Authors starting with U from James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. First Edition. The story a group of people living in a rooming house and caught up in the destinies of steel magnets and their mills. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny tears and some dust soiling. ... more information

New York: Amour Press, 1932. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to film actor Douglas Fairbanks Senior dated 1932. Some staining to spine, very good. An organized gang of criminals kidnap millionaires. Its leader is called the Purple One. When the millinaires get returned they were “pallid and shaken, they would not utter a word. Men who had flaunted, they quailed at the memory of the power of the Purple One.” A secret group of twelve organizes to combat him. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket which is lightly rubbed at the extremities. The novel was issued to coincide with the release of the classic western film starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, and Ralph Meeker, directed by Anthony Mann. ... more information

Los Angeles: Allied Artists, 1954. First Edition. Original 105 page revised script for the comedy / horror film The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters directed by Edward Bernds, starring Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the rest of the Bowery Boys. Bradbound. Ownership stamp and signature on the front cover. Lightly used copy with some spotting and minor edge wear in printed wrappers. A combination slapstick comedy and campy horror film in which the Bowery Boys meet up with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire. ... more information

New York: Macy-Masius, 1926. First Edition. Very slight erasure mark to the front free endpaper, else near fine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few small and edge nicks and with some very slight darkening to the spine. Illustrated. The intimate memoirs of the great silent film star by his business manager. ... more information

1930s. Original autograph signature of author Richard Ullmann, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Richard Ullmann is the author of ‘The Soldier and the Angel,’ ‘Escape from Freedom,’ etc. ... more information

Austria: Verlag Filmarchiv, 2004. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Rudolf Ulrich, in German and dated May 27, 2004. Text in German. Oversize format. Massive illustrated 622 page encyclopedia of German and Austrian filmmakers who have worked in Hollywood. Fine copy without dust jacket. A massive film reference book. ... more information

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979. First Edition - American. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ... more information

Bloomington: Lilly Library, 1984. First Edition. The excellent exhibition catalogue of noted Keith H. Baker’s collection of 13 modern authors in first editions and inscribed copies donated to the Lilly Library. The author collections listed and illustrated are Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, W. Somerset Maugham, Eugene O’Neill, Thomas Wolfe, August Derleth, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Jerzy Kosinski, John Updike, Philip Roth. Illustrated throughout... more information

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1978. First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Fine in a slightly faded dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. ... more information

London: Heinemann, 1965. First Heinemann Edition. Near fine in a near fine neatly price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1958. First Edition - Australian. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a few tiny tears. ... more information

Garden City: Crime Club - Doubleday, 1954. First Edition - American. Very good copy with the pages tanned as usual in a very good dust jacket with some slight chipping at top of spine and a few small tears. ... more information

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1956. First Edition. Original 144 page final white draft shooting script, dated February 22, 1956, for the acclaimed Western film Gunfight at O.K. Corral directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster as Marshall Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas as ‘Doc’ Holliday, Rhonda Fleming, and John Ireland. Bradbound. Fine. The story of the Western lawman, Wyatt Earp, and his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona, their alliance with ‘Doc’ Holliday, and their legendary showdown with the ... more information

London: John Lane - Bodley Head, 1924. First Edition. One of 270 numbered copies containing 10 original woodcuts, seven of which are signed by Yoshijiro Urushibara, and three which are signed by him using his red chop seal. 10 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches. Linen spine with printed paper covered boards. All 10 prints are in fine condition. Usual offsetting from prints. Ownership signature on front free endpaper dated 1927. Three stains to rear board, else a very good tight copy. Yoshijiro Urushibara was a frequent ... more information

N.p, n.d. 8” x 10” black & white photograph of the well known actor and writer Peter Ustinov. Signed and inscribed by the author: “To Anne Hall. Best wishes. Peter Ustinov.” The portrait shows Mr. Ustinov casually posed in a suit and tie wearing his characteristic wry expression. Fine. Peter Ustinov won two Academy Awards for his work in Spartacus and Topkapi. He also won an Emmy for his role as Dr. Johnson in The Life of Samuel Johnson. ... more information

London: English Theatre Guild, 1957. First Edition. Very good. ... more information