Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt, and blind, extremities slightly rubbed, extreme corner of front endpaper chipped, but a very good bright copy, in the "A" binding described by BAL, which is more ornate than the other two bindings. A rare Thoreau family copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Charles Lowell / with the love / of S. E. Thoreau". Charles Lowell of Bangor, Maine, was a cousin by marriage of Henry & Sophia. Aunt Nancy Thoreau married Caleb Callender Billings in 1810. Their first child, Mary Ann Thoreau Billings (1810-1888), married Charles Lowell (1807-1895), a Bangor merchant, in 1834. Following the wishes of her older brother, Sophia Elizabeth Thoreau edited a number of his papers both with him (as he lay dying) and after his death. That she was the sole editor of the collection of papers in Yankee has been established by recent scholarship. (See Kathy Fedorko, "‘Henry's Brilliant Sister': The Pivotal Role of Sophia Thoreau… Read More

London: The Fortune Press, 1944. First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano.

Frankfurt a.M.: Hirschgraben Verlag, 1949. Original printed wrappers, paper inevitably a little browned, but a fine copy. First separate edition of this story, as a text for German-speakers to learn English, with vocabulary and biography in German. Scarce.

New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Cloth, light spotting to fore- edge, a near-fine copy in lightly edge-worn dust jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1920. First edition, trade issue. Original green cloth, a fine, bright copy in a near-fine dust jacket. 3,500 copies were printed. Rare in the dust jacket. Crane A10.a.i.

New York: Knopf, 1920. First edition. The rare limited issue, one of 35 unnumbered copies issued with all edges untrimmed, signed in full "Willa Sibert Cather" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth. As these copies are taller than the trade issue, and special binding cases had to be made, it's unlikely they were issued with a dust jacket. Spine has small areas of spotting where the green pigment is lost; number in ink on upper cover; ownership signature at the bottom of the front endpaper (James R. Messenger, Emmy Award-winning documentary film maker, and sometime contributor to the Willa Cather Newsletter). A very good copy preserved in a clamshell box. Youth and the Bright Medusa was the first of Cather's books to be published by Knopf, who would remain her publisher thereafter. Around that time it was his practice, with some of his most prominent authors to produce these severely limited, unnumbered, signed issues, most of which were not for sale. . Crane A10.a.i. (limited issue).

New York: Pierre Matisse Editions, 1946. 94 p. illus. 31 cm. "1150 copies, numbered 51 to 1200 constitute the original edition of this book with a few extra copies for the press " This copy is unnumbered, stamped "Reviewer's Copy" on colophon. Book designed by Marcel Duchamp. Boards. Spine chipped.