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1967503783<p>on lower portion and verso of a typed letter on Esquire magazine letterhead November 8 1967 signed by Rachel Gallagher Editoral Associate. 10 1/2" x 7 1/4". 1 1/2 pages. A remarkable letter in answer to Gallagher's inquiry stating that Esquire is planning a feature on the salutary effects of a number of drugs on the market mentioning an article in Life magazine regarding the drug Dilantin and wondering if Williams would agree to participate in the article: "Dear Miss Gallagher - I am very interested in pills that don't contain barbiturates or amphetamine. At night I take two doriden tablets and a 100 milligram mellaril - and I have no deleterious effect from them. Pills are dangerous but sometimes danger must be accepted. I think we all know that. I shall try to get hold of the piece on Dillantin sic which is a pill I never heard of. I always check out with my doctor whatever I take. To combine pills with an excessive amount of alcohol is the greatest indiscretion and one I avoid." William's apparently failed to follow his own advice. His death in 1987 was brought about by his choking on the cap of a pill container. Williams 1914-87 Mississippi-born playwright and novelist; winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" 1948 and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 1955.</p>
191315090London: Elkin Mathews 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/None. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original cream paper-covered boards with original glassine wrapper that is virtually fine aside from a slight bump at rear top. Wallace A2. Inscribed on front free end paper to a patient May 7/50 after a heart attack but before a series of strokes. Housed in a 1/4 leather blue linen custom clamshell box. Elkin Mathews hardcover
196031014New York: The MacMillan Company 1960. First edition of Williams' second novel. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mary Beth and Ed Twining with much affection- John Williams." Ed Twining was an English professor at The University of Denver where John Williams also taught and was the director of the creative writing program. The two were lifelong friends. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Gilbert Etheredge. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice association. "Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone Butcher's Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy. It was perhaps the first and best revisionist western" The New York Times Book Review. It is the 1870s and Will Andrews fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature" drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo ready for the taking hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there however the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring half-insane with cabin fever cold and hunger they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been. "Butcher's Crossing dismantles the myth of the west revealing a horror story about the grinding day to day of just surviving.a restrained and gorgeous lyricism.even in its softer moments it doesn't overdo anything and the moral criticism is in the precision of the language the now-famous simple and elegant Williams prose" Bret Easton Ellis. The MacMillan Company hardcover books
149305Rare Rawlings Official American League baseball signed by 12 members of the 500 Home Run Club. Signed by Ted Williams Mickey Mantle on the sweet spot Hank Aaron Willie Mays Eddie Murray Frank Robinson Reggie Jackson Willie McCovey Ernie Banks Eddie Mathews Mike Schmidt and Harmon Killebrew. In fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA Authentication Services. The 500 Home Run Club is an exclusive group of Major League Baseball players who have achieved one of the sport’s most celebrated milestones—hitting 500 or more home runs during their careers. Membership in the club signifies both exceptional power-hitting ability and sustained excellence over time linking its members to baseball’s most storied traditions of achievement. Some of the most prominent figures in this elite circle include Babe Ruth the first to reach the mark in 1929; Willie Mays and Hank Aaron whose accomplishments symbolized consistency and grace across eras; as well as Ted Williams Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray each representing a blend of power discipline and professionalism that defined their respective eras. unknown
149109New York: Oxford University Press 2000. First Oxford University printing of this insightful analysis about gender inequalities. Octavo original publisher's wrappers illustrated. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Justice Ginsburg From someone who is copying on your tradition I hope! Jen Williams May 2002." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a play on the name of famed 90s rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Ginsburg was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. When she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became both the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn New York earned degrees at Cornell University and Columbia Law School and began her career as a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field. She spent much of her early legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court and in 1972 co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union which participated in more than 300 gender discrimination cases by 1974. In 1980 President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received increasing attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In 2002 Ginsburg was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame she was named one of Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women in 2009 and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2015. Her powerful and fiery dissent in the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder in which she argued against the majority’s decision to strike down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 emphasizing the continued need for its protections against racial discrimination in voting earned her the nickname “The Notorious R.B.G.