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

San Francisco: Communications Co, 1974. Paperback. Near Fine. Early Printing. Near Fine. Orange wraps, bands of fading at the spine and edges, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A nicely preserved example of this important work in United States radicalism. In Prairie Fire, Dohrn, Ayers, and co. lay out their "strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial US," honed from five years of active revolutionizing within the United States.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Signed by Updike on one of the front free endpapers. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally toned. Yellow cloth, heavily foxed, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a brown top stain, clean internally. A collection of Updike's nonfiction prose written the previous decade, with topics including Ted Williams, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Muriel Spark, Max Beerbohm, among others.

Minneapolis: Redpath Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Updike on the title page. Illustrated by Etienne Delessert. Fine in the issued envelope, without the laid-in insert. A separately published edition of Updike's much anthologized short story set in the checkout line of a grocery store.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printings. Rabbit, Run is very good in a good jacket with the sixteen line blurb, unclipped ($4.00), generally rubbed and soiled, creased, chips and tears at the edges and particularly the head and foot of the spine. Green cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded along the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward leand, faint green top stain, some tidemarks at the top. The other three are fine in at least near fine jackets, Redux generally toned.

Greenwich: Fawcett Crest, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Eighth Printing. Good. Wraps toned and soiled, frayed at the foot of the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, former owner's name on the first page. The first work in Updike's acclaim Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy.

[n.p.]: Mabel J. McKean, 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Stiff wraps generally soiled, former owner's name and information written at the top, bumped and with some short tears at the yapp. Square and firmly bound with three staples, former owner's name on one of the front free endpapers and again in the text itself, clean otherwise. A scarce "history" of Mars, including its geography and accounts of martians and their economy, knowledge of Einstein's theory of relativity, and even their interactions with Jesus Christ ten thousand years ago.