Titles starting with D from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Doubleday,, [2003].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

Toronto:: Coach House Press,, [1967].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. One of 500 press-numbered copies (the entire edition). This copy is signed by the author. ... more information

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow,, 1977.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket as issued. 4to. One of 170 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 230), this being copy #1. Oates has elsewhere written that: "Daisy is a fantasy inspired by the relationship between James Joyce and his daughter. ... more information

New York:: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence,, [1988].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1998.. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 8vo. ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1998.. First trade edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket, almost like new. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. ... more information

Athens:: Ohio University Press,, [1981].. First American edition of the Irish author's first book, published when he was 15. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Brain damage at birth caused Nolan to lose most of his muscle control (i.e. become "spastic") to the point that he could not speak or communicate physically except with his eyes. He was sent to a school for the handicapped but no one knew if he could even read or write until he was given a new muscle-relaxant drug at age 11 a... more information

Highlands, N.C.:: Black Mountain College,, 1951.. First edition of the poet's first book, consisting of the title poem only. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made cloth chemise. 8vo. Cover illustration by Robert Rauschenberg. Printed by Oppenheimer himself on his Sad Devil Press in an edition of 150 copies as Jargon Two. Rare, this being the only copy we have had in forty years of bookselling. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1996.. Advance reading copy (marked "uncorrected proof") of the first edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in publisher's cardboard slipcase. 8vo. Signed by Dubus on the flyleaf. ... more information

London:: Cape,, [1977].. First English edition. Hardcover. Near fine in near-fine dust jacket.. 8vo. ... more information

Boston:: Little, Brown,, [1977].. First edition, preceding British publication. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. The author has cited this title as the most autobiographical of his novels. ... more information

Garden City:: Doubleday,, 1981.. First edition, first issue (with leaf 483-4 integral). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a short, closed tear on the back panel. Small 4to. The author intended for page 483 to be entirely black and was unhappy to discover that the printers had substituted a checkerboard pattern (which is easier to print). The later issue has an all black page (which looks rather gray actually) tipped in but in this first issue the patterned page is integral. This literary tour de ... more information

London:: Macmillan,, [1995].. First edition of the author's fourth book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. This copy is signed by Walters on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Dodd Mead,, [1944].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine example of the scarce wartime dust jacket that has been lightly restored at the extremities by a master conservator. Housed in a custom-made, quarter-leather clamshall box. 8vo. Laid into this copy is a contemporary photograph of the author, taken aboard the ship he served on in World War II. He is posed in swim trunks with the Pacific Ocean in the background. Also laid in is the author's U.S. Navy ... more information

Highlands:: Jonathan Williams,, 1960.. First edition of the author's first book. Plain wrappers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. With an introduction by Joel Oppenheimer. ... more information

Highlands:: Jonathan Williams,, 1960.. First edition of the author's first book. Plain black wrappers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. With an introduction by Joel Oppenheimer. ... more information

Berlin:: Fischer Verlag,, [1914].. First edition. Hardcover. Ownership signature on front free endpaper and small rub spot on spine, a very good copy of this early title. 16mo. A collection of five stories in the original German. ... more information

Santa Barbara:: McNally & Loftin,, [1969].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket (price-clipped). 8vo. With an introduction by Philip Durham. This copy is signed by the author. An instructive biographical / bibliographical work. ... more information

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, [1977].. Uncorrected proofs. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Advance review copy with publisher's slip and publicity letter laid in. The letter notes: "In the poems 'Morning After Dining With A Friend' and 'Since 1939' there have been revisions." A comparison of proofs to finished book confirms that Lowell reworked both poems substantially. Pictorial wrappers. Just about fine, scarce, and textually significant[along wi... more information

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, [1977].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information