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The Color Of Water
by James McBride
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos"...
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Christ In Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
One L
by Scott Turow
"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human." -The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel...
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MIDSTREAM. MY LATER LIFE
by KELLER, Helen
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribee's tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown; slight darkening to the spine with light fraying to the tips. Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel Mather/Lest he forget me/with every...
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A$1,646.24
ANGELA'S ASHES. A MEMOIR
by McCOURT, Frank
(New York): Scribner, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. The moving Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography by this Irish-born New York City teacher, made into a fine film. This is an exceptional Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page at the time of publication to R'lene Dahlberg who heads the list of Acknowledgments for the book as the one who "fanned the embers." Dahlberg, the sixth of seven wives of author Edward Dahlberg,...
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A$4,841.88
POEMS OF EXCHANGE
by Barnstone, Willis
Athens: (No Publisher), 1951. First edition. With six poems translated from the Spanish of Antonio Machado. INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper with a rather lengthy note to a friend: "Dear Mr. and Mrs. --- You know , honestly, in spite of 2 1/2 years of silence, I'm sure of the same intimacy with you...." Very good minus in light green, printed paperwraps with spine and front cover tanned, covers lightly soiled and corners bumped; one-inch tear split at head of spine, and inside rear cover shows few...
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A$92.96
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) with a 21-WORD HOLOGRAPH POSTSCRIPT
by KENNEDY, John F
Washington DC, 21 May 1953. Framed Letter. Fine, attractively framed. On 8-1/2" x 11" United States Senate stationery to John Keegan thanking him for his views "concerning the security test for federal employees" and promising to consider them "should legislation be brought before the Senate." SIGNED at the conclusion with the following 21 words added in Kennedy's hand: "I am having a study made of the new program at the present time and shall bear in mind your comment." The last 3 words are on the...
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A$8,715.38
SWEET MAN
by Millen, Gilmore
New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore Millen/ Los Angeles/ June 11, 1930." The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old...
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A$658.50
THE WIFE OF WINTER: Poems
by Browne, Micheal Dennis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1970). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED on the title page: "for Allen and Helen --with love from Michael / West Redding January 21, 1971," with tiny drawing of a flower in a flower pot. In addition, on page 33 under the poem "La Fille Aux Cheveux De," the author has written in the same black marker used on the title page "Limekiln Road August 1968." Fine in dust jacket.
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A$69.72
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Forty-Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean; mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine. Octavo (5" x 7-1/2") in original gilt-decorated green cloth. A Grolier American 100 book. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank: "Harold C. Ernst/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell Holmes./August 7th 1888." Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from the author to Dr. Ernst dated 28 February 1891 thanking him for a lecture he sent to Holmes...
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A$1,646.24
PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: A BOOK OF THOUGHTS AND ARGUMENTS Signed by Samuel Morse to his cousin a week before he married her
by [MORSE, Samuel F. B.] TUPPER, Martin Farquhar
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Light, scattered foxing; extremities rubbed. Very Good or better. Two parts bound in one small octavo volume (5" x 7-3/8") in full black morocco leather; all edges gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front flyleaf: "Miss Sarah Elizabeth Griswold/from her affectionate Cousin/Sam. F. B. Morse/August 1st 1848." Morse married his first wife, Lucretia Walker, on 29 September 1819 in New Hampshire; she died in 1825 after the birth of their third...
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A$6,778.63
A CRACKLING OF THORNS
by HOLLANDER, John
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Hollander's first book, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill who has more than helped/John May 1958."
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A$387.35
THE LONE STRIKER
by FROST, Robert
(New York): (Knopf), (1933). First Edition. wraps. Fine in original plain envelope neatly opened at the top. A small pamphlet containing just the title poem and issued as Number Eight of the Borzoi Chap Books series. Crane A17: 2000 copies. This copy INSCRIBED to Russell Alberts and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover and as such is fairly scarce.
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A$1,646.24
A HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CONCORD, 12TH SEPT. 1835 with A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo with SHATTUCK, Lemuel
Concord: G. F. Bemis/John Stacy, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. The Shattuck title page reinforced at the gutter. Near Fine, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Original blindstamped publisher's dark brown cloth containing in this order: Shattuck's HISTORY OF CONCORD (viii, 392 pages with folding map); an offprint REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, No. XCI (20 pages); and importantly, Emerson's address on the Second Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of...
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A$48,418.75
THE GREAT GOD BROWN. THE FOUNTAIN. THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES. And Other Plays
by O'NEILL, Eugene
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. A number of marginal marks and changes to publication dates in the text, all in pencil, possibly by Sergeant. Spine dull but readable with light wear to the tips. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To/Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant--/Eugene O'Neill." Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant published her first article in 1910 in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE where she met Willa Cather, who was working as an...
