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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, an account of the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa. INSCRIBED "Con Amistad" and SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: The Viking Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope and a joy to read. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope.
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope and a joy to read.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. The dustwrapper for this first novel was designed by Lucien Freud.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: William R. Scott, (1942). Jean Charlot. First Edition. hardcover. Pictorial green cloth, likely the first issue with the dustwrapper having only two titles listed on the rear inside flap. Illustrated with line drawings by Jean Charlot.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Gass's third book and first collection of essays. Harold Brodkey's copy with his ownership SIGNATURE on the front endpaper.
[New York]: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Copy #345 of 997 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation page.
[San Francisco]: [The Centaur Press], [1949]. First Edition. wraps. Purple wraps. An early title from the Centaur Press in San Francisco in their first year of publication as well as an early work by Broughton designed, set by hand, and printed by Kermit Sheets who has SIGNED the colophon page.....
New York: Doubleday, (2003). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps for this blockbuster novel made into a popular film.
3 May 1878. Manuscript. Handwritten conclusion of Bryant's most famous poem and one of the best-known poems of the 19th century--"Thanatopsis"--on a 4-7/8" x 3-3/4" sheet of paper laid down on a slightly larger album size sheet; together with a small calling card SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated "May.....
n.p. 31 December 1856. Manuscript. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x 8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second stanza here containing.....
New York: 9 May 1864. Hardcover. A handwritten poem on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated at the conclusion. Bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco leather and blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover containing the poem, an engraved portrait of.....
10 April 1877. Manuscript. The second stanza of Bryant's poem "The Battle-Field" in the poet's hand, SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated by him at the conclusion on a 5" x 8" sheet of paper. Bryant, who was a founder of the Republican Party and fervent supporter of Abraham Lincoln.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
1872. Photograph. Sepia portrait photograph (4" x 5-1/2") mounted to a larger sheet of white stock where it is SIGNED by Bryant beneath the image and dated 25 January 1872. Framed to an overall size of 9-1/2" x 12"
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7" x 9-3/4") volumes in contemporary half brown morocco leather with marbled boards and matching corners, spines with gilt lettering and decorations, marbled endpapers; [2], [xx], 398; [viii], 426 pages. Bound for politician and newspaper editor Whitelaw Reid, with.....
(New York): (John Day), [1969]. Wraps. An 8" x 10" pamphlet of 8 pages consisting of a biographical sketch and checklist of the Nobel Prize winning author SIGNED by her including her middle initial below her printed signature. The cover features Clara Sipprell's photograph of Buck looking down at a......
Doylestown, PA: 26 Dec. 1956. Letter. A brief one-page letter on Welcome House stationery thanking the recipient for a contribution to the agency, which Buck chaired and which was founded as an adoption and child care agency especially for American children of Asian ancestry. In addition, Buck has added an.....