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19482221955<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; a few small chips. Very good top edge stained red. 157 pages.</p><p>Contemporary ink signature on the front pastedown.</p><p>Previous owner's rubber-stamp on the front free endpaper.</p> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19232221609<p>First edition so stated September 1923. Octavo. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in portraits. Original bright green cloth with labels. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips; spots on front panel. Very good. 414 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Discusses many authors and their books including Tarkington Conrad Edith Wharton P. G. Wodehouse F. Scott Fitzgerald Howard Pyle Arthur Rackham and Bram Stoker Dracula pages 259-260.</p> D. Appleton & Co., George H. Doran Company, Doubleday, Page & Co., Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1979305147<p>Folio 6 3/4" x 17 1/2". Broadside. Printed in red and black on cream paper. Fine fresh. One of 276 numbered copies signed by Updike.</p> Richmond, Waves Press, 1979. unknown books
19292222042<p>Edited by Cyril Clemens. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece halftone of Clemens with W. H. Claggett and A. S. Simon. Original stiff orange wrappers stamped in black. With contributions by John Galsworthy G. K. Chesterton and others. No dust jacket. Very good. 31 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Cover title reads: "Mark Twain: New Anecdotes Jokes and Stories.</p><p>Printed by La Jolla Light Print.</p> The Mark Twain Society paperback books
19666037<p>First edition. Octavo. Four page introductory essay by William Saroyan. Over 15 b/w illustrations and jacket design by W.K. Plummer. Dust jacket price clipped; few nicks. Very good. 319 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> PLATT & MUNK hardcover books
19322222041<p>Early reprint edition. Octavo. 2 halftone illustrations on endpapers by Stockton Mulford. Original blue cloth stmaped in black slight rubbing; spine faded. No dust jacket. Good. 310 pages.</p><p>Boldly signed and inscribed by Grey in blue fountain pen ink on the pictorial front free endpaper: "To Hellen Louise and Virginia Leota McClure Zane Grey."</p> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
199919405Atlanta: High Museum of Art Antique Collectors' Club. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0939802872 . 482 illustrations including 235 color plates. First edition. Fine in a very near fine short closed edge tear at the crown of the spine dust jacket. . High Museum of Art (Antique Collectors' Club) hardcover books
198871614NY: Random House 1988. First US edition first prnt. Originally published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1987 in a different form. Signed by Vidal on a tipped-in forepage as issued. Most likely a Kroch's & Brentano's 1st Edition Circle copy but without the 1st Edition Circle bookmark. Burgandy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Beginning toning on cloth edges faint small stain on foreedge; dustjacket with minor wear and little loss on spine ends. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
18872221845<p>EARLY SPRING VOICES</p><p>"John Burroughs" West Park New York February 21 1887 1 page 7 3/4" x 4 3/4". Very good traces of mounting on verso.</p><p>To Perry Mason & Co.: "I hand you herewith a paper on 'Early Spring Voices' as one of the three which you have asked me to write for The Companion. If it is not what you want - sent it back with as little delay as possible. If it will do send check as per agreement. The others I will write sometime during the coming season."</p><p>Burroughs 1837-1921 American author and naturalist; popular nature volumes include "Wake Robin" 1871 "Birds and Poets" 1877 etc.; he was influenced by Emerson and Thoreau and was a friend of Walt Whitman.</p><p>Perry Mason & Co. Boston publisher's of "The Youth's Companion."</p><p>Probably an essay relating to birds.</p> unknown 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
19182221993<p>Foresta via El Portal California July 10 1918. 11" x 8 1/2". 1 1/4 pages recto and verso on Foresta Land Company letterhead to Mr. W. E. Ambler in Cleveland Ohio regarding the sale of an Indian Basket with citations to one of the clients baskets in his book "Indian Basketry" and in his book "How to Make Indian and Other Baskets." Together with envelope front panel only in James' hand. Very good.</p><p> Foresta Land Company was a real estate company selling lots near Yosemite.</p><p>James may have been associated with the promotion of the land sales.</p> unknown books
