THE OLD GRINGO.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY FUENTES. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Peden and the author. Fine in near fine dust jacket with very faint red line on rear panel. Item #54462 More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY FUENTES. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Peden and the author. Fine in near fine dust jacket with very faint red line on rear panel. Item #54462 More
Cape Town: Buren Publishers, 1969. True first edition. INSCRIBED on title page "For Harold, With my best wishes, Athol Fugard." One of the playwright’s best-known and most widely respected dramatic works. The play that established Fugard’s reputation as a major playwright. 8vo illustrated paper boards. Small label of Vanguard Booksellers..... Item #71538 More
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, (1996). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Minor creasing to fore edges of few interior pages, still fine in dust jacket. Item #34821 More
New York: DC Vertigo, 1993. First edition. #1 in Gaiman’s 3-part spinoff from his bestselling “dark fantasy” comic-book series, “The Sandman,” featuring Sandman's older sister, “Death.” SIGNED ON FRONT COVER BY ARTIST CHRIS BACHALO. Number 1955 of a stated 10,000 copies signed by either Gaiman or Bachalo. Housed together with..... Item #71786 More
Various places: Various publishers, 1978 - 2007. Collection assembled by Allen K. Mears. Includes 2-page TLS from Gallagher with extensive handwritten portion and two enclosures; Autograph Postcard Signed from Gallagher; 4 books (2 are later printings) signed and/or inscribed by Gallagher; a broadside signed by Gallagher; a few items of..... Item #56185 More
(Vaduz: Quick, 1960). Fourth printing. INSCRIBED by Baron Von Falz-Fein (father of Ludmila and producer of the movie). Fine in dust jacket with two closed tears and very light soiling. Includes original blue wrap-around band announcing the movie made from the book. Item #34963 More
London: William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Number 459 of 1,030 SIGNED copies, this one additionally INSCRIBED BY GALSWORTHY with a quote from one of his poems--"Of Errantry:/ For who would live so petty and unblest/ That dare not tilt at something ere he die"--beneath his signature on colophon page. His..... Item #54043 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The story's source are his grandfather's letters to loved ones. The book and pictorial dust jacket are in fine condition. Item #46790 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. First edition. There were 300 SIGNED, numbered copies and 100 which also included an original drawing by the author. This copy states, "This is a presentation copy," is signed by Gardner and has a drawing of Vlemk on blank before colophon page drawn and initialled..... Item #37129 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. The first volume in his Elizabethan Trilogy. Walter Sullivan's ownership signature on first blank and INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "For Walter Sullivan/ My thanks for much/ & best wishes to you -/ George," above which he's added his initials beneath..... Item #72188 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1965. First edition. A traveling troupe descends on a small town for an "Old Timey Revival Meeting" (from the jacket flaps). Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Walter Sullivan's ownership signature on front endpaper and INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "To Walter/..... Item #72187 More
New York: Doubleday, (1990). First edition. Advance reading copy in glossy pictorial paperwraps. The third and final volume in his Elizabethan Trilogy. INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "For Walter & Jane with love & squalor -- Best wishes/ George Garrett/ 10/13/90." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime..... Item #72191 More
[Winston-Salem, NC]: Palaemon Press, 1978. First edition. “Palaemon Broadside Number Eight.” Broadside poem printed in black and dark orange on buff-colored heavy paper measuring 9 x 12." Number 89 of 100 SIGNED numbered copies (of 126 copies total). Fine. Item #71850 More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1992). First edition. Collection of essays and reviews. INSCRIBED BY GARRETT on title page, "For Walter/ with admiration &/ all best/ wishes/ G" and signed in full above his crossed-out, printed name. Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on..... Item #72215 More
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: Random House, (1969). First edition. Basis for the film starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert and Eileen Heckart. Eillen Heckart won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the film. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near fine with a small bookstore stamp on..... Item #29091 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
Boston: Little, Brown, (1988). First edition. A famous Southern writer returns home "to make peace with her family and winds up turning the lives of all her loved ones upside down" (from the dust jacket flap). INSCRIBED to Walter Sullivan, "For Walter/ with all good wishes -/ Ellen Gilchrist." Walter..... Item #72068 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
New York: Harper & Row, (1986). First edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's photograph of Ginsberg laid in. SIGNED BY GINSBERG on title page with his circled "AH" symbol and dated by him "4/27/96." Near fine with boards gently splayed; in slightly rumpled but otherwise fine dust jacket. Item #71755 More
New York: Knopf, 1972. First edition. Her scarce, second book. INSCRIBED TO AUTHOR DORIS GRUMBACH, "To Doris, fondly, Gail/ Oct. 24, 1982/ Woodstock, NY." Personal two-page AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED laid in. It reads in part, "Dear Doris, Here is a Glass People. The most peculiar of my books. Not entirely..... Item #30619 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First edition of her first book. "To Doris, Gail Godwin" on front end paper. Author/critic Doris Grumbach's copy. Stain on rear end paper, some discoloration on red top edge stain and minor cover wear, but still very good in lightly worn dust jacket. Item #30770 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: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1956). First U.S. edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. SIGNED BY GOLDING on white label affixed to title page. Originally published in the UK as PINCHER MARTIN. Near fine with touch of darkening to spine gutters and inner hinges; in about very..... Item #72218 More