Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Quill & Brush

New Haven: Yale University Press, (1980). Second printing. Selections from Yale's 8-volume series, "The Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein," issued between 1951 and 1958. With an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz, who notes in his preface that the Yale volumes (already scarce at that time) "contain some of Stein's most extraordinary work." 8vo silver-stamped blue cloth boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine with just a hint of rubbing to tips.

(London): Picador, (2015). First edition. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. INSCRIBED WITH A QUOTE on title page in year of publication, "'Beside him, his children,/ who were listening' [sic]/ Sunjeev Sahota/ Birmingham 8/10/15." (The final line of the novel reads, "Beside him, his children, who were whispering" which, unless the line with "listening" appears elsewhere in the book, is presumably what he had intended to write). A novel focusing on the experiences of migrant workers in Britain. Fine in fine dust jacket with 2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist bookmark laid in.

London: Methuen and Co., (1919). First edition. Forty-five poems and a series of epitaphs. First appearance of 3 of the poems. 12mo gilt-lettered plum boards; 258 pages plus 32-page publisher's catalog; top edge gilt. Near fine in good dust jacket that is soiled and torn but free from any significant chipping.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First U.S. edition. A play by the author of REBECCA. Set in the aftermath of WWII, a newly independent woman, presuming her husband dead, wins his seat in Parliament and is beginning to explore new love - when her war-weary husband makes a surprise return. Inspired by du Maurier's own experiences dealing with changes in her life after her husband's return from duty. Small blue star on front pastedown about level with another on front flap fold. Near fine in dust jacket showing few small chips and tears and some light foxing, primarily along front flap fold, but still attractive and otherwise very good. Relatively scarce, especially in this U.S. edition.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1987). First edition of Dorris' first novel. Uncorrected proof, fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps."Complimentary Reading Copy Not for Sale" on front cover.

New York: Harmony Books, (1990). First edition. Short stories and poems from the pages of Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts (1981-1996), whose guiding editorial policy was "all persuasions, no brutality." Includes pieces by Kotzwinkle, Piercy, Ntozake Shange, Robert Silverberg, et al. SIGNED BY RUSSO & WARMLY INSCRIBED BY POND to collector Allen K. Mears, "5.17.91 Alan--You, your name. has been one of the [consistent] and sustaining elements of the last 10 years .... Lily Pond." Copy of Mears' letter to Pond laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Harmony Books & Warner Books, (1990 & 2000). First edition of each volume with the first one being a simultaneous paperback issue and the second a paperback original. Short stories and poems from the pages of Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts (1981-1996), whose guiding editorial policy was "all persuasions, no brutality." Includes pieces by James Dickey, Kotzwinkle, Piercy, Shange, Robert Silverberg, et al. The first volume is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY POND to collector Allen K. Mears, "Allen - To a thoughtful, ongoing, cared-for reader: thank you for being there. May Yellow Silk always keep you just a little warmer & a little more joyous/ Lily/ Mar.24,92." Copy of Mears' letter to Pond laid in. The second volume with small holiday card with AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Pond to Mears in original mailing envelope laid in. Both volumes fine in paperwraps.

London: Trigram Press, (1969). First edition. One of 100 copies SIGNED, NUMBERED and bound in buckram. Fine without dust jacket, as issued. Includes drawings by Meltzer.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). First edition. "Fourteen provocative and sometimes humorous stories about contemporary women." Fine in near fine dust jacket with very minor edge wear and faint soiling.

New York: George H. Doran Company, (1916). First edition. The book consists of stories that were written as letters from a professional baseball player, Jack Keefe, to his friend Al Blanchard in their hometown of Bedford, Indiana. It was subsequently a nationally syndicated comic strip scripted by Lardner and drawn by Will B. Johnstone and Dick Dorgan. The book has minor wear on corners and spine ends, spine lettering color faded out, and a little cocked, otherwise very good, lacking dust jacket.

New York: Samuel French, (1940). First edition. Illustrated with photographs of the stage production. Near fine in dust jacket with very light soiling, a few short closed tears and shallow chipping. Scarce.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1920). First edition. Lardner's spoof of Daisy Ashford's juvenilia, "The Young Visitors," published under the name of his then four-year-old son, "with a preface by the father." The book chronicles the Lardner family's move from Goshen, Indiana, to their new home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Near fine with only light wear to spine ends; in good to very good dust jacket with spine a little tanned and rubbed and showing a 1/4" hole.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. First edition. Not published in the U.S. 32 pages of publisher's ads at rear, as called for [Harvey, A41]. In his entry for this book, Harvey quotes a letter from Ford effusing over YOUNG LOVELL as "a pretty big and serious historical work, rather like 'Fifth Queen' " but goes on to note that years later Ford himself omitted it from his list when proposing a collected edition of his works. Good only with evidence of damp stain to rear board, ads at rear darkened, covers showing some staining and wear, and light foxing on prelims and page edges.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1932. Second edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK; introduction by Frederic M. Thrasher. Near fine lacking dust jacket with offset to pastedowns and free endpapers and soiling to page edges.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Soyer, Raphael.. First edition. Paintings and drawings by Raphael Soyer. Fine in bright dust jacket with slightly tanned spine, minor rubbing and a few closed edge tears, one having tape repair on verso.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, (1959). First edition of his first book, a novel. INSCRIBED "For Nancy and Roger All the best Stephen Birmingham 1982 & again in '89." Fine in dust jacket with edgewear, spine a little faded, and minor chipping on corners and spine ends.

London: Bodley Head, (1956). First UK edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. An advance proof, very good in plain brown wraps. A rare item.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. First edition thus: illustrated by Robert Shore. Number 316 of 1,500 numbered copies SIGNED BY Shore and Ward Ritchie, who designed and printed the book. Introduction by Leo Gurko. 4to gilt-stamped quarter blue leather; blue sailcloth-covered boards; 9 color plates, including frontis. Fine in near fine slipcase with just a touch of wear to printed spine label.

(Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1904). First edition. Vol. 78, No. 23, with Jeffers' poem, "The Condor" on p.284 with woodcut illustration above. Jeffers' college literary magazine, "The Aurora," published three of his poems (1903/4) but this is his first appearance in a regularly published magazine. 11.25 x 16.25", 16 pages, wire stitched. Also includes an article on Madame Curie by Priscilla Leonard, "Radium, the Magic Metal"; part one of three of Hamlin Garland's "Little Squatter"; music by Annie Willis McCullough; and more. Creased where folded at center, staining to outer corners otherwise near fine with only minimal wear to edges. This particular issue is rare and the "New England Editions" of Youth's Companion appear to be scarce.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition. Made into the 1928 silent Western film "The Grip of the Yukon" starring Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton. 8vo dusty rose cloth boards lettered in gilt on front and spine; front cover with snowshoes stamped in blind surrounded by snow-patterned design. Creases at spine ends otherwise near fine.