19782221618<p>"Bill" May 8 1978 1 1/2 pages on his "Windows" Sag Harbor New York letterhead to Walter Clemons. 10 3/4" x 7 1/4". Together with holograph addressed envelope. Very good.</p><p>In part: ".I'd like to see the show at least once a week for the rest of my life."</p><p>Sheed 1930-2011 English born American novelist and author of works on Charles Addams and Muhammad Ali.</p><p>Clemons 1930-1994 critic and writer on staff Newsweek in the 1970's and 80's.</p> unknown books
19352221831<p>"Gertrude Stein" 2 pages recto and verso n.d. but March 1935 on The Midway Drexel Apartment Hotel Chicago to author Gertrude Atherton. 9 1/2" x 6". Very good.</p><p>In part: "Thanks for all your kindness. and it will be a very great pleasure seeing you again and your daughter whom we remember very pleasantly and it will be fun seeing California again and we do very gladly accept your invitation may it be for a lunch any day that I am not lecturing in the afternoon and the P.E.N. club  will be nice. No I have no relations in Oakland or any where as far as I know in California. I always stay at a hotel perhaps the Palace Hotel. we are hoping that Carl van Vechten will come too. and it would be wonderful if he did come."</p><p>Stein arrived in Pasadena California on March 28 1935. On April 2 she drove to San Francisco arriving on April 8th. On Tuesday April 9 she attended the P.E.N. dinner at The Bohemian Club as the guest of Gertrude Atherton see Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder pages 349-350.</p> unknown books
18802222058<p>8" x 9 3/4". "Chas. Warren Stoddard" 616 Harrison St. San Francisco July 8 1880 to Anna H. Brewster at Palazza Maldura Roma Italy. Stoddard vouches for his friend Will Stewart of The New York Graphic "and more recently of the dramatic profession" who is visiting Rome. 2 pages address panel on bifold leaf. Very good.</p><p>Brewster 1818-1892 had a close relationship with Charlotte Cushman. She was one of America's first female correspondents.</p><p>Stoddard 1843–1909 was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.</p> unknown books
1928500611<p>On Bancroft Hotel letterhead Worchester January 20 1928; to Mr. Stephenson: ".They've got me on the run down here and I have a suitcase full of letters unanswered." Small 4to. 1 page.</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
1903602248<p>"Carolyn Wells" in black fountain pen ink on plain paper Rahway New Jersey November 20 1903. 5 3/8" x 8 3/8"; 1 page; very good two old mailing folds; minor signs of handling. To Pennington Maxwell "My dear Mr. Maxwell: I am sorry to day that I cannot write "The New Pegasus" satisfactorily to myself and get it to you by tomorrow. I will therefore send it the early part of next week - Wishing this will be satisfactory - I am . Carolyn Wells." Letter to Pennington Maxwell saying she has not been able to finish satisfactorily "The New Pegasus." Wells 1869-1942 born June 18 1869 Rahway New Jersey; died March 26 1942 New York City; American writer; engaged in literary work since 1900; wrote over 170 mysteries nonsense tales children's books.</p> unknown books
1924500670<p>in full on "Mrs. Westmore Willcox" letterhead Norfolk VA March 6 1924; to Hattie Levine: ".I am glad to hear you have liked my littlest books. Try the 'Human Way' it has more in it!" Small octavo. 1 page.</p> unknown 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
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
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
19042221758<p>Second edition so stated on half title page. Octavo. Illustrated with seven full page color plates one is unlisted and appears at end of text. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in red and black with design of two cards. No dust jacket. Very good tight fresh copy. 312 pages 5 page of ads.</p> J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1943155648Small octavo. Seventh printing. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Original green cloth stamped in blue color pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket slightly cocked. Good light foxing. 223 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
20004198Athens: Hill Street Press 2000. First edition limited to 100 hand-numbered and 26 lettered copies. This is copy #22. Full cloth with gold foil lettering on spine. Edited by Jane Eskridge. Japanese linen covered boards. Issued without dustjacket. Cloth-covered slipcase. Contains short stories journal entries and a one-act play completed at age seventeen by Mitchell. Many previously unpublished photos. 200 pp. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Hill Street Press Hardcover books
2000900111Athens: Hill Street Press 2000. First edition limited to 100 hand-numbered copies of 126 total. This is copy #24. Edited by Jane Eskridge. Japanese linen covered boards gold foil stamping. Issued w/o dj. Slipcase. Contains short stories journal entries and a one-act play completed at age seventeen by Mitchell. Many previously unpublished photos. 200 pps. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Hill Street Press Hardcover books