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A$2,905.12
MODERN EUROPEAN VERSE. THE POCKET POETS
by (ABSE, Dannie) editor
London: Vista Books, (1964). First Edition. Softcover. Small skim mark on rear, otherwise Fine. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith: "'We are most our own strange selves when we are hosts.'/For Bill,/whose Apollinaire translations/would have been in here had/I known them earlier/Dannie Abse/June '64."
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A$154.94
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED: "A Nearly Next to Naught Song"
by FROST, Robert
[@1957]. Manuscript. Fine. Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete poem of 29 lines titled "A Nearly Next to Naught Song," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard Hocking/once the author's pupil for/a lesson or two at Shady Hill/or rather on the porch on/Irving Street" on a 6-1/8" x 7-3/4" piece of paper. In the upper right corner in pencil Hocking has written "1957." The text is the poem published as "A Never Naught Song" in the 1962 volume...
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A$11,620.50
AN ARMADA OF THIRTY WHALES
by HOFFMAN, Daniel G
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine. Poet's first book, INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill, whose praise at their/advent and whose friendship since/are among the most pleasant returns/these poems have brought me./Dan/Swarthmore/3 June 1961." Laid in is a small original color photograph of Meredith with a little girl annotated on the rear by Hoffman and an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from...
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A$484.19
HUSH
by ST. JOHN, David
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine. Poet's first book. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED in 1983 on the front endpaper: "For Bill Meredith/with endless respect/+ admiration,/+ in all good cheer!/David."
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A$116.21
WEATHERS AND EDGES
by BOOTH, Philip
New York: The Viking Press, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust spotting to the top edge. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "For Bill Meredith/who knows/these weathers and edges/in good friendship/over many seasons...." SIGNED publisher's compliments card laid in.
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A$193.68
THE REPUBLIC OF MANY VOICES
by ZIMMER, Paul
New York: October House, Inc., (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a sunned spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "Dec. 16, 1969/For William Meredith/with admiration/Paul Zimmer." Laid in are 2 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED and a TYPED MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Zimmer to Meredith.
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A$193.68
GATHERING FIREWOOD. NEW POEMS AND SELECTED
by RAY, David
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1974). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Decorated wraps, aslo issued in hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1974 to the poet William Meredith "in friendship & admiration." Laid in is a AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on a postcard by Ray to Meredith as well as a large promotional card for the book from David Ignatow.
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A$96.84
![CORRIDOR [Inscribed with a drawing - -together with a copy of his first book, SECOND SIGHT]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/964/158/853158964.0.b.jpg)
CORRIDOR [Inscribed with a drawing - -together with a copy of his first book, SECOND SIGHT]
by Aaron, Jonathan
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, (1992). First edition. His second collection of poems. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "For Tony, with--poems, or no poems--Love [underlined], from Jonathan" beneath which he's sketched a chair and captioned it "Chair, EOS Hotel, Zurich, 21.v.92." Fine in glossy, black, pictorial paperwraps. TOGETHER with SECOND SIGHT, his first collection of poems, selected and with an introduction by Hecht. (NY: Harper & Row, 1982; fine in fine...
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A$193.68
ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK)
by FROST, Robert
New York: Spiral Press, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. Crane B21: 3060 total copies printed, this one of 225 with Frost's own imprint. INSCRIBED but not signed by Frost on the title page: "To the Hockings wherever they are/meditating the wrong Muse." Richard Hocking seems to have been an acquaintance of Frost's during the 1920s and 1930s, having graduated from Harvard in 1928 and earning a Master's there shortly after. When inscribing Christmas greetings, Frost would often not sign...
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A$871.54
WINTER BROTHERS: A Season at the Edge of America
by Doig, Ivan
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. "Best wishes through all the seasons of life. Ivan Doig." Near fine with a faint sticker shadow on front pastedown and light soiling on page edges; in a lightly soiled dust jacket.
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A$193.68
TALES TOLD OF THE FATHERS. POEMS
by HOLLANDER, John
New York: Atheneum, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill,/from John Hollander/New London, Sept. 1978/and from 20 years/before/as well."
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A$193.68
LOT OF SEVEN BOOKS, EACH ONE INSCRIBED TO POET LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY: Color of Darkness; Malcolm; The Nephew; Children Is All
by Purdy, James
(New York, et al.: Farrar; New Directions; et al., 1959 - 1962). A mix of first edition hardcovers, later printings and paperbacks, all of which are INSCRIBED by Purdy to Brodsky. COLOR OF DARKNESS, (New York): New Directions, (1957), second printing, INSCRIBED, "For Louis Brodsky with sincere good wishes from James Purdy," fine in fine dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. COLOR OF DARKNESS, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1961, first paperback edition, adding an introduction by Dame Edith Sitwell,...
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A$387.35
Angels
by Johnson, Denis (SIGNED)
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Author's first novel; an immaculate copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY DENIS JOHNSON. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst with his armorial bookplate laid-in. 209 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket, first edition, stated.
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A$612.01
