(Minneapolis, Minnesota): Milkweed Editions, (1999). First edition. Illustrated front black and white photographs. Gilt-stamped red cloth with author's blind embossed signature on front board. Fine without dustwrapper as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the author on the front fly... More
Lexington, VA: Shenandoah / Wahington and Lee University, 1995. First edition. 127pp. Cover art by William Dunlap. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. A collection of essays, short stories, and poetry. Essays by Scott Russell Sanders, Scott Ward. Fiction by Nicholas Delbanco, Rebecca Kavaler, Kent Nelson, Lauren Macintyre. Poetry by Mary Oliver, John... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2006). Later printing. Trade paperback. Pages and wrappers are wrinkled from moisture, a fair only copy, still very readable. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author on the title page acknowledging this is a poor copy: "This is a.... More
Hanover: Middlebury College Press, (1992). First edition. Glossy wrappers. Spine lightly faded, else fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author on the title page. "A Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers." More
Llanwrda, Dyfed, Wales: Sylvian Hamilton, [circa 1983]. Used bookseller's catalog. Illustrated by Deborah Hamilton. Octavo. 35pp + addenda tipped inside rear cover. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Some pencil notations in the text, very good or better. More
New York: Workman Publishing Company, (1999). First edition. Trade paperback original. Oblong quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Booth to author Nicholas Delbanco: "9/10/99. Nick and Ellen and Richard and Alice and the rest of us. I am privileged. And if that is a little sticky sounding I'll bear up... More
(Stockholm): Awe / Gebers, (1978). First Swedish edition. Translated by Jadwiga P. Westrup. Pictorial boards. Fine. Inscribed by Gardner to his close friend and literary executor Nicholas Delbanco and his family, among them Delbanco's daughter, the writer Francesca Delbanco, the dedicatee of one of Gardner's three children's books The King of Hummingbirds. More
Minneapolis: Mid-List Press, 2007. First edition. Essays by William H. Gass and John Updike. Oblong folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First trade edition, issued simultaneously with a limited (the American edition preceded all others). Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. Gilt lettering rubbed, some light staining on the rear boards, very good lacking the dustwrapper. The author's first book, a collection of macabre stories. More
Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, (2010). First edition. 424pp. Glossy, pictorial wrappers. Corners lightly flared, else fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the author. More
Washington, D.C. The Working Woman, 1890. Single tabloid folio. 4pp. Old folds, very good or better. Single issue of a newspaper edited and published by Charlotte Smith. News both political and social on a wide variety of issues specifically concerning women. Smith provided much of the content. More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1964). First edition. Introduction by Robert F. Wagner. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper in very slightly worn near fine cardboard slipcase. A beautiful copy. More
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, (1989). First edition. Glossy wrappers. Spine a touch sunned, near fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the editor. Essays by Scott Russell Sanders, Michael Wilkerson, George Schricker, Jr., Mari Evans, Teresa Ghilarducci, Michael Martone, Kay Franklin, William O'Rourke, Michael Schelle, Hal Higdon, James... More
Minster, Ohio: The Star Beverage Company, [circa 1935?]. 32pp. Die-cut into the shape of a frothing beer mug. Some foxing and a little rubbing on the wrappers, very good or a little better. Includes 72 drinking songs. More
(Chesterton, IN: Duneland Books, 2012). Reprint. Pictorial, glossy wrappers. Fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author. Laid in is a typed letter from Delbanco (unsigned) introducing Harry Mark Petrakis. More
[No place]: Dixie Crystals, [circa 1935?]. 8pp, plus two leaves of blank perforated jelly jar labels bound in. Die-cut into the shape of the jelly jar. Fine. Includes several recipes for jelly. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. First edition, paperback issue. Octavo, wrappers. Fine copy. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the author. More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. American passport. 16mo. 20pp. Green card wrappers with gilt lettering and the passport number punched through the top edge of the front wrap. Top corner clipped by the Passport Office cancelling the passport else near fine. The passport of silent film star and... More
New York: Praeger Special Studies, Praeger Scientific, (1985). First edition. 210pp. Pink glossy wrappers lightly faded, near fine. Warmly Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the author. More
Shaftsbury, Vermont: December, 2003. First edition. Single sheet folded into fours. Fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author on the front wrapper. More
(Middlebury, Vermont: Highland Press, 1989). First edition. Oblong 16mo. Stapled printed wrappers. Slightly irregular margin on front wrap, possibly a printing flaw, else very near fine. One of 100 copies issued as a Christmas greeting. Warmly Inscribed by the Buckeye to author Nicholas Delbanco. More
(London): Thames & Hudson, (2003). First paperback edition with revisions. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife from the author on the title page. More
Crowley, La. Rice Association of America / (Signal Printing Co.), [circa 1910]. 16mo. 20pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Staples rusted and wrappers detached, else very good. OCLC locates a signle copy. More
