Kay Boyle, Signed (29 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNEDand inscribed by author on a bookplate on front end page. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Inscribed by Boyle to novelist Herbert Kubly in 1962. Some edge wear to and light sun to dust jacket, especially at spine head, which has a very small chip. 2nd printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, North Point Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1985. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding tight enough to suggest it is unread; light bump to upper rear corner. DJ is VG, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips). Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. 120p., introduction by Liam Hunt, personal inscription to Kay Boyle signed and dated 1977 by the author, lightly-soiled cream wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed to the British literary agent Pearl London on the front free endpaper in 1994. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, very good copy in very good DJ Signed bookplate laid in. ; 8.0 X 5.2 X 1.1 inches; 262 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. Albert Cecil Williams(1929 2024) was an American pastor, civil and LGBT rights activist, community leader, and author who was the pastor of the famous Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. He was one of the first African-American graduates of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Drawing on his experiences in the civil rights movement, Williams was also one of the first African-Americans to become involved in the gay rights movement. Under his leadership, Glide Memorial became a diverse 10,000-member congregation of all races, ages, genders, ethnicities and sexual orientations. To this day, it is the largest provider of social services in San Francisco. Although Williams signed many copies of his autobiography, this one is unique in that it is inscribed to his personal friend, the noted San Francisco-based author Kay Boyle. Kay Boyle(1902 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes. Her work contributed significantly to modernist literature, and she was an active participant in the expatriate literary scene in Paris during the 1920s. This copy is near fine with a beige cloth spine on green paper-covered boards and silver and black titles on the spine. Minor bumping at the spine ends but otherwise unmarked and undamaged. The unclipped DJ, having been in a protective plastic cover, is also near fine, with just slight edge wear. Inscribed by Williams on the half title page. There is an envelope affixed to the ffep containing an unmarked photo. A newspaper clipping of Williams obituary is laid inside the front cover. . BI24.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author to her friend Robert Smith who was a correspondent of hers who worked for the Cleveland Plains Dealer. Inscribed by Author(s).

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good+. Single leaf (125 x 202 mm), neatly removed from a book. Inscribed: "January 1960 / A happy new year to / Teddy Berlin / & his mother -- / Kay Boyle / Rowayton, Conn." A bit age-toned; small closed tear at fore-edge, close to, but not touching, the inscription.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. American author Kay Boyle neatly penned: "With all good wishes - Kay Boyle" on the front flap of a 3" x 4 1/4" folded card that is decorated with a blind-stamped border and a small, raised seal of San Francisco State College. Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American Modernist writer and a political activist who championed civil rights and spoke against the Vietnam War. She wrote more than 40 volumes of influential works of fiction, short fiction, poetry, and children's stories. Her stories were also widely published in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post. She won the O. Henry Award for short fiction twice. She also taught at several American universities and colleges after her return from France in 1941. Condition: Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 8vo. Very Good+, Single Page. Dated and signed by Cammack Sept. 17, 1992.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First British Edition. First Edition. Original lilac cloth, small ownership signature on front free endpaper, in near very good dust jacket with a few small chips. SIGNED on the title page "Kay Boyle." The British edition is more uncommon than the American edition. Scarce thus. By the Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Signed by K. Boyle on the front with some notations and underlines on the inside. A near fine copy in the original grey wrappