New York: Atheneum, 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "For William Meredith/in companionship,/admiration/affection/Peter Davison/Washington D.C./June 4, 1980." With Davison's business card laid in.
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., (1931). First Trade Edition. hardcover. There was also a limited signed edition of 275 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED for Ralph Fabri "love included" and SIGNED by Dreiser in May of 1931 (The book was published May 8.). Fabri was a Hungarian painter who was.....
Boston: David R. Godine, (1988). First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in ivory printed wraps. His finest stories, grouped together in one volume, including "Killings," the basis for the critically acclaimed film IN THE BEDROOM, "Voices From the Moon," and "A Father's Story." SIGNED by the author on the title page.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Durrell has written the name "Jeffrey Miller" and SIGNED his own name below it on the front blank. Durrell's first novel after THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET.
Boston: Osgood, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra cotta cloth. BAL 5272: Signature mark N present on page 209; Myerson A34.1.a: correct readings on page 308. Myerson also notes that "Emerson was greatly assisted in compiling this volume by James Elliot Cabot and Ellen Emerson." This copy is INSCRIBED and.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated white linen, the gift binding, one of only 100 copies bound thus from a total edition of 2000. Both BAL 5250 and Myerson A28.1.a note that the earliest inscribed copies are dated 1 May 1867, May Day. This copy is INSCRIBED and.....
Concord: G. F. Bemis/John Stacy, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blindstamped publisher's dark brown cloth containing in this order: Shattuck's HISTORY OF CONCORD (viii, 392 pages with folding map); an offprint REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, No. XCI (20 pages); and importantly, Emerson's address.....
New York: The Viking Press, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's second book, SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half-title page in 1971: "for Bill Meredith/with gratitude for/this most pleasant/meeting/Irving." Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Feldman to Meredith forwarding a poem (not present) and asking.....
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1961). First British Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first book, INSCRIBED in 1971: "for Bill Meredith/with my gratitude/and esteem/Irving Feldman."
Nancy - Paris - Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault, 1919. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Original wraps bound into cloth at an early date. Illustrated with thirteen maps and charts. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Below Foch's signature is this handwritten SIGNED statement: "This volume was signed as a [?] by/Ferdinand Foch.....
[@1957]. Manuscript. Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete poem of 29 lines titled "A Nearly Next to Naught Song," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard Hocking/once the author's pupil for/a lesson or two at Shady Hill/or rather on the.....
New York: Halcyon House, (1940). Hardcover. Third Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED "For Daniel Smythe/Boston December 1940" with the complete eight-line poem "The Pasture," the first poem in the book, entirely in the poet's hand on the front endpaper. Interestingly Frost appears to have.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1930). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Crane A14.1: one of 3870 copies printed from the plates of the Random House limited edition. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Laid in on an unruled index card is a fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem, "A Time.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1936). First Edition. Hardcover. A later printing of the First Trade Edition of Frost's third Pulitzer Prize winner. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to a professor at the University of Texas, Philip Graham, with two stanzas.....
(New York): (Knopf), (1933). First Edition. wraps. A small pamphlet containing just the title poem and issued as Number Eight of the Borzoi Chap Books series. Crane A17: 2000 copies. This copy INSCRIBED to Russell Alberts and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover and as such is.....
(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), (1933). First Edition. wraps. A small pamphlet containing just the title poem and issued as Number Eight of the Borzoi Chap Books series. Crane A17: 2000 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with his initials on the blank page opposite the beginning.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914 (Dec 1924). Second Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (December 1924) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with some of his most famous lines, from "The Death of the Hired Man," a......
New York: Spiral Press, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. Crane B21: 3060 total copies printed, this one of 225 with Frost's own imprint. INSCRIBED but not signed by Frost on the title page: "To the Hockings wherever they are/meditating the wrong Muse." Richard Hocking seems to have been an.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1928). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. This copy is INSCRIBED "Garnett F. Colgan" and SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one of his most famous first lines, from "Mending Wall" from his collection NORTH OF BOSTON: "Something there is that doesn't.....
(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), (1933). First Edition. wraps. A small pamphlet containing just the title poem and issued as Number Eight of the Borzoi Chap Books series. Crane A17: 2000 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with his initials on the inside of the front cover.....
New York: MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat exaggerated.....
New York: MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat exaggerated.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography and first book by one of our greatest songwriters, author of this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." Quite scarce in the first edition, especially in a dustwrapper, this title served as the basis.....
(Potsdam, NY): Tamarack Editions, (1978). First Edition. Softcover. Decorated wraps. Of a total edition of 326 copies, this is #48 of 126 that contain a special drawing, hand-colored, by Kristen Heyen, the twelve year-old daughter of the author, and that is SIGNED by both the artist and the author. This.....
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "To William Meredith, with/sincere admiration for his/poems. So nice to have/met--/Bill Heyen/Brockport, New York/April, 1971."
