Search Results: Authors starting with U from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Herrsching am Ammersee: Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Profusely illustrated with photographs, including many in color, by Jacques Hartz. An indispensable work on the subject, with 113 biographies of artists and manufacturers, a large documentation section, a comprehensive bibliography, etc. Text in German, French, and English. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. The contents are sagging just a bit. Some general edgewear to the dust jacket, which is a touch faded along the spine; otherwise very good.

San Diego, California: San Diego Society of Natural History, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12 full color plates, with 126 maps 12 photographs. "The most comprehensive book yet published on the birdlife of this critical geographical area." From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean Starr Untermeyer to her husband, the poet Louis Untermeyer: "To Louis- No ascent is too steep if I shall find him on the summit, Jean, 1928." The pair married in 1906 and divorced in 1926, but reunited shortly after the suicide of their son Richard, to whom this volume is dedicated. Remarried in 1929, they were divorced again the following year. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light wear to the corners and tips; else near fine.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean Starr Untermeyer to her husband, the poet Louis Untermeyer, and accompanied by an autograph letter signed (ALS) from Jean to Louis written on her letterhead: "I am glad you liked the poems and happy at your frankness in admitting it. Almost without exception you have kept a purity in your attitude to poetry; and considering that most of our life was spent together and in service to a common ideal, I don't feel it is impertinent for me to say that I hope you will always keep that part of yourself intact." The letter is housed in the original mailing envelope, which is affixed to the rear flyleaf. The pair married in 1906 and divorced in 1926, but reunited shortly after the suicide of their son Richard, to whom this volume is dedicated. Remarried in 1929, they were divorced again the following year. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with printed paper title… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Signed by John Updike on the title page. The author's fourth collection of poetry. "Throughout, this is poetry with its eyes wide open, restlessly alert for the oddities of reality and the double entendres of imagination." Octavo. Original purple paper-covered boards over a dark blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some mild toning along the extremities.

San Francisco: Dennis McMillan, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus, a reissue of the Upfield's first book with a new introduction by Philip Jose Farmer. Limited to 1,000 copies. This was also the first Dennis McMillan book. Dust jacket art by George Barr. Small octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 280 p. New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. First edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with orange stamping. Small ink notation to the front flyleaf, with a bookseller's ink stamp to the front pastedown. A bit of wear and fraying to the corners and tips.

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo: xxii, [23]-594 p. with engraved frontispiece portraits of Sutter and Upham and 41 illustrations (43 called for, lacking leaf 227 with two textual illustrations). Original maroon pebbled cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping and beveled edges. Minor staining to the top edge of the contents and boards. Some color restoration to the boards, with new endpapers inserted. The spine is very lightly sun faded, with a bit of minor wear to the corners and tips. The Zamorano Eigthy 76. "According to Upham, these reminiscences 'have been written amid the hurly-burly of a busy mercantile life, from notes taken at the time the incidents treated of transpired.' Despite being a recollection, his narrative is rich with information and written in a sprightly and entertaining way. Leaving a lucrative position in a counting house in Philadelphia, Upham 'resigned the quill for the pick and the spade' and set sail on the brig… Read More

Fort Collins, Colorado: The Old Army Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by J.K. Ralston. First edition - Autograph Edition, limited to 250 copies signed by Upton and Ralston. This copy is additionally inscribed by Upton on the limitation page. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some general minor fading and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Signed by Author.

New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fantasy set around military officers from the four Allied Occupation Powers (American, British, French and Soviet) of postwar Germany. The play premiered at The Alexandria, Birmingham before transferring to London's West End where it ran for 816 performances. It subsequently ran for 141 performances at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway in 1953 with a cast that included Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. That year it was chosen as the Best Foreign Play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle and won a Donaldson Award. Octavo: 109 p. with photographic illustrations from the 1953 production and staging diagrams. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt and white stamping. The prospectus is laid in. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a nearly invisible closed tear to the top of the front panel that has been neatly mended on the verso. Remarkably fresh.