jpg?v=1678579989)
New York: Benjamin DeCasseres / Blackstone Publishers, (1936). First edition. 8 essays including "Robinson Jeffers: Tragic Terror," pp.17-27 ("... there is a wild, disheveled, remote beauty and the music of an infernal but contained madness.") 12mo beige paperwraps printed in black; 64 pages. Very good with slight tanning, few small..... Item #72092 More
Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1929. First edition. Number thirty in the University of Washington's chapbook series edited by Glenn Hughes. DeCasseres' ruminations on the fulfillment (or lack thereof) of the ideals of Neitzsche's "Superman" by various American figures from among whom he singles out as the epitome of..... Item #72091 More