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$300.00
Ruth Thomson Saunders
Claremont, California; The Saunders Press, 1930. SCARCE. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RUTH THOMSON SAUNDERS. Number 69 of 110. Lovely book of bookplates designed by Saunders, who operated the Saunders Studio Press with her husband, Lynne Saunders, in the 1920s and 30s. This book includes four additional bookplates designed by Saunders. Expertly rebacked. Black cloth backed grey patterned paper covered boards with black title to front board. Minor browning and rubbing to exterior. Bumping to edges. Additional bookplates to front pastedown, rear free end paper, and rear pastedown. Light offsetting from ink to a few pages. Else is clean and bright with wonderful bookplates on every page, some in color.
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Signed by six members of the 1950 "Whiz Kids"
The Philadelphia Phillies.
$500.00G. P. Putnam’s Sons: New York (1953). Â First edition. Â Part of the “Putnam Sports Series”. Signed by six members of the “Whiz Kids”, the 1950 Phillies team which, despite a number of young players, unexpectedly won the National League pennant before losing the World Series to the Yankees. Players and their 1950 statistics are: Robin Roberts, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1976, winner of 20-games with a 3.02 ERA Richie Ashburn, Hall of Fame Center Fielder and two-time National League batting leader, hit .303 Del Ennis, Right Fielder who had more RBI than any player other than Stan Musial from 1949-1957, led the team with a .311 batting average, 31 home runs and 126 RBI Curt Simmons, starting pitcher who went 17-8 with a 3.40 ERA Eddie Waitkus, starting First Baseman, .284 batting average Granny Hamner, .starting Shortstop, 270 batting average, 70 RBI Mild toning to endpapers and pastedowns, a solid near fine copy in like dust wrapper
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Signed Presentation Copy to Author's Sister In La
There Shall Be No Night
$425.00New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”.  Winner of 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a play about Finland’s invasion by the Soviet Union. A signed presentation copy inscribed “from Madeline’s husband” to Gwendola Hurlock, sister of the book’s dedicatee and Sherwood’s wife, Madeline Hurlock, a silent film actress.  Dated December, 1940. Spine leaning, tanning to front and rear gutters, brief marks to the rear board — a solid very good or better copy in a very good rubbed dust wrapper with a few small, shallow chips.
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One of 15 Copies Bound in Full Morocco
Innocence in Extremis
$500.00New York: The Grenfell Press, 1985.  From the colophon: “118 copies have been printed & published at The Grenfell Press, New York City, in spring/summer 1985. Copies numbered 1-85 are printed on Saunders paper and bound in quarter morocco with the covers and frontispiece by T. L. Solien. Roman numeral copies I-XV are bound in full morocco hand-colored by the artist and contain a frontispiece. Lettered copies A-R are for the author and artist. Bindings are by Claudia Cohen; Michael Bixler has set the text in Dante. Each copy has been signed by John Hawkes and T. L. Solien.” Copy XIII of the Roman numeral edition. T. L. Solien’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the country and is included in public and private collections around the world.  Selected collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art;  Minneapolis Institute of Art; Tate Gallery, London;  National Gallery of Australia; Singapore Art Museum, among others. (source: Tory Folliard Gallery). Near fine, slight uneven tanning to boards, small and shallow abrasion to rear cover. In publisher’s plexiglass slipcase, one seam split as appears to be common to be this title, small chip and a couple of cracks, neither affecting the case’s integrity.
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Signed by Winner of 2015 Nobel Prize
Second-Hand Time. The Last of the Soviets
$800.00London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016.  First UK edition.  A paperbound original. Signed to the title page by the author, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, and dated in the latinate style as is her wont.  Not to be confused with the 2024 Fitzcarraldo edition, limited to 1000 copies signed on a bookplate. Few small finger smudges, else fine in wrappers.
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