New York: Modern Library, (1959). Modern Library Giant, first edition thus. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To The Maracay Book Club / with gratitude and best wishes / William Faulkner / Caracas / 20 April 1961" and signed on the title page "William Faulkner / Maracay / 10 April 1961."..... Item #52461 More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. Casebound, in dust jacket. ASSOCIATION COPY WITH LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY FIELD TO HER SISTER and husband. Good in fair dust jacket. California poet's first book. Decorated paper over boards with white linen cloth spine. Field was a close friend of Robinson Jeffers..... Item #55638 More
Toronto: General Publishing, (1967). First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED to his "Uncle Doug": "I dropped in to see Father and I thought perhaps you might enjoy my signing this - my first novel. Best wishes Tif / Timothy Findley / Cannington / October 10,1967." Tanning to front..... Item #39960 More
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1993). First edition. A paperback original. Fitzgerald's 1940 original, unproduced screenplay based on his story of the same name with an introduction by Schulberg, a fellow MGM screenwriter at the time. INSCRIBED on title page by Schulberg at the 1994 Hemingway/Fitzgerald Conference in Paris, "For..... Item #56159 More
Columbia, SC: Matthew J. Bruccoli, 1988. First edition. Number 49 of 200 numbered copies. Though not called for, this copy inscribed by Bruccoli beneath the colophon, "Alan M - -: Matt." Reproduces Fitzgerald's inscriptions in his own books and in those of others as well as inscriptions from others to..... Item #56157 More
(Lititiz, Pennsylvania): Sutter House, (1980). First edition. For the James Bond Completist: The saga of the real James Bond, the internationally known naturalist from whom Fleming admittedly stole the name for his secret agent (from the dust jacket blurbs). INSCRIBED by the author, Mary Wickham Bond "for Carolyn, with love..... Item #53593 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). First edition after the 1981 signed, limited. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht on title page, "For Anthony, With great admiration and warm regards, and with gratitiude for your warmth and welcome at the library. October 26, 1982 / Washington..... Item #53727 More
London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, [1907]. First edition. Like his earlier artists' studies, this one is published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies are in the "Masters of Painting" series). INSCRIBED, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford," most likely in the 1930's..... Item #53788 More
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. First edition [Harvey A49]. "A lively, personal, and extremely persuasive indictment of modern Prussianism" (Daily Telegraph). INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford." After Ford's heart attack in 1931 left him broke, Keating offered to pay his..... Item #53793 More
New York: Covici Freide, (1934). First edition. Illustrated with photographs from the movie. Touted as "the first full-length scenario for an actual talking picture production to be published in book form." If not the first screenplay to published in book form, certainly among the very earliest. INSCRIBED TO A MAJOR..... Item #54677 More
New York: Summit Books, (1981). First edition. INSCRIBED by author on the free endpaper, "For Martina + Karl-- Who've been a joyful source of strength in my own second stage-- Zestful wishes + love--Betty Friedan." Her follow up, 20 years later, to "The Feminine Mystique." Near fine in dust jacket..... Item #50320 More
(New York: Knopf / Spiral Press, 1933 -1937). First edition. Small archive of a friendship between Frost and Phillips Palmer. Includes a chapbook, THE LONE STRIKER (1933), presentation copy INSCRIBED, "For Phillips Palmer / from Robert Frost / 1933." Number eight of The Borzoi Chap Books. Thin, tan, handsewn paperwraps..... Item #55069 More
(Vaduz: Quick, 1960). Fourth printing. INSCRIBED by Baron Von Falz-Fein (father of Ludmila and producer of the movie). Fine in dust jacket with two closed tears and very light soiling. Includes original blue wrap-around band announcing the movie made from the book. Item #34963 More
London: William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Number 459 of 1,030 SIGNED copies, this one additionally INSCRIBED BY GALSWORTHY with a quote from one of his poems--"Of Errantry:/ For who would live so petty and unblest/ That dare not tilt at something ere he die"--beneath his signature on colophon page. His..... Item #54043 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The story's source are his grandfather's letters to loved ones. The book and pictorial dust jacket are in fine condition. Item #46790 More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1998). First edition. INSCRIBED with the quote, "Underneath the spready sycamore" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #47527 More
No place or date. First edition and only edition. Portfolio of 12 original black & white photographs illustrating Ginsberg's poem "Sunflower Sutra." Each photograph is mounted on an 11x14-inch board with a different part of the poem beneath. The full text of the poem is mounted on 2 separate boards..... Item #29570 More
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1976). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endpaper in 1976. Very good or better with a touch of rubbing to the bottom of the spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket that has a thin short line of blue offset to the front cover..... Item #50758 More
London: Bodley Head, (1980). First edition, first issue with "leave alone" p.(9):4. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Greene to A.J. Cheshire, his accountant. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GREENE TO HIS ACCOUNTANT. Item #40665 More
Kripplebush, New York: Nadja, (1995). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with a wispy stream of red squiggled lines by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet herself, whose work after 1960 was almost completely abstract (Wikipedia). NUMBER XVII (17) of 25 ROMAN-NUMERALED COPIES "reserved for the poet..... Item #54267 More
North Carolina: Wesleyan College Press, 1993. First edition. Number 961 of 1,000 SIGNED numbered copies. INSCRIBED BY GURGANUS to author/critic Doris Grumbach and her partner, "To Doris & Sybil --/ beloved sisters of mine --' and the most practical of/ utterly impractical (loving)/ hearts./ A joyful new year./ Allan/ Nov..... Item #30607 More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1999). First edition. INSCRIBED "To Steve & Bonnie" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #47668 More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, where the previous owner has also made notations (at the bottom). Printed photo of the author affixed at front, creating offset to front endpaper, and notation -- which appears to be in the..... Item #51434 More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1914). First edition. INSCRIBED to Hollywood producer and screenwriter Ralph Block - "To Ralph Block - flittings, flutterings, and floatings- from his fellow outcast Clayton Hamilton, to commemorate their year of common exile at the Goldwyn Studios, Culver City, California 1921-1922." Gilt spine lettering..... Item #33449 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1899. First edition. Part of the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Authors series, edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe, this work includes the first appearance of many of Hawthorne's letters. INSCRIBED on half-title page by Fields to Elizabeth Fairchild. Annie Fields was the wife of the..... Item #51250 More