THE WHEEL OF JUSTICE.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995). First edition. INSCRIBED, "With Best Wishes/ Bill Holland," on half-title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #25968 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
[No-place]: Eric Holter / Peniel Press, 1992. First edition of each of these five limited-edition broadsides all of which are SIGNED BY THE POETS. Printed by Eric Holter at his Peniel Press. All are within 15 x 9" and printed on various colors and weights of fine deckled-edge papers. Fine..... Item #56202 More
(Chicago: American Bar Association, 2004). First edition. Written with Guess; foreword by Dennis Archer, the 2003/2004 American Bar Association president. INSCRIBED BY HOOKS on the front free endpaper simply, "Thanks / BWHooks" (not inscribed to anyone). "As leader of the NAACP for 15 years, Benjamin Hooks oversaw the organization's position..... Item #53131 More
Royal Oak, Michigan: Airtight Seals Allied Production, 1994. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the Hornsby, James Ellroy (introduction), Raymond Obstfeld (afterword) and Phil Parks (illustrator). Heavy, vinyl-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine and with illustrated front cover plate; frontispiece color photograph of the author pasted..... Item #14531 More
New York: Henry Holt, (2011). First edition. SIGNED by author. John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War. Fine in near fine dust jacket with minor bumps on top front corners. Item #54433 More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1960). First edition. INSCRIBED opposite the title page. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. About a WW11 vet returning to Japan. Very good with spine ends lightly bumped and pages aged along the edges. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling, spine faded..... Item #51243 More
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2004. First edition, limited issue. 125 copies of which 25 were bound in cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO AWARD-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT and wife, "For Helen & Tony/ with the indisputable affection of the speaker, in whatever guise/ Richard/ 2004 NYC." Additionally signed in full..... Item #54269 More
New York: Duell, Sloane, Pearce, (1943). First edition. SIGNED by Hughes on title page. World War II-era noir thriller featuring intrepid heroine Julie Guilles. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with spine ends and corners lightly nicked and rubbed. Scarce signed and in nice condition such as this..... Item #53180 More
(New York: 1951). First edition. One page on Hughes' personal, printed letterhead watermarked "Old Edgeland Bond." Dated May 8, 1951, it reads in part, "Carl Van Vechten showed me copies of Swanson's 'IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN' and 'PIERROT' the other day, which I had not seen before. I'd love..... Item #56044 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). First edition. Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on the front endpaper. A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Hughes, "To Tony/ in Memoriam/ from Ted/ 13 July 1967." This was Hughes first book of poems after wife Sylvia Plath's death from suicide in..... Item #53612 More
(Long Beach: California State University / Occidental College, 1996). First edition. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY at top of first page, “For Allen Mears/ who has done so much for Jeffers poetry,/ and its study, who collects, appreciates,/ and celebrates the poet as he deserves/ Bob Brophy/ 3/19/87.” The Spring and Summer..... Item #72243 More
New York: Viking, (2000). First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Nelson -- Josephine Humphreys." Fine in dust jacket. Item #43085 More
(New York): Viking, (1987). First edition. Basis for the 2009 movie starring Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, and Ethan Hawke. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HUMPHREYS on title page, "For Walter & Jane/ with great pleasure/ at seeing you again --/ and in hopes of another/ meeting soon!/..... Item #72195 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HURST beneath the printed dedication ("To/ New York/ City of Cities"), "To David Kirschenbaum, with every good wish for success plus! Fannie Hurst. 1929." During her lifetime Hurst's books were extremely popular, making her somewhat of a celebrity--a platform she..... Item #56038 More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1887. First edition. Stories set in Long Island. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS DAUGHTER ON TITLE PAGE, "Presented to his daughter, Teresa, with much love by the author, John T. Irving, June 5, 1887." Very good with minor edgewear to spine and few..... Item #48489 More
New York: Random House, (1968). First edition of his first book. Decorative bookplate SIGNED BY IRVING laid in. Fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with touch of minor wear and few light creases to corner of front flap. Housed in custom, molded clamshell case lettered in gilt on..... Item #55106 More
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1994. First edition. SIGNED limited edition published for members of "The Signed First Edition Society" that precedes the first trade edition. Includes an introductory "special message for the first edition" by Irving. One of an undisclosed number of copies. Fine as issued in full red leather..... Item #54435 More
(London): Bloomsbury, (1998). True first edition, preceding all others. Uncorrected proof, the earliest noted, in gold-colored, printed paperwraps, versus pictorial. Basis for the movie "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, which Irving co-wrote. Near fine, with just a touch of minor rubbing to tips. Item #50809 More
New York: Vintage Books, (1994). First Vintage books edition. INSCRIBED, "May you laugh your way back to good health." Near fine in glossy, pictorial paperwraps. Item #51665 More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate. Item #54880 More
Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains..... Item #54260 More
New York: Knopf, 1954. First edition. SIGNED BY JARRELL on front endpaper. 8vo emerald-green boards with blind-stamped front and gilt-lettered spine, top edge pale orange, 277 pages. Spine slightly toned with gilt a bit dulled but readable, otherwise very good in about very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges..... Item #71734 More
Auburn, CA: Blue Oak Press, (1975). First edition, limited issue. Number 81 of an unstated number of copies SIGNED BY HOTCHKISS on title page. Analysis of Robinson Jeffers' poetry by Hotchkiss, a poet, novelist and the founder of Blue Oak Press. Includes prefatory note by Donnan Jeffers, foreword by A...... Item #55746 More
No-place [Salt Lake City, UT]: The Western Humanities Review, 1958. First edition. Offprint of Drew's article on Jeffers, "The Gentleness of Robinson Jeffers," from Western Humanities Review Vol. XII, No. 4, Autumn 1958. SIGNED BY DREW, an author and English Education Professor at Buffalo State College, to scholar and printer..... Item #55726 More