Authors starting with I from Quill & Brush

New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition. Nina Day, at Princeton with a boy she finds boring, meets a campus poet. She marries the boor in order to support herself, her grandfather and the poet, and off they go to Europe. The poet joins the Communist Party. When Gramps dies she returns home and the poet finds happiness with a gay artist. Interesting book for the 1930's. Near fine in a yellow wrap-around dustwrapper with chipping on corners, head of spine and a larger o... more information

New York : E. P. Dutton (1928). First American edition. Translated from the the Spanish by Isaac Goldberg. An unconventional love story set in a Spanish fishing village. Fine in dust jacket with wrap-around band: "The Dutton Book of the Month for April." Hard to believe one could find a better copy. Only the barest wear and two short closed tears on folds. ... more information

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co. [no date]. Early acting edition. Translated from the Norewegian by Edmund Gosse and William Archer (the same translators as the 1893 Heinemann edition). Light crease in front cover and light edgewear, otherwise very good or better in brown paperwraps. Scarce. ... more information

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. First U.S. edition of the William Archer translation. One of 500 copies on small paper. Originally published in Norwegian. Very good with decorated covers lightly rubbed, light soiling and wear on spine ends and tips. ... more information

Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. First edition thus, one of 1,500 numbered copies. Illustrated and SIGNED by Per Krohg. Translated, with an introduction, by William and Charles Archer. Fine in near fine or better green slipcase with light edge wear and a few scrapes. ... more information

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. (1934). First edition. SIGNED by the former Secretary of the Interior on the front endpaper. Light tanning to the endpapers, slight sunning to the spine, gentle soiling to the page edges, soft rubbing to the spine and board edges and corners. Altogether near fine though lacking the jacket. Scarce. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus (1991). First edition. Advance reading copy. Fine in glossy, pictorial paperwraps. ... more information

Chicago: Swallow (1973). First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

Middletown, Ct: Wesleyan University Press (1961). First edition. Near fine in a lightly soiled dustwrapper. ... more information

London: Rapp & Whiting (1968). First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Fine with one soil spot. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books (1993). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1971). First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED on half-title page. Translated from the Cuban by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine in collaboration with the author. Spine ends a little tender, top edge of boards slightly sunned, otherwise fine in price-clipped dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press (1989). First edition. The author's first book. Advance reading copy in glossy pictorial wraps. Fine. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press (1989). First edition. The author's first book. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Random House (1962). First edition of this collection. Page edges lightly foxed, ownership blindstamp on front endpaper, otherwise fine in bright dustwrapper with small amount of minor soiling and few tiny nicks and tears. The title play, SUMMER BRAVE, is the "final reworked version" of PICNIC, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics' Circle award in 1953. ... more information

NY: Random House (1958). First edition. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Fine in very good rubbed dustwrapper with a few closed tears and back panel soiled. ... more information

New York: Random House (1963). First edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with spine ends chipped (affecting some lettering) and light soiling. ... more information

New York: Random House (1958). First edition. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Fine in a very good rubbed dustwrapper with light soiling. ... more information

New York: Random House (1962). First edition of this collection. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light rubbing, a few closed tears (one creased) and back panel lightly soiled. The title play, SUMMER BRAVE, is the "final reworked version" of PICNIC, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics' Circle award in 1953. ... more information

New York: Random House (1958). First edition. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Near fine with page edges lightly soiled; in a lightly rubbed dustwrapper. ... more information