THE WOMEN WHO HATE ME
Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. White printed wraps. Her scarce first book, a collection of poems issued by a small feminist press.
Women's Literature
THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY
Boston: Little, Brown, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems, the author's first book from a commercial press and second overall. A Review Copy with insert laid in which gives the date of publication as 30 January 1969. The Canadian edition was not published until 6 March 1969.
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. hardcover. Author's first book issued simultaneously with DISTORTIONS.
FALLING IN PLACE
New York: Random House, (1980). First Edition. hardcover. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper in Charlottesville in 1986. In addition, laid in is a piece of paper on which is written, "This a great novel." Beattie has responded by writing below "Yes No.....
THE 1934 VASSARION
Poughkeepsie: Senior Class/Vassar College, [1934]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in velvet-covered boards. Elizabeth Bishop's senior yearbook at Vassar, of which she was the editor-in-chief. This can certainly be considered, as anyone who has ever been in charge of a yearbook may tell you, Bishop's first book.....
POEMS BY SAMUEL GREENBERG
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Preface by Allen Tate. Elizabeth Bishop's copy SIGNED by her on the front endpaper. In a letter to Robert Lowell dated 27 June 1950 Bishop writes of THIS book: "I spent most of the weekend reading Samuel Greenberg--have you? I......
CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS. A LITERARY CHRONICLE OF THE FORTIES
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Elizabeth Bishop's copy SIGNED by her on the front endpaper. Wilson was an early champion of Bishop's poetry, recommending her for the 1944 Houghton Mifflin Poetry Prize Fellowship.
THE SLEEPING FURY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's third book. This copy SIGNED by her on the front free endpaper with the signature of theater set designer Oliver Smith on the front pastedown. A difficult title to find signed.
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
Doylestown, PA: 7 April 1955. 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. Normal folds from creasing. SIGNED "Pearl.....
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
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.....
TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS' PROGRESS...
New York: Scribner, 1895. Reginald Birch. First Edition. Decorated olive cloth. BAL 2088 lists only blue cloth.
SHADOWS ON THE ROCK
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The limited edition of this title, as well as many other titles by Cather, are fairly easy to come by. Not so with signed trade editions, such as this, Cather's first bestseller.
BREAK OF DAY
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Francois Gilot. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11") bound in pongee silk woven in China and dyed deep blue to match the color of the silk-screen illustrations. Translated by Enid McLeod with an introduction by Robert Phelps. Copy #333 of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with.....
THE FRIEND. A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE containing within the only issue published of THE FOLIO, The First Newspaper For Women's Rights
Honolulu, Oahu, HI: Polynesian Press; New Era and Argus Office, 1855-1856. First Edition. Hardcover. New Series Volume IV, Numbers I - 12 and Volume V, Numbers 1 - 10; Old Series, Volumes XII and XIII. Quarto (9-1/8" x 11-5/8") bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards; 92, 4, 80 pages. Despite.....
TRUCK
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First Edition. hardcover. Second book by the author of GEEK LOVE.
SILAS MARNER
London: Heritage Press, n.d. Lynton Lamb. Decorated cloth.
LOVE MEDICINE
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Her first novel.
NOT NOW BUT NOW
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First novel by this famous author of gastronomical delights.
THE HOUSE ON MARSHLAND
New York: The Ecco Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's second book, a review copy with material from the publisher laid in. Although there is no indication of such, this book came from the library of William Meredith.
TOTAL IMMERSION
New York: Harper & Row, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. First book, a collection of stories, by this acclaimed writer.
THE CONDOR PASSES
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in white wraps.
THE BOOK OF RUTH
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel.
SHELTERED LIVES
Seattle, WA: Madrona Publishers, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first "serious novel," after publishing a suspense novel, CLOSE HIS EYES.
HOW FAR SHE WENT
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Georgia native's first book, a masterful collection of short stories and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.
PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
Photograph. A fairly large image (7-1/4" x 9-1/4") mounted on 10" x 13" stiff board with the photographer's stamp at the bottom center "Alman & Co./436 Fifth Ave., N.Y./and Newport, R.I." depicting an elderly Howe holding a baby and surrounded by three family members including her two daughters who wrote.....