Women Writers
No Voyage
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in white on the spine and stamped in yellow on the upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Good, with uneven fading, light soiling and light staining to cloth, with fraying at tips. Lengthy..... More
No Voyage
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in white on the spine and stamped in yellow on the upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Near fine with slight rubbing and slight fading to cloth at edges, pages tanned. In a...... More
The River Styx, Ohio
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First edition. viii, 55 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in green. Very Near Fine with a little mottling to cloth, toning along edges, in an attractive example of the dust jacket, a little shelf worn, else Fine. The popular, acclaimed American..... More
The River Styx, Ohio
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First edition, first printing of the poet's scarce second book. Signed by Mary Oliver on the front free endpaper and inscribed "With love to Eleanor". Laid in is a typed letter signed by Mary to Eleanor dated Sept. 23, 1976, "Dear Eleanor, I don't..... More
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. [xii], 80, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's red boards with brown cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright, slightly rubbed dust jacket, else Fine. More
Why I Wake Early
Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. xiv, 72pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with silver lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. More
Tell Me a Riddle: A Collection
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott and Co. First edition. 156pp. Gray cloth with green stamping on front board, white spine lettering. Near Fine in About Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some small stains on the front panel, edge-rubbing. The first appearance of the O. Henry Prize-winning collection of..... More
Yonnondio: From the Thirties
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. Signed by Tillie Olsen and warmly inscribed to former owner on paste down with a correction on p. 134-- the verses of a song crossed out and alternate verses written in margins by author in her neat hand. (xii), 175 pp. Red cloth with gilt..... More
Grapefruit
New York: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition thus, first Touchstone edition. Signed by Yoko Ono and inscribed to a former owner on the first blank sheet; inscription is a little smudged. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good with creasing to the spine and..... More
Museum of Modern [F] art : Yoko Ono - one woman show Dec. 1st - Dec. 15th
[New York]: Yoko Ono, [1971]. First edition. Signed by Yoko Ono on colophon in brown marker with symbols, inscribed Aiu, Yoko '72." Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's wraps. Page 5 stamped "Copyright 1972 by Yoko Ono." Good+ with chip to front wrap, archival tissue repair to that chip and along fore..... More
Grapefruit: A Book of Instruction and Drawings
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 29th printing. Signed and inscribed by Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper "NYC, '03". Bound in publisher's black hardcover lettered in orange foil. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light scuffing to panels. Yoko Ono's conceptual art book book originally..... More
The Scarlet Pimpernel
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First American edition. x, 312, [6] pp. w/ photo illustrations from a dramatic production. Bound in grayish blue cloth with gilt lettering, black and red stamping. Very Good, mottling and edge-rubbing to cloth, front hinge starting, grease pencil price to front free..... More
Not So Deep as a Well
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First edition of her collected poems, signed limited issue. Copy number 324 of a limited 485 signed by Dorothy Parker. Bound in publisher's reddish-pink paper covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine cloth, endsheets a...... More
Bridge to Terabithia
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. First edition, first printing of the 1978 Newbery Medal winning novel. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, light rubbing at tips, former owner name to front free endpaper and pages lightly..... More
Sappho and the Island of Lesbos
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition. (States "First published 1912" on copyright page.) xvi, 180 pp. with 26 b/w photos. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with very bright gilt, hint of sunning to spine, edges foxed, former owner's name written and stamped on front..... More
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz
New York: Arno Press, 1979. Reprint. Signed and inscribed "Don't forget us" on the title page by Dr. Gisella Perl and dated 1980. In publisher's original blue leatherette binding with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light wear to extremities and some indentations to covers..... More
Roll, Jordan, Roll
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 346 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and with an..... More
Roll, Jordan, Roll (Julia Peterkin's copy)
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Signed limited first edition. Author Julia Peterkin's own copy, number #3 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Peterkin on the limitation page. Presuambly the first few copies were given to the publisher..... More
Roll, Jordan, Roll
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed at the extremities with wear at the head, foxing and light staining..... More
One Corpse Too Many
London: Macmillan, 1979. First British edition, first printing. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, corners and spine ends gently bumped. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, light rubbing and light general wear, light crimping along the edges. The second Brother Cadfael mystery. A Medieval whodunnit!..... More
On the Track of Bigfoot
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1974. First edition. Signed by Marian T. Place on title page. 156, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate page facing title page, tiny stain on front free endpaper, in Near Fine dust jacket with tiny..... More
Ariel
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American edition, first printing. In publisher's black cloth binding stamped in blue. Very Good. Title lettering on spine is rubbed, cloth shelf worn and lightly faded. Pages toned and with several small stains. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact..... More