BLOOD OF PATRIOTS.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1996). First edition. INSCRIBED by Neil Abercrombie on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #51013
SIGNED
THE CORPORAL SEGUNDO.
Austin, Tex. The Encino Press, 1968. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Wilson M Hudson. One of 750 SIGNED by Wilson Hudson. Fine, without the original acetate jacket. Item #47657
THE OLD-TIME COWHAND.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. INSCRIBED by Adams on the front endpaper, " To - - with best wishes. If you ever have to ride the rough string here's hopin' your cinch is tight./ Cordially yours, Ramon F. Adams." Fine in price-clipped... Item #51457
COLLECTED BOOKS 2002: The Guide to Values.
New York: Putnam, (2001). First printing of the third edition. SIGNED by Allen Ahearn. Revised and enlarged with prices for over 20,000 first editions in all fields for collectors, dealers, and librarians. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #28153
A DELICATE BALANCE: Blurb for the 1973 Movie SIGNED BY ALBEE.
Approximately 3 x 8". Appears to be clipped from a magazine. Together with brochure from the 1996 Plymouth Theater revival and 2003 review clipped from the New Yorker. Provenance: From the collection of William Plumley. Fine. Item #53855
"SPANISH GIGILO AS WEIGHTLIFTER".
[Charleston, WV: Parchment Gallery, circa 1997]. First edition. Previously unissued broadside print by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. A drawing of a mustachioed figure, from chest up, hoisting a barbell with "Spanish gigilo [sic] as weightlifter" written beside it. SIGNED by Albee and "framed" in black and yellow. 11 x 7.75"... Item #46155
THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED and Autographed Photographs
Charleston, WV: 1983. First edition. In September 1983, Albee spent a 2-week "Marshall Evans" residency at the University of Charleston, during which he lectured, taught seminars on writing, acting and directing, and directed two of his own plays, "The Sandbox" and "Counting the Ways." This small archive from that period... Item #37406
THE JANUARY CORPSE.
New York: Walker & Co., (1991). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by him on the front endpaper. Photograph of Albert laid in. Fine in a bright dust jacket. Item #29818
THE RETURN.
New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Assoc. (2000). First edition. A novel, written with Barnes, from the second man to walk on the moon. SIGNED BY ALDRIN on publisher's bookplate. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and tips. Item #54941
THE RETURN.
New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Assoc. (2000). First edition. SIGNED BY ALDRIN in silver on the black title page. A novel, written with Barnes, from the second man to walk on the moon. Fine in fine dust jacket with just one tiny, inconspicuous tear. Item #54942
PLANET NEW YORK.
No place: Xlibris, 2000. First edition. Advanced reading copy. SIGNED by the author. Publisher's letter and bookmark laid in. INSCRIBED to Washington Post columinst Michael Dirda "October 26, 2001 To Michael Dirda, With respect and appreciation for your love of the written word. Tudor Alexander." Item #37828
THE LAST CAROUSEL.
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1973). First edition of this collection of stories. INSCRIBED by Algren (covering the full front endpaper), "with best wishes to Jeen" followed by one of his signature cat drawings, signed and dated June 1978, and colored with light blue and yellow streaks and whirls. Two small... Item #53734
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition. SIGNED BY ALGREN on publisher's tipped-in page. Winner of the first National Book Award and made into the movie that resurrected Frank Sinatra's career. Spine lightly soiled otherwise near fine. In about very good, price-clipped dust jacket with mild age toning, shallow... Item #54066
NEVER COME MORNING.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN, "For Jimmy Cannon, Who knows it's from the depths the stars shine clearest, God bless his Merry Christmas. Nelson Algren, '57." Journalist Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973) was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the... Item #54153
WHO LOST AN AMERICAN?.
New York: Macmillan Company, (1963). First edition. His travel writings, of a sort -- covering trips to England, Seville, Crete, Istanbul, Paris, et al. INSCRIBED to Richard Elman, "Best wishes/ To Dick Elman/ from/ Nelson Algren/ May 16 1963." Elman and Gene McGarr's interview, "A Converation with Nelson Algren," ran... Item #53974
THE INFINITE PLAN: A Novel.
(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
NIXON: Volumes One and Two; The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 | The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972.
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
PHOTOGRAPH OF A YOUNG MARTIN AMIS, SIGNED BY HIM.
Approximately 11.75 x 8" black-and-white photograph of Amis by an unknown photographer circa 1980s (or perhaps 1990s?). Appears to be a professional photograph, the sort used on a dust jacket, but we are unable to identify it. A close-up shot from the neck up, SIGNED BY AMIS. Evidence of previous... Item #55094
PHOTOGRAPH OF A YOUNG MARTIN AMIS, SIGNED BY HIM.
Approximately 11.75 x 8" black-and-white photograph of Amis by an unknown photographer circa 1980s (or perhaps 1990s?). Appears to be a professional photograph, the sort used on a dust jacket, but we are unable to identify it. A close-up shot from the neck up, SIGNED BY AMIS. Evidence of previous... Item #55095
FOUNDATION.
New York: Gnome Press, (1951). First edition. With gold-bordered label SIGNED BY ASIMOV affixed to base of title page. In binding cloth variant "A" (red-stamped dark blue boards) and pages bulking nearly 2 cm., as called for. In later-printing circa-1959 dust jacket with price, front flap, spine and front panel... Item #55110
DEN OF LIONS: Memoirs of Seven Years.
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
THE TEXAS BLUEBONNET.
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
INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION: Forecasting Movements in Security Prices / Technique of Trading in Shares for Profit.
New York: Somerset Publishing Co., 1936. First edition, INSCRIBED, "For Herbert B. Elliston from L. L. B. Angas." Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas was born into a family with a banking background. He was educated in both England and France and earned a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University before... Item #54595
THE ARMINARM ECOLOGUES; With the Hexercises (for the Heclogues): Pieces.
(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
ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right.
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