Search Results: Authors starting with U from Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. as NEW. 602 pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red and black boards with white printing on spine. Red, black, grey, and white dustjacket. From inside cover: From a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the american family writ large. Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing; his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry; and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief.

Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/good. 304pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with decorative gilt stamped titles. The spine is heavily rolled, and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front free endsheet. The bookplate is covering a name in dark red pen that has bled through to the verso of the page. There is also a faint erased pencil notation on the front free endsheet. Else, the pages are clean. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with much insect nibbling to the edges and surface. The story of one of Arizona's most distinguished pioneer families, a major contribution to the archives of Arizoniana, and at the same time a large chapter in the history of the Mormons.

Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 304pp. Octavo [23 cm.]Maroon Publishers buckram binding with gilt title on front and backstrip. Pictorial dust jacket in Near Fine condition, slight discoloration to backstrip and light markings on back. Interior clean. Near Fine/ Fine. Illustrations on pastedowns. Black and white photographs throughout book. Ex-libris Levi Edgar Young. This book was written for the children and grandchildren of David King Udall, fortunately they made it available "to those who wish to know more of the diversity of the rich cultural influences of that noted pioneer group that did so much to make Arizona what it is today.

Germany: Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1978. First German edition.

Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. SIGNED. 68 pp. Oblong octavo. [23 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Top right corner of front cover slightly scuffed. Fore edges ever so subtely worn. Signrf by the author in black ink on the half title page. This book features his black and white photographs from the span of 1973-1996 taken in Yosemite National Park. Uelsman is known for his creative experimentation in the darkroom, and coined the term "postvisualization". He describes this process as a playful exploration using his extensive archive of medium format negatives and a dozen enlargers, crafting images which speak to complex themes such as environmental decay. For example, many of the images of the beautiful landscape of Yosemite in this book feature architectural or anatomical details.

Santa Fe, NM: Windom Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Jena Rawley-Whitaker. SIGNED. Slim quarto [28 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. With a matching dust jacket. The jacket shows light edge wear. Signed with brief inscriptions (not personalized) by both the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper.

Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. Octavo. Light brown cloth spine and boards. Very faint bump at the tail of the spine. 469 pages. Dust Jacket - has just a trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Beautiful copy.

San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1981. Second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Thin quarto [27.5 cm] Saddle-stitched illustrated wraps with a Robert Crumb illustration on the front wrap. Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the '80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from "Stomp" Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more! From Last Gasp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. 386pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Hardcover in decorative purple cloth with jacket. Foxing, toning, short tears, and several small chips to jacket, jacket spine chipped to a depth of 1 cm; interior is clean and lightly toned, with a few signatures slightly shaken. The second volume of Nobel Laureate Undset's sweeping trilogy of medieval Norway.

1942. Ephemera. Very Good +. Advertisement leaflet folded in half [8 1/2" x 11"]; when opened [17" x 11"]. The cover portrays Yellowstone's bears with human features. Inside, the schedules of the various rail lines are listed. The rear of the leaflet promotes Popular Escorted Low Cost Tours for 1942 Summer Vacation Season (Yellowstone National Park; The Utah-Arizona Wonderlands; Sun Valley, Idaho). Two light horizontal fold lines. Although not identified, the artwork is by Walter Oehrle. Oehrle created one of the most recognizable characters of 20th century advertising- Elsie the Cow. In addition he created paintings for Union Pacific Railroad and Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies." Oehrle was hired by the Union Pacific Railroad to illustrate the cover of their promotional pieces announcing the opening of Yellowstone each June.

Omaha Printing Company, 1941. Ephemera. Very Good. Advertisement leaflet folded in half [8 1/2" x 11"]; when opened [17" x 11"]. The cover portrays Yellowstone's bears with human features. The rear of the leaflet promotes Zion, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon. Two light horizontal fold lines. Small open tear to the fore-edge of the front wrap. Although not identified, the artwork is by Walter Oehrle. Oehrle created one of the most recognizable characters of 20th century advertising- Elsie the Cow. In addition he created paintings for Union Pacific Railroad and Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies." Oehrle was hired by the Union Pacific Railroad to illustrate the cover of their promotional pieces announcing the opening of Yellowstone each June.

1940. Ephemera. Very Good +. Advertisement leaflet folded in half [8 1/2" x 11"]; when opened [17" x 11"]. The cover portrays Yellowstone's bears with human features on a golf course. The rear of the leaflet lists the train schedule. Two light horizontal fold lines. Although not identified, the artwork is by Walter Oehrle. Oehrle created one of the most recognizable characters of 20th century advertising- Elsie the Cow. In addition he created paintings for Union Pacific Railroad and Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies." Oehrle was hired by the Union Pacific Railroad to illustrate the cover of their promotional pieces announcing the opening of Yellowstone each June.

Stockholm: Z. Haeggatroms, 1883. Paperback. Very good+. 78 pp. Softcover, printed wraps. Minor wear to edges, corners and spine ends. Spine sunned. Previous owner's name on the top of the front cover. Internally very good.

Stockholm: Ivar Haeggstroms Boktryckeri, Z. Haeggstroms Forlagsexpedition, 1883. Paperback. 78 pp. Duodecimo. Gray wraps. Subtle discoloring to wrappers, particularly at head and extremities, minor creasing to corners, name in ink at head of front cover. Early foreign imprint. Flake 9257d.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1999. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. SIGNED. 307pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and ornate gilt stamped embellishments on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page-marker. Minor scratch to foot of text block. Publisher's notes and Easton Press bookplate tucked in. Signed by John Updike on a tipped-in page at the front.

Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2003. Limited Edition. Paperback. Slim octavo [24 cm] Letterpress edition. Sewn by hand into Magnani wrappers. Good plus. There are large, but light damp stains on the covers, and the pages are rippled. One of 700 copies, printed in honor of John Updike's visit to Idaho in October of 2003. Limberlost is a small, fine press out of Boise, Idaho.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 98pp. Octavo. Beige cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine.

New York: Everyman's Library, 1995. First edition thus. Hardcover. INSCRIBED. 1519pp. Thick octavo [21 cm] Red and black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The text block is cracked at the title page. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. Rabbit Run was the book that established John Updike as a major novelist.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Richard Sparks. 512pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and ornate gilt stamped embellishments on the spine and covers. Embossed design to center of front board. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page-marker. Bottom fore-edge corners of the covers are just a tad bumped. Illustrated by Richard Sparks.

Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2003. First edition, 1/100. Hardcover. [30 pp.] Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with large illustrated paper label on front board, and a small paper label on backstrip. Letterpress edition. Fine. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Collection of thirteen poems from the award winning writer. Handbound by Ardinger's at the Limberlost Press in Boise.