New York: Atheneum, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback original. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill, who/knows he titles/Faithfully/Dick/9-69." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1970.
New York: Norton, (1973). First Edition. Wraps. Softcover issue. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet "For Gary Cooper/one more nice man/from Norton/with pleasure at our first/meeting and looking ahead/to many more/Warmly/Dick Hugo." Books inscribed at length by Hugo are uncommon, and this is an interesting one as this title was.....
New York: Random House, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Irving's third book, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the partner of the poet William Meredith.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Hardbound issue. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "For William--/with love--/Josephine."
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Edited by James MacGregor Burns with commentary by Ralph Ellison, McGeorge Bundy, and others. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President to Jean and Bob Benjamin on the page before the title page bearing the printed.....
Austin: The Alcalde Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. One of a very small but unknown number of copies bound in full red leather with a gilt decoration of a saddle on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with drawings by Mac Tatchell and photographs; 80 pages.....
[London]: [The Sign of the Dolphin], [1938]. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in half cream canvas and decorated gray boards, a similar style to the Chaucer titles Jones printed for the LImited Editions Club. Printed for private circulation and illustrated throughout with samples from his work.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel Mather/Lest he forget me/with every.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Herbert White/with sincere regards/Helen Keller/Dec. 1929.".....
Washington DC: 21 May 1953. Framed Letter. On 8-1/2" x 11" United States Senate stationery to John Keegan thanking him for his views "concerning the security test for federal employees" and promising to consider them "should legislation be brought before the Senate." SIGNED at the conclusion with the following 21.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author "For Clark ----/With appreciation/Robert Kennedy." Books authentically signed by this great American are uncommon.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author "For John A. ----/With Best Wishes/Robert Kennedy."
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling most of the front free endpaper: "To David Hunter/Whose moral and financial/support have been of/inestimable value for the/continuance of my humble/efforts/Martin Luther King Jr."
New York: Viking, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "as we all pray for/a long approach" and dated 1992.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "in celebration of/our friendship" and dated 1992. Laid in is a 1994 flyer announcing a Kumin reading and addressed to Meredith.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "with abiding affection" and dated 1994. Laid in is a photographic Christmas card SIGNED by Kumin.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "A Novel of the Young Girl on the Stage." Dustwrapper art by John Falls. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the dedicatee on the dedication page: "To Gordon Harris/But for whom this/dedication may never/have occurred./Cornelius H. Traeger/N.Y.C. July 12, 1940." Also.....
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, SIGNED by him on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED at length in 1988 on the half-title page and initialed.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1876. Household Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth in red cloth dustwrapper with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Presentation copy INSCRIBED on the front blank from the author to John Owen, the publisher of Lowell's CONVERSATIONS ON SOME OF THE OLD POETS: "To/Mr. John.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Two volumes in slipcase. The third installment in the Joseph tetralogy. INSCRIBED to Paul Elkin and SIGNED by the author on the title page of the first volume. Mann first wrote an "A" to begin Elkin's last name and then wrote.....
Milwaukee: Pentagram Press, (1975). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. One of 600 copies. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page: "For Bill Meredith,/with admiration/Minneapolis/9 IV 77/Bill Matthews."
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1933). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to actor Rex Harrison: "For/Rex/from/Willie/W. Somerset Maugham." Harrison's most famous role was as Professor Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY. In 1990 he was appearing on Broadway in THE CIRCLE by Maugham.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. The second issue of three with edges trimmed smooth. There was no American edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half title page incorporating the printed title of the book in the inscription: "These are quite the author's/first stories &.....
(New York): Scribner, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. The moving Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography by this Irish-born New York City teacher, made into a fine film. This is an exceptional Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page at the time of publication to R'lene Dahlberg.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For ----/With best wishes/and many thanks for/your kind words./Alice McDermott/5-13-92."
