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There Shall Be No Night
$425.00
Sherwood, Robert E.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”. Â 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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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 by First Southern Pulitzer Winning Novelist
Black April
$800.00Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with ‘ducks quacked’ on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  “An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation” signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was “accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro” (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear. Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, “Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration. Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic. In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain. Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about ‘beautiful white men and women, not n-words.’  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, ‘No beautiful white people live in my head.'” (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).
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Signed UK (True) First Edition Without Inscription
Genes, Girls and Gamow
$400.00Oxford University Press: Oxford (UK), 2001. The true first edition, preceding the US edition published by Knopf later that year. Signed by the author, a Nobel Laureate for the discovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Spine a little leaning, minor bump to top front board and one corner, otherwise nearly fine in very good or better dust wrapper, slightly edgeworn and with one minor snag. While signed copies of the US edition are not uncommon, signed copies of the UK first are difficult to find — even more so without an inscription.
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Artist's Copy, Inscribed and Signed 6X by Baskin
A Letter from William Blake
$500.00Northampton (MA): Gehenna Press, 1964.  Limited edition 500 copies. This copy unnumbered but is the artist’s copy, so marked in pencil by Baskin, inscribed by Baskin for Paul (Bitter), Baskin’s nephew (son of Baskin’s then wife Esther’s sister, Fannie). 16 unnumbered pages.  With 6 wood-engravings, 4 printed on Japan tissue, all being versions of Blake’s face. Baskin has additionally signed 5 of the engravings, including all the ones on Japan tissue. Original marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Light edgewear as is common to this title, Bitter’s name label, which establishes provenance but is otherwise less than attractive, on front flap.  A very good copy.
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