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2221669<p>"Edwin Markham" 1 page 9 3/4" x 7 1/4" "San Francisco Desolate". Holograph manuscript of his 12 line poem on the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Very good short tear right margin; light traces of previous framing.</p><p>Fair copies of Markham's Lincoln are common. This is the first we have seen of his "San Francisco Desolate."</p><p>Markham 1852-1940 was an American poet.</p> unknown books
19012221728<p>First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth with emblematic design of Indian headdresses and chest plate stamped in gold white and red. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips and tears with design that replicates the pictorial cloth. Rare in jacket. Very good. 416 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Naylor 1860-1945 physician poet novelist.</p> The Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover books
1984305584<p>First edition thus. Small folio 10 1/4" x 13". Illustrated with 14 linoleum prints by Clark Henley. Original dark red cloth printed paper spine label uncut. Fine and fresh. No other signatures or bookplates. One of 26 lettered copies printed for George Houle of a total edition of 150 signed by the illustrator Clark Henley on limitation page. The text is from the first published version which differs from later versions. According to the publisher this is apparently the first book edition of the text as it originally appeared in the Troy Sentinel with textual variation.</p> Arundel Press hardcover books
1982304711<p>First edition thus. Small octavo. Frontispiece is an original watercolor by Frederic Prokosch. Original stiff brown wrappers hand printed orange paper label on upper wrapper yellow silk tie. Clear plastic dust jacket. Fine fresh. Copy "Beta" one of 5 handwritten copies in red and black inks on Arjomari paper printed illustrated and signed "F Prokosch" on limitation page in blue ink. Signed by Illustrators. Soft cover. Fine/Fine.</p> Prometheus Press paperback books
2007110769Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #32. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
19542167NY: Harper & Brothers 1954. First edition limited issue of 500 unnumbered copies signed by White as "EBW" on the tipped-in limitation page as issued. First issue dustjacket. Quarter-cloth with spine lettering and paper-covered boards. Minimal shelfwear and toning on cloth spine ends board corners lightly tapped; dustjacket with wear at corners large chip at spine topedge/rear panel topedge closed tear on front flap fold wear at folds and toning mostly on spine. Altogether a tight copy in Good condition in a Good intact dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1934500231<p>in French Paris December 6 1934; to "Mon cher Meral: Happy to receive your letter - and with the hope that it gives me to welcome you damn my wish to be agreeable to you and to Marianne - I request permission to 'beg off'." Octavo. 1 page with integral leaf deckled edges.</p> unknown books
197920552NY: Random House 1979. Limited issue of the first edidtion of 500 numbered copies signed by Styron on the limitation page as issued. Copy #132. Full cloth. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Spine cloth with beginning toning; slipcase with beginning edge toning. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. National Book Award winner and the basis for the 1982 film starring Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep who won her first Oscar for her performance of the title character. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
19932221757<p>First edition limited. Octavo. With original silkscreen print signed by Bukowski. Red cloth over pictorial boards. Clear acetate dust jacket as issued. Halftone photo of Bukowski by Michael Montfort. Fine fresh copy. 372 pages.</p><p>Copy #252/300. With a silkscreen print and a signed Bukowski drawing of two people in a gondola.</p> Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
19572221951<p>First edition. Octavo. Original morocco and cloth stamped in blind and gilt. No dust jacket. Enclosed in a custom green cloth slip case. Very good. Unpaginated.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Armitage on the colophon to Mr. and Mrs. C. Frank Fox 1957. With printed footnote by Powell indicating this was based on his April 1957 talk to the Zamorano Club.</p><p>All copies were issued in wrappers. Armitage had a few bound in half dark green morocco over tan boards with a blind stamped design and custom designed decorative endpapers.</p> Horace F. Turner for Merle Armitage hardcover books
1923229941<p>First edition published April 1923. Octavo. Original gilt and blindstamped green cloth. Front panel of the color pictorial dust jacket laid down on the front pastedown. Very good. 145 pages 2 pages advertisements. Bruccoli A10.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19572786<p>EXTRA SUITE OF SEVEN PLATES; #72/75 FIRST EDITION THUS</p> GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS hardcover books
19332221631<p>First edition so stated; "H-H". Octavo. Original patterned blue cloth with printed paper label on spine; yellow endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine fresh bright copy. 319 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
200731945Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #31. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
