Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. “...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers.”—from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471..... Item #72066 More
Nashville: Tennessee State Museum, (2001). First edition. SIGNED BY HERB ALPERT. Hardcover catalog for exhibition of the legendary trumpeter's art work at Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Aug. - Sept. 2001, and The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, Dec. 2001 - Jan. 2002. Square 4to gilt-stamped purple..... Item #72093 More
[Toronto]: (McClelland & Stewart), no-date [circa 1977]. First edition. First appearance of the final story for Atwood’s then-upcoming DANCING GIRLS, her first collection of short stories. Issued as an “Advance Uncorrected Proof” containing only “Giving Birth” (pp. [207]-[222] in the proof; pp. 239-254 in the book). 8vo stapled cream paperwraps..... Item #72062 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942). First edition. One of 750 copies. Issued to raise funds for WWII relief efforts. Includes recipes from Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Cecil B. De Mille, Lillian Gish, Fannie Hurst, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Christopher Morley, Cole Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington, et al. 4to metal..... Item #72111 More
London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, et al. 1747. First edition. Two massive full-leather folio volumes with A TOTAL OF 68 MAPS AND 2 PLATES. Lacking only 1 map in first volume. VOLUME ONE -- includes 27 of the 28 maps called for with 9 folding maps;..... Item #71742 More
(Chicago): David Company, (1991). First edition. Poetry collection written from the points of view of imagined young students that sometimes reflects the all too harsh realities existing in some children's lives. INSCRIBED BY BROOKS on first blank page, "For Bethany,/ Sincerely!/ Gwendolyn Brooks/ February 26, 1993." Published by Brooks' own..... Item #72094 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1915. First edition. The last collection of Conrad's stories to be published during his lifetime. A near fine copy of the book with only a little darkening to endpapers; in dust jacket lacking the spine portion and with internal archival tape repair but..... Item #53761 More
![Item #72069 THE KNOCKOUT ARTIST; [Association copy, inscribed]. Harry Crews](/pictures/thumb/72069.jpg?v=1670450921)
New York: Harper & Row, (1988). First edition. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on title page, "To Walter Sullivan/ Best to you and yours/ Harry Crews." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature. Crews' is a distinctive voice among Southern writers, and this..... Item #72069 More
London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. One of only 1500 to 2500 copies printed (estimates vary) of “the MOST INTERESTING, AND PERHAPS THE SCARCEST (except the first American) of all Dreiser books” (Vrest Orton, DREISERANA: A Book About His Books, NY: 1929). Issued as the 6th volume in the short-lived..... Item #72065 More
![Item #71961 SOUVENIR BOOKLET; [Signed on front cover by all three pilots]. Amelia Earhart, Wilmer...](/pictures/thumb/71961.jpg?v=1661205316)
Williamsburg, PA: [no-publisher], 1928. First edition. Scarce souvenir booklet published by Stultz’s hometown of Williamsburg, PA, in commemoration of his historic trans-Atlantic flight June 17-18, 1928, with Lou Gordon and Amelia Earhart. Issued on the occasion of his “Home-coming Celebration” in Williamsburg on July 18, 1928. SIGNED ON FRONT COVER..... Item #71961 More
No-place: No-publisher, (1982). First edition. Twelve SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS, each one on 11 x 14" paper with all but one image measuring a little over 8.5 x 11.5" (image of Kaufman is 7 x 9"). Each one SIGNED BY FELVER on front at lower right corner just beneath the image and..... Item #71728 More
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped (i.e., overhanging) and printed labels..... Item #55187 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1963). First edition. Debut novel of the notoriously reclusive postmodernist writer. 8vo lavender cloth with blind-stamped "V" design on front board and silver-stamped lettering to spine; top edge black; 492 pp. Hint of fading to edges of boards most noticeably at head of spine, spine subtly..... Item #71788 More
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1901. First UK edition; preceded by one month by the U.S. In first-issue binding of gilt-stamped, dark-blue cloth boards with black endpapers. Twelve full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece, tipped in as called for. "One of Wells better known and altogether delightful scientific romances" and "an example..... Item #71983 More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1979). First edition. BOLDLY SIGNED on first blank page BY WOLFE and by ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN. His best-known, best-selling book which, in Wolfe's own words, grew out of curiosity about what "makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle…..... Item #71740 More