(San Francisco): Grabhorn Press / Book Club of California, 1940. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. 9 previously unpublished poems. 8vo natural linen boards with gilt-lettered black paper spine label; [37] pages. Fine with light unavoidable offset to free endpapers and boards very gently splayed; in bright, fine dust jacket..... Item #72090 More
(Madison, Minn.): The American Writers against the Vietnam War / The Sixties Press, 1966. First edition. Expurgated due to lack of permission to include Cummings poems. This copy with formerly blacked-out portions on cover and several pages softened to gray so that while a tad messy they are nonetheless readable..... Item #72089 More
[Santa Barbara: The Unicorn Press, 1944]. First edition. Presumed advance issue without publication information on title page. INSCRIBED by Gilbert, “To/ Marlan Beilke/ with singular pleasure/ Rudolph Gilbert/ 5-1969.” Beilke’s bookplate (signed in pencil by him) inside front cover. 8vo light gray paperwraps printed in dark gray; 53 pages. Very..... Item #72088 More
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1971. First edition thus: facsimile reprint. Association copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the publisher, "For my friend Allen J. Hubin, a/ belated token of a very pleasant/ visit here in Phialadelphia. This/ is the first copy, out of the first/ carton. With sincere admiration/ of a great..... Item #72085 More
New York: Random House, (1957). First edition of his first play. In variant dust jacket, as usually seen, without a price and with "3/57" on dust jacket flap. Bright and near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and touch of minor wear. Item #72084 More
New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. SIGNED on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #72082 More
New York: Knopf, 2000. First edition. SIGNED on front endpaper. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #72081 More
New York: Knopf, 1997. First edition. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. Item #72080 More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. Two volumes. An uncorrected proof in gray, printed wraps with publisher's material including a photo of the author stapled inside front cover. Fine with publication information taped to front cover indicating a publication date of Jan. 15, 1993. TOGETHER WITH an advance excerpt "From..... Item #72079 More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, (1971). First edition. Only 3000 copies printed. This one INSCRIBED BY WARREN in red ink on front endpaper, "To Walter/ all the best/ Red." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Warren -- one..... Item #72078 More
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition. SIGNED, LIMITED edition of 300 numbered copies this one being "Out-of-series." Fine as issued, without a dust jacket, in near fine slipcase with minimal wear. Item #72076 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1944). First edition. One of only 1500 copies. SIGNED BY WARREN on the title page in red ink. Near fine in good or better dust jacket with scrape and V-shaped tear to front panel (repaired internally with archival tape), rubbing and few scrapes to..... Item #72075 More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1967). First edition. Her fifth novel. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small scratch on rear panel. Item #72073 More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1965). First edition. The story of an American woman in Italy haunted by memories of her ex-husband. Bright and near fine in near fine dust jacket with touch of minor edge wear and few light scratches. Item #72072 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Previously uncollected poems together with revised versions of those from POEMS, 1928-1930. 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 112 pages. (Also noted in dark blue cloth-backed light blue paper boards; priority unknown.) This copy perhaps interesting for its full Latin translation of Tate's "Ode..... Item #72071 More
![Item #72070 LEE IN THE MOUNTAINS: And Other Poems; [Together with rare inscribed offprint]....](/pictures/thumb/72070.jpg?v=1678577291)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. Includes poems of the Civil War as well as a revised version of THE TALL MEN. Davidson was a founding member of the "Fugitives" (and the overlapping "Southern Agrarians") who had a troublesome past as a segregationist. 8vo gray cloth boards stamped in..... Item #72070 More
![Item #72069 THE KNOCKOUT ARTIST; [Association copy, inscribed]. Harry Crews](/pictures/thumb/72069.jpg?v=1670450921)
New York: Harper & Row, (1988). First edition. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on title page, "To Walter Sullivan/ Best to you and yours/ Harry Crews." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature. Crews' is a distinctive voice among Southern writers, and this..... Item #72069 More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1988). First edition. A famous Southern writer returns home "to make peace with her family and winds up turning the lives of all her loved ones upside down" (from the dust jacket flap). INSCRIBED to Walter Sullivan, "For Walter/ with all good wishes -/ Ellen Gilchrist." Fine..... Item #72068 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. “...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers.”—from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471..... Item #72066 More
London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. One of only 1500 to 2500 copies printed (estimates vary) of “the MOST INTERESTING, AND PERHAPS THE SCARCEST (except the first American) of all Dreiser books” (Vrest Orton, DREISERANA: A Book About His Books, NY: 1929). Issued as the 6th volume in the short-lived..... Item #72065 More
New York: Viking, (1977). First edition. First book appearances of 16 early crime stories written between 1913 and 1917. Edited and with an introduction by Stout biographer John McAleer. Fine in dust jacket with tiny rubs to corners (otherwise fine). Item #72063 More
[Toronto]: (McClelland & Stewart), no-date [circa 1977]. First edition. First appearance of the final story for Atwood’s then-upcoming DANCING GIRLS, her first collection of short stories. Issued as an “Advance Uncorrected Proof” containing only “Giving Birth” (pp. [207]-[222] in the proof; pp. 239-254 in the book). 8vo stapled cream paperwraps..... Item #72062 More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1960). First edition. Her second (and final) novel. Near fine in good only dust jacket with chipping to spine ends taking out first letter in author's name at head of spine, general creasing and wear, small hole near front flap fold (not affecting any..... Item #72061 More
New York: Random House, (1948). First edition. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone crime novel about a Black man unjustly accused of murder by a White man. Basis for the 1949 movie of the same name starring Juano Hernandez, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role. Bright, crisp and nearly fine..... Item #72060 More
New York: Knopf, 1983. First edition. Review copy with publisher's review slip and promotional post card laid in. Board edges lightly toned as usually seen otherwise fine in fine dust jacket with barest wear. Item #72059 More