19062221908<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with color frontispiece four full page b/w plates and many marginal vignettes by Charles Copeland. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial dust jacket which reproduces the frontispiece. Rare thus. Very good. 296 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Long on front free endpaper: "One Man to Another."</p> Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press hardcover books
605122<p>not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of William Saroyan wearing a double breasted suit long silk tie white shirt holding a cigarette looking down and to the right of the camera. Photograph is by Henry Flannery San Francisco; matte finish; 8" x 10". Very good-fine old glue stains on verso fresh. ca. mid 1930'a.</p> unknown books
199491510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
500474<p>Small octavo. 2 pages recto and verso. To Mr. Raymond a fine and desirable letter referring to her porcelain Kewpie dolls which have become collectable today; " I'm working like mad on the little safety heads. Tell the doll-makers I'll send the girl up first as soon as I can get her cast - the boy after."</p> unknown books
1953500494<p>On personal letterhead Crescent Beach St. Augustine Fl. May 11 1953. 4to 1 page. Her letters are scarce; To Mr. Miller: "I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that it will be impossible for me to attend the Luncheon in honor of Fanny Butcher. I am dependent on my husband to drive me with my assorted animal family to my summer home. Fanny Butcher has long been a powerful influence in the field of American Letters. While lesser editors have come and gone she has maintained consistent integrity and the highest standards. Of Fanny Butcher the woman I can only say that to know her is to love her. Her warm heart and completely charming personality are a delight to those of us privileged to call ourselves her friends. To many Moore years of her superb editing and her gilt for friendship!".</p> unknown books
2221635<p>Sinclair Upton. Youthful Black and White Vintage Photograph Signed "Upton Sinclair" 8" x 10" on original mount of photographer E. Willard Spurr 165 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena Cal. Signed and inscribed to author/newspaperman Harold D. Carew n.d. but ca. 1930 old stains right side of mount most would mat out. Very good.</p><p>Carew 1890-1943 was a literary editor Pasadena Star-News from 1923 and author of a 3 volume "History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley" 1930.</p><p>Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 was an American writer. He was best known for the Jungle his 1906 novel exposing the horrors of the U.S. meat packing industry. His other novels include "The Brass Check" 1908 "King Coal" 1917 and "Oil!" 1927. In the 1940s he wrote an 11-volume series about contemporary American character Lanny Budd who travels through time and meets historical figures; "Dragon's Teeth" 1942 in which Budd meets Hitler won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eight of Sinclair's books have been adapted for film and TV including There Will be Blood 2007 based on "Oil!" and starring Daniel Day-Lewis who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Daniel Plainview.</p> books
18522221594<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 22 steel engravings and chromolithographed pictorial title pages by D. Mc Lellan and T. Sinclair. Publisher's elaborately gilt stamped purple morocco with gilt vignettes of Christ rising the dead Noah's Ark child with lion and lamb group of five men in various ethnic dress; the spine with elaborate gilt designs and decorations; edges gilt; back covers in blind or gilt. Minor light rubbing. Nice examples of elaborate American leather trade bindings. No dust jacket. Very good. 320; 288 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 2 volumes.</p><p>Printed by E. N. Grossman & Son.</p><p>Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine.</p> Edward Walker hardcover books
1911197778<p>First edition. Small folio. 66 plates on coated paper 23 in color; portrait. Original green cloth stamped in gilt with color portrait on upper cover t.e.g. Very good.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1923229165<p>First edition so stated; "E-X". Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped shallow chip across top of jacket spine; two short tears. Some foxing top edge. Very good. 406 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Booksellers re-order coupon on rear dust jacket flap intact. BAL 3536.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
500659<p>no date 4 lines in purple ink: "And in the hereafter angles may Role the Stone from the grave away! John G. Whittier." 4 1/2 x 7" with integral leaf. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover.</p> unknown books
19572221684<p>"Alice Toklas" 1 page Paris Oct 18 1957 to Anita Loos. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Fine.</p><p>Together with a typed transcription. Toklas express great pleasure at seeing Loos again and thanks her for her recommendation of a spa treatment at Acqui.</p><p>In part: ".The doctor recommended ten baths during twelve days.I am very grateful to you. It would be lovely to think you would return to Paris in my time.</p><p>Toklas 1877-1967 companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in "What is Remembered" and was the subject of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."</p><p>Loos 1891-1981 American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958.</p> unknown books
