Search Results: Authors starting with S from Crow Hop Rare Books

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963. First Edition, third state, with dedication page appearing after copyright page. Near Fine in a sharp, VG+ unclipped dustjacket (light chipping to spine ends).

Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences, 1974. First Edition. Book design by Elyn Parkin; pen and ink drawings by Rae Sampson. The five poets are Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton, Al Purdy, and David Solway. SIGNED by Irving Layton on half-title page. Layton was twice-nominated for the Nobel Prize and died in 2006.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1990. 10 pp. Near Fine pictorial stapled wraps (wrinkling to lower edge near staple). SIGNED by Sanders on lower front cover of this promotional pamphlet for her first book, Clover.

Washington, D.C.: The Armagh Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. 48 pp, illustrated, with a handwritten correction to a poem (p. 44) in the author’s own hand. Small softcover, VG+, with what looks to be an imprint of a paper clip that runs over the lower edge of the book. Limited to 550 copies, 50 of which were signed. While this is not a signed copy, inserted into the book is a handwritten one-page letter from the author to Maxine Kumin, dated June 1987, which warmly talks about their conversations at the Library of Congress and this, her first book, which she sent to Kumin, saying she would be pleased for her to comment on it. SIGNED in full by Sanders, with a postscript that mentions that the book “is meant to be a contemporary form of a medieval Book of Hours.” Uncommon.

New York: Knopf, 1992. First Paperback Edition. 83 pp. Review Copy, with slip laid in. Near Fine pictorial wraps.

Peterborough, NH: Richard R. Smith Publishers, 1967. First Edition. 59 [5] pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket with some light toning and edgewear. SIGNED by Sarton on second free endpaper. Illustrated with photographs of New Hampshire life by Eleanor Blair, Richard Frede, and Eric Sanford.

New York: Random House, 1996. Advance Uncorrected Proof. INSCRIBED by Saunders on the title page. Fine in wraps, with publicist letter laid in. One novella and six stories in this, Saunders’s first book and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A scarce proof which launched Saunders’ career, becoming one of the country’s most accomplished and admired writers, as he has been a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

New York: Random House (A Ramparts Book), 1969. First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. 220 pp. With ownership stamps “A.F. Cornish” on ffep.

New York: Penguin , 1984. First Edition. 65 pp. Illustrated softcover. The Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of Poets in 1984 (judged by Charles Simic, Louise Gluck, and David Wagoner. VG+ (shelfwear).

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. Advance Reading Copy/Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Near Fine in illustrated wraps. Advance praise from Laura Van Den Berg and Lauren Groff, who called it a "wild, restless, deeply intelligent collection of stories, each of which resists and subverts the limits of categorization." Scott's first book, Insurrections, won the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1982. Self published in faded blue stapled illustrated wraps. [24 pp.]. VG+. Concerns astrology and the anticipated appearance of Halley's Comet in 1986. "Astrologers, no doubt, will pursue the meaning of the upcomining arrival of Halley and incorporate its meaning into their interpretive techniques...Astrologers will need to be educated to the essence, physical dynamics and interpretive data about comets. It would seem likely that astrologers will be interviewed by the media with increased frequency to quell a nervous, yet skeptical public of an event which will assuredly draw mass attention. Astrologers will be called upon to do things such as reassure the public that in the 29 appearances of Halley which have been recorded that the world did not end."No copies in commerce or in OCLC. Uncommon.

[n.d.]: [n.d.], 1967. Self-published book on doll collecting, described by the authors in the Foreword as "both a fascinating pastime and a virulent disease." Photographs throughout, with sections on American twentieth century dolls, including babies, celluloid, characters, papier mache, wax, wooden, and unmarked French and German. VG+ in pictorial wraps in comb binding (sunning and light edgewear to covers, a couple of internal checkmarks next to photos). 74 pp. SIGNED by one of the authors, Marlowe Cooper, on Dedication page.

New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. A beautiful collection from this Pulitzer Prize winner.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 84 pp. VG+ (scuffing and rubbing to covers). WIlliam Stafford blurb. The New York author's first book of poetry. Scheck was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her collection The WIllow Grove (1996).

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899. First American Edition. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. 237[1]; [8] pp. Dark gray pictorial boards with t.e.g and gilt lettering. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing and spine starting to pull away from textblock. An attractive copy.

New York: George Braziller, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in VG+ unclipped dustjacket (partial sticker on rear, one small edge tear). Pulitzer Prize winner Simic's ninth book of poetry, from the Braziller Series of Poetry.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Printing. 118 pp. Near Fine in an about VG+ unclipped dustjacket (light spine fading, rubbing, wear at extremities, including a small tear at top edge). Originally presented at the Plymouth Theatre in New York City on December 21, 1966 with Anthony Perkins, Richard Benjamin, and Connie Stevens. Simon died in August 2018.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. 90 pp. Near Fine in a VG shelfworn dustjacket, price clipped, with a touch of dampstaining and 3” loss on back cover. 17 illustrations by Maurice Sendak to accompany Singer’s first children’s book.

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. First Edition. 110 pp. Near Fine hardcover (no dustjacket as issued). His first full-length collection of poems. He is the father of Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which spent more than a year on The New York Times Bestseller List.

New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. , 1974. Edited by Don Stern. Near Fine in a VG+ or better unclipped dustjacket, designed by June Negrycz. An intriguing 1970s handbook on boating for women, which provides practical methods and instructions for making life afloat easy and safe, with accompanying illustrations and charts. With sections on shopping and storing food for a cruise, keeping children safe, planning parties, protecting boats from mildew, and digging clams, and including a chapter entitled “The Feminine Look.”