Federal Writers Project
Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State.
Oxford Press
- $144
A very good copy in original green boards. Moderate wear to the extremities. Rear map pocket with small closed tear and a bit browned. Folding map in rear pocket. This is the uncommon first edition with the year 1939 on the title page. No subsequent printings on the copyright page. Comes with a fine facsimile dust jacket.
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A Last Bridge Home – Signed
GERBER, Dan The limited edition, #20 of 50 copies signed by the author. Bound in red and blue cloth with gilt decorations, ribbon marker. Original color etching laid in, signed by Russell Chatham, with the same number as the book (#20). 99 poems in four sections. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers. A fine copy in red and blue cloth with gilt decoration, issued without jacket, housed in the publisher's red cloth slipcase. Signed by the author. Ariel
PLATH, Sylvia A very good book in original paperback binding, coming three years after the first British hardover edition. First paperback edition. Wear to the extremities, creasing to the top corner of the front cover and a bit of soiling to the rear cover. This was Plath's second book of poetry, published in 1965, two years after her death by suicide.- $81
- $81
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa – Signed by Chavez
LEVY, Jacques (Chavez, Cesar) A very good book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Volume with shelf wear to bottom of boards and light soiling to the text block.Wear to the head of the dust jacket and some soiling to the rear panel of the jacket and front fold. Front flap with several creases from former folds. This is the authorized autobiography of farm labor leader Cesar Chavez that was published just as the Farm Workers Union was winning labor contracts with California growers. Signed by Chavez on the half title page. Signature only.- $288
- $288
Bicycle and other poems
MALOUF, David This is the uncommon first edition, first issue of Malouf's first book. A collection of 38 poems. A very good copy of the paperback original with some wear to the page edges and toning to the rear panel. Owner name on the half-title page. This copy has the price of $1 on the front panel and no author or title on the black spine, marking it as the first issue. Signed by the author on the title page.- $203
- $203
The New Regionalism in American Literature – Signed 1930
McWILLIAMS, Carey A near fine copy in green French wraps. A chapbook in a series by the University of Washington. McWilliams would later be a leading voice for liberalism during the Depression years and editor of The Nation magazine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. An uncommon book signed by the author.- $203
- $203
White Writing
COETZEE, J. M. A near fine copy Velobound in red card stock covers. With the jacket copy inserted as two loose photocopies sheets. A letter from the press to a literary book club is enclosed. A scarce format for his early work on nonfiction from the Nobel-Prize-winning writer. Coetzee, a Nobel Laureate from South Africa, discusses in 7 essays the literary heritage and work of major white authors in South Africa before World War II.- $86
- $86
