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
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.....
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......
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: 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.....
TRUCK
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First Edition. hardcover. Second book by the author of GEEK LOVE.
SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound at rear. Eliot's third and many think best novel.
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.
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.....
ANNIE JOHN
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's orange and gray cloth. West Indies author's second book and first novel.
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott. INSCRIBED to Emily with "Best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.
CAST A COLD EYE
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Author Peter Taylor's copy SIGNED by him as "Taylor" on the front endpaper.
I WAS AMELIA EARHART
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Advance Reader's Edition in printed wraps of this popular novel.
SKETCHES, LIFE THOUGHTS AND INCIDENTS
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full, blind-stamped publisher's black morocco leather and illustrated with a carte-de-visite photograph of the author by P. Gutekunst tipped to the verso of the front free endpaper, likely as issued; 179 pages. The only copy of this book we were.....
PARADISE
New York: Random House Audio, [1998]. A 6-1/2 hour abridged presentation on four cassette tapes.
LINDEN HILLS
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book. The dustwrapper was designed by Chris Van Allsburg.
ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second collection of stories, nominated for the National Book Award.
ANYWHERE BUT HERE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First book by Steve Jobs's sister, with blurbs by Walker Percy, Louise Erdrich, John Ashbery, and others. Basis for the film starring Susan Sarandon.