Search Results: Authors starting with T from Quill & Brush

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. The author's first book under this name. Uncorrected proof in blue printed paperwraps. Light sunning to spine, few tiny stains to page fore edges, otherwise near fine to fine in printed paperwraps with copy of a photo and typed publication information taped to front cover. "Tentative publication date: of June 2, 1986." Publisher's blurb stapled inside front cover.

(New York: Ecco, (2017). First edition. SIGNED BY TAN on publisher's inserted signature leaf. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo white paper boards; 357 pp. Spine ends a little pushed still bright and fine in bright, fine dust jacket with minor crimp to front spine corner.

New York: Putnam's Sons, (2001). First edition. SIGNED by Tan with a quote from the book, "The things I know are true." Labeled "uncorrected proof" on front cover but appears to be an advance reading copy. Near fine in pictorial paperwraps with publicity sticker on front cover.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The fourteenth book in the series. Near fine in stiff card covers with self wraps that have a small slit at top seam of spine.

[New York]: Academy of American Poets, no-date [2004]. First edition. One of only 200 copies. This one being Anthony Hecht's. Includes six poems by the six poets who responded "WITH WILLING HANDS" to Tanning and Melby's request to "PLEASE WRITE US A POEM": "Weathering here" (Ammons), "Anthem" (Hecht), "Elementary Principles at 72" (Howard), "To Myself" (Merwin), "Wait" (Rich), and "Asides" (Wilbur). Seven 7 x 7" folding cards housed in pearlescent quadra-fold envelope with title in green on front and circular green sticker seal at back. Designed by Silvano Nova & printed in Brooklyn at the Rolling Press. Includes the colophon card and one card for each poet. The colophon card has title in green on front, note by Tanning about the project, list of the six poets, and colophon (no date of publication indicated by OCLC notes "Distributed by the Academy on December 13, 2004"). The six poets' cards are blank on the outside and open to their portrait by David Alexander facing a facsimile of their poem in… Read More

New York: (The Lincoln Farm Association), 1907. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. First appearance of Tarbell's essay. A "souvenir" book for the "Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York February 12, 1907." Published by The Lincoln Farm Association incorporated the year before for the purposes of "honoring and perpetuating the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the taking and holding of 110 acres of his birthplace farm, and the development and maintenance of the same." Tarbell was one of the original members of the Board of Directors. (National Park Service website). 16mo gray-green cloth with gilt-stamped front; tan buckram spine; 36pp. Cloth at spine a little soiled and rubbed and corners nicked otherwise very good.

Oneonta, NY: Swamp Press, 1980. First edition and only edition. "At Kao-t'ang Pavilion in Yun-meng Marsh, the King of Hsiang was visited by the Goddess of Wu Mountain, who shared with him pillow and mat. Yun-meng means, literally, Cloud Dream." - from the colophon. Printed by Edward Rayher and Jo Mish at the Swamp Press in an edition of 90 sets. Off-white handmade paper printed in black and with colophon in blue; approximately 18 x 17"; all edges untrimmed. TOGETHER WITH PRINTOUTS OF EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE AUTHOR from 2008: she explains her "husband was teaching at Union College in Schenectady decades ago" when she was invited by the press to submit her poems (her husband adds, with a laugh, assurances that "the broadsides are at least very rare") and comments that "it's amazing how sometimes these physical objects endure ... and turn up in new places" adding "actually, reading the poems again, I rather like them." Tartar also says she was published occasionally in the seventies before she… Read More

