Search Results: Authors starting with U from Brillig Books

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong quarto, brown illustrated stiff wraps. 318 pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, black and white photographs and plans. A tight, square, crisp, stiff, unmarked and apparently unread copy, without creases, tears, foxing, stains, etc. FINE..

Pittsburgh, PA: Unknown, 1922. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo., hand printed color illustrated silk over boards. Unpaginated (8 pp. plus colophon). A "study in printing ink" dedicated to typographer and author Arthur C. Gruver and hand signed "Shertzer"(?). A probably one of kind a hand made book with elaborate red and green decorative swag borders and color initial capital. "Not only not copyrighted but we dare anyone to copy it" printed on the copyright page. A whimsical "letter to Santa Claus" apparently printed by one of Gruver's colleagues as a special Christmas gift, it is a fine professional and artistic work. The decorated silf on the boards is hand silk screened in brown and red. The original dust wrapper of tissue has a couple of closed tears but is remarkably still in excellent condition. The book itself is FINE, unmarked and undamaged. Very scarce and perhsps unique. A charming piece of ephemera in the tradition of printer's and… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Book. Illus. by Nancy Ekholm Burdert. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Tall octavo, decorative patterned blindstamped red cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. Blue endpapers. Unpaginated [32pp]. Illustrated with full page drawings and decorations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert with verses written by the National Book Award Winning novelist and short story writer. A very tight, clean, bright volume with fresh cloth and clear gilt. Neat very brief prior owner gift inscription on verso of half-title, else fine in a clean, bright, unmarked dust jacket, with a short closed edge tear at rear spine top and minor edge wear. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition second issue with corrected line. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Back panel of dust jacket has two short closed tears with crease between and very light soil. Overall a fine volume in an attractive very good plus dust jacket..

Tucson: University of Arizona Press,, 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth covered boards. 188pp. plus biographical note on author. Winner of the American Book Award. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH SMALL DRAWING of a dog with its tongue hanging out and "ODAT" in a cartoon balloon. Signed "For Lewis from Luis Chicago 2000". An interesting association copy signed to fellow novelist Lewis Nordan. A beautiful, very tight, fresh and unread volume in a crisp, bright and pristine dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..