Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1976]. Second, Revised Edition. Signed by French on the front pastedown. One of the earliest studies of Salinger that needed much revision after its original 1963 publication, with a completely revised and updated bibliography. 8vo., blue cloth, stamped in silver; 191 pages. I have never seen a...... More
Waco, Texas: Baylor University, 1989. First Edition. Inscribed by Smith on the title page: "With admiration, Cornelia Marschall Smith. 22/1/'90." Cornelia Marschall Smith [1895-1997] was a biology professor at Baylor University from 1940 to 1967; chairman of the biology department from 1935 to 1940; and director of the Strecker Museum..... More
Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson & Co., 1921. Frontispiece Portrait. First Edition. Signed presentation from McNaught on the front endpaper: “I am Dear Mr. Cunningham, Yours truly D. McNaught. Benrig, Kilmaurs. 25th Janry, 1922.” Books signed by McNaught are uncommon and the Cunningham Clan has a long history in Kilmaurs. Duncan McNaught..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Illustrated. Uncorrected Proof Copy. With a typed & autographed letter signed from Peter Davison on Houghton Mifflin stationery laid in, dated August 2, 1988, to American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin. Davison forward the uncorrected proof copy and then adds “I thought you were..... More
NY: Columbia University Press, [1988]. First Edition, second printing. Signed presentation from Keene on the title page to author Hortense Calisher and her husband: “22 April 1989. To Hortense and Curt, Donald Keene.” With a page of notes laid-in, maybe in Harnack’s hand? Hortense Calisher [1911–2009] was an American writer..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, [1948]. Text In French. First Edition. Signed presentation from Coleno on the half-title page, to Miss Phoebe Wiese, “in memory of the pleasure” for her spirit and lucidity relating to modern poetry. One of the numbered copies printed on D’Alfa mousse paper from the Navarre paper mills..... More