New York & Boston: Knopf / Little, Brown and Co., 1992 / 2002 / 2013. First edition of each of her first three books together with two interesting circa 1992 photographs of Tartt. THE SECRET HISTORY (Knopf, 1992): SIGNED on laid-in bookplate. Near fine with spine ends gently pushed; in near fine dust jacket with light crimping to spine ends and corners and the usual slight cloudiness from aging. THE LITTLE FRIEND (Knopf, 2002): INSCRIBED on title page, "to Biff/ Donna Tartt." Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with barest wear. THE GOLDFINCH (Little, Brown, 2013): Her Pulitzer Prize winner, INSCRIBED on title page, "especially for Elaine/ with all warm regards/ from/ Donna Tartt." Fine with barest shelf wear; in near fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor rubbing. TWO PHOTOGRAPHS: AP LEAFDESK wire / press-release BLACK-AND-WHITE photo by Caitlin McCaffrey as used, without credit, on the dust jacket rear flap of SECRET HISTORY. 8.5 x 11" coated paper with 4 lines of text running along… Read More

New York: Scribner's Sons, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED BY TATE on front endpaper, "For Jane and Walter/ with love from/ Allen/ December 28, 1971." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature -- and the author of ALLEN TATE: A RECOLLECTION (1988), his reflections on Tate's literary life and their 30 years of friendship. His wife, Jane Harrison Sullivan (1923-2022), taught English literature at Aquinas College. Fine in fine dust jacket showing just a hint of wear.

New York: Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Previously uncollected poems together with revised versions of those from POEMS, 1928-1930. 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 112 pages. (Also noted in dark blue cloth-backed light blue paper boards; priority unknown.) This copy perhaps interesting for its full Latin translation of Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead" ("Ode ai Caduti Confederati") handwritten on rectos only of 4 sheets of lined yellow paper. Near fine in chipped, torn, and generally worn, fair-only dust jacket with internal archival tape repair.

New York: Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition. The poet, critic, and social commentator's first and only novel -- a tale of two families set in Virginia and Georgetown (Washington, DC) during the run up to the Civil War. Fine in near fine dust jacket with edges lightly rubbed and one small nick at head of spine.

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1927. First thus. Originally published circa 1628. Number 225 of 375 copies. Includes hand-coloured engravings on wood by Hester Sainbury. Orange buckram spine and orange paper boards with gold lettering on spine. The book has the barest rubbing on edges but is otherwise fine. In dustwrapper a little darkened on top inch of front panel and spine, and with minute chipping on corners and spine ends.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1969). First edition. A remarkably bright copy, fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1954). First edition. Light rubbing to tips and spine ends, otherwise fine in very good to near fine, bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and nicked tips.

New York: Knopf, 1986. First edition. Pulitzer Prize winner. Presumed review copy with publisher's announcement flyer laid in. INSCRIBED BY TAYLOR on title page, "for Jane and Walter/ affectionately/ Peter." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Taylor -- one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His wife, Jane Harrison Sullivan (1923-2022), taught English literature at Aquinas College. 8vo gilt-stamped, black cloth backed cream paper boards; 209 pages. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with spine ends lightly rubbed.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959). First edition. Very good or better in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with very minor wear on corners and spine ends and few tears.

New York: Random House, (1957). First edition of his first play. In variant dust jacket, as usually seen, without a price and with "3/57" on dust jacket flap. Bright and near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and touch of minor wear.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1985). First UK edition. Collection of short stories. INSCRIBED BY TAYLOR on title page, "to Jane and Walter/ affectionately/ Peter." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Taylor -- one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His wife, Jane Harrison Sullivan (1923-2022), taught English literature at Aquinas College. 8vo gilt-stamped gray simulated-cloth paper boards; 358 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. Uncommon signed in the UK edition.

New York: Beekman, (1954). First edition. A tale described by the author as "a little exercise in manic-depression" from which he cautions "the squeamish to keep their distance." 12mo gilt-stamped brick-red cloth boards; 44 pages. "Review Copy" handwritten in ink on front endpaper and Bertrand Smith bookseller stamp on pastedown. Endpapers slightly darkened at hinges otherwise bright and near fine in good or better dust jacket showing a few chips but without any loss to text. A scarce, strange little book dedicated "To Robinson Jeffers -- who makes poetry of doom." OCLC locates 5 copies in library holdings.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First edition. Very good with minor bumping of the spine ends, light rubbing to the edges, and binding starting to crack at middle (between pages 80-81), lacking dust jacket.