This section is for signed literary works. Signed
books in other subject categories may appear in those listings.
SL-1.
SL-2.
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SOLD
SL-4.
Commager's Copy
SL-5. Brooks, Van Wyck. THE LIFE OF EMERSON. NY: Dutton,
1932. 4th printing. 315 pp., light blue cloth. Henry Steele Commager's copy,
with his signature on the front flyleaf. Sunned, but very good. $22.50
SL-6. Cabell, James Branch. SOMETHING ABOUT EVE. NY: McBride,
1927. Large paper edition; no. 428/850, signed by the author in his small, neat
hand. 364 pp., vellum spine and tips, paper-covered boards. Lightly soiled; very
good. $75.00
SL-7. Canfield, Mary Cass. GROTESQUES AND OTHER REFLECTIONS.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1927. 1st edition. 238 pp., half cloth and
paper-covered boards. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper. Very
good. $30.00
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SL-9.
SL-10. SOLD
SL-11. SOLD
SL-12. Cunningham, Jere. LOVE OBJECT. Santa Cruz:
Scream/Press, 1985. 1st edition. #8/100, signed by the author. A near fine copy,
slightly bumped at the top of the spine. $35.00
SL-13.
SOLD
SL-14. de la Mare, Walter. DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON
CRUSOE. London: Faber & Faber/NY: Fountain Press, 1930. 1st edition,
No. 110 of 650 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. 286 pp.,
green cloth. Printed at the Westminster Press, London. Decorations by Rex
Whistler. Very good. $95.00
SL-15. Dorland, Alice B. ROAMING THE WIND. NY: Spiral Press,
1955. 1st edition. 123 pp. Signed presentation on the front free
endpaper. Poetry on carious subjects: fishing the Moose River, Minnesota, an
Oregon lumber camp, etc. Near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
SL-16.
SL-17. Eaton, Anne Thaxter (ed.). WELCOME CHRISTMAS! NY:
Viking Press, 1955. 1st edition. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. An anthology of
holiday poetry. Inscribed on the half-title page by the editor to noted
librarian Frances Spain. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00
SL-18.
SL-19. Gaines, Charles Kelsey. ECHOES OF MANY MOODS. NP:
Privately Printed, 1926. Printed in Mount Vernon, NY, by William Edwin Rudge;
typography by Bruce Rogers. Vellum spine, paper-covered boards. Signed by the
author on the dedication page; also signed by Owen D. Young, to whom this book
of poetry is dedicated. An attractive volume, as one would expect from William
Edwin Rudge and Bruce Rogers. Very good - near fine. $40.00
SL-20. Harrington, Michael. DECADE OF DECISION: THE CRISIS OF
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1980. 1st edition. Signed
on the half-title page. Near fine in dust jacket. $15.00
SL-21.
SL-22. Hergesheimer, Joseph. THE PARTY DRESS. NY: Knopf,
1930. 1st edition. No. 110 of 225 numbered and signed copies of the first
edition printed on Borzoi Rag Paper. Orange paper spine, silver paper-covered
boards. Very good. $45.00
SL-23.
SL-24. SOLD
SL-25. Hoffman, Alice. SECOND NATURE. NY: Putnam, 1994. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00
SL-26. Hough, Henry Beetle. COUNTRY EDITOR. NY: Doubleday,
Doran, 1940. 1st edition. 325 pp., green cloth. Signed on a
preliminary blank. Very good. $15.00
SL-27.
SOLD
SL-28. Johnson, Margie Lee. TRACERIES IN TIME. San Antonio:
Naylor, 1966. 1st edition.. 90 pp. Poetry from a noted citizen of
Middleburgh, NY. Signed on the front free endpaper. Very good in dust jacket.
$20.00
SL-29. Johnston, Mary. AUDREY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1902. 1st edition. 418 pp., light reddish cloth, paper spine label.
Illustrations by F.C. Yohn. A notation inside indicates that one thousand copies
were bound uncut with a paper label; this copy has been cut. Signed by the
author on a preliminary blank. Very good. $35.00
SL-30. SOLD
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SL-32. SOLD
SL-33. Lowther, Charles C. PANHANDLE PARSON. Nashville:
Parthenon Press, 1932. 253 pp., red cloth. Growing up in Arkansas and Oklahoma
in the late 19th century. Inscribed and signed on the front flyleaf.
Near fine. $20.00
SL-34. Ludlow, Louis. IN THE HEART OF HOOSIERLAND.
Washington: Pioneer Book Co., 1925. 1st edition. A novel of the settlement of
Indiana. Lengthy inscription from the author on the front flyleaf. Upper right
corner bumped. Very good. $25.00
SL-35.
SOLD
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SOLD
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SOLD
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SL-39.
SL-40. Ostenso, Martha. THE MAD CAREWS. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1927.
1st edition. 346 pp., green cloth. Signed by the author on the
title page. Very good. $25.00
SL-41. Saroyan, William. THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING
TRAPEZE. Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press, 1984. No. 23 of 220 copies (200 for sale).
Designed by James and Carolyn Robertson, printed by letterpress, and bond at the
Schuberth Bookbindery. Afterword by Herbert Gold, woodblock illustrations by
Bill Prochnow; signed by both. Brown cloth; fine in its original slip case.
$400.00
SL-42. Sawyer, Moses H. LIEUTENANT COLBURN, OR THE
DISINHERITED. Portland: The Author, 1861. 349 pp., green patterned cloth. Wright
2157. A novel of England at the end of the 18th century. Inscribed and signed by
the author on a preliminary blank. Clean and very good. $50.00
SL-43.
SL-44.
Signed by Samuel J. Tilden
SL-45. Stockton, Frank R. RUDDER GRANGE.
NY: Scribners, 1885. 322 pp., decorated green cloth. Illustrated by A.B. Frost. A
very good-near fine copy, signed by Samuel J. Tilden on a preliminary blank.
Tilden ran for the U.S. presidency and won the popular vote but lost in the
Electoral College. $35.00
SL-46. Stockton, Frank R. THE VIZIER OF THE TWO-HORNED
ALEXANDER. NY: Century, 1899. 1st edition. 235 pp., decorated green
cloth, teg.Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. A bright, near fine copy, with the
author’s clipped signature tipped inside the front cover.
$45.00
SL-47. Stuart, Ruth McEnery. SONNY. NY: Century,
1897. 135 pp., decorated green cloth. Signed by the author on the title page.
With some extraneous biographical information on the author tipped and laid in.
Spine a bit dulled; very good. $25.00
SL-48. Tatum, Edith. IN A CHINESE GARDEN AND OTHER POEMS.
Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1937. 1st edition. 80 pp., green cloth.
Signed by the author in the lower right corner of the front flyleaf, and also
inscribed and signed on the same page by Sarah Tatum Smith (probably her
daughter). Very good in dust jacket. $25.00
