Association Copies

NY: Knopf, 1977. First edition, first prnt. Inscribed by Millhauser to his mother on the front free endpage. "For Mom, author of this author, generous critic, and loyal helper, who reads my books more often than anyone else. Love, Steve." Blue cloth-coverd boards with gilt lettering, light blue topstain. Topstain lightly faded with beginning foxing which is also on the foredege and bottom edge, beginning foxing on pastedowns an endpages, half-title page and copyright page with narrow stain at upper corners; dustjacket with minimal shelfwear and beginning toning. Tight copy in Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Millhauser's second novel.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "To the Ingenious Josephine, with kindest regards, and kindest remembrances of the Writer's Conference, Caroline Gordon July 1950. With small address label rear paste down of fellow author and longtime Professor of Literature at Indiana University Josephine K. Piercy. Caroline Gordon first attended the Indiana University Writer's Conference, one of the most prestigious in the country, in 1950. Josephine Piercy authored several scholarly literary studies and became the first woman to attain Full Professor in English at IU. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's Review slip laid in. Very Good, shadow from review slip front end page and paste down, small corner bump, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine faded and slight edge wear. A wonderful Association Copy, Caroline Gordon inscibed copies are SCARCE.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo -… Read More

Paris: E. Dentu and Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. "Les Femmes D'Artistes" , Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1874 and "Les Rois En Exil. Roman Parisien", E Dentu, Paris, 1879, both books SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at 3rd front end page and half-title respectively, to the French playwright and novelist Adolphe Belot, author of the wildly popular " Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife" in 1870 and co-author and collaborator with Daudet on the play "Sapho" in 1885 and who adapted Daudet's "Fromont Jeune et Risler Aîné" for the theater in 1876 "Les Rois en Exil" is SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "Adolphe Belot lou ami Alphonse Daudet" and "Les Femmes D'Artistes" is SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "A La femme de feu Les Femmes des Artistes". Belot's novel "La femme de feu" was published in 1872. Both books Near Fine, bound in contemporary half crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled end pages, the… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. , 1937. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -"For Mrs. Elkan Silberman with the best wishes and heartiest sympathy of Booth Tarkington 'Everything comes to him who waits.' Philadelphia, May 10, 1938". Booth Tarkington was quite knowledgeable about antiques and art, serving as a trustee of the John Herron Art Museum, and for years he corresponded with his favorite New York antique dealers, Elkan and Abris Silberman. He used the brothers as the basis for "Rumbin Galleries". A Very Good copy, lacking the dust jacket, spine darkened, cloth soiled with small tears at spine ends. A quite nice Tarkington Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Chicago: The Chicago Daily News , 1942. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST Vaughn Shoemaker at front end page -" To E. C. Hayes with Best Wishes Shoemaker". E. C. (Billy) Hayes was the track coach at Indiana University from1924-43, where he won eight Big Ten cross country titles and three NCAA crowns, five Big Ten track titles and the NCAA title in 1932, and coached world record holders and seven Olympians. Indiana University named its track and field Billy Hayes Track in his honor. Vaughn Shoemaker, longtime political cartoonist at the Chicago Daily News, won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public. The book is Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, rubs at corners. Gift inscription front end page noting "Faculty Club Gift of E. C. Hayes, 1943", the year Hayes died at the age of 59 from pneumonia. An excellent Big Ten Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No… Read More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. Autograph Letter Signed by author of appendix and noted English shipbuilder J. Wigham Richardson attached at front end page, dated 30 March 1889 on his Newcastle on Tyne stationery and adressed to prior owner of the book W.E. Adams. 4 1/2" x 7" note card, single fold with writing on all 4 sides. " I have forwarded your letter to Miss Gatty requesting her to give effect to it. Yes I sent you that volume, but not in your editorial capacity..." ( W.E. Adams, 1832-1906, was editor of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle). Richardson goes on to talk about his embarrassment at having been given authorial credit for his contribution, particularly "...had I known what Miss G. was going to do, I should have omitted the verse at the end." The book is Very Good in original quarter beige buckram over pale red buckram, gilt lettering, bit of soiling rear end page, page block uniformly browning, light wear to boards at corners and spine ends. . Autograph… Read More

Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, Books, 1930. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at top of front wrapper -" To Gary, Jake". Association Copy, from the collection of Gary Steigerwald, who worked for Zeitlin in the 1970s. making this signature from that time period. Prepared by Marjorie Butler and William Blaine Wootten, with typography designed by Mr. Wootten. Near Fine, light soiling. SCARCE, particularly so SIGNED. Not located at OCLC. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine. 7 1/2" x 5 1/2". Association Copy.

