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Photos, 9.25 x 6", boards, 211pp with Index + Notes, extremities bumped and lightly worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, lightly soiled and edge-bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full numberline), INSCRIBED "To Larry, All the best..." AND SIGNED "ALFRED" BY THE AUTHOR, A. ALFRED TAUBMAN. SCARCE with authentic signature.

Photos, 9.25 x 6", boards, 211pp with Index + Notes, extremities bumped and lightly worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, lightly soiled and edge-bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full numberline), INSCRIBED "To Larry, All the best..." AND SIGNED "ALFRED" BY THE AUTHOR, A. ALFRED TAUBMAN. SCARCE with authentic signature.

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

41 mimeographed typed pp., printed recto only, in black. 8.5 x 14 inches. Al Purdy (1918-2000) was primarily recognized as a poet, called by the League of Canadian Poets 'The Voice of the Land. ' He was also a playwright working with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Signed by the author on title page with additional ink notes. Holograph corrections and notes in text. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Tanning to title page. Last leaf wrinkled.

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. INCLUDES A TYPED SIGNED LETTER (dated March 23, 1966) TO PREVIOUS OWNER BY ALFRED KNOPF. Dust jacket shows very minor shelving wear...slight shelving tan on spine, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.