†– a moniker she came to embrace which has since become a celebration of her important legal career and legacy. Widely regarded as one of the most remarkable women in American history Ginsburg redefined and transcended the traditional role of Supreme Court justice ascending to the status of intergenerational feminist pop culture icon. In near fine condition with light toning to the extremities. Cover photograph by Stephen Simpson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Williams argues that the demands of work which often prioritize long hours and inflexible schedules disproportionately affect women who are expected to balance professional responsibilities with caregiving roles at home. At the same time she highlights how men are also constrained by traditional gender norms that limit their involvement in family life. Through her analysis Williams advocates for changes in workplace policies such as flexible schedules paid family leave and a rethinking of what constitutes "ideal" worker behavior to create a more equitable balance between family and work. Unbending Gender calls for a redefinition of gender roles and work structures aiming to provide solutions that can help reduce the conflict and create a more just and balanced society for both genders. Oxford University Press unknown
48956By the late Hon. J. R. Morrison. Third edition revised throughout and made applicable to the trade as at present conducted. Canton : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository 1848. Third edition. Octavo recent half morocco over marbled papered boards spine ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. viii 311 1 blank; large folding 'Table of Logarithms to Accompany the Measuring Rod' bound in at p. 292; light foxing and browning to outermost leaves title and first leaf of text with minor closed marginal tears last two leaves restored at margins occasional pencilled marginalia; otherwise very clean and sound throughout. Rare Cantonese imprint the extensively revised third edition of this important guide for British merchants in China. John Robert Morrison son of the first Protestant missionary in China Robert Morrison was a British colonial official and interpreter. In 1834 Morrison replaced his late father as Chinese Secretary and Interpreter to the Superintendents of British Trade in China. In the same year the first edition of his A Chinese commercial guide was published. Morrison's Guide proved to be an extremely useful and successful publication. In the second 1844 and third editions published after Morrison's death in 1843 Morrison's name was retained on the title-page but the text was largely rewritten by Samuel Wells Williams. The revisions were so extensive that in the fourth 1856 and fifth 1863 editions Morrison's name was dropped altogether and replaced by that of Williams. The American Presbyterian missionary and linguist Samuel Wells Williams 1812-1884 arrived in China in 1833 as supervisor of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Canton. He later served as editor of The Chinese Repository; collaborated with Bridgman on the Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect 1842; assisted Walter Medhurst in completing his English-Chinese Dictionary 1848; served as Secretary of the United States Legation to China from 1855; wrote A tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton dialect 1856; played a key role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Tientsin which ensured toleration of both Chinese and foreign Christians; and on his return to America was appointed the first Professor of Chinese language and literature in the United States at Yale. '. supplies much valuable information respecting British commerce in Canton' Löwendahl. Cordier BS 2177 all five editions; Löwendahl China illustrata nova 901 first edition hardcover
1945140946904London: Faber & Faber 1945. First Edition. About Near Fine/About Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Charles Williams and inscribed in Oxford in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. About Near Fine with slight lean to binding darkening to spine cloth and edges. Light bleeding from cloth to endsheets. In a like dust jacket with toning to spine and shallow losses to corners and spine ends and light soiling. A posthumous fantasy in which two women adrift in the City of the Dead restore contact with the world of the living so that one of them may oppose the grandiose plans of the master occultist Simon the Clerk. Faber & Faber unknown
119698London The Grolier Society 1906-07. . The extra-illustrated 'Connoisseur Edition' no. 3 of 200 copies; 9 vols 4to 26.5 x 19.5 cm; extra-illustrated with numerous plates and illustrations some colour edges untrimmed; original half green morocco marbled boards spines lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt foliage motif top edges gilt spines a touch faded one small chip to head of vol. 5 otherwise a fine set.<br /> A beautifully bound set of this survey of Indian history. This limited edition is extra-illustrated with many of the plates duplicated in black & white or colour. Each volume has its own author: vol. I by Romesh Chunder Dutt; vol. II by Vincent A. Smith vols III & IV by Stanley Lane-Poole vol. V by Sir Henry Miers Elliot vols VI & VII Sir William Wilson Hunter vol. VIII by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall and vol. IX by A.V. Williams Jackson.<br /><br />Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson 1862-1937 was an American specialist on Indo-European languages particularly those in Zoroastrian manuscripts. He visited India in 1901 and was received warmly the Parsees.<br /> London, The Grolier Society, 1906-07. hardcover
