SEMI-TOUGH.
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. INSCRIBED BY JENKINS on half-title page. "To Larry - Laughs, love and peace - Dan." Thin strip of fading at base of spine otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #55081 More
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AS I WAS SAYING.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with a hand drawn "ph-autograph." Johnson drew a sketching of a man's profile using his name and date (1923). Very good with a skinned section on back panel. Item #39245 More
THE ERA 1947 - 1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. First edition. INSCRIBED by Kahn on front endpaper, "To Alan M - -, Best always, Roger Kahn 10/22/97." From the author of THE BOYS OF BASEBALL, " . . . a grand slam of a book as fresh, controversial, and original as his previous..... Item #56164 More
THE NANCY DREW COOKBOOK: Clues to Good Cooking.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1973). First edition. INSCRIBED BY "KEENE" AKA HARRIET ADAMS. Adams was the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer, creator of the Nancy Drew series and owner of the "Carolyn Keene" pseudonym. Stratemeyer hired freelancers writers to complete the books including Mildred Wirt Benson, who fleshed out the..... Item #55115 More
A FAMILY MADNESS.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985). First edition. BOLDLY INSCRIBED on title page, "Not even Oskar Schindler could have saved them. Tom Keneally 1999" (no recipient). Uncorrected proof, fine in printed yellow paperwraps with handwritten projected date of publication (March 18), price, and agent contact info. GREAT INSCRIPTION. Item #49798 More
ROCKWELLKENTIANA: Few Words and Many Pictures by R. K. and, by Carl Zigrosser, A Bibliography and List of Prints.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. INSCRIBED BY KENT on leaf tipped in following the front free endpaper, "To my friend John J. Kozoy [?]/ with all good wishes, / Rockwell Kent / Asgaard, August 5, 1965" Full-color frontispiece; 64 pages of text interspersed with illustrations and..... Item #55611 More
KIPLING'S COLLEGE. (W. M. Carpenter's copy presented to his brother).
Evanston, W. M. Carpenter, 1929. First edition. One of 100 copies for private circulation. [Richards B83]. First book appearance of "Speech on Behalf of the Old Boys" and first appearances of several letters. A history of Kipling's prepatory school by Chicago manufacturer William Montelle Carpenter, whose Kipling collection is now..... Item #56078 More
THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1961). First edition. Her first book, a collection of poetry. INSCRIBED on first page and on her laid-in business card "to Elaine and Sam, her guardian angels." Very good in pictorial paperwraps (a simultaneous hardback was also published) with minor fading on spine and edges and..... Item #54401 More
DARKNESS AT NOON.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1950). Later printing but scarce in any early printing of the first edition. Translated from the German by Koestler's companion, the sculptor Daphne Hardy, who smuggled her translation to England from France, where Koestler had been interned during WWII. INSCRIBED BY KOESTLER on half-title page, "Arthur Koester..... Item #53968 More
PAUL LANDACRE.
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 1982. First edition. Plain white dust jacket. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by the Castle Press. One of 50 copies reserved for collaborators out of a press run of 650. ASSOCIATION COPY FROM RITCHIE TO ANTHONY LEHMAN, himself the author of a...... Item #55854 More
THE LOVE NEST: and Other Stories.
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Inscribed by writer J. P. McEvoy to actress and famous Ziegfeld Follies dancer Gilda Gray, "To Gilda,/ Who has it--/ whatever it is [stick figure drawing of a woman doing the shimmy]/ From an earnest seeker/ after the truth [stick figure with wild..... Item #55141 More
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HOW TO WRITE SHORT STORIES [WITH SAMPLES].
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1924. Fifth printing issued August 1924, just three months after the May 1924 first printing. Scarce in any circa 1920's printing. Newsclipping of paragraph from "Ring Lardner Tells Prospective Auto-Owners All They Need to Know" (1920) in which Lardner describes how "a lamp post jumped right..... Item #55201 More
MAME.
