Search Results: Titles starting with W from Quill & Brush

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1988). First edition. A behind-the-scenes look at women in broadcasting. INSCRIBED BY SANDERS AND ROCK, "10/25/88 | To [Cooper? Casper?] - | with appreciation - | Marlene Sanders | Marcia Rock." The "groundbreaking first history of the 'underground' women's movement at the networks ... told with no holds barred by a leader of that struggle, which is still going on." -- Betty Friedan, dust jacket blurb. Sanders (1931-2015) was the first woman to anchor a major-network newscast, first woman to report from the field during the Vietnam War, and first female national news division executive. Rock is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and professor of Journalism at NYU. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Sanders, Leslie Stahl, Faith Daniels, Diane Sawyer, Andrea Mitchell, Carole Simpson, Hilary Brown, et al. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First edition. A tale of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York. INSCRIBED BY BELL on title page, "For Uncle Walter/ & Aunt Jane/ who taught me some of/ everything I know/ Madison Smartt Bell." 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 Bell was elected for membership in 2003. His wife, Jane Harrison Sullivan (1923-2022), taught English literature at Aquinas College. Near fine with text block slightly tanned; in near fine dust jacket with few minor creases and rubs.

New York: Crown Publishers, (1975). First edition. SIGNED BY LYTLE on the dedication page. "The long-awaited family chronicle of one of this country's most distinguished and highly respected men of letters" (from the jacket flap). Although not indicated as such in the book, this copy from the collection of Walter Sullivan (1924-2006), who studied under Lytle at the Iowa Writer's Workshop before becoming an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature, and -- along with Lytle -- one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. 8vo light brown cloth boards stamped in copper on spine; includes map and family tree; 270 pages. Spine tips and corners lightly rubbed otherwise near fine in very good, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, (1996). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Minor creasing to fore edges of few interior pages, still fine in dust jacket.

San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1996). First edition. A Harvest paperback original. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife, "For Tony & Helen: with best wishes, Charlie / Nov 14, 1996 / Strafford, N.H." Fine in pictorial white paperwraps printed in black and red.

([New York]: Sea Cliff Press, 1989). First edition. One of 150 copies. Printed as "a keepsake for the Modern Poetry and Publishing Conference held at Brown University June 1-4, 1989." Single sheet folded twice to make four 5.5 x 8.5" pages including covers. Inner pages with poem by Wilbur illustrated with a wood engraving by Dean Bornstein. Fine.

(New York): Phaedra, 1966. First edition. This copy with red endpapers vs. white and without 3rd line under "Distribution" on rear flap of dust jacket [Juliar A19.1, variant d, no known priority. NOTE: per Juliar's update, although the copyright page is the same, copies in darker blue cloth with dark blue dust jackets are 2nd printings]. 8vo blue cloth boards stamped in black; 111 pages. Near fine with just a touch of rubbing to spine ends; in very good to near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and barest wear.

London: Dennis Dobson, (1967). First UK edition and first edition in hardback of this Hugo Award-winning book. In first-issue dust jacket without Seacon seal on front cover. Bright and near fine in like dust jacket with spine subtly tanned, light crease to top front panel, and only mild soiling to rear panel.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). First edition. SIGNED BY URREA. Memoirs by the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Ruminations on nature, music and poetry written while wandering the West with his cat, Rest Stop. Fine in fine dust jacket.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964. First UK edition. Light name on front free endpaper (partially erased) and upper tips slightly bumped, otherwise fine in yellow Gollancz dust jacket with a few short closed edge tears with tape repair on verso, spine slightly tanned and shallow chipping to head of spine and tips. A very bright copy.

Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1944. First edition. Collection of eleven poems reflecting the poet's pacifist philosophy, the last one written "in 1943 shortly after my induction into a camp for conscientious objectors here on the Oregon coast." This version published November 1944 in an edition of 975 copies. Preceded by a mimeographed version lacking "War Elegy V." Pale orange paperwraps printed in blue and black; approximately 6.25 x 9.5". Covers sunned along spine fold, tanned along edges, and showing some scuffing and small stains; rear lower corner chipped. Still a good or better copy of this fragile production with interior nearly fine.

New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition. SIGNED by author. Covers Bush, Clinton and the Generals. Fine in near fine dust jacket with the barest wear.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1938). First edition. A novel by the playwright most famous for his plays "Holiday" (1928) and "The Philadelphia Story" (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant (Wiki). Rough, light-brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on front and spine. Endpapers a little darkened and lightly foxed, spine and top edge slightly toned, still very good in good or better dust jacket which nicks, tears and large chips affecting only the margins (not affecting the lettering or author photo on the back).

London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. First edition. In first-issue binding without mounted illustration on front cover and with gilt stamping to front and spine. The story of a Cockney cycle-repairer carried off by a drifting balloon and caught up in a surprise German air attack on New York City -- which in turn precipitates the collapse of civilization. 8vo blue cloth; 389 pages plus 2 pages of ads; 15 full-plate Illustrations by A. C. Michael, including frontis. About very good with endpapers darkened (offset from binding), scattered foxing, spine slightly toned, and light rubbing to spine ends and folds.

London: Secker & Warburg, (1990). First edition of the author's first book. SIGNED in year of publication. Usual tanning to the pages, paper thinned where erasure at head of half-title page, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket with inconspicuous imperfection in finish.

(New York): Delacorte Press, (1981). First edition. Near fine with light foxing to the outside edges of the text block (inside clean) and light fading to edges; in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips and creases.

New York: Viking Press, 1983. First edition. His first novel. SIGNED by Bell on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket with barest shelf wear to edges.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. First U.S. edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK -- SIGNED by Banks. Written from the first-person perspective of a sixteen-year-old describing his childhood, which included deaths within his family. Fine in dust jacket with only the barest wear on the spine ends.

New York: Creative Age Press, 1949. First edition. Published in England as Seven Days in Crete. Fine in dust jacket with minor wear on cornrs and spine ends.

New York: Random House, (1950). First edition. SIGNED BY CLARK on front endpaper in Carson City, Nevada, January 1951. The short-story collection from the author of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT with the first appearance of the title novella, THE WATCHFUL GODS. Barest wear still both book and dust jacket are bright and fine.