1967163478Los Angeles: Mason & Ruscha 1967. Signed by Ruscha First edition first printing signed by Ruscha and Williams and stamped "Apr 22 1967". The book had its genesis when Williams threw a Royal typewriter from the passenger window of a Buick Le Sabre while being driven by Ruscha at a speed of 90 mph on US Highway 91; they then recorded on camera the results of the damaged typewriter. Octavo. With 35 photographic illustrations on 80 lb. white Prentice Gloss Text paper. Spiral bound cream wrappers printed in black. Rear wrapper lightly marked with one small abrasion to fore edge else a bright near-fine copy. unknown
1954177568New York: New Directions 1954. The scarce signed issue inscribed to his secretary First edition signed limited issue number 26 of 100 copies signed by the author. This copy was retained by Williams and presented to his secretary the year before his death inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Rosalie Thurman best wishes Tennessee Williams 1982". The volume collects short stories written during Williams's "golden age" between 1948 and 1954 which together "establish his place in the tradition of the American short story" Vannatta p. 51. The signed limited issue was printed and bound for Williams's private distribution. It is identical to the trade issue simply titled Hard Candy published in August 1954 save for the cancel title page and the inclusion of the story "The Kingdom of Earth" printed on an additional gathering bound at the rear of the volume pp. 225-242. This copy is from the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn b. 1940 the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades with his 1988 ownership inscription on the front pastedown. Octavo. Original brown quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt brown patterned paper sides. With the original grey card slipcase. Spine sunned a couple of superficial splits to inner hinges; slipcase sunned and lightly worn at extremities: a very good copy. Crandell A13.1.b. Dennis Vannatta Tennessee Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction 1988. hardcover
194688109New York: New Directions Books 1946-1958. First Editions. First Printings. Five octavo volumes 24cm; beige cloth blocked in various colors and titled in gilt on front covers; dustjackets; 48; 58; 56; 64; 48pp. All volumes show a hint of foxing to upper board edges some offsetting to pastedowns on Vol.1 else cloth bindings are uniformly clean and contents quite fresh; very Near Fine. Dustjackets are all unclipped Vols.1-3 showing a hint of sunning to spines and upper panels Vol.1 showing a 2" split to lower front joint and clear tape reinforcement at upper edge on verso with a single foxed spot to front panel; one tiny nick to lower front panel on Vol.3 with two clear tape mends on verso; faint foxing to verso of Vol.5; Near Fine. All housed in a custom felt-lined half-morocco clamshell case designed by Chicago bookbinder Scott Kellar with the covers reproducing a photo of the Passaic Falls.<br /> <br /> A uniformly attractive set of these five volumes which together constitute Williams's magnum opus a long poem completed over the course of more than a dozen years. "Paterson is both a man and a city as Joyce's Earwicker is both a man and a hill. The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday intimate Bonnard-like interiors uproarious comedy. The Passaic river becomes to him what the polluted Bièvre was to Huysmans. 'A poem is a complete little universe it exists separately. Any poem that has worth expresses the whole life of the poet'" Connolly The Modern Movement p.95. WALLACE A24a A25a A30a A34a A44a. 88109. New Directions Books unknown
1912077051London: Herbert & Daniel 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7.5" tall x 5.25" wide x 0.75" thick. This is Williams' first book and is quite rare. It is a sequence of sonnets. We purchased this book in a lot of Williams books at auction. Two of the books had Colin Hardie's name in them and most of them at a 2 or 3 letter code inside the back cover. The letters in the back are DXL. Therefore we think this was likely Colin Hardie's copy though his name is not in it. Colin Hardie was an Inkling. There were approximately sixteen people at C. S. Lewis' funeral - Colin Hardie was one of them. <br><br>Quarter tan cloth on gray paper. A label in the upper right of the front cover has a double line border and the title inside the border. 90 pp. Uncut fore edge and bottom edge. <br><br>CONDITION: The book is VG with light browning on boards and spine. The first front end paper and the last end paper both show the stain of acidic paper. The back board is somewhat curved. Lacking dust wrapper.<br><br>Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not satisfied. Herbert & Daniel hardcover
192227785New York: George H. Doran Company 1922. Very Good/Very Good . New York: George H. Doran Company n.d. but before 1927. Early American Printing issued before Doubleday and Doran's 1927 merger. Small slim quarto 21cm.; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket pictorial endpapers; 331pp.; seven color lithographic plates three of them double-paged. Boards gently scuffed a few tiny closed tears to jacket extremities margins very slightly toned orange jacket spine titling lightly faded else a Very Good or better copy.<br /> <br /> A superlative and early American printing of one of the most enduring children's books in the English language which just celebrated its hundredth anniversary last year. Harper's Bazaar first commissioned the story in 1921 from Margery Williams Bianco at the time a stalled author of adult fiction who hadn't published a work in eight years. What Williams Bianco produced was unlike anything she had written before the story of a boy and his Velveteen Rabbit whose fate from beloved toy to real rabbit serves as an allegory for the difficult passage of childhood to adulthood minus being thrown in a rubbish sack. <br /> <br /> Fittingly Williams Bianco's daughter the child prodigy Pamela Bianco provided the illustrations for the Harper's Bazaar appearance though the first published appearance of the story in book form made use of illustrations by the more established and renowned painter and printmaker William Nicholson. <br /> <br /> Early printings in such fine condition exceedingly hard to come by this one as splendid as a velveteen rabbit on Christmas morning. George H. Doran Company unknown
