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195311293ENew York: Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Issue. Bellow’s first best-seller and a winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear to the top and bottom of the spine and a few tiny tears. Viking Press unknown books
195311293ENew York: Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Issue. Bellow’s first best-seller and a winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear to the top and bottom of the spine and a few tiny tears. Viking Press unknown
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196813667New York: National Foundation - March of Dimes 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 10.75 x 8.75 x 0.45 inches. Rare book. Former library book in Good condition without a dust jacket. The covers are in good shape showing moderate wear to the corners and spine ends. Corners are bumped. The binding is tight though very slightly rolled forward. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Birth defects original article series 4.7 National Foundation - March of Dimes hardcover
2020__178897221XEdward Elgar Pub 2020. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 720 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
199748065HEYNE WILHELM 1997. 1. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1946614651Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. <br /> <br /> This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's American Daughter an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro" the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America and the latter by activist and author of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW Negro Digest in full color as well as the articles "Who is a Negro The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury condensed from Collier's; "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter condensed from The New York Times; "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce condensed from Today's Woman; "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon condensed from Glamour; and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero" this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby who was a war correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown
195366599First Edition of Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March" BELLOW Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition. Octavo. 536 pp. Half gray and half black cloth lettered in orange dust jacket. Top edge orange. Jacket worn along extremities with some small short tears to top and bottom of spine. Very good. The Adventuresof Augie March won the 1954 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and both Time Magazine and Modern Library board names it one of the 100 best novels. HBS 66599. $500 The Viking Press hardcover books
1954185Paris Libraire Plon 1954. First French edition of the author's first book. Octavo. Fine in light beige wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. Paris Libraire Plon unknown books
19873138New York: William Morrow and Company 1987. First edition of the author's tenth novel. Octavo original half cloth. Inscribed by the author to fellow writer Sidney Hyman and his wife "For Sidney and Fredda from an old friend Saul Bellow." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Hyman a fellow Chicagoan is best know for his work "The American President. "In More Die of Heartbreak we welcome back the calamitous wit of The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog The Nobel Prize which Bellow won in 1976 was the cornerstone of a career that also included a Pulitzer Prize three National Book Awards a Presidential Medal and more honors than any other American writer" New York Times. William Morrow and Company hardcover books
1982182New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1982. Uncorrected Proof of the first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo. Fine in light green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Harper & Row Publishers unknown books
1965204662New York: Saul Bellow 1965. Few dents; obscure ink notation to title leaf. 4to 19 mimeograph pages bolt-bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Rehearsal script from only one of Bellow series of three one-act plays. The front wrapper has the title "3 One Act Plays" and a preliminary title leaf includes the two other titles after "A Wen": "Orange Souffle" and "Out From Under" though this last has been inked out. The three plays ran together with the collective title "Under the Weather" for only 8 previews and 12 performances at the Cort Theatre in 1966 and featured the actress Shelley Winters. Saul Bellow unknown
194449052New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good in G- somewhat chipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name written discreetly in upper left corner of FFEP. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and has been covered in protective Brodart fold-on acetate cover. Some water-staining to upper right corner of FFEP and of last 6 pages; end papers and edges slightly dusty. From the rear flap which includes a black and white photo of a very young author: "Saul Bellow was born twenty-eight years ago in Lachine Quebec Province but has spent most of his life in Chicago . For the past four years stories and reviews by him have appeared in The New Republic Partisan Review The New York Times and other periodicals. At present Mr. Bellow is engaged in research in connection with the Encyclopaedia Britannica under the auspices of Chicago University sic." Bellow's first novel. The Vanguard Press hardcover
194624714London:: John Lehmann 1946. First English edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. . Slight foxing to pastedowns and top edge; else a bright copy in a very nice jacket which is virtually fine. 8vo. John Lehmann, hardcover
54209BELLOW Saul. The Last Analysis A Play. Original cloth-backed boards dust jacket. New York: The Viking Press 1965. First edition. Signed by Bellow on front free endpaper. Some light wear to dust jacket else a near fine copy in an un-priceclipped dust jacket. unknown
