Titles starting with U from Quill & Brush

New York: Random House (1991). First edition. The "U" being John Updike. Written by Baker on the basis of a single, chance meeting with Updike in front of a plate of cold cuts at a Harvard Lampoon party in '84 and the few books by Updike he's read. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Random House (1991). First edition. The "U" being John Updike. Written by Baker on the basis of a single, chance meeting with Updike in front of a plate of cold cuts at a Harvard Lampoon party in '84 and the few books by Updike he's read. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (2009). First edition. SIGNED by the author. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers (1981). First edition. Michener's view of where we stand in the latter half of the 20th Century. Photo illustrated, 8 x 11 inches, 342 pages. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc. (1989). First edition. Uncorrected proof, fine in gray paperwraps. ... more information

New York: W.W. Norton (1958). First edition. Fact into fiction--the book from which the term "ugly American" was coined: "...the roster of our ambassadors throughout the world bears out the fact that too often personal wealth, political loyalty, and the ability to stay out of trouble are qualities which outweigh training in the selection of ambassadors." Should be required reading for Foreign Service officials. Basis for the 1963 movie starring Marlon Brando. A little musty but... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. (1962). Fisrt edition. Advance copy. Page edges age darkened and covers lightly creased, otherwise very good to near fine in plain tan paperwraps. "Coming March 19, 1962" printed in black on upper front cover, with red bar stamped over it and "BOMC Selection Coming June 26, 1962" stamped in red below. ... more information

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. One of 1,250 SIGNED numbered copies issued for subscribers only. The book is as new in dustwrapper, but even more remarkable is that it is in the original cardboard shipping box with title, author and publisher printed on cover. Slightly soiled and worn on edges, but still very good. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press (1976). First U. S. edition. Printed from the English sheets. Fine in chilling pictorial dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Random House (1986). First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author Doris Grumbach's copy, with her initials on front endpaper. Fine in dustwrapper with just a touch of minor edge rubbing. ... more information

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited (1963). First Canadian edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST book. Originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1933, this edition reflects revisions Lowry made before his death and contains a new introduction by his widow, Margerie Lowry. Name and address stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with light edge rubbing. ... more information

Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones Company (1951). First edition. "This brilliant and beautiful sonnet sequence is Mr. Root's most significant work. Imagining himself Ulysses tossed on the wine dark seas of the world, the poet speaks to the lost and ever-sought Penelope, who is the star toward which he steers." Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with only slight fading to the spine. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901. Second printing, the first was in 1898. His first novel, curiously, about whites. Grayish-tan cover with decorations and lettering in pale blue outlined in black. Very nice, clean copy with only a few specks of foxing and the barest wear on corners. ... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company (1996). First U.S. edition. Translated from the Danish by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher. Special advance reading copy. Light rubbing, otherwise near fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps. ... more information

New York: Twayne Publishers (1958). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Behind the scenes during the Reconstruction of Washington, D. C., after the Civil War. Illustrations of the transformation are included. Near fine in dust jacket with some wear, damp stains and mending. ... more information

San Francisco: J. A. Brainerd, 1882. Reprint, bound in 2 leather volumes with raised bands on the spines. Illustrated with engravings throughout. Gilt lettering and decoration; marbled page edges. Both volumes somewhat bumped, rubbed and scraped on edges, and boards somewhat soiled. But, the volumes are tight and otherwise very good. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

San Diego/New York/London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1987). First edition in English. Translated by Howard Curtis. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

London: John Cassell, 1852. First illustrated U.K. edition. Frontis of Stowe and twenty-seven illustrations by Cruikshank. According to BAL, the Clarke and Co. edition was published in London May, 1852, and this Cassell edition was published August, 1852. But, also according to BAL, the publisher's note reads in part: "The Publisher thinks it right to state, that the Authoress of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN has a direct interest in the sale of this Edition; and he trusts that this fact...will be... more information

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1996). First edition. Edited, with an introduction by Frederick Wegener. Fine in dustrapper. ... more information