![Saint Maybe [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/537/751/1536751537.0.m.jpg)
Saint Maybe [Signed]
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pale pink paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],337,[7]pp. Signed by the author on a tipped in preliminary leaf. Hint of a lean, with a few tiny scuffs to rear cover; Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket... Read More
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A Visit With Eudora Welty
by TYLER, Anne
Chicago: Pressworks, (1980). First Separate Edition. Limited to 100 copies, of which none were for sale. 12mo. Sewn card wrappers; [8]pp. Fine. A nicely-printed keepsake. The essay originally appeared in The New York Times Book Review.
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Celestial Navigation
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; lime green topstain; dustjacket; [vi],276,[9]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine, lightly edgeworn dustjacket. The author's fifth novel.
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![Celestial Navigation [With Signed Card Laid In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/620/758/1509758620.0.m.jpg)
Celestial Navigation [With Signed Card Laid In]
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; lime green topstain; dustjacket; [vi],276,[9]pp. A small card (ca. 4.5" x 3.25") signed by the author and dated 11-14-74, is loosely laid in. Pronounced forward lean, spine ends a little nudged; Very Good+ in a Near Fine, price-clipped... Read More
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SAINT MAYBE
by Tyler, Anne
New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition. First trade edition. Single volume (approx. 5.5" x 8.5"); 337 pages. One of an unspecified number signed on a tipped in page; issued primarily for promotional use as a gift to booksellers. Jacket has some scuffing and slight tears; one small crease. Dj not price clipped. Fine in an about very good jacket.... Read More
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A Slipping-Down Life
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); yellow paper and beige cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [vi],214,[4]pp. Slight forward lean, tiny remainder dot to lower edge of textblock, two faint tape shadows at upper board edges, and a large adhesive stain to rear endpaper;... Read More
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A Slipping-Down Life
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 yellow paper-covered boards, quarterbound in beige cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 214pp, [3]. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities and two unobtrusive creases to... Read More
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![Breathing Lessons [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/440/185/729185440.0.m.jpg)
Breathing Lessons [Limited Edition, Signed]
by TYLER, Anne
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1988. First, Limited Edition. Octavo; gray green leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and white on spine and panels; all edges gilt; 327pp, [2]. Signed by the author on the first blank. A Fine copy. Tyler's eleventh book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 and basis for a television... Read More
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![Saint Maybe [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/154/542/811542154.0.m.jpg)
Saint Maybe [Signed]
by TYLER, Anne
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1991. First, Limited Edition. Octavo; dark green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; all edges gilt; 337pp, [3]. Signed by Tyler on a special limitation page. Fine, unread copy. The author's twelfth novel, with a special introduction not present in the trade edition.
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![Tumble Tower [Signed by Both Authors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/227/679/1508679227.0.m.jpg)
Tumble Tower [Signed by Both Authors]
by TYLER, Anne (story); MODARRESSI, Mitra (illustrations)
New York: Orchard Books, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (26.25cm); tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $14.95). Tyler's first children's book, a collaborative work with her daughter Mitra.
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![Tumble Tower [with Signed Bookplate Laid In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/661/705661028.0.m.jpg)
Tumble Tower [with Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by TYLER, Anne (story); MODARRESSI, Mitra (illustrations)
New York: Orchard Books, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (26.25cm); tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Bookplate signed by Tyler loosely laid in. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Lovely copy of Tyler's first children's book.
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![Morgan's Passing [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/119/542/811542119.0.m.jpg)
Morgan's Passing [Review Copy]
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); beige paper over brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 31pp, [3]. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Attractive copy of the author's eighth novel.
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![Searching for Caleb [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/569/482/901482569.0.m.jpg)
Searching for Caleb [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original linen-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],309pp. Light wear, rear jacket panel a bit soiled, textblock top and fore-edges foxed, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
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Earthly Possessions
by TYLER, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); sage green paper and beige cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and embossed onto front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],197,[5]pp. Sunning to board edges and front cover, some faint foxing to backstrip; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a... Read More
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![YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN [Inscription]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/247/544/1581544247.0.m.jpg)
YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN [Inscription]
by Tyler, Parker
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. First Edition. Black cloth; dustjacket; 4to. A lengthy inscription on the front fly by Parker and signed by him to art critic Harold Rosenberg. Drawings by Tchelitchew through out from his preliminary sketches for his HIDE AND SEEK which is at MoMA. Poem by Parker on facing pages. Black cloth worn, much of... Read More
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Oh! Calcutta!: An Entertainment with Music
by TYNAN, Kenneth (creator); Jacques Levy (director); Sam Shepard & John Lennon (et al.) (contributors)
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-190pp. Book includes photographic plates (halftones) throughout of the controversial, disrobed theatre performance. Some shelf-wear, trivial dustiness to cloth, else Fine. In a supplied dustjacket, price-clipped, with light shelfwear, and shallow dampstains to... Read More
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Finch Focus on Typography
by [TYPE SPECIMEN] [CURLEY, Rhoda C.]
