Corporation Giving in a Free Society by Eells, Richard - 1956

New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. Laid inside front cover is a letter handwritten dated December 4, 1964 and signed by the author and and addressed to Mrs. Briggs, it also references Ambassador Ellis Briggs, so it has quite an interesting provenance. Briggs was a career diplomat, Ambassador to seven countries in 37 years of service and received the Medal of Freedom from President Eisenhower. This 48 page pamphlet has an illustrated cover with light soil. Some pages tips are turned at the bottom; pencilled price on title page. Bottom corner and title page previously folded. One of the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers. Number 5. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Stapled Pamphlet. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Rand School Press, 1953. Signed and inscribed by author on fep. 200 toned pages. Red cloth with gilt titles on cover and spine. Sunned spine with wear to head and heel of spine. There is a stain at the very top edge of front cover with no damage elsewhere and an area on back cover where sticker was removed and left mark. From foreward: "I want to give the reader the story of how we socialists, from about 1904 to 1924 laid the foundation for the Bull Moose platform, the New Freedom, the New Deal, the Fair Deal...Laughing at my comedy the reader may also get an insight into an exciting phase of American history...". Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: Henry Holt, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Henry Holt. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED by author. AS NEW, bound in umber boards with black cloth spine in lonely phone booth pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. SIGNED by Sue Grafton on title page... Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No slipcase 1938 Penn Publishing Co. Number 130 of a Limited Edition of 149 copies. SIGNED by author on limitation page. Full leather binding, gilt illustration of a trout on a line jumping from a pond. Three raised spine bands, gilt lettering, Marbled endpapers have tanned edges. Deckle fore & bottom edges. Top edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. 15 color plates. Black & white illustrations. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked at limitation page, but still strong otherwise. Leather binding is in good condition, with some rubbing to corners & edges. Corners lightly bumped. Outer inch or so of the back cover is sun faded, as is top half-inch & fore edge of front cover. Pages very lightly & uniformly tanned but still supple. Three pairs of pages have tanned areas from newspapers clippings that were stored between pages. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. One B&W plate has a spot of foxing. 451 pages. NO slipcase or additional set of… Read More

Boston: Ariel Books/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Archival clear mylar jacket is supplied.

Softcover with dust jacket in very good condition.
Signed by Sam Maloof, 'To Deborah, Blessings, Peace, Sam Maloof 1997.'
This is a very clean copy with no marks to internal pages. Cover has signs of shelfwear and minor scuffing, as well as minor edgewear. Spine is very tight.

New York: Random House, 2006. Signed on the title page by the author, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered spine, light blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2006.

The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No slipcase 1938 Penn Publishing Co. Number 130 of a Limited Edition of 149 copies. SIGNED by author on limitation page. Full leather binding, gilt illustration of a trout on a line jumping from a pond. Three raised spine bands, gilt lettering, Marbled endpapers have tanned edges. Deckle fore & bottom edges. Top edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. 15 color plates. Black & white illustrations. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked at limitation page, but still strong otherwise. Leather binding is in good condition, with some rubbing to corners & edges. Corners lightly bumped. Outer inch or so of the back cover is sun faded, as is top half-inch & fore edge of front cover. Pages very lightly & uniformly tanned but still supple. Three pairs of pages have tanned areas from newspapers clippings that were stored between pages. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. One B&W plate has a spot of foxing. 451 pages. NO slipcase or additional set of… Read More

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket SIGNED by the author on the title page. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket are in fine condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Signed on the title page by the author and dated 30 May 2002. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, gold paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. 2013 Winner of the $100,000.00 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, given for lifetime achievement.