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
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1973). First edition. INSCRIBED BY "CAROLYN KEENE" aka Harriet Adams, "Greetings to/ Wayne Stringer/ a gourmet cook/ From/ Harriet Adams/ a book cook/ (Carolyn Keene)." Recipes named after characters, places and themes in the Nancy Drew series under the guise of a weekly cooking session..... Item #55115 More
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
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
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
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
London: Jonathan Cape, (1950). First edition, later printing but scarce in any early printing of the Cape 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 the war. INSCRIBED BY KOESTLER on..... Item #53968 More
Highlights include some 800 WOODCUT PROOFS (most SIGNED): His woodcuts of Virginia, Bavaria, Pennsylvania Dutch Barns, for Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and other books, including those for Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, Roark Bradford, W. R. Burnett, Robert Coffin, Ellen Glasgow, et al. Original Prints, Paintings, Etchings..... Item #71540 More
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
New York: Hyperion, (1998). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #47882 More
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
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper. Tiny crimp at base of spine still fine in fine dust jacket. Item #52327 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition. INSCRIBED "For Vance M --" and signed with his usual scrawl. Lower board corners creased and bumped otherwise near fine in like dust jacket with just a little tanning to lower half of spine. Item #19824 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Pat" and SIGNED quite legibly "Larry McMurtry." Blind stamp to half-title otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Item #48210 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN, "For Paul, My maiden effort / with Best wishes" and signed "Larry McMurtry" with his usual scrawl. Light foxing to page edges and pastedowns and faint unavoidable offset from the binding to the endpapers..... Item #54149 More