1954185Paris: Libraire Plon 1954. First French edition of the author's first book. Octavo original wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. In near fine condition. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Libraire Plon unknown
19873138New York: William Morrow and Company 1987. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's tenth novel. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author "For Sidney and Fredda from an old friend Saul Bellow." The recipient Sidney Hyman as a fellow writer from Chicago and a close friend of Bellow. He is best know for his work The American President. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "In More Die of Heartbreak we welcome back the calamitous wit of The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog The Nobel Prize which Bellow won in 1976 was the cornerstone of a career that also included a Pulitzer Prize three National Book Awards a Presidential Medal and more honors than any other American writer" New York Times. William Morrow and Company hardcover
1970311466NY: VIKING. Fine. 1970. First Edition. 0670333190 . Long folded printed sheet of Bellow's National Book Award acceptance speech laid-in. INSCRIBED by Saul Bellow & dated March 5 1971 in New York City to Los Angeles Times' book review editor Digby Diehl on title page. Fine in a near fine DJ. A few short edge nicks in DJ. Author's THIRD & final National Book Award winning novel. B . VIKING. unknown
195332980The Viking Press 1953. First. Black and gray cloth. Very good /Very good. First printing first issue with all necessary points very good hardcover shows tiny bumps to top corners bit of rubbing and soil to bottom edges of covers hint of toning to page edges and couple of tiny tears at page fore edges as well in very good dust jacket price at flap that shows some mild rubbing soil and toning along with edgewear that includes wrinkling closed tears one at middle of fore edge of front panel and tiny open chips at top corners and spine head. 536 pages. Still a good looking copy of this National Book Award winning work that is considered one of the great American novels. The Viking Press unknown
1953130184New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition first issue . Hardcover. Very good /Good. 536 p. 22 cm. Black and grey cloth with orange decoration and lettering. In mylar-covered dustjacket designed by Robert Hallock. Jacket has author photo on rear. Rear flap has ad for the short novels of John Steinbeck. No reviews. Top edge orange. Moderate wear to jacket spine ends a little faint soiling to rear panel. Small mark on lower text block edge. Bottom rear corner bumped. <br/><br/>The first of the author's three books to win the National Book Award begins with the famous opening line "I am an American Chicago born ." Bellow soon found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe noticed the "free style" manner and called it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." Both Time magazine and the Modern Library board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Viking Press hardcover
1982182New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1982. Uncorrected Proof of the first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo. Fine in light green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. Harper & Row Publishers unknown
194755106New York: Vanguard Press 1947. First edition. Very good. Rare advance copy of the Nobel winner's second book. VICTIM follows the acclaim and success of Bellow's first novel THE DANGLING MAN. At the time V.S. Pritchett in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS said: "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation." Bound from gathered signatures of the trade edition and issued in small numbers for review before publication a rare format of an important book from this major writer. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original plain paper perfectbound hand-titled wrappers over brad-bound signatures. 296 pages. Some soil shelfwear. Creasing toning to spine. Faint foxing to endpapers. Else sound. Vanguard Press unknown
SKU1010090The Vanguard Press. Good. 1947. Hardcover. 081490050X . SIGNED by author on end paper. First edition. Black cloth with small dig bottom front edge top edge faded as is top edge of spine. Glue stains to outer gutters two small bookplates. Dj lightly soiled and edge worn small chips at extremities 1/4 in chip at top spine plus 1 inch vertical tear top rear panel. Horizontal break between C and T on dj spine.Bla; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 294 pages . The Vanguard Press hardcover
1979187956Chicago: Lyric Opera of Chicago 1979. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 233p. INSCRIBED BY NUMEROUS OPERA STARS TO NORMAN PELLEGRINI. An oversize hardcover book in near-fine condition with a very good dustjacket. Corners and spine ends mildly rubbed; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has some small tears along the edges and at the corners but is still mostly intact. Inscribed by 9 opera stars to Norman Pellegrini who was the program director for WFMT Chicago's classical music radio station. Among the signers are Placido Domingo Arnold Voketaitis Ardis Krainik and Kathleen Kuhlmann. The book itself is fiilled with photographs mostly in color celebrating the history of Chicago's Lyric Opera. Measures approx. 12.25" x 10.25 Lyric Opera of Chicago hardcover
196220199Philadelphia: The Falcon Press 1962. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Louis Kahn. The uncommon 1962 1st edition of the notebooks and drawings of pre-eminent American architect Louis Kahn 1901-1974. Solid and VG- to VG in its beige wrappers with with light soiling to the panels and mild staining along the rear panel's top-edge. Light rubbing as well at the spine rendering the title all-but-unreadable. Folio crisp nicely-reproduced Louis Kahn drawings and diagrams throughout. Signed by and from the library of Sean Sculley 1939-2021 renowned architect ansd landscape designer and long-term professor at New York's Cooper Union. The Falcon Press unknown
