Search Results: Titles starting with A from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

1951. Very Good. Very Good. One sheet, toned at the edges, two creases running horizontally, and with some minor handling wear. A typed letter signed by Spillane and with a few pencil manuscript additions in the margins. Here Spillane writes to Elliot [?] about his ambivalence regarding appearing in Newsweek. In the second paragraph, Spillane voices his dissatisfaction with his agent, who apparently never forwards Spillane his mail. Spillane then closes the letter with a reference to working on new material, possibly Kiss Me, Deadly given the date of this letter.

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.

London: Headline, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£17.99). Red boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with lightly toned pages, clean otherwise. The fifth Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock historical mystery.

London: The Bodley Head, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (16s net), pulling to the laminate. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The rare first state with the essay discussing the John Bodkin Adams case.

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, 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.

London: Edward Arnold, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Inscribed by Skinner on the front endpaper and with the original mailing label with Skinner's handwriting tipped in on the half-title page. About Good in the red publisher's cloth, faded on the spine, generally rubbed, torn along the top half of the back joint. Square, some reading wear, clean pages. A seemingly pleasant account of Skinner's time in Abyssinia--today's Ethiopia. He writes in the Preface, "For my part, I bring back pleasant memories of a kind and light-hearted race, whose grave courtesy and sometimes affection I am not likely ever to forget. I rejoice over the face that I took to these people from a great Government a message of goodwill, unembittered by a single ungenerous thought, and that I had nothing to ask which they might not willingly grant." Robert P. Skinner served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, later serving as an Ambassador to Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey.

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, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the surface and edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Tyler's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel and Pulitzer Prize finalist, adapted into the 1988 film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed at the edges, a few small closed tears, toned and soiled at the back panel and flaps. Black cloth with gilt lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Another Hemingway love story set in wartime Italy, this time with an aging war vet reflecting on his experiences during the first World War.

London: Faber and Faber, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Pound. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), toned at the spine, multiple chips and tears at the edges. Red cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, clean internally. Pound's anthology meant to familiarize the British readership with poets he found significant, namely William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, Louis Aragon, E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, George Oppen, D.G. Bridson, T.S. Eliot, and of course, Pound himself.

New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Paperback. Fine. Edited by Chase Horton. Foreword by Christopher Paolini. Deluxe Edition. Seventh Printing. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.50), generally toned, a few small closed tears and creases. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, endpapers faded along the edges, clean otherwise. The adapted transcripts of tape recordings captured by Ralph Tefferteller at the Henry Street Settlement in New York during 1957 of drug addicts "[speaking] freely of their inner lives, their hopes and fears, their families and friends, their loves and hates, and the endless round of need and 'fix.'

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.

San Diego: Corinth Publications, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Nightstand NB1791. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and toned. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A sleaze novel about resort instructor Roy and his various sexual exploits. One of the many adult novels published under the J.X. Williams pseudonym.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. As told to Clifford George Gewecke Jr. Inscribed by Ashe on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally rubbed and bumped with a few small chips and creases. Green cloth, toned at the edges. Square and firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a few instances of underlining, clean otherwise. Ashe's first book, published a year before his first Grand Slam title at the 1968 U.S. Open.

London: Constable and Company Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Presentation copy inscribed by Shaw to his friend Sydney Cockerell. Near Fine. Black paper on the boards, a few spots of rubbing at the edges and corners. Square, mostly firmly bound except for the over-opened front hinge, bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Shaw's satirical novel illustrated by John Farleigh.

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. Edited by Kendell Foster Crossen. Second Printing. Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally rubbed at the surface and edges. Blue cloth, faded from a tidemark on the lower inch of the boards, with yellow ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally. An anthology of fifteen stories about the future from the likes of Asimov, Boucher, Bradbury, Sturgeon, Kuttner, van Vogt, among others.

Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. With a note on the author by Tom Schantz. Illustrations by Enid Schantz. Inscribed by Tom and Enid Schantz on the half-title. Very Good. Wraps faded at the spine, bumped at the top-right corner. Square and firmly bound with two staples, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of two Sherlockian pastiches by the inventor of Hildegarde Withers, together with Palmer's essay on how the pastiches came about.

New York: Random House, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned and rubbed, a few small closed tears at the edges. Pictorial boards with some rubbing at the surface. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name and booklpate inside the front board.