DULCE COR [Signed by author] by Ford Bereton [Samuel Crockett]

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1984. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth. Very fine in very dust jacket.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1978. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Sunning to spine and front panel; edgewear and rubbing. Boldly inscribed by Toledano to Karl and Therese Hess on front flyleaf: "For Karl & Therese / As always / In Friendship / Ralph de Toledano." Fine in very good dust jacket. Single-page letter addressed to Karl Hess dated "11 February 1978," signed by Toledano, with mild toning and spotting and neat fold creases, else fine.. Signed first edition of the only book of poems published by influential conservative journalist, poet, critic, commentator, and jazz enthusiast Ralph de Toledano (1916-2007). Toledano was born in Tangier, Morocco but moved to New York with his family as a child. He later attended Columbia University to study literature and philosophy, graduating in 1938. In 1940 he became editor of the Socialist Party of America's magazine, The New Leader, and was later drafted into military service… Read More

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Fine/ Very good. First edition, first printing. Signed. Light green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. Tight binding, square, and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped else fine, no chips or tears and protected in a mylar cover. "A continental tetrology, gathering under the title "Annals of the Former World, beginning with Basin and Range (1980), and continued with In Suspect Terrain (1982) and Rising From the Plains (1986) is now completed in Assembling California." From the Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

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.

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.

Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrill’s poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .