Search Results: Titles starting with U from Quill & Brush

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, (1962). First edition. Uncorrected proof in tan, printed paperwraps. "Coming March 19, 1962" printed in black on upper front cover over-stamped in red and with "BOMC Selection Coming June 26, 1962" stamped in red beneath, as usually seen. Top corner of cover and first 32 pages clipped (not affecting any text), a few small stains, otherwise good to very good.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First U.S. edition, issued for subscriber's only. One of 1,250 numbered copies SIGNED BY MOORE. An historical romance tracing Sir Ulick de Burgo's pursuit of the Princess Soracha in 14th-century Ireland. Housed in the original corrugated cardboard sleeve and box with title, author and publisher printed on cover and numbers (presumably for shelving purposes) handwritten on top. Box is slightly soiled and worn on edges but still very good. Book is fine in slightly tanned but otherwise near fine dust jacket. BONI & LIVERIGHT EPHEMERA

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, (1963). First Canadian edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST book. Originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1933, this edition reflects revisions Lowry made before his death and contains a new introduction by his widow, Margerie Lowry. Name and address stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in dust jacket with light edge rubbing.

New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. Second edition or printing, presumably from the Dodd, Mead sheets, as their ads are bound in at end. His first novel, curiously, about whites. Grayish-tan cover with decorations and lettering in pale blue outlined in black. Few specks of foxing to covers and the barest wear on corners, otherwise bright and fine.

New York: Twayne Publishers, (1958). First edition. Illustrated. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A look behind the scenes during the Reconstruction of Washington D.C. after the Civil War. Near fine in good dust jacket with some wear, damp stains and mending.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. First edition. First issue with "presumptive" in last line page 9 (versus "presumptuous"). An enduring though controversial Southern classic illustrated by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser. Small 8vo brown cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover stamped in black with pictorial of Brer Rabbit smoking a pipe in gilt; green butterflies-and-flowers patterned endpapers; 231 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads. The stories, songs and sayings herein were gathered and adapted by Harris, a White journalist, from Black people enslaved on a Georgia plantation. While Harris's intent, according to his foreword, may have been to preserve and celebrate traditional African-American oral stories, it should be noted that he nonetheless appropriated them and subsequently profited from doing so. Very good to near fine with gilt strong and spine ends and corners only slightly nicked and worn.

New York: Grove Press, (1989). First edition. Mamet's adaptation from a literal translation by Vlada Chernomordik. Slender paperback illustrated on front cover with photograph of a young Christopher Walken from the first staging of the play at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, April 16, 1988. Front blank shows some wrinkling and a hint of staining otherwise near fine. There can't have been many copies in this, the first printing -- it is otherwise unaccountably scarce.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First U.S. edition. Uncorrected proof in white paperwraps. Near fine.

New York: Norton & Co, (1987). First edition. Advance reading copy in pictorial paperwraps. Author's first book. Minor soiling otherwise fine.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. George Plank. First edition. Illustrated by George Plank. The story of making a home out of a dilapidated weekend cottage. Near fine in good to very good price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to spine ends and corners, spine a bit tanned and rubbed and rear panel somewhat soiled. Scarce.

Fuquay-Varina, NC: Research Triangle Publishing, (1996). First edition of this self-published travelogue written wholly in verse. A remarkable achievement, it would seem; eleven days covered in 288 pages, opening with, "According to the watchword, our play has started./ Time was midnight; the date a dark gray Christmas./ Working a year, three hundred sixty-five days,/ We earned a fortnight's holiday to play.// The name of the play: the 'Winter Vacation';/ The place: the island of Aruba in the Caribbean./ Transportation: a steelbird;/ The cast on the stage: our family of four." Illustrated with drawings, presumably by Rhee. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front endpaper, "December 11, 1996/ Chi Sun Rhee." Fine in fine dust jacket. Although not indicated as such in the book, this copy is from the collection of poet, short story writer, and Faulkner scholar Louis Daniel Brodsky. "Time was midnight; the date a dark gray Christmas.

New York: Henry Holt, (1986). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Faint stain on front free endpaper, spine ends a little bumped, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.

London: Methuen, 1911. First edition. Conrad labored for several years over this work, which was written after the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. He suffered a nervous breakdown after delivering it to his publisher, of which his wife, Jessie Conrad, wrote: "he lives mixed up in the scenes and holds converse with the characters." One of only 2,250 copies. Red cloth with spine lettering and design stamped in gold; 32-page publisher's catalog dated September 1911 at rear. (Copies are variously noted with catalogs dated August or September). Spine slightly faded, minor nicks to spine ends, otherwise very good.

New York: Underground Communications, 1967. First edition of each, the only two issues published by the short-lived digest. "The Underground Digest selects and edits the best of the new press -- the lively new writing that characterizes an age of drastic change throughout the country...[from]...the best of hundreds of regional publications, as well as original material from the literary talent of the future." FIRST ISSUE comprised for the most part of material reprinted from the 31 newspapers and magazines listed inside rear cover as "Members of the Underground Press Syndicate" (Avatar, Berkeley Barb, Canadian Free Press, East Village Other, Fifth Estate, Graffitti, Guerrilla, Helix, et al) with what appear to be original record and book reviews by editor Castell and Christopher Watson, respectively. SECOND ISSUE is a mix of reprinted and original material with Bukowski's contribution, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," pp. 76-79, reprinted from "Open City"; Hoffman's "Diggery is [offensive word]" printed… Read More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2005). First edition. Autobiography from the noted William Faulkner biographer. INSCRIBED BY BLOTNER on front endpaper, "For Walter and Jane,/ the dearest of friends/ with love from/ Joe," and signed in full on title page. Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers, to which Blotner was elected for membership in 2001. His wife, Jane Harrison Sullivan (1923-2022), taught English literature at Aquinas College. Near fine with spine slightly shaken and touch of rubbing at tips; in near fine dust jacket with few tiny nicks to rear flap fold.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1986). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To --- in appreciation - with best wishes always! Phyllis Naylor." Page edges slightly age darkened, otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. Story set in the Chesapeake Bay area.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1961). First edition. Her first book, a collection of poetry. INSCRIBED on first page and on her laid-in business card "to Elaine and Sam, her guardian angels." Very good in pictorial paperwraps (a simultaneous hardback was also published) with minor fading on spine and edges and a little rubbed.

(Hinsdale, IL: Unitarian Church, 1951). First edition. "What America needs, and what the world needs most in our day, is a great free secular church." Off-white, stapled paperwraps printed in black and red; 17 pages. About very good with covers a little rumpled and few small tears. Quite scarce. OCLC locates only 2 copies.

Aldershot: Printed by Gale & Polden, (1933). First edition, for "Private Circulation Only." A brief history of the United Services Proprietary College at Westward Ho!, Kipling's preparatory school with a preface by his old roommate, Major-General Lionel "Stalky" Dunsterville. Includes Kipling's poem "The Song of the Exiles," which first appeared in the United Services College Chronicle in 1883 and was later collected in EARLY VERSE (1900). Also includes Kipling's July 25 1894 speech on the retirement of Headmaster Cornell Price, which was first collected in KIPLING'S COLLEGE (1929). Illustrated with photographs, including a few of Kipling. Blue cloth-covered flexible boards stamped in gilt on front only with school emblem ("Fear God Honour the King") and "To Commemorate a Great School." Intended as a memory book for past students of the school which was established to serve "the need for a school where the sons of officers of the two Services could be given a good education at a moderate fee" (p.2).… Read More

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1899. Second revised edition. First Baedeker originally written in English. Includes 19 color maps and 24 color "plans" (also maps), many of which are double or folding. 16mo gilt-stamped red cloth over flexible boards; all edges marbled; ribbon place marker; 579 pages including index. Name on first blank, small chip to rear free endpaper, covers in very good to near fine condition with only few tiny areas of boards exposed. The maps & plans, all of which have been accounted for, are altogether near fine with only a few showing marginal foxing -- with the exception of the large U.S. map at rear which has been pasted down along its left side, evidently to stop a longish tear there, and is showing a few splits and tears at folds. Still, scarce in this overall nice condition.