New York: Random House, (1967). First edition. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play "Auntie Mame" by Lawrence and Lee; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. INSCRIBED BY LEE on the title page, "For -- With friendship, admiration and a woeful lack of cleverness! Bob Lee 8..... Item #14216 More
THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR.
London: Heinemann, (1965). First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed..... Item #55552 More
A Collection of Ten of His Books: THE EMPTY DAY; MURDER FOR ART'S SAKE; SOMETHING UP A SLEEVE; WRITE MURDER DOWN; NOT I, SAID THE SPARROW; DEATH ON THE HOUR; OR WAS HE PUSHED?; DEAD RUN; A STREAK OF LIGHT; and THE OLD DIE YOUNG.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Co., (1965 - 1980). First edition. Ten books, all INSCRIBED. His first non-mystery work of fiction, *THE EMPTY DAY* (1965), is inscribed to "Barbara and Harold, with great affection, Richard Lockridge." The other nine are inscribed to "Izzy and Frank..." "...with love, Dick": *MURDER FOR ART'S SAKE* (1967..... Item #54910 More
JOSH: My Up and Down, In and Out Life.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First edition, INSCRIBED on half title page in year of publication "For - - Long live theatre. Joshua Logan Tysons Corner 10.13.76." Very good to fine in like dust jacket. Item #49538 More
THE BACK ROOM.
No-place: Privately Printed, (1937). First edition. Second collection of essays by the "saloonkeeper" profiled in The New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell. INSCRIBED BY MADDEN on the front endpaper, as most copies seem to be. Page top edges foxed and unavoidable offset from binding to pastedowns otherwise near fine in very..... Item #54112 More
EXISTENTIAL ERRANDS.
Boston: Little Brown, (1972). First edition. One of the dedication copies. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED on dedication page below the printed names, "Could this be for your distinguished service in Maidstone dear old editor darling? / Love / Norman." A collection of essays, excerpts, etc., written from..... Item #49634 More
THE PRISONER OF SEX.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1971). First edition. INSCRIBED "To Elizabeth / Again with pleasure. Norman." Few underlinings and margin marks, base of spine faded, otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped, black dust jacket showing rubbing to spine ends and corners. Item #48205 More
THE FROG PRINCE: A Play.
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1984. First edition. Number 24 of 130 numbered copies signed by Mamet and Koren. Frontispiece etching SIGNED and numbered (24/130). This copy signed on colophon page by Koren, as called for, but INSCRIBED BY MAMET on half-title page, "Dear Sara -- Merry Christmas +..... Item #54629 More
REENA: And Other Stories.
Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, (1983). First edition, a paperback original. Sshort stories preceded by introductory headnotes written by Marshall expressly for this collection. Also includes an autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," and "Merle," a novella reshaped from her 1969 novel "The Chosen Place, The Timeless People."..... Item #42060 More
AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO (2 Record Set): Double-Album (LP) Inscribed by Groucho to his nurse.
(Beverly Hills: A & M Records Inc., 1972). First edition. A&M SP3515. Double album with single leaf insert. INSCRIBED BY GROUCHO ON FRONT COVER in purple, "To Barbara a good nurse and a nice woman / Groucho." It is likely the inscription is to Barbara Winger Bruner, who worked for..... Item #54865 More
MEN'S LIVES: The Surfman and Bayman of the South Fork.
[No-place]: (Rock Foundation, 1986). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with line drawings by Ralph Carpentier and photographs from many sources. Two volumes in matching slipcase: one with Matthiessen's text, the other with photographs. INSCRIBED BY MATTHIESSEN on first blank of volume containing his text, "For Pat and Allen/ With Kindest..... Item #56013 More
A MONK SWIMMING: A Memoir.
New York: Hyperion, (1998). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #47882 More
THE GOLDEN BOOK: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking - Past & Present.
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. First edition. One of only 2000 copies. This one INSCRIBED by author. Intricate, gilt-stamped binding. Spine dulled otherwise would be near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Item #52467 More