Search Results: Authors starting with S from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presentation copy from Virginia E. Jenckes, the first woman from Indiana to be elected into the House of Representatives. Very Good. Bluck buckram, rubbed at the edges, some surface scratches and stains, with gilt lettering and designs on the front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, a moisture stain at the top edge and over to the top of the outer edge. A written account of the proceedings in the Senate and Statuary Hall for accepting a statue of Andrew Jackson created by Belle Kinney Scholz. The text includes addresses from President Calvin Coolidge as well as senators from Tennessee, Maryland, Ohio, Alabama, and Iowa.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00), a few spots of rubbing. Tan buckram with yellow paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Sacks' profund investigation into seven neurological diseases and their surprising manifestations.

New York: Olympia Press, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Olympia Book Society. Second Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly rubbed. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly rubbed at the surface. Brown cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Salas' novel of Aaron D'Aragon and his time in a California prison farm for adolescents, the tale of "how a toughly religious street hoodlum makes of himself a saint and martyr.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Second State. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.00), rubbed and toned on the surface, a few small chips and tears. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of two stories of Salinger's Glass family.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, generally toned and rubbed, a few closed tears. Orange cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, with black ink lettering on the spine and front boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and preliminaries, former owner's stamp on the front endpaper. A bibliomystery that takes Mr. Tomlinson on a sinister adventure in Peru.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Published as part of the Understanding Contemporary American Literature series, a collection of introductory volumes on how to read contemporary writing critically.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, faintly rubbed at the edges. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A first book in the series.

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95), closed tear at the top edge. Quarter black cloth with yellow paper on the boards, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Salzman's book about his experiences in post-Cultural Revolution China.

New York: Scribner's, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Foreword by Ernest Hemingway. Inscribed by Samuels on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly toned, a couple small closed tears at the spine. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An early Hemingway bibliography divided into eight sections: books, short stories, poetry, contributions to periodicals, first appearances in book form, prefaces and introductions, and unclassified works. Scarce in the jacket, scarcer still signed.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally toned and rubbed, a few small chips, tape repair at the head of the spine. Navy blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square, bound with a blue top stain, front hinge a bit loose from being signed, firm otherwise. Sandburg's only novel, an epic of American history.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Early Printing. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler. Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($7.50), chipped and with some old tape repairs. Red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A one-volume edition that abridges Sandburg's six-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally rubbed and worn at the edges, some creases and chips. Blue buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, some rippling to the photographs, clean otherwise. A collection of Sandburg's writing about World War II.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Later Printing. Inscribed by Sandburg on the front endpaper to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.25), toned at the spine and edges, tape at the head of the spine, a chip at the top of the front panel. Red buckram, rubbed at the edges, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus edition of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories with their original illustrations by the Petershams. In his inscription, Sandburg references the inscribees' similarity to "The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Sandburg on the front endpaper to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), rubbed and bumped at the edges with a few small chips and closed tears. Blue buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, some rippling to the photographs, clean otherwise. A collection of Sandburg's writing about World War II.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Early Printing. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler. Fine in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($7.50), flaps separated, chipped and with some tears and creases throughout. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The Pulitzer Prize-winning collection from one of America's most celebrated poets.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. Presentation Copies. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler on the front endpaper of Volume I of each set. Fine. Navy blue buckram with gilt lettering and rules on the spines. Square and firmly bound with pale yellow top stains, clean internally. A nice complete set of Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of fellow Illinoisan and 16th President of the United States.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 750 copies, this one inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. Very Good. Green cloth, faded and with a few stains at the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A transcript of Sandburg's address given to Congress to commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Biographical outline by Grace M. Mayer. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. About Very Good. Wraps generally toned and with some stains, short tears across the spine, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Henry Holt, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Issue. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Dark blue buckram with gilt lettering and designs, rubbed on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, bookplate inside the front board. Sandburg's major publication debut, including the poem that coined Chicago as the "City of Big Shoulders.