Search Results: Authors starting with U from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Tain Chin: Yang Liu Art Gallery. Large folio (16 1/2" x 12 1/2") in the Leporello (accordian-style) format. With 16 color woodcuts, narrative is in picture writing; n.d., paper label on front board; cloth covered beveled boards and matching slipcase. Quite a beautiful production. Fine in a fine slipcase with Ivory pins, one lacking.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Small Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JOHN UPDIKE TO WILLIAM TARG. Inscribed by the author to bookseller, author and publisher William Targ, who also published The Godfather, among others. William Targ was editor and publisher at World Books and at Putnam. 98(1)pp. Bound in beige cloth lettered in gilt; fine in fine unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY JOHN UPDIKE ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 350 COPIES SIGNED. The text is from a talk given at the Morgan Library in New York City, on October 4, 1977, by Mr. Updike. Octavo, decorated boards, gray cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Fine in a fine dust jacket; a perfect copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN UPDIKE ON FFEP without personalization. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. 302 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A perfect copy.

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Folio (8 1/2 x 14"). Clusters Nebulae and Double Stars Visible in Small Telescopes together with Variable Stars, Red Stars, Characteristic Star Groups, Ancient Constellation Figures and an Explanatory Text, six double page maps, in color, of the stars. Bound in original olive green cloth lettered in gilt. Neat owner's name on FEP; a near fine bright copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 505 pages; price of $3.75 on front flap. Together with: Typed Letter Signed, with original mailing envelope dated May 11, 1953, to a book reviewer at the Omaha World Herald; one page. Quite a handsome copy; very small owner name stamp on title page.

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. 249(1)pp. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt over black block, top edge black, previous owner's bookplate, A clean bright copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with short crease along bottom edge of rear panel.