London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Early autobiographical novel, written in 1929 but now first published. INSCRIBED on the title page to the poet William Meredith with a reference to the stroke he suffered: "To William/with congratulation/on his miracle/recovery/love/Stephen."
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first book. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED in 1983 on the front endpaper: "For Bill Meredith/with endless respect/+ admiration,/+ in all good cheer!/David."
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First Edition. hardcover. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mr. Dearden/from/TS Stribling." Stribling sold more books than any author between the two world wars, and that includes Hemingway and Faulkner. He was the first of two.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. A collection of Sullivan's best pieces and poems from THE NEW YORKER edited and with an afterword by George Oppenheimer and with an introduction by Marc Connelly. This copy is INSCRIBED at some length and SIGNED by Sullivan on the front.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1955) & (1956). First Edition. hardcovers. Early but not first printings of each volume. Each copy is INSCRIBED to Captain Jack H. Seim and SIGNED by the author on the half-title pages on 28 September 1965. Truman usually only signed one volume, most often.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. First Edition. hardcover. An outstanding Presentation Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the son and namesake of the man whom he served as Vice-President and whom he succeeded in office: "With kind regards to/my good friend/Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr./from/Harry Truman/Independence/July 14.....
(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. The scarcest of the three issues of this book, this is the Author's Edition bound in half brown leather and patterned paper boards with two gilt-lettered black labels on.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in two-toned cloth and illustrated with numerous facsimiles of Truman's writing, drawings, and photographs in color and black and white. INSCRIBED by the former President as usual in the large blank margin beneath the color.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "for Bill Meredith,/my pretty little/orphan of a play/Best, John."
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1937. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; a 25-page extract. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "au docteur Rodolphe Kling[?]/a propos bio-physic exthetico-logiques/d'un palais a/facade delabree/Paul Valery."
(Port Townsend, WA): (Graywolf Press), (1976). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial dark brown wraps. One of 600 softcover copies out of an edition of 750. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page: "For William Meredith,/with long-standing admiration/David Wagoner/June '77." Laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Wagoner to Meredith.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Short stories and a novella, the first work of fiction published by Warren after the Pulitzer prize-winning ALL THE KING'S MEN. Includes the much-anthologized story "Blackberry Winter." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Alexander [?]/with.....
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author for William Archibald "with best wishes" and SIGNED by her "at Upper Grand View on May 26, 1956." Archibald, from Trinidad, wrote the book and lyrics for two musicals: CARIB SONG in 1945 and THE CRYSTAL HEART in.....
New York: Random House, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. A likely Review Copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner with compliments slip from a Random House representative laid in. More important, this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to fellow writer Jonathan Carroll, author of THE.....
Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate.....
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Edited with a preface by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21448: Issue 2; Meyerson A15.1.a. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman from a photograph by Gardner. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's.....
Washington DC & San Francisco: Dryad Press, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Of a total of 1500 copies, this is one of only 300 hardbound and in addition is one of the first 50 copies SIGNED by the poet on the colophon page. It is also INSCRIBED and SIGNED at.....
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition, with title page printed in green and black. Preceded by the "preliminary issue" of 21 copies and the London edition by a few days. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes, this.....
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #5 of 500 numbered and SIGNED copies of this National Book Award winner. In addition to being signed on the limitation page, the author has INSCRIBED this copy on both the title page and the blank page facing it to.....
New York/New Haven: Coward-McCann/Yale University Press, 1931. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Only 5,900 copies printed. These one-act plays represent Wilder's first attempt at a colloquial style and his first successful work for the theatre. This copy is wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with a quote from the play.....
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a touchstone of American theater. After reading this play, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Wilder comparing OUR TOWN to Homer's ODYSSEY and Shakespeare's HAMLET, stating: "That an American of the present day can.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth with approximately 330 pages printed on thin (but strong) India paper. An anthology of inspirational writing first published in 1916 during the First World War. With a SIGNED gift inscription from three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thornton Wilder on the.....
New York: Random House, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's coarse, dark reddish-orange cloth, one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama were published.....
New York: Crown, (2016). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Angela,/Thank you for reading my book!/With love & LIGHT!"
(San Francisco): (Kayak), (1969). Robert McChesney. First Edition. Softcover. Decorated wraps. Illustrated with color prints by Robert McChesney. One of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1972 to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill/with admiration for his work/& in friendship." Laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Wilson to.....
