Galena, IL: The City of Galena, 1937. First edition. Considered his first book or contribution. In the "American Guide Series," a Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project that funded writers during the Depression. Blue paperwraps featuring a silhouette of Illinois; printed on front only in dark blue and gilt. Bit..... Item #54241 More
Paul Laune. Phila./New York: J. B. Lippincot Co., (1952). First edition. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Item #47667 More
AllenW.pdf. Item #22735 More
(New York): HarperCollins, (1991). First U.S edition. SIGNED by Allende on the half-title page with her traditional flower drawing. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Fine in fine dust jacket with the barest rubbing to the tips. Item #54324 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
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1953. First U.S. edition. Touch of light shelf wear otherwise fine in very good or better dust jacket with spine lettering toned and rubbing to edges and folds. Item #55000 More
New York: Knopf, 1956. First U.S. edition. Published in the UK as THE NIGHT COMERS. Fine in near fine dust jacket with few tiny tears, spine ends rubbed, and corners nicked. Item #54996 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989). First edition. Two volumes: first printing of volume two, second printing of volume one. BOTH VOLUMES INSCRIBED BY AMBROSE. The first two volumes in Ambrose's Nixon trilogy. Illustrated with photos. Volume one: Slight lean at top of spine still very good to fine in..... Item #47542 More
(Cambridge: Granta, 1983). First edition. Edited by Bill Buford. New fiction from a virtual who's who: Amis, Pat Barker, Barnes, Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, et al. Touch of minor wear still fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #50440 More
New York: Farrar. Straus & Giroux, (1966). First edition. Foreword by Ralph McGill. Memoir covering the period after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education when, in 1956, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School in Tennessee to desegregate with "all deliberate speed." Margaret Vance..... Item #71962 More
Washington, DC: Anderson House, 1937. First edition. Time-travel fantasy starring Burgess Meredith as Stephen Minch and Lillian Gish as Martha Minch. Bright and fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with spine ends and corners lightly nicked and rubbed and closed tear to base of rear panel. Item #24831 More
AndersonS.pdf. Item #22737 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, September, 1928. First edition. First appearance of this story by Sherwood Anderson. Paperwraps lightly worn on overhanging edges, front cover splitting at hinge (about 5"), otherwise very good. Item #52937 More
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1924. First edition. A memoir of sorts. 8vo, brick-red pebbled cloth boards stamped in light orange and blind on front and spine; top edge light orange. Crisp and fine in good or better dust jacket with internal archival-tape repair and chipping at base of spine..... Item #54937 More
![Item #71831 THE STRENGTH OF GOD [and] THE TEACHER. Sherwood Anderson](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71831.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650667325)
(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1986). First edition thus: Number 31 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased volumes..... Item #71831 More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1993). First edition. SIGNED by the author, who for seven long years was in darkness and chains, not knowing when, if ever, he would be free. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #42947 More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "To Audrey, with many bluebonnets, Jean Andrews" on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #37668 More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review copy with publisher's information and photo laid in. Top page edges slightly darkened near spine, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #21850 More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1931-1932. First edition. The first 12 issues of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled liberally with topical and risque..... Item #71783 More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1931. First edition. Early issue of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled liberally with topical and risque cartoons and..... Item #71899 More
![Item #71898 BALLYHOO MAGAZINE: Vol. 1, Nos. 2 - 6 [5 issues]. Norman Anthony](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71898.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1659999023)
New York: Dell Publishing, 1931-1932. First edition. 5 issues. Sept. 1931 - Jan. 1932. Early issues of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled..... Item #71898 More
(New York: Leslie-Judge Co., 1925). First edition. Colorful cover art by Thayer of young, female switchboard operator reading a book. Satirical magazine chock full of cartoons by Milt Gross, Nate Collier, Gardner Rea, Donald McKee, Barksdale Rogers, et al. Very good with light soiling, small tears, and subtle stab hole..... Item #71939 More
(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of..... Item #54273 More
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person..... Item #30775 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Top page edges soiled and light shelf wear, otherwise fine in bright dust jacket with closed edge tear and light wear to spine ends and tips. Item #38199 More