Search Results: Titles starting with U from Crow Hop Rare Books

[n.p.]: [n.p.]. A playlet in one act, circa 1917, written for the RI State Food Conservation Committee with the purpose of "increasing the interest in Food Conservation and to emphasize the possible use of substitutes for the four food classes of food: wheat, meat, sugar and butter." Characters include Uncle Sam, Miss Rhode Island, Camp Fire Girls, and White Bread, Butter, & Sugar. [14 pp.] 5.5" x 8" in stapled wraps. VG overall (toning, closed tear at top edge, 2" tear at lower staple, penciled annotations assigning roles to cast of characters).Uncommon WWI-era play written by a woman, with no holdings in commerce and one per OCLC (Brown).

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition, later issue, with photographs at beginning and end of the book. SIGNED by Matthiessen on title page. VG+ hardcover with pictorial endpapers (bump and wear at bottom edge) in an about VG+ unclipped ($7.50) dustjacket (chipping at spine ends, rubbing, with a stamped purple star on front flap). Matthiessen's third book of nonfiction.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958. Biographical sketch of the artist by Blake-More Godwin. Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. Near Fine, paper over boards, 11.5” x 15.5”. All nine prints, inspired by her time at Southern Illinois, are present in portfolio. Fuller writes, “What she paints here is the lone university of downstate Illinois, in the Abraham Lincoln lands of mid-continent North America, populated by the most cross-bred of all races in all history.”

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995. First Edition. 56 pp. Near Fine illustrated softcover. Robert Pinsky and David St. John praise. Winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. Estes book Tryst was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.