1952140947228New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1952. Reprint. Near Fine/Good. Reprint. A wonderful presentation copy signed by E. B. White on the half-title page and inscribed to "Jewel and Danny Murphy. Salutations!" With letters laid in supporting provenance from White's lifelong friend Howard Cushman and both of the recipients' parents. <p>In 1967 Cushman acted as a public relations consultant for Daniel Murphy then a candidate for delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. After Murphy lost his election by 400 votes he hosted a cocktail party to thank those who had helped in his campaign. Cushman was at the Murphy home when Jewel Murphy came downstairs in tears having just finished reading Charlotte's Web and Cushman subsequently asked his friend E. B. White to help him say "thanks" by inscribing a copy of the book for her and her brother. <p>Bound in publisher's pictorial paper-laminate covered boards. Near Fine with light wear to extremities. Tape residue to verso of front free endpaper with associated offsetting to half-title page from Cushman's note which was formerly taped in. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket which is tattered at the edges and toned. A lovely presentation copy of the author's beloved children's classic. Harper & Row unknown
1952140947404New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1952. Reprint. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Signed by E. B. White on the half-title page and inscribed "Best wishes" with date February 1979. viii 184 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper-laminate covered boards. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and tiny stains to upper edges and back cover. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with very light soiling and edgewear. A beautiful copy of the children's classic. Harper & Row unknown
1842260298Macao: Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository 1842. First edition. Frontispiece and folding plate. Text in English and Chinese. ix i 287 1 pp. 8vo. Rebacked and recorned in three quarters calf preserving early marbled boards new endpapers. Horizontal tear across frontispiece neatly repaired. Bookplate of Library of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First edition. Frontispiece and folding plate. Text in English and Chinese. ix i 287 1 pp. 8vo. First edition of this early manual on the Chinese language for English speakers issued as Chinese trade was opening to the West. It is the first book on China by the missionary and sinologist Samuel Wells Williams 1812-1884 who argues that the beginning student of Chinese should first learn to write the 214 radicals that comprise the various characters. With the bookplate of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions who in 1833 hired Williams to run its printing press in Guangdong. Cordier 1685; Lust 1067; Trübner Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages p. 37 Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository unknown books
503783on lower portion and verso of a typed letter on Esquire magazine letterhead November 8 1967 signed by Rachel Gallagher Editoral Associate. 4to 1 1/2 pages. A remarkable letter in answer to Gallagher's inquiry stating that Esquire is planning a feature on the salutary effects of a number of drugs on the market mentioning an article in Life magazine regarding the drug Dilantin and wondering if Williams would agree to participate in the article: "Dear Miss Gallagher - I am very interested in pills that don't contain barbiturates or amphetamine. At night I take two doriden tablets and a 100 milligram mellaril - and I have no deleterious effect from them. Pills are dangerous but sometimes danger must be accepted. I think we all know that. I shall try to get hold of the piece on Dillantin sic which is a pill I never heard of. I always check out with my doctor whatever I take. To combine pills with an excessive amount of alcohol is the greatest indiscretion and one I avoid." William's apparently failed to follow his own advice. His death in 1987 was brought about by his choking on the cap of a pill container. Williams 1914-87 Mississippi-born playwright and novelist; winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" 1948 and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 1955. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
194781925New York:: New Directions 1947. First edition. publisher'spaper-covered boards in dust jacket both illustrated by lustig; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. . Very slightest of use at edges in a dust jacket with minimal fading to the backstrip. A far better copy than usually seen. 8vo. New Directions, hardcover
1935327019New York: The Alcestis Press 1935. First edition limited to XX copies "for presentation purposes" this is copy XIII printed on Duca di Modena special Italian handmade paper signed by William Carlos Williams. 68pp. 8vo. Slightly rubbed at tip of lower spine few tiny faint soil spots to covers else the covers are fresh and bright; the text has an extremely faint damp mark at bottom margin at inner corner of a few pages barely visible except at the closest of examination else a near fine bright copy. First edition limited to XX copies "for presentation purposes" this is copy XIII printed on Duca di Modena special Italian handmade paper signed by William Carlos Williams. 68pp. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Williams on the front flyleaf: "Katherine I. John / from her friend / W. C. Williams". John was Williams' secretary and typist. Wallace A16 The Alcestis Press unknown
