Search Results: Titles starting with S from Idler Fine Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988 First printing of the stated first edition. Pink cloth boards with silver and gold-lettered spine, green top-edge, 279pp. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with mild shelf wear, else fine.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982 First printing of the first edition. Signed by John Barth directly on the half-title page. Light tanning to top and bottom board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and cover margins, and moderate shelf wear, else fine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1993 First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Tony Hillerman directly on the title page. A Leaphorn / Chee Mystery. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972 First printing, so stated, review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Book in fine condition; in about fine dust jacket, with light tanning to spine and cover margins.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975 First edition in pictorial wrappers: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Author's first book of poetry. Signed presentation to Mark Strand by Robert Pinsky directly on the half-title page: "For Mark, with / warm regards / and admiration. / Robert / 2/9/76." Additionally, a Cambridge envelope addressed to Mark Strand laid-in with a short letter to Strand from Pinsky on a personal stock card, reading: "Dear Mark, / Thank you for The Weather of Words--you kept your / promise! -- and I'm glad. An I, too, have been / busy with the alphabet. / It was great to see you, and really impressive, as / ever, to hear you read the poems. / Yours, / Robert."

Light toning to spine and a faint short crease to upper front cover, else book in fine condition. A lovely copy.


Mark Strand was named U.S. poet Laureate in 1990 and received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One in 1999.

Pinsky was named U.S.… Read More

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975 First printing of the first edition; Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Author's first book of poetry. Signed by Robert Pinsky directly on the half-title page. Book with foxing to outer page edges, else in fine condition; dust jacket with foxing to flaps and verso, scattered foxing to back cover, and light toning to spine, else fine.

Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-200) and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry (2004), et al.

New York: Bantam Books, 1995 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Gregory Benford directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

New York: Random House, 2001 First printing of the stated first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Poet Laureate of the United States 2001-2003.

New York: Viking, 1992 Advance proof for the First Edition. First few pages loose, else in fine condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book, 1991 First printing of the stated first trade edition. Signed by Anne Tyler directly on the title page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing, else fine.

A few of Tyler's writing achievements: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction (1980), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989), and Longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Lifetime achievement (2020).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, 1991 First printing of the stated first trade edition. Book with minor wear, else in fine condition; dust jacket with two small chips to upper spine/corner and light shelf wear, else fine.

London: Macmillan / Pan Macmillan, 2020 First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Peter Hamilton directly on the half-title page. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

London: Macmillan / Pan Macmillan, 2020 First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Peter Hamilton directly on the half-title page. Light bump to upper front spine fold, else book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

New York: Random House, 1980 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first novel. A couple tiny rubbed areas, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1955 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's third book of poetry. Signed and inscribed by Howard Nemerov directly on the title page. Association copy: "For Lee Anderson, / with all good wishes, / on the first occasion of our meeting, / at Bennington, 19 iv 58. / Howard Nemerov."
Lee Anderson, poet and editor, recorded Nemerov reading that day and the next in Bennington, Vermont. Anderson donated his recordings to the Library of Congress where they are part of the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature today. Anderson recorded many poets in the 1950s, and his work became the basis of the Lee Anderson papers and Yale Series of Recorded Poets sound recordings.
Book with mild rubbing along board edge, a tiny bookseller label at the bottom of the front-free endpage, and faint toning to endpapers, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear near upper back spine fold, light toning to spine, and mild… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002 First printing of the stated First Edition. Author's first book. Signed by Judith Barnes. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 First printing of the first British edition. Green cloth, with gilt-lettered spine, 226pp. Yorkshire, author's first book. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 First printing of the stated first edition, in first issue dust jacket with reviews for THE POORHOUSE FAIR on the rear panel, and with the $3.75 price listed on the inside front flap. Author's third book, and first book of short fiction. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a few closed tears, light rubbing to edges, and light soiling to back panel, else fine.

New York: Scribner / Simon & Schuster, 1996 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the half-title page (sale includes provenance, loosely laid-in). Front upper corner rubbed, else book in fine, as new condition; dust jacket with an unobtrusive chip to upper front fold, else fine.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941 First printing of the stated first edition. Book with toning to endpapers, cloth creased at spine ends, small rubbed areas to upper front and back covers, else book in fine condition; light paper loss and creasing to spine ends, top edge of back-flap rubbed, and light age-toning to back cover margins, else dust jacket in fine condition.