Titles starting with Z from Joseph The Provider / Books

Garden City:: Doubleday, Doran,, 1941.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket that is spine-sunned. An elusive wartime book. 8vo. With a frontispiece photograph of Emiliano Zapata and with pictorial endpapers that illustrate the Mexican revolutionary's state of Morelos. Steinbeck made considerable use of this novelized biography of Zapata in writing his original screenplay for the 1957 Elia Kazan movie, Viva Zapata, with Marlon Brando as Zapata. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1962.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in an unfaded dust jacket that is slightly used. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Macdonald, two months prior to the novel's publication, to Marshall McLuhan and his wife: "Santa Barbara Sept. 29, 1962. For Marshall and Corinne with love (and admiration for Gutenberg Galaxy!) Ken."[along with]An ALS from Macdonald to McLuhan, dated November 23, 1962. "I enjoyed your Gutenberg Galaxy, which is so good that it changes experi... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1962.. First edition. Hardcover. Some spotting to fore-edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket that is slightly faded at the spine. 8vo. This copy is signed by Macdonald on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1987.. First edition of the author's fourth book, his first short story collection. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket with only the slightest of rubbing to the back panel. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1987.. First edition of the author's fourth book, his first short story collection. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed by Bell on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Coward-McCann,, 1960.. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in an equally fine, first state dust jacket with the $2.75 price on the inner flap. Later jackets, which are what you generally encounter, were price-clipped by the publisher and the price was raised to $3.50. 8vo. Laid into this copy is an edifying 1963 TLS from Albee in which he articulates his artistic credo: "No beginning playwright, or no playwright at all for that matter, can tell totally about his w... more information