Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Poet's first collection. SIGNED BY VOIGT on the title page, clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."
Hardcover. Seymour, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustafson, SIGNED BY GUSTAFSON on half title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED TWICE: First to "Helen and Alec from Francis Steegmuller." Then comes the explanation: "This copy was sent to the philosopher Alexander Meikeljohn and his wife by my husband, Francis Steegmuller before our marriage in 1963." and that is SIGNED SHIRLEY HAZZARD, Breadloaf, Aug. 1999. Hazzard's first book.
Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good hardback bound in publisher's shaped boards cut in the shape of a house and issued without a jacket. SIGNED in black marker by Barnett and Horowitz on the rear board.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY WELDON on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED ( MORE LIKE INITIALED) BY CONNELLY. Like new condition.
Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Appletree Alley, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Numbered and signed by author #68/150. Linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Author's first book SIGNED by him on front end paper. Some edgewear and tanning to white dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA AND ROBERT VAN NUTT opposite title-page. Illustrations by Robert Van Nutt.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SELF on title page. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1962, world-class photographer Douglas Kirkland spent three weeks with the most important fashion icon of all time, Coco Chanel. Over the course of this stay, Kirkland photographed Coco with her friends, on the runway, and in the privacy of her homes. Kirkland reveals these never-before-seen b&w photographs in all their vibrancy, shedding new light on one of the world"s most enduring, multi-faceted, and bestselling fashion legends of all time. INSCRIBED BY KIRKLAND on the title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Mass, Little Brown, 1st, February 2, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 256 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, previous price sticker on rear of price-clipped dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W. Colston Leigh, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles on front and spine, unpaginated, b&w cartoons throughout, drawings from Judge, The Bystander, Life, New Yorker and College Humor. SIGNED BY BAIRNSFATHER on the front fly leaf. Mild crease to first four pages, tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. Fort Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, to fellow poet John Engels. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR opposite title page. Clean, tight copy in protective glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, red cloth covers in an unclipped dust jacket with light darkening to edges and spine. INSCRIBED BY SPENDER to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck: "To Roger/My guide through/ Cambridge and Casablanca/with a great many thanks/Stephen Spender/Cambridge 1955".
Softcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY DELANTY on the title page. Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Clean copy.
NY, Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching light green boards with dark green cloth spines with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. BOTH VOLUMES SIGNED BY DE LA MARE on front fly leaf. Cover and edges show shelf wear. Volume two with light soil, stain to cover. Name on inside front covers. Pages are clean and intact.
Softcover. Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 417 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on front end paper. Two dog-eared pages. light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Top edge dyed. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. SIGNED BY BRIGGS opposite title page. Introduction is dated January, 1913. The author was Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. This volume contains four essays, two each from two of Briggs' earlier works -- School, College, and Character, and Ideals -- focused mainly on students. 124 pages. Clean copy. Laid in is a folded mimeographed sheet: "Message from Dean Briggs of Harvard", date unknown.