Authors starting with U from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

[Munich]: Carl Hanser Verlag, [1992].. 520pp. Large octavo. Black ribbed cloth, stamped with a silver UFA logo. Photographs. First edition. A massive, well- illustrated history of the great German film studio. About fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Toronto: Coach House Press, [1981].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection by the co-founder of grOnk. Fine. ... more information

Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, Decembre 1968.. Oblong small quarto. Photographs. First edition. Wrappers a trifle rubbed, else very good. ... more information

New York: Viking, 1957.. Cloth and boards. First edition. Near fine in good-very good, somewhat creased dust jacket with some internal mends. HORN 970. ... more information

New York: Metropolitan, [1903].. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, brown and white, depicting an exciting track scene, with two horses and their riders racing neck and neck in front of crowded stands. With thirty full-page illustrations by an unnamed but barely talented artist. First edition of the self- admitted bookmaker's first book. Light wear to corners and spine ends, otherwise a very nice, bright copy. ... more information

[Millerton, NY]: Aperture, [1974].. Oblong quarto. Gilt cloth. Plates. Preface by William Clift. First edition, clothbound issue. Very good, in good, somewhat darkened and shelfworn dust jacket with a few closed tears. ... more information

Woodstock, VT & New York: William E. Rudge / New York Public Library, 1943.. xi,[1],244pp. Quarto. Contemporary gilt cloth (wrappers not bound in). Cloth a trace marked and hand- smudged, but very good. First edition. Foreword by F.G. Melcher. Küp's own copy, with his bookplate. Affixed to the rear free endsheet are a number of reviews and notices of the book, most captioned in manuscript as to source, as well as a t.l.s. from H.M. Lydenberg at LC about receipt of the book. Also laid in is the ... more information

[Bombay]: Nalanda, [1944].. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Slip pasted over publisher's address, a bit rippled, with transparent discoloration to spine and rear panel, else a good copy of a cheaply made book. First edition of this collection, ranging from poets of the 16th century to works smuggled out of then occupied Poland. Translated by various hands. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, [1986].. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition of the author's second book, printing text deleted from the published edition (here marked in red) and errata. Fine. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, [1984].. Cloth and boards. First edition, first novel. Review copy, with photo, slip and flyer laid in. Very fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Midlothian, IL. October 1938.. I:1 (first issue under this title). Quarto. Stapled mimeographed typescript. Illustrated. Very good. Edited by Eugene R. Andre. Formerly THE UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY, but the title was altered with this issue to prevent confusion with the church. Prose, poetry, drama. Addressed for mailing to New Directions. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1947].. Decorated cloth. Illustrated. Fine in very good slipcase. First this edition, printing the texts of the 1st and 3rd through 5th editions, with prefaces and notes, and illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah. Inscribed presentation copy from Untermeyer to his ex-wife, Jean Starr Untermeyer: "For Jean This pretty, pretty book. Louis. 1947." ... more information

New York: Random House, 1919.. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 475 copies. Very fine. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, [1950].. Gilt cloth. Sixth, revised and expanded edition, inscribed by the editor to his ex-wife, Jean Starr Untermeyer. Fine in chipped and used dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, [1923].. Gilt cloth. First edition. Inscribed "for Florence Wyman Ivins the best artist who ever illustrated a book by Louis Untermeyer. 1923." Spine gilding dull, but a very good copy. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, 1928.. Gilt cloth. Frontis by Rockwell Kent. First edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription: "for Ralph Hodgson on condition that he doesn't waste his time reading it. With the perennial admiration & friendship [of] Louis Untermeyer April 1928." Light foxing to prelims and end leaves, otherwise a very good, bright copy, without dust jacket. ... more information

[Np: Privately printed, 1978].. Printed wrappers. First edition. Sunned along the spine and edges, modest use, but a good, sound copy. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.. [2],xii,295,[1],v,[5]pp. Gilt cloth. Black & white photographs. Index. A very good copy in a lightly sunned printed dust jacket with light shelf wear and fraying to spine ends. First edition. Bryher's copy, with a brief a.n.s. from the author presenting the copy laid in. Bryher and H.D. figure in the text, which consists of her personal reminiscences of poets and writers of her acquaintance. ... more information

Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1911.. Cloth and boards, edges untrimmed. Spine and covers a bit soiled and worn; some offsetting to endsheets, faint discoloration to rear board, otherwise a good or better copy. First edition of the poet/anthologist's first book, with a presentation inscription from the author on the endsheet: "To Louis H. Wetmore -- because he loves G.K. Chesterton, Billie Burke, peche melba - - & because his tastes, even in such lesser matters as Life & Literature, are... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919.. Pictorial boards. Extremities of spine and edges a trifle worn, but a good copy. First edition. With a presentation inscription from the author on the endsheet: "for Llewellyn Jones with a chip on each shoulder & one hand on a (2lb.) Latin grammar! Louis Untermeyer.. November 1919." Untermeyer and Jones remained friends for many years following their brief working partnership at the Chicago EVENING POST. ... more information