Authors starting with S from Quill & Brush

New York The John Day Company (1970). First edition. One of 3,000 SIGNED copies. A collection of her writings and speeches about China under Communist rule. Fine in price-clippped dust jacket with minor wear on corners and spine ends. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. Very good with spine slightly cocked, light soiling and pages age darkened. Lacks dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Viking, 1949. Second printing. Two volumes. Both volumes are near fine in very good dustwrapper with light soiling and shallow chipping. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. SIGNED twice (on first two blank pages). Advance Reader's Copy, fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps in publisher's cardboard slipcase. ... more information

(Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values with and without the dustwrapper (if applicable). Issued on 17 three-hole-punch, looseleaf pages, for ready reference in a binder of your ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First U.S. edition. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise near fine in dustwrapper with slightly tanned spine, light wear to spine ends and a touch of soiling to rear panel. A nice, bright copy. ... more information

New York: Putnam's Sons (1992). First U.S. edition. Edited by their son, Nigel Nicolson. Near fine in dustwrapper, with tiny chip at rear bottom corner. Vita to Harold: "...How queer. I suppose [we] have been about as unfaithful to one another as one well could be from the conventional point of view, even worse than unfaithful if you add in homosexuality, and yet I swear no two people could love one another more than we do after all these years..." [June 4, 1941]. ... more information

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. First American edition using 500 sets of sheets from the British edition published by the Woolf's at Hogarth Press. Vita's impressions of a remote and primitive area of Persia where she and four companions spent twelve days. We find this to be a scarce, perhaps rare, edition in the original dust jacket. The book is fine and the jacket has only minor wear on edges and a little darkening to the spine, but is still very good. ... more information

London: Constable (1940). First edition. Fanny's adventures as a "nice girl" through the somewhat tawdry neighborhoods of London. Olive boards and slightly cocked spine lightly rumpled, light offset to pastedowns from the dust jacket, page edges a touch soiled. The darkened, period-style dust jacket has some minor losses to the head of spine and back panel affecting lettering, edges and extremities show a bit of chipping. Overall, very good or better. ... more information

London: Constable, 1947. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with slight age darkening, light rubbing and minor edge wear. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1977. First edition. Great association copy, INSCRIBED, "For Bob Novak in recollection of many secret meetings & with admiration Bill Safire '77." Very good with some soiling on page edges and cloth edges rubbed; in dustwrapper with light soiling and very minor edge wear. ... more information

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. First edition, unspecified number published. Precedes Doubleday trade edition published the same year. Illustrated by George Jones. Part of the First Edition Society series. Full leather, moire endpapers, ribbon marker. Special 1-page message from the author not found in other editions. Laid in is the "Notes from the Editors" with a portrait by Stan Hunter. Fine condition. ... more information

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. First English language edition, unspecified number published. Precedes Delacorte trade edition published the same year. Translated from the French by Abigail Israel. Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs. Part of the First Edition Society series. Laid in is the "Notes from the Editors" (portrait by Ben F. Wohlberg). Full leather, moire endpapers, ribbon marker. Special 2-page message from Albert Erskine not found in other editions. ... more information

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanvich (1982). First edition in English. Translated by Norah Purcell. Introduction by Anne Morrow Lindburgh. A book that brings together all the writings including letters, autobiographical fragments, etc., during World War ll. Fine in dustwrapper with a postcard from Richard Bach (author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"), thanking a collector for sending him this book, the existence of which he was unaware. ... more information

New York: Century Co. (1932). First American edition of this classic, the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. The 1931 Femina Prize Novel winner. Andre Gide, in his preface, states, "Aviation like exploration has its early heroic age, and NIGHT FLIGHT...sounds...the authentic epic note." Number 68 of Connolly's 100 books in his "The Modern Movement." Basis for the 1933 MGM film with Clark Gable, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Lionel Barrymore... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1943). First American edition. Illustrated by Saint-Exupery. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. First published only a year before Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission with a French Air Squadron, "The Little Prince" remains an extremely popular book, both in French and English. "The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He possessed three volcanoes, two active and o... more information

London: George Allen, 1865. First edition. Illustrations by Chris Hammond. 18th century French stories. Spine and boards brightly gilt lettered and decorated; top edge gilt. Spine slightlly sunned, boards show some shelf wear and edge rubbing, and spine very slightly cocked. Front matter and endpapers foxed, pages darkened. Altogether very good or better. ... more information

London: Heinemann (1962). First U.K. edition. Spine lightly bumped, page edges slightly soiled, otherwise fine in lightly soiled and rubbed dustwrapper with slight chipping. ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First edition. Set in Rockville, Maryland (Stonemont), at Poplar Lodge (Chestnut Lodge), where Salamanca worked before becoming a graduate school professor at University of Maryland. He's a much better writer than his sales in the collectible market would indicate. Spine a little faded and name on front endpaper, otherwise fine in dustwrapper very slightly soiled on back panel. One of the nicest dustwrappers we've had on this book. ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with publisher's postcard asking the reader for comments on the book laid in. Page margins slightly age darkened, hinge just starting at first page of text, otherwise very good in dustwrapper with minor edgewear and closed tear on spine, which has been laminated. An underrated book, and author, in our opinion. ... more information