Search Results: Titles starting with U from Idler Fine Books

New York: Random House, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a touch of rubbing and a light sticker ghost near bottom back cover, else fine.

New York: Random House, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Nicholson Baker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers / A Story Press Book, 1938 Presentation copy from Richard Wright to Ernest Hemingway: "To Ernest Hemingway / From / Richard Wright." Stated second edition in married original dust jacket, first published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In Down by the Riverside, included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, 58–59). Mild toning to margins of endpapers, light toning to page margins, spine ends gently crimped, and a light pale stain to bottom front cover, foot of spine, and just an inch to bottom back spine fold, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with professional restoration to extremities, mild… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1995 Publisher's Wraps, 391pp. Uncorrected proof for the first edition. Light wear to covers and a light moister stain to bottom outer corner, bleeding a half inch or so internally (relatively benign).

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed association copy from Kay Boyle to Joan Mellen, her biographer and friend (Mellen is the author of twenty-four books, including the autobiography: “Kay Boyle: Author of Herself” [1994]). Signed and inscribed by Boyle directly on the half-title page, dated in year/month of publication:

""January 1, 1975 / To Joanie, who has the purity / and the fervor of the Jongleur / de Notre Dame in her spirit / as in her blood, and whether her / name be Joanie or Callisto / dances in desecration before the altars of convention with / the grace of all three. / In loving friendship, / Kay / San Francisco"

Boyle also corrected an error on p.13, line #10, crossing out "was" replacing it with "were" in blue ink above.

Spine ends crimped else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a crease to upper corner of front flap, spine faintly toned, tiny closed tear to bottom front… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1965 First Printing of the First Edition. Tanning to top-edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a few short, closed tears, light creasing and edge wear.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Steve Martini directly on the title page. Faint toning to top edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a small nick to mid-back fold, light wear to extremities, shelf wear, and light shelf wear, else fine.

Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1988 First printing of first edition. Signed by Ursula Hegi directly on the title page. Light rubbing to jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

San Diego / New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986 First printing of the stated first edition. Mild toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light shelf wear, else fine.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961 First printing of the first edition. Number twenty in the "Indiana University Poetry Series." Author's first book. Signed and inscribed by Carolyn Kizer directly on the front-free endpaper: "for Eleanor, / With love and cats / Carolyn / Double Ten '66"; additionally, Kizer goes on to list nine pages with "a few cats"; finally, Kizer wrote a brief initialed note along the front flap: "Sorry the publishers were so slow to deliver this CK." Book with light toning along gutters of endpapers, else in fine condition; dust jacket with two short closed tears near upper front spine fold, toning to spine, and light wear to extremities, else fine.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961 First printing of the first edition. Number twenty in the "Indiana University Poetry Series." Author's first book. Faint toning to the front endpaper, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple short closed tears, toning to spine, a couple small blemishes, and light rubbing to extremities, else fine. A very nice collectible.

A few of Kizer's writing distinctions: the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1985), the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, Borestone Award (6 times), and the Pushcart Prize (3 times).

New York: Holt Reinhart Winston, 1979 First printing of the stated first edition. Light toning to endpapers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a soft crease along upper front cover, faint toning to flap margins and a tiny nick to middle fore-edge of front cover, else fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first novel. Signed by David Prill directly on the title page, along with an original, hand-drawn sketch, by Prill, of a tombstone, which reads, "Have / A / Nice Day." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities, else fine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967 First printing of the first American edition. Light rubbing to board edge and light toning to outer page edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a small nick near middle front spine fold and a short crease to upper corner of the back flap, else fine. A lovely copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981 First printing of the first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light edge wear and a couple minor creases to bottom corner of inside flaps, else fine.

Philidelphia / London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932 First printing of the first edition. Faint wear to board edges, mild bump to bottom corner, and a light paper clip ghost to the upper edge of first few pages and faint toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple tiny closed tears, light edge wear, and toning/fading to spine, else fine.

Arlington: Future Horizons, 2005 First printing of the first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954 First printing of the first edition, pictorial cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, red and light green in publisher's original acetate ["transmatic"] dust jacket, patented in 1930, complete with printed paper front flap. Book with mild toning to spine and edge of boards and upper corners lightly bumped, else fine; dust jacket with a couple chips and closed tears to bottom back cover, else fine.