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Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1983. First edition. The second volume in his Elizabethan Trilogy. INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "For Walter Sullivan/ with admiration &/ all best wishes" and signed in full beneath his crossed-out, printed name. Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor..... Item #72190 More
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1982). First edition. Memoirs of a sort in which Garrett has rewritten "personal experience and history pretty much as he will" (from the dust jacket flap). INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "For Walter & Jane/ Love & thanks --/ G" and signed in full beneath..... Item #72189 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
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1986). First edition. Review copy with publisher's review slip and promo letter laid in. INSCRIBED BY GILCHRIST on half-title page, "For Walter/ Sullivan - / with all good/ wishes -/ Ellen Gilchrist." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern..... Item #72192 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
[New York]: Distaff Side, 1939. First edition. Number 165 of 195 numbered copies. This one INSCRIBED by Goudy on the birthday-greetings foldout inserted at front, “To Dorothy Bevis with the highest regard of Fred W. Goudy 5/1/39 Los A.” Leura Dorothy Bevis (1904-1996) was a bookseller at Dawsons Bookshop and..... Item #71948 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
New York: Orchard Books / Scholastic Inc., (2002). First edition. Children's book about the determination and struggles of Bessie Coleman [1892 - 1926], the first Black woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license in the U.S. and first Black person to hold an international pilot's license. INSCRIBED..... Item #71784 More
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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
New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. 4 volumes, all signed by the author. ADVANCE EXCERPT with illustrations by Gurganus, GOOD HELP (Rocky Mount: 1988), #220/1,000 SIGNED copies; fine in gray paperwraps printed in black and red. UNCORRECTED PROOF, SIGNED on first blank; fine in cream-colored paperwraps printed in red. FIRST..... Item #71548 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
New York: Knopf, 1983. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HANNAH on title page, "To Walter Sullivan,/ All respects --/ Barry Hannah." 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 to which Hannah..... Item #72193 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1899. First edition. In the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Authors series edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Includes first appearances of many Hawthorne letters. INSCRIBED on half-title page by Fields to Elizabeth Fairchild. The poet and essayist Annie Fields was friends with many literary notables..... Item #51250 More
New York: Random House, (1958). First edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED: "To Dr. Allan Berne - Allen with cordial good wishes-----Joseph Hayes 7 Oct. 58". Slight offset on endpaper behind inscription, otherwise fine in dust jacket with a few closed tears, one very small chip and a small skined spot on..... Item #41379 More
Various places, Various publishers, 1983-2009. First edition of each of the 7 volumes. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania’s first State Poet from 1993 to 2003. He is the author of over 50 books, including poetry, fiction and..... Item #55538 More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990. First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "Inscribed with all good wishes for Harold J. Herman/ Seamus Heaney/ April 1991." At the time, Herman (1929 - 2016) was a professor at University of Maryland, where he lectured on the Arthurian Legend. With AUTOGRAPH..... Item #71551 More
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HECHT on front endpaper, "To SHOLEM ASCH/ of the line of the Prophets/ my deep admiration/ Ben Hecht." A nice sentiment to Asch, the Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist. Both he and Hecht were prolific writers, more celebrated in their own..... Item #55181 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket with one small chip on the lower back panel. Item #45266 More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1932. First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED BY HILTON on front endpaper to a prolific Baltimore book collector, "For Aquilla D. Hanson Jr./ with best wishes from/ James Hilton." Light aging and faintest of damp staining to covers but still very good with old tape shadows..... Item #55561 More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1999). First edition. A paperback original. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HOFFMAN on title page, "To/ the Sullivans/ &/ for/ our fellowship --/ William Hoffman/ 5/5/99." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding..... Item #72194 More
New York: Pocket Books, (1995). First edition. INSCRIBED, "With Best Wishes/ Bill Holland," on half-title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #25968 More