195513483161955. A typed carbon typescript of an early version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof written between December of 1954 and 1955 in the lead-up to pre-Broadway tryout in Philadelphia. It incorporates the edits made by Williams in a collection of revisions dated "9 December 1954" Currently housed at the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection Butler Library Columbia University: Big Daddy's appearance in Act III Brick's admittance "I might be impotent Maggie" and the inclusion of Big Daddy's "elephant joke" which was later replaced by the famous "mendacity" speech. Very good and extremely rare - only 7 typescripts of this version are known to exist most in wraps from the Liebling-Wood agency.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Quarto 120 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in leatherette wrap bound with brads and final title "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in silver lettering. Label in upper left for Hart Stenographic Bureau. Chipping to bottom right edge/corner of front cover and head/tail of spine a closed tear near "Hart" label and a two-inch closed tear along hinge at bottom of the front corner. Some minor age-toning to edges and titlepage.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Also includes the playbill for the second week of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's initial Broadway run at the Morosco Theatre. The play premiered March 24th 1955 and the first playbill was of the week of March 21. The bill included is from the "Week beginning Monday March 28 1955" stated on page 21 of the playbill. Octavo 36 pages. In Very Good condition. There is some minor wear to the spine mild age-toning an 1.4-inch closed tear near the tail of the spine.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 0. 1348316. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown
186510713NY: Dick & Fitzgerald 1865. 1st ed. 1865. 8vo. 186 pp. 2 pp. ads. Original printed orange wrappers with ads front verso and rear recto and verso. Seminal in the development of modern American detective fiction John Brampton Williams' Leaves from the Note Book of a New York Detective is considered to be the first instance of American detective fiction. This collection of 29 short stories opens with the title piece which recounts the meeting between a medical doctor John Babbington Williams the actual author of the stories and detective James Brampton. They become acquaintances and after Brampton has retired after twenty years of service he sends his case notebooks to Dr. Williams to be edited and published. In each of the stories private investigator Brampton uses his superior powers of deduction and penetrating observation to solve the crimes and anticipates by twenty years 19th century's most famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes. The stories include: "The Silver Pin" "The Mysterious Advertisement" "The Struggle for Life" "A Satanic Compact" "A Terrible Night in Baltimore" et al. Bottom inch of spine chipped away not affecting title or author wear along rear spinal fold shallow edge chips and dust soil. The cover however is intact and still attached remarkable for such a fragile book. The text is complete and bright. Overall very good. Presented in a black cloth slipcase with an inset gilt stamped black leather spinal label. A rare book at the beginning of the American mystery/detective fiction genre. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald (1865). 1st ed. paperback
1946005962New York: New Directions 1946-58. First Edition. Hardcover. Short tear to the front panel of the dustwrapper of the second volume occasional internal tape reinforcement. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with only light wear and soiling. Five volumes all First Editions in dustwrappers. The first four books limited to 1000 copies the fifth to 3000. Williams's masterpiece SIGNED by the poet in an early hand on the front free endpaper of the first volume and quite scarce thus. CONNOLLY 100 the one hundredth key book in Connolly's listing: "The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday intimate Bonnard-like interiors uproarious comedy . his poem is written with a deep aversion to all forms of pretentiousness rhetoric or prepared effects; it runs eddying along broken by old letters bits of local history and limpid love lyrics." <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover
19523886621952. Softcover. Fine. Photographic archive of Al and Katherine Williams proprietors of the Papagayo Room restaurant in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel and host of the mid-1950s cooking program Copper Kitchen totaling more than 1000 photographs and 1000 negatives with some original menu art. The photographs are nicely presented in a series of folio and large quarto albums and with the majority of the original negatives present and neatly organized and labeled; an additional number of unprinted negatives related to travel in Mexico are also included. Overall fine with only a bit of wear and toning to the menu art. unknown
196823075Bloomington IN: Fine Arts Department University of Indiana 1968. First edition. One of only 36 copies the entire edition printed on Italia paper signed by Williams and McGarrell with each lithograph individually signed by the artist. Crane D44. Fine copy. Folio 20 x 14 inches 24 leaves plus two guard sheets in fabricoid portfolio with printed label. Fine copy. Fine Arts Department, University of Indiana unknown
1964Alibris.0023445North-Holland Publishing Co 1964. 3rd printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. 3rd printing 1964 paperback includes a signed letter from the author to the previous owner economist Willard T. Williams in it he debunks Fredrich Lutz's origin of the Expectations theory and credits Irving Fisher a. 613p. ill. 24 cm. North-Holland Publishing Co paperback