Glens Falls, NY: Finch Pruyn & Company, [n.d., ca 1970s]. First Edition. Quarto (30cm), unfolding to large poster (60x44cm); printed in orange, brown, and black. Specimens of Times Bold, Palatino Semi-Bold, Helvetica Bold, and Windsor. Lightly rubbed at edges, mild toning and dustiness to exterior, small (1-in) split at intersection of folds, else Very Good. Advertisement and type specimen... Read More
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Journal Kept During A Trip Across the Plains Containing An Account of the Massacre of a Portion of His Party by the Mojave Indians in 1859
by UDELL, John
Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach, 1946. Small octavo (22cm).Orange cloth in tan dust jacket; [xx],87,[1]pp; 8 black and white plates. Bumped at head and tail, but sound and clean: Very Good. Jacket browned at spine and edges, with large loss to lower rear edge and chips to corners, a few marks to front: around Very Good. California Centennial Series.... Read More
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Preoccupations: A Collection of Poems
by UDUEHI, Esther Kike
Benin City, Nigeria: Eribo Printers, 1973. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); illustrated wrappers; x, 30, [errata], [2]pp. Light shelfwear, else Near Fine. Nigerian author's first (and apparently only) book, a collection of poetry. OCLC finds 8 locations.
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![Dig or Die: Papers Given at the World Methodist Historical Society Wesley Heritage Conference at Wesley College within the University of Sydney, 10-15 August, 1980 [Inscribed and Signed by Udy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/655/121/1297121655.0.m.jpg)
Dig or Die: Papers Given at the World Methodist Historical Society Wesley Heritage Conference at Wesley College within the University of Sydney, 10-15 August, 1980 [Inscribed and Signed by Udy]
by UDY, James S. and Eric G. Clancy, eds
Sydney: World Methodist Historical Society, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 335pp.; full-page illus. Minor wear to jacket extremities, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally fine. Lengthily inscribed by the co-editor on front free endpaper: "Faith Richardson / Hope you enjoy reading some of the enclosed especially Albert Outler's banquet speech which... Read More
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The Biological Universe; The Twentieth Century Extra Terrestrial Life Debate, And the Limits of Science
by [UFO] DICK, Steven J.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Original black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xvi]; 578pp. Clean and sharp with the only significant defect being a tiny nick to the head of the spine, with a corresponding closed tear to the head of the dustjacket spine panel; internally clean. A very good copy... Read More
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Fastwalker
by [UFO] VALLEE, Jacques
Berkeley, CA: Frog Books Ltd, 1996. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 220pp.; [1]. Light wear to the corners, a little minor scuffing at the spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh. A very good, bright copy. A piece of UFO/paranormal related fiction from the fabled Jacques Vallee, all of the major requirements... Read More
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The Baganda at Home: With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda
by [UGANDA] HATTERSLEY, C. W.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt; xvi,[228],[x]pp; 10pp publisher's ads at rear; 80 halftone plates and map. Bookplate of Mr. Justice Rooth, a judge in Perth, Australia, to front pastedown. Bookplate of Grange Club Library to rear pastedown. Rubbed, front board curved, front hinge cracked but holding, foxed throughout,... Read More
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The British Mission to Uganda in 1893
by [UGANDA] PORTAL, Gerald
London: Edward Arnold, 1894. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt; dark blue coated endpapers; xlvi,351,[1],28,[4]pp; 32pp of publisher's ads at rear; 2 photogravures, folding color map, 16 halftone plates, numerous in-text halftones. Sound but with a slight forward roll, spine lightly faded, bumped and rubbed at edges and corners, both hinges cracking but holding,... Read More
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History of Ukraine-Rus' – Complete in 12 Volumes
by [UKRAINE] HRUSHEVSKY, Mykhailo; Frank E. Sysyn (et al, eds); Marta Skorupsy (et al, transl)
Alberta & Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997-2021. First English Language Edition. Ten volumes in twelve. Large octavos (26cm); uniform black cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; variously paginated. A like-new set, fine and unmarked in the original dustwrappers. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to v.1 and v.9/2 pastedowns. A... Read More
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