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.
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.
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.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. hardcover. Author's first book issued simultaneously with DISTORTIONS.
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.....
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.....
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......
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.
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: Scribner, 1895. Reginald Birch. First Edition. Decorated olive cloth. BAL 2088 lists only blue cloth.
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First Edition. hardcover. Second book by the author of GEEK LOVE.
London: Heritage Press, n.d. Lynton Lamb. Decorated cloth.
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Her first novel.
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First novel by this famous author of gastronomical delights.
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.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. First book, a collection of stories, by this acclaimed writer.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in white wraps.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel.
Seattle, WA: Madrona Publishers, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first "serious novel," after publishing a suspense novel, CLOSE HIS EYES.
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. 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.....