Search Results: ASSOCIATION COPIES from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

London: Macmillan, 1854. First edition. Original wine-colored cloth, corners and edges worn, covers faded and marked, internally very good. 19.5 × 13cm, xxiv + 172pp + 16pp ads dated June 1854, yellow endpapers with ads for the publisher's series of Theological Manuals. Colbeck describes his "first state" copy as having a November catalogue, however he notes that "first edition sheets sold slowly, and were bound up on several occasions." Our copy does have the leaf of "Works by the same author," tipped in before the half-title, which Colbeck erroneously thought did not appear in early copies. This copy is inscribed to John Ruskin by Frederick James Furnivall, on the half-title: "J.R. from F.J.F. Nov 17, 1854". It carries a further inscription on the endpaper recording its gift in 1868 "from Mr Ruskin" to Julia Richmond, daughter of the painter George Richmond (the last surviving follower of William Blake); another inscription dated 1890 records her gift to her daughter, Iona F. Robinson.… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1936. First edition. Inscribed by Hellman to fellow playwright Lanford Wilson. With Wilson's ownership stamp, and an early owner's signature crossed through. Nice copy in dust jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Inscribed "Ingmar Bjorksten -- for my Swedish connection in the U.S.A. with every good wish / Bernard Malamud" This presentation to Bjorksten, a cultural journalist and member of the Swedish Academy seems to have been a part in Malamud's campaign for the Nobel Prize. Second printing of the Farrar (trade) edition, published as a volume in "The Collected Works of Bernard Malamud". Nice copy in dust jacket.

New York: Harper, 1936. First edition. Original green cloth, very good, in lightly worn price -clipped dust jacket, chipped at the top (supplied from another copy). Inscribed "For Madeleine, among other reasons, because she lent class to this book by reading it aloud. Uncle Bob Benchley with love, (and a fur-bearing pen). September 30, 1936". There are a few pencil marks in the Table of Contents, probably marking the pieces that Madeleine Carroll (for she was the presentee) read. In addition, Benchley has corrected and initialled in pencil the last line of page 1, and noted his "author's correction very valuable"; a pencil strike over edits a weak paragraph in that piece, and there are a few other light pencil marks on passages in pieces that were themselves marked by a lightly turned-down corner.

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Two volumes, contemporary dark green pebble-grain leather, with large gilt Grecian urn in the center of each cover, gilt edges, by Hayday. Inner hinges repaired. Bindings a bit rubbed. Inscribed "To William Russell Esq from his friend the author"

New York: Scribner's, 1931. First edition. Inscribed by Sherwood to the theatrical producer T. Edward Hambleton and his family, dated April 1936.