Search Results: Authors starting with U from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991. First edition, second printing. A fine copy. Oblong (21.5 x 25 cm). Black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Uelsmann on the front flyleaf. With an essay by John Ames. Uelsmann narrates his own creative process in a fascinating visual account of a single day's work in the darkroom, and in another section examines the technical aspects of synthetic photography.

Chicago: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography / Columbia College, 1980. A near-fine copy, the wrappers lightly age-darkened and with some light wear at edges. Edited and with an introduction by Steven Klindt; essay by Jim Enyeart. 4to. 75, [2] pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Uelsmann on the title-page. This exhibition was held from 18 January to 1 March 1980. Illustrates 75 of Uelsmann's photographs.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1975. A very good plus copy with light age-toning to jacket and sheet edges, some light spotting to sheet edges. 26.5 x 23 cm. Black-and-white photographs. Original silver boards; white pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by Uelsmann on the half-title. The 146 photographs in this monograph exhibit Uelsmann's complex darkroom techniques that he called "the revisualization process, an opening of dialogue between the images and the artist, with new visions evolving from it." Introduction by Peter C. Bunnell.

Ogiz: State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1939. Spine loose, stains on covers, internally fine. Folio (13.5 x 10 inches). Unpaginated (approx 220 pages). Profusely illustrated, including with tipped-in plates and facsimiles of letters. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Compiled from materials in the Central Lenin Museum.

Zurich: Diogenes, 2015. A fine copy with slightest surface wear to the acetate, generally a tight, unread copy. Folio. 421 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original linen; printed acetate wrapper. FIRST EDITION.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. C overs soiled, corners worn. 8vo . O riginal cloth-backed boards, uncut. First edition of the poet's first book. The dedication copy to her husband, the poet and critic Louis Untermeyer, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean with eight lines of verse: "To Louis: - Take my heart in a book; / Take strength that is born of pain, / And take me again and again / In a sigh or a look. / Joy's come - it will abide - / Washed clean by unending tears. / I give thanks to the struggling years; / I have grown at your side. / Jean. / December fourth. 1918." The printed dedication is "To Louis:" followed by a musical theme in six bars. Louis Untermeyer was in many ways responsible for launching his wife's career. Jean married him in 1907 and shortly thereafter began writing poems (secretly). Her husband discovered them one day, liked what he saw and sent them off to literary periodicals where they were soon published. Pasted to the rear flyleaf is… Read More

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978. 8vo. 21, [1] p. Printed in red and black. Original quarter red cloth, marbled boards. Slightest toning to spine, near-fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 81 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326.

[Boston and Chicago]: G. K. Hall & Co and Marquis Who's Who, Inc, 1978. Bifolium, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Fine. A Christmas keepsake for 1978. Variant with printed copyright notice.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 254 of 350 copies signed by Updike. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, on Gutenberg Laid paper. This is Number Two of the Targ Editions.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. 8vo. 63, [1] pp. Printed in red and black. Original maroon cloth-backed decorated boards. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 31 of 75 specially-bound copies signed by Updike from an edition of 375.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. 8vo. 41, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed decorated boards; cloth slipcase. Boards sunned, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 154 of 300 copies signed by Updike.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978. 8vo. 21, [1] p. Printed in red and black. Original quarter red cloth, marbled boards; acetate. Fine, acetate with some wear. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 36 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326.

Worcester: Metacom Press, 1980. A near-fine copy, lightly curled but bright and clean. 8vo. 16, [1] pp. Sewn in original blue marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 132 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326. This is Metacom Limited Editions Series, no. 1. With publisher's slip laid-in explaining the printing.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed marbled boards; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Updike, this copy unnumbered and out-of-series. This is Number Two of the Targ Editions. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, on Gutenberg Laid paper.

New York: Targ Editions, 1981. Several spine letters very lightly faded, generally fine. 8vo. 13, [2] pp. Frontispiece. Original crimson cloth-backed decorated boards, portrait of Hawthorne mounted on front cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 250 copies signed by Updike. The book was designed & printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, & bound by Spink & Gaborc, New York. The type is Baskerville & the paper, Nideggen. This is Number Twelve of the Targ Editions.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed marbled boards; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 307 of 350 copies signed by Updike. This is Number Two of the Targ Editions. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, on Gutenberg Laid paper.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. A fine copy. 8vo. 41, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed decorated boards; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 262 of 300 copies signed by Updike.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. 8vo. 328, [5] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear, light toning to jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 8vo. 302, [6] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Whites of jacket slightly toned, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION of this collection of short stories.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 8vo. 406, [2] pp. Original blue-backed patterned cloth; publisher's decorated board slipcase. Minor wear to the slipcase and lacking acetate, otherwise a fine bright copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Updike and specially bound.