From Baldwin and Capote to Warhol and Wright, James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of signed and inscribed modern first editions. Highlights include Men of the Deep Waters by William Hope Hodgson, with autograph letter; Jorge Amado's most famous novel, Dona Flor e seus dois Maridos as seen above; and Graham Greene's own copy of The Power and the Glory.
Sao Paolo: Martins, [1966]. First edition, trade issue. Obras Illustrados de Jorge Amado Vol. XVII. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the half title, “para Niles Bond, com um abraço de um leitor e admirador de sua poesia, muito cordialmente Jorge Amado S.P. Junho 1966”. Niles Bond was a US..... Read More about Dona Flor e seus dois maridos — história moral e de amor
Price: $4,500
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First U.S. edition. SIGNED. Read More about The Handmaid's Tale
Price: $1,250
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First edition, #90 of 500 deluxe copies, signed by the author. His last and longest and most ambitous novel. Read More about Just Above My Head
Price: $1,500
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition. SIGNED. Signed by Beckett on the title-page. Read More about From an Abandoned Work
Price: $875
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First British edition, first printing, translated by Beckett himself. With the publisher's note tipped in. The English text of Beckett's most famous title, one of the great works of the world stage, and decidedly uncommon signed. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most..... Read More about Waiting for Godot
Price: $2,000
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. First edition. Signed. Choice copy of this excellent novel, winner of the first Hugo award. Read More about The Demolished Man
Price: $1,500
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel / Nordisk Forlag, 1942. First edition. "Navigare necesse est..." Signed with Blixen's personal motto. Signed on the half-title, with the motto Blixen adopted as a youth: "Karen Blixen.– Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse." (To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary.) The famous quote is..... Read More about Vinter-Eventyr
Price: $2,250
[New York]: The Kulchur Foundation, [1971]. First edition, issue in wrappers. Signed. New York School author and artist Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was born in Arkansas, raised in Oklahoma, and studied (briefly) at Dayton Art Institute. His first solo exhibition was at The Alan Gallery in New York (in 1965) and..... Read More about Selected Writings 1962 - 1971
Price: $375
New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed for Anya and Harold Arlen. Inscribed by Capote "For Anya and Harold [Arlen]/with much love from/Truman Capote [this crossed out] (ha ha)" on the half-title. Dated below in pencil Apr 26-67. And with a Random House compliments slip laid-in "The..... Read More about In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Price: $10,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, signed, number 51 of a limited edition of 520, of which only 498 were offered for sale. Cather's last novel, signed limited. Read More about Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Price: $800
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Signed and Limited. No. 372 of 619 copies on Croxley hand-made paper. Read More about Shadows on The Rock
Price: $650
New York: Morrow, [1988]. Second printing. First edition, signed. Read More about The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Price: $100
New York: Ramparts / McGraw-Hill, (1968). Inscribed to Dr. Philip Shapiro. First edition. Introduction by Maxwell Geismer. Nicely Inscribed by Cleaver: "To Dr. Shapiro, a comrade in the struggle for Human Rights and Dignity. I always see you at the right places at the right times. Keep on pushing, baby!"..... Read More about Soul on Ice
Price: $5,500
New York: The Macaualy Company, [1933]. First edition of the author's second novel. WITH 2 THURBER DRAWINGS. With pencil portrait of Malcolm Cowley by Thurber on the ffep, entitled "Portait of the Artist as a Young Man" signed by him, additionally signed by Cowley on the half-title and with a...... Read More about Yesterday's Burdens
Price: $5,000
London: Gollancz, 1947. First edition. Signed. Signed by the author on the title page. Read More about Manservant and Maidservant
Price: $500
London: [The Morland Press], 1923. First edition, no. 171 of 200 copies SIGNED BY CONRAD. One of 200 Signed. Conrad's stage adaptation of "Because of the Dollars," written in 1921 and not produced. Physical difficulties in staging prevented it from going into production. Read More about Laughing Anne. A Play
Price: $1,000
New York: New Directions, (1957). Shahn, Ben. First Edition #51 of 150 copies signed by author and artist. WITH extra plate signed by Ben Shahn laid in. WITH EXTRA SIGNED PLATE. Read More about The Sorrows of Priapus
Price: $600
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, bumped corners, and toning on the board edges else very good in a very good spine-faded dust jacket with rubbing and creasing. Inscribed by the author. Read More about Play It As It Lays
Price: $2,500
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1953]. First edition, first issue with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d" Signed. Read More about The Confidential Clerk. A Play
Price: $1,500
New York: Smith and Haas, 1935. First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. One of 310 Copies, Signed. Read More about Pylon
Price: $2,750
New York: Random House, [1951]. First Edition, first state with grey stained top edge and misspelling of Chocktaw on p. 21; in first state jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer's name written incorrectly. Poet X.J. Kennedy's Copy. Signed Joe Kennedy on ffep and annotated throughout, with a synopsis of the story..... Read More about Requiem for a Nun
Price: $650
London: Harvill, [1993]. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by the Author on the title-page. Read More about The Candlemass Road
Price: $100
New York: Aperutue Foundation, 2014. First Edition. Inscribed to Emma Amos. With essays by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler. Also includes an interview by Dawoud Bey. Inscribed on half-tiitle: "For Emma Amos – Thank you for helping change my life. Love always, Latoya Ruby Frazier." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was..... Read More about The Notion of Family
Price: $1,750
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939. First expanded edition, English issue. Signed by Frost on a tipped in front blank, as issued. SIGNED. A scarce title in the English issue, especially when signed: Robert Frost contributed a four-page introduction ('The Figure a Poem Makes') for this 1939 expanded edition of..... Read More about Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939
Price: $2,750
New York: Henry Holt, 1936. First trade edition, second impression (without "first printing" statement on copyright page). Inscribed with the poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time" Inscribed by Frost to Robert Smith, with sixteen lines from his poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time", utilizing most of the front free endpaper..... Read More about A Further Range
Price: $8,500