New York & London: John Lane, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Anderson's third book and first book of poetry, this copy a superb Association copy INSCRIBED simply "Miss Marietta Finley" and SIGNED "Sherwood Anderson" in green ink on the front endpaper. Anderson met unmarried, 24-year old "Babs" Finley at the Art.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1963). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield A45b: 3000 copies, preceded by the American edition which had a larger printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To/Hedwig [Petzold]/with love/from /Wystan" in 1963 on the front free endpaper and with seven manuscript corrections by Auden in the text. Sensational association copy!.....
New York: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Patchen's second book, consisting of 800 copies, this copy INSCRIBED "with respect and admiration" for W. H. Auden on 10 May 1940 and SIGNED by Patchen. Patchen's first book brought him much acclaim including comparisons to Auden, unlikely as that might seem.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank to a noted abolitionist: "Mrs. Maria W. Chapman/with the respects of/John Bartlett/1878." With Chapman's early pencil signature using her maiden name above Bartlett's inscription. Maria Weston Chapman was an.....
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New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Beckett's first published novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with the.....
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. An Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to writer Arnold Bennett: "For Mr Arnold Bennett,/with gratitude &/affection from John/Rothenstein./November 1930." With Bennett's bookplate on the front pastedown. The publisher's slip has pencil notes.....
[1981]. Hardcover. Thick quarto (8-7/8" x 11-3/4" x 3" thick) in a plastic-enclosed black pebbled leather 3-hole binder containing 194 vintage pieces of sheet music by Irving Berlin, likely all reprints, specially compiled and arranged alphabetically with a special contents page bound at the front. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the.....
Pawlet, [VT]: Claude Fredericks [Banyan Press], 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Gray paper wrappers with title printed in orange, with publisher's printed envelope. Copy #60 of 500 copies. Berryman's uncommon second book, a slim collection of poems, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page to the.....
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). Ben Shahn. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards and dustwrapper designed by Ben Shahn with his illustrations in the text. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper. Poet Jerome Mazzaro's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
[New York]: William Sloane Associates, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Berryman's critical biography of Crane, an important work in the study of the writer of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. Part of the American Men of Letters Series. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. First published in 1944. Paul Blackburn's copy, SIGNED by the poet and dated August 1948 in New York on the front endpaper.
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.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, bound in original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Robert Browning on the front blank: "Miss Alma Lehmann,/with the affectionate regards/of Robert Browning./Jan. 22. '85." A fine association copy as Alma Lehmann was.....
New York: The Century Co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Early but not first printing, which was in April 1907, of this title which advocated improved treatment of children and eugenic practices such as keeping the unfit and first cousins from marrying. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front.....
New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to his lawyer on the first blank: "for that admirable attorney/Elbert Robinson/from his client and friend/Truman Capote." Capote's masterpiece, a trendsetting book that opened a floodgate of "nonfiction" novels that has yet to abate. Made into.....
Washington DC: 1 July 1977. Letter. Superb letter on White House stationery SIGNED in full to the Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, regarding an upcoming visit to the United States and a youth unemployment bill recently passed by the Italian parliament. In part: "You have suggested an excellent agenda.....
Los Angeles: New South Co., (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Annie Dillard wrote a foreword to this collection of stories. With a fine PRESENTATION by Chappell to his wife.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Early but not first printing. Introduction and comments by Poppy Cannon. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a piece of Toklas's 5, rue Christine stationery: "For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/En souvenir of a memorable meeting in 1934./With appreciation and.....
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in flexible blue morocco leather lettered in gilt (including Coolidge's name at the bottom right) and decorated in gilt with stars in the corners and the Presidential coat-of-arms in the center. With a printed title.....
Cleveland: White Horse Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Dahlberg's second book, one of only 95 copies printed. This copy is from the more uncommon issue with the tipped-in illustrations and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page which states the copies numbered 1 through 10 were signed.....
New York: The John Day Company, (1934). First Edition. Hardcover. A novel about Nazism in the United States. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to his wife: "For Rlene,/with love/Edward/April 26.'74."
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.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which.....
London: Faber & Faber Limted, (1933). Second Edition. Hardcover. A nondescript copy but for the fact that it is INSCRIBED by Eliot to his niece on the title-page: "Inscribed for/Theodora Eliot Smith/by T. S. Eliot." Theodora was one of two daughters of Eliot's sister Charlotte. A lovely family association copy.....
New York: Random House, (1971). First Edition. The subject of this comic novelist's fourth book is the apprenticeship of an itinerant radio personality. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author to his mother: "For Mother,/Who had the good/character to change/my life--/Love,/ Stanley."
