Writers from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Maroon cloth over boards, 23 cm. Sturdy, clean, Organized by dates of letters sent by writers to Perkins, ongoing book publishing projects. Authors include Thomas Wolfe, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy; Erskine Caldwell; Leon Trotsky; Ernest Hemingway; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Nancy Hale; Sherwood Anderson. Dates of letters from 1914 through 1947. As a senior editor at the Scribner's and Sons… Read more about this item

Heralded for its "firsts", this publication by the Berg Collection features England's poet laureate John Masefield and his first published book under his new status, and the first living author to be featured. Masefield was thought to have many legends and when he did not refute them, they stuck. Imaginative, Masefield's childhood fears were woven into his storytelling. His "Salt-Water… Read more about this item

New York.: Dell by arr. w/ Delacorte Press., 1974. First edition. First Dell printing: June 1974. Author © 1971.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Lower front cover crease.. 1 309 p. Includes index. Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Illustrated cover: color artwork of couple in oval frame. Green page-block dye. Audience: General/trade. Setting: Montgomery, Alabama; Jazz Age, July 1918. Their… Read more about this item

New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Viking., 1966. 20th printing since 1963 first Bantam.1962 1st Viking.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower corner creasing, front, back. Cover small price sticker scar. Well-bound.. Namuth, Hans (Back cover B&W photo of author by, courtesy of Holiday Magazine). 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Bantam S2581. Audience: General/trade. In 1960, near age 60,… Read more about this item

New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Viking., 1966. 20th printing since 1963 first Bantam.1962 1st Viking.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower corner creasing, front, back. Cover small price sticker scar. Well-bound.. Namuth, Hans (Back cover B&W photo of author by, courtesy of Holiday Magazine). 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Bantam S2581. Audience: General/trade. In 1960, near age 60,… Read more about this item

New York.: Pocket Books by arr. w/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux., 1970. First edition. Cover price, $1.25.. Mass-market paperback. Fine.. 1 224 p. Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Cover B&W photo, nicely dressed woman and man walking toward camera. Audience: General/trade. Front cover: "One of the year's literary events, as fascinating in its sad, romantic way as the saga… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor MI.: University of Michigan Press., 1968. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Foxing moderate to page blocks. Light jacket edge wear, jacket scuffing. Well-bound.. 1 Gray cloth over boards. Black titles, front and spine. Thin gold lines, front. x, 232 p. 24 cm. Dark top page block. Jacket in Red, White, Green w/ white,… Read more about this item

New York.: Belmont Books., 1962. First edition. 1st printing. L92-546. 50c cover price.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Back cover compromise where sticky paper adhered. Age-toning.. Wright, Cedric (B&W photo of Miller).. 1 189 p. Mass market paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Front cover: "Here is the corrective to all the rubbish and nonsense which has been written about me… Read more about this item

New York.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill., 1944. Early printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner penciled name inside. Near fine. Light darkening to spine. Clean.. 1 Green-gray cloth over boards. White spine and cover titles. 232 p. 21cm. Pen&Ink comic artwork. RARE Memoir of a newly successful writer and her family. Fortunes… Read more about this item

New York.: Giant Cardinal Edition / Pocket Books., 1960. Complete, Unabridged. GC-64. Original author copyright 1938.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Edge wear. Clean text pages.. 1 First edition. 314 p. Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Yellow page block dye. Cover art: author portrait w/ sailboat, not credited. Author Jack London "lived as he wrote--colorfully, gustily, passionately", from front cover. His… Read more about this item

New York.: Ballantine Books by arr. w/ W.W. Norton., 1989. 6th printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Outside page block foxing. Top page block darkening. Clean pages.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. A range of research supports author Heilbrun's observations: those who have written about women's lives have suppressed truths about the female experience in… Read more about this item

Boston / New York.: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press., 1933. Presumed 1st; same date title page, copyright page.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Lower spine edge: 1-inch tear. Spine sun-fade.. 1 First edition. Lavender cloth over boards. 177 p. 23 cm. Generous text size. Writers Frances and Gertrude Warner had published certain of these essay chapters… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf., 1971. First edition. Stated 1st Edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Staining to inside board end papers, no odor.. Minor, Wendell (Jacket Design by).. 1 Light olive green cloth over boards. 306 p. Silver spine, front titles. Audience: General/trade. Autobiographical family history by author Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher whose father had… Read more about this item

Boston / Cambridge.: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press., 1929. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Surface scuffs to spine title box paste-on, readable.. 1 486 p. Durable woven dark blue cloth over boards More than 50 authors represented, 16th to 20th century, mostly men. Appendix: Biographical Notes, and "The Essay as a Form of Literature" suggestions.

New York.: Penguin Group., 1989. First edition. 1s Penguin printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Spine creasing. Light spotting, top page block.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 459 p. B&W photo section. Notes, Index. Audience: General/trade. Writer, theater critic, poet, and wit Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, was a member of the Algonquin Round Table with other writers, and led… Read more about this item

Garden City NY.: Doubleday Books, 1977. Book Club Edition. U.S. Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Rear end paper creasing. Jacket spine: sun fade. Light edge wear.. Mann, Harrington (Jacket painting by), and Browning, Christian (Jacket photo portrait of author, B&W).. 1 Brown vinyl over spine; blue paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 204… Read more about this item

Boston.: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown., 1970. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Top page block light soiling w/ small oval stain.. 1 Navy blue cloth over spine; rose colored cloth over boards. Author facsimile signature in gold, front. xvi, 301 p. 25 cm. B&W photos, Portraits. Deckled outside page block. Drinker… Read more about this item

New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1971. Lyceum Editions: Literature & Criticism.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light foxing to page blocks, Clean interior. Light spine crease, minor cover stress.. 1 Trade paperback, brown paper cover, white and green titles. 282 p. Audience: General/trade. These letters record the relationship between "a great writer and an incomparable editor" (from back cover… Read more about this item

Edinburgh.: Luath Press Ltd., 2011. First edition. Presumed 1st, no print line.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread. Single small dot, front cover.. 1 Tan woven cloth over boards w/ black titles in red ornate circle frame. Jacket in red paper wrapped around lower quarter covers, color illustrated. Glued binding. 224 p. 22 cm. Audience:… Read more about this item

New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Little, Brown & Company., 1981. 13 printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine, Darkened top block. Smooth spine. Light back cover vertical crease. Clean.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Author of "Pentimento", "Scroundrel Time". These memoirs are passionate, comic, candid; a detailed self-scrutiny, of her experiences in… Read more about this item