1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. An extraordinary item of Italian (and world) football memorabilia, being a Team Photograph Postcard of the 1950's Gre-Ni-Lo, Scudetto-winning AC Milan, which has been signed by every member of the team. The signatures were obtained by team member Gunnar Nordahl at a reunion dinner in the 1970's. The card measures approximately 15cm x 11cm and has been signed by Buffon, Silvestre, Foglia, Annovazzi, Tognon, Bonomi, Gren, Liedholm, Burini, Nordahl and Renosto. Bonomi's signature is smudged a little but the rest (ink & biro) are clear. The card itself is in Fine condition. Provenance: from the Estate of Gunnar Nordahl

Bloomington, Indiana: Fredric Brewer, Publ., 1984. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PUBLISHER Fredric Brewer at limitation page -" for Gary Steigerwald 17 Jan 1984 Fredric Brewer". #92 of 140 copies. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Illustrated end papers by John Tenniel. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PUBLISHER. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy.

Milano: Rusconi, 1978. First edition (in Italian). Octavo. Original red cloth boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor scuffing to dust jacket; spotting to top page block; very neat underlining to nine pages (possibly that of A. James Gregor). Inscribed and signed by August Del Noce on front free endpaper to A. James Gregor.. First edition of Augusto Del Noce's (1910-1989) Il suicidio della rivoluzione with inscription to University of California at Berkely political scientist A. James Gregor. A leading light among Italian post-war political and philosophical thinkers, Del Noce spent much of his academic career elucidating the connection between philosophical ideas and socio-political history. Del Noce viewed the growth and expansion of atheism as the fundamental question of modernity, and he asserted that Marxism-and, particularly, the dissolution of Marxism into neo-bourgeois nihilism-was a driving force behind the secularization of the modern West. Il suicidio della rivoluzione was among… Read More

Association Copy First Printing. Inscribed: To Paul Nitze with the high regard of John Foster Dulles April, 1950Clean Text. Price unclipped ($2.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a Republican U.S. Senator for New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which was favored by the foreign policy elite in Washington, particularly in the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman, whose foreign policy Dulles criticized and instead advocated a policy of "liberation." Dulles tenure as Secretary was marked by conflict with communist governments worldwide, especially the Soviet Union; Dulles strongly opposed communism, calling it "Godless terrorism." Dulles's preferred strategy was containment… Read More

New York, Grove Press, 1978, hardcover, 95 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Association Copy, Signed, stamped and inscribed to actor Ed Asner by the Author with his unique "Chicago" chop and Mr. Asner's name and address stamp to the front endpaper, "To Ed Asner with love from a fellow Chicagoan", Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no other markings, slight lean, light spine-end bumps, slight fading to board edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, slight rubs, touch of dampstain to upper edge, in new Brodart sleeve. In this early work the prolific American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author presents a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges between two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; and Robert, older, anxious, and beginning to wane. The original small print run of this work makes the book difficult to find in first edition and signed copies are very scarce. ISBN… Read More

First edition, first impression (Collins Clear-Type Press: London and Glasgow, 1958). Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper: "To Nina, with best wishes, Michael Bond". The dedicatee is Nina Froud who was a personal friend of the author and worked at his literary agency. The first book in the Paddington series where one of the most iconic and beloved British fictional characters first appeared, later going on to form the basis of several ongoing TV and successful film adaptations. Publisher's original red cloth with silver lettering to spine containing illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. A beautiful, fine and pristine book throughout, save for a touch of off-setting to endpapers. Appears unread. The original complete dust jacket is not price-clipped and is in unusually superior condition with a chip to spine head - not affecting any lettering - and a closed tear to top of upper panel fore-edge with a couple of tiny and inconspicuous nicks to the top edge of lower panel. A very rare… Read More

St. Louis, MO: International Mark Twain Society, 1936. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR Cyril Clemens to Carl Van Doren, in ink at bottom of front wrapper -"To Carl Van Doren Dean of American Critics with the Editor's homage , Cyril Clemens". Very Good Minus, the wrappers detached at spine. 2" horizontal tear front wrapper, small chips and edge wear to wrappers. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. First Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation Copy.

Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz, 1961. Association Copy SIGNED BY EDITOR Milton Cowan at front paste down -"For Big Jim to help him get the nodding acquaintance. Milt Cowan, Feb. 1966". With the name stamp front end page of James Marchand, noted medieval scholar, linguist, and polyglot. Fine in Fine dust jacket. In publisher's original plain brown cardboard slipcase with slight wear at corners, also bearing Marchand's name stamp. . SIGNED BY EDITOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.