Authors starting with U from Bartlebys Books

Some wear throughout the archive, some poor quality typing paper browned, but a very good archive, important as reporting and analysis by an actor in the events covered. For the archive, (1) Uhl, Alexander. Spain's Cry for Freedom. Madrid, nd [ca. 1975]. Ribbon-copy typescript (with some pages in carbon) for an unpublished work of non-fiction, exploring the effects of the Spanish Civil War on Spanish Society. 4to. (8), 3... more information

Madrid:: Imprenta Real,, 1792.. Small 4to. (16), 342 pp. Old leather (rubbed and worn, substanial worming along the spine), leather spine label (wormed; old tidelines through text, some browning, hinges rather crudely repaired. Good copy only. Second edition (first published in 1772). Ulloa (1716-1795), Spanish explorer and scientist, made several trips to South America, examining here the customs of the Indians, while describing the natural history of the area now roughly defined as Peru and Ecuador. Sabi... more information

NY:: Literary Guild of America, September,, 1931, Vol. 5, No. 9 (this issue only).. Small 8vo. 27 pp. The Ulmann photographs are largely of South Carolina low country African Americans. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. ... more information

Typescript for an original translation of the 12th-century Old French legend. Colophon: "One copy set up on the typewriter January I, 1939, in Honor of the Birthday of Peter Oliver, Esquire, by the Translator, Pierson Underwood, Scribe." 8vo. (1), 22 pp. Manuscript ink initials throughout. Inscribed by the translator to Oliver on the front pastedown and with a later typed poem by him laid in. Underwood contributed to the Yale Book of Student Verse, 1910-1919 and translated other tales from French... more information

Clinton, NJ:: Amwell Press,, 1980.. Foreword by Gene Hill. Drawings and color frontispiece by Donald Shoffstall. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the author and illustrator. 8vo. 442 pp. Plates. Contributors include Havilah Babcock, Robert Ruark, Larry Benoit, William Faulkner, Theodore Roosevelt, Ted Trueblood, and Archibald Rutledge, among others. Gilt-stamped bonded green leather, a.e.g., publisher's slipcase. Fine. ... more information

Clinton, NJ:: Amwell Press,, 1980.. First edition, 1/1000 copies signed by the editor and illustrator. Large 8vo. xix, (1), 460 pp. Line drawings. Contributors include Jack O'Connor, Larry Benoit, Robert Ruark, Archibald Rutledge, William Faulkner, Gordon MacQuarrie, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green faux-leather, a.e.g., silk ribbon marker, publisher's slipcase. (#4222) ... more information

Louisville, (KY):: Courier Steam Printing Establishment (for the School of Medicine),, 1851.. First edition of the second annual announcement. 8vo. 7, (1) pp. Prospectus for the session, along with lists of trustees, faculty, students, and the first graduates. Cover title: Kentucky School of Medicine, under the Auspices of the Masonic University of Kentucky: Annual Announcement for Session 1851-2. Not recorded on OCLC. Disbound pamphlet; original illustrated green wrappers. Very good. ... more information

San Francisco, CA:: John H. Carmany & Co., Book and Job Printers,, 1872.. First edition. 8vo. 29 pp. Gilman (1831-1908), a New Hampshire native, Yale graduate, and long-time Yale administrator, became the third president of the University of California in 1872 but resigned that post in 1875 to become the first president of Johns Hopkins University. Rocq 542. Original light peach wrappers (somewhat soiled and foxed). Very good. (1237) ... more information

(2008).. 8vo. Set of six pamphlets, each twelve pages in length, printed on laminated card stock. Each pamphlet is in comic-book format, with captions both in Dari and in Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan, but have also been specifically designed to be comprehensible to illiterate audiences. The characters pictured are a young boy Yassin and his uncle Kaka Rawoof, who are well known to Afghans. The topics covered are: child labor, education of girls, respect for others, rule of law, property right... more information

Clanton, (AL):: Banner,, nd [1947].. 8vo. 35 pp. Illustrated. Original illustrated tan stiff wrappers (creased, somewhat soiled), stapled. Good copy. First edition. Jailhouse confession of a drunken petty criminal in Alabama "getting right with the Lord." Not on OCLC. ... more information

New York:: Brentano's,, 1928.. 1 of 2500 copies. 8vo.; xv, 269 pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. Illustrated endpapers [previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown]. Brown stamped mustard yellow cloth; small illustration of a cat on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (spine darkened; small chips to corners, spine ends, and a small triangular chip along spine edge). A very good copy. ... more information

London:: printed for D. Henry, by J. Lister, at St. John's Gate,, 1769.. Blue-green paperwraps, stitched. 8vo.; pp.[273]-320. Illustrated with one folding plate. Articles (including a scattering of reports on the American colonies by Junius, and others), book reviews, lists of births, deaths and marriages. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. ... more information