(Rockville, MD): Quill & Brush, 1994. First edition. Fifteen original essays on the title subject, "obsession," read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala, October 2, 1993. One of 200 copies, SIGNED BY EACH OF THE CONTRIBUTORS: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard..... Item #21833 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1917. First edition. Poetry published in American magazines from October 1916 - September 1917; as well as lists of volumes of poetry published during the same period and of selected books about poets and poetry, etc. Brown cloth spine, brown paper boards, printed paper labels..... Item #55648 More
London: George Allen & Unwin,Ltd. (1965). First edition. The creative methods of 63 writers, compiled and edited by Roy Newquist. In very good to near fine condition, with dust jacket. Item #46922 More
New York City: Wm. H. Wise & Co., (1923). First edition. Pictorial endpapers are rumpled and a bit detached, otherwise very good or better in soft brown leather wraps. Item #49018 More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First edition. Eugene O'Neill's personal copy with his bookplate on front pastedown. Hinges just beginning to crack, small strip of paper residue on front endpaper, small stain to darkened page top edges, spine gilt scuffed but still legible, corners rubbed, boards somewhat soiled..... Item #48927 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1956). First edition. Edited by Julia Scribner Bigham. Bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with only subtle toning to the spine, a touch of faint soiling and aging, and a few inconspicuous nicks and tears. An attractive copy. Item #51075 More
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Redlands, Calif: Valley Press, (1937). First edition. Collects poems with Californian themes. Includes Jeffers' "An Artist" and Sterling's "Wet Beaches" as well as poems by Florence Churchill Casebeer, Edith Cherrington, Ralph Cheyney, Virginia Church, Margaret Scott Copeland, Dorothy Marie Davis, Sara Bard Field, Hildegarde Flanner, Helen Hoyt, Ruth Comfort Mitchell..... Item #72044 More
Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, (1942). First edition. Collects stories and poems from 1941 appearances in “little” magazines which Swallows describes in his introduction as often short-lived and with low circulations but important for their embrace of new authors and experimental fiction. Contains a number of first..... Item #71943 More
London: George Redway, 1887. First edition. Original olive-green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and black border. A collection of stories, reviews, poetry and articles, including an extensive bibliography. Few minor bumps, touch of offset to endpapers, otherwise near fine. Item #47683 More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1897. First edition. Collection of essays, parodies, etc., including, as #52, Mark Twain's "The Panama Railroad." 12mo yellow pictorial cloth boards with illustration of man reading on front and woman reading on back; unpaginated. Very good or better with covers only lightly rubbed and..... Item #51424 More