Search Results: List162 from Waverley Books

ARKHAM HOUSE. SAUK CITY Summer 1949. Fine. 1949. First Edition. SIGNED by contributor Ray Bradbury at the place in the text where his story "The One Who Waits" appears. Close to fine in printed wrappers. (Touches of light shelfsoiling) .

CHICAGO: FICTIONEERS.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. May, 1941 issue. A very good+ copy in pictorial pulp wrappers. (Short tears at edges of covers. Text age toned. ) Features the 26 page short story by David Goodis "Death Rides My Cockpit!" .

SAN FRANCISCO: FEARON PUBLISHER.. Fine. 1957. First Edition. Photograph. First edition. NSCRIBED by noted photographer Ruth Bernhard on dedication page. Close to fine in a good dust jacket. (Small S. F. Bookshop stamp at base of rear paste-down. Tiny hint of off-setting on front end-paper & paste-down. Interior clear tape repairs to jacket. Some fairly shallow chipping at spine ends, and 1 1/2"-inch chipping along upper edge of front cover. Soil spot and rubbing to jacket. ) Melvin Van is the Afro-American film director Melvin Van Peebles, whose first book this is. Most uncommon signed by Ruth Bernhard, who's own copy this may well be as it was acquired in the Monterey region of California where she resided for many years. Photographs of San Francisco cable cars. (LR) .

LONDON: HARVILL. 1993. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002713624 . About fine in a fine DJ. (2 tiny spots of foxing at top edge. ) .

TIMES BOOKS. NY 1980, 1980. UNCORRECTED PROOF. SIGNED & dated in 1987 by author John Dunning on the half-title page. A very good+ copy in pale yellow printed wrappers. (Rubbing to covers. A few small nicks in covers. Light stain on rear cover. Faint stains on preliminary pages) An uncommon galley.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

CARBONDALE: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS., 1978. First New Edition (after the original first printing by Doubleday in 1933) Fine in a close to fine priceclipped dj. (Couple of short edge nicks & traces of light shelfwear to dj.) . First Edition..

BOSTON: THE PAGE COMPANY.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Very good+ or better copy, lacking the rare jacket. Fresh looking copy usually found with its pictorial front cover of aerial combat rubbed & shelf-worn. (Previous owner's raised stamp at head of title page. Light remnants of book-plate on half-title page, with date of 1918 inked. Small sticker impression on front end-paper) Wellman's FIRST book. An account of his experiences flying in the Lafayette Flying Corps during the First World War. Wellman would go on to make numerous superb motion pictures including "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Battleground", and "The High And The Mighty." .

NY: NORTON.. Fine. 1989. First Edition. 0393027198 . SIGNED by Rita Dove on the title page. Fine in a fine dj. Poetry. (B) .

NY: DELACORTE PRESS.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0440042356 . INSCRIBED by Joshua Logan on the half-title page. About fine in a fine dj. .

AUSTIN: PLACE OF HERONS.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. SIGNED by Alma Luz Villanueva on the title page, with what appears to be her pink rose stamp. The trade-size paperback issue. (There was a simultaneously published hardcover as well) Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Traces of rubbing to covers) Author's FOURTH book. (B) .

NY: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition. 0810961717 . Near fine in a Nf. Dj. (Couple of faint vertical crease lines on front endpaper. Faint trace of discoloration at spine on dj. Couple small edge nicks in dj.) .

NY: HOLT. 1988. Fine. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed review pamphlet laid-in) Fine in dj. Author's THIRD book. (B) .

NY: OXFORD.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover.

PASADENA: THE CASTLE PRESS.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Curious ephemeral item. INSCRIBED by Guy Endore on front cover to fellow screenwriter Elick Moll. ("The House on Telegraph Hill." ) A very good+ copy in plain stapled wrappers. (Tanning to edges of covers. Couple small edge nicks in covers) Chapbook printing chapter eleven of a study of the Marquis de Sade. .

LONDON: DOBSON.. Fine. 1947. First Edition. Cloth. INSCRIBED by Henry Miller to longtime friend Kenny Du Main on half-title. Fine in blue cloth, with silver titles in Vg. + DJ. (Short tears & shelf wear to edges of dust jacket, including one 3 1/2"-inch tear in fold of dust jacket flap. Tape mends on interior of dust jacket. ) Features two Henry Miller stories, "A Night With Jupiter" & "Dream Of Mobile." Also stories by Miguel Angel Asturias, Paul Bowles & Giorgio Di Chirico among others. A scarce title signed. .

MACMILLAN. NY 1962. Fine. 1962. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Will Henry on the front endpaper. Close to fine in a Nf. dj. (1"- inch tear on rear panel. Couple 1/2"-inch tears on front cover. Trace of light rubbing to dj.) .

New York: PANTHEON.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (No remainder marks! ) 1500 copies printed in hardcover. ; 80 pages .

NY: KNOPF. 1989. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed review slip & pictorial book card laid-in) SIGNED & dated in year of publication by Allan Gurganus on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author's breakthrough novel. Basis for a film with Donald Sutherland. .

MILWAUKIE: WEST WIND ARTS.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Photograph. First edition. SIGNED by Christopher Burkett on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. (11 3/4" x 12") A volume of extraordinary full-color nature photography. The depth of color has to be seen to be believed. ; 11 3/4" X 12" .

NY: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS.. Fine. 1987. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Close to fine in plain orange-colored printed wrappers. (Mild bump to head of spine) THIRD Hoke Moseley novel. .