Search Results: Authors starting with U from Captain Ahab's Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Distinguished copy of this western novel, centered around a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice, and forced to accept the help of two unsavory strangers in the process. Basis for Anthony Mann's 1953 film adaptation, starring Jimmy Stewart, Janet Leight, and Robert Ryan. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, at the time, a rare honor for a western. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark orange paper and beige cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black and dark brown on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],175,[1]pp. The vault copy formerly retained by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library in Culver City, California, bearing their typed and rubber-stamped label on the front endpaper, and rubber-stamped address to two sides of the textblock, and lower margin of several internal pages. Light wear to spine ends, a bit of softening to crown, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Updike's penultimate collection of poems. Lurie (1926-2020), a friend and contemporary of Updike's, won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1984) two years after Updike won it for Rabbit Is Rich. In recent years she wrote a favorable review of The Widows of Eastwick ("Widcraft," 2009) in The New York Review, and sat on the committee for the inaugural John Updike Award (2011), presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A brief but meaningful inscription between two Pulitzer Prize-winners. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; xii,95,[3]pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie: "For Alison Lurie / Warm regards / John Updike / 4/15/01." Base of spine gently nudged, a few barely discernable foxed spots to upper board edges, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is… Read More

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1990. First Edition. Miniature volume printing eight poems, which first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, The Southern California Anthology, The New Republic, The Oxford American, Agni, and The Ontario Review. De Bellis & Broomfield A130.b. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'E'. Miniature book (7.5cm x 5.5cm); full red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and covers; publisher's matching red cloth slipcase; [viii],24,[4]pp. A Fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. New. First Printing. A Fine book in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket, with the original price of $4.50 intact. A collection of poems Updike wrote at 35, taking stock of his life at "midpoint" (though he lived well past 70).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. New. First Printing. A Fine copy of the uncorrected proof, bound in light bue wrappers, announcing an initial print run of 75,000 copies.

Newton, IA: Tamazunchale Press, 1984. First Edition. First separate appearance of this poem, which first saw publication in The New Yorker. De Bellis & Broomfield A103.a. One of 250 numbered copies, this being copy no.62. Miniature book (4.5cm x 6.5cm) bound in full dark brown calf, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover; cockerell endpapers; all edges gilt; [4][*],7-31,[5]pp. While not called for, this copy has been signed by the author on the half-title page. Fine, in the original plastic envelope with numbered sticker, as issued.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1990. First Edition. Miniature volume printing eight poems, which first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, The Southern California Anthology, The New Republic, The Oxford American, Agni, and The Ontario Review. De Bellis & Broomfield A130.a. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.75. Miniature book (7.5cm x 5.5cm); two-tone decorative paper-covered boards, with title verically printed in red on spine; [viii],24,[4]pp. A Fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. New. First Printing. A Fine copy of the uncorrected proof, bound in plain beige wraps, announcing an initial print run of 75,000 copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. New. First Printing. A Fine copy of the uncorrected proof, bound in plain white wrappers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. The concluding volume in Updike's best-selling Rabbit Angstrom quartet - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, beating out Linda Hogan and Tim O'Brien for the honor. De Bellis & Broomfield A133.c. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.329. Octavo (21cm); marbled paper boards and black cloth backstrip, blocked and titled in dark red and gilt on spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and patterned slipcase; [xii],512,[6]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial wear; slipcase showing some modest external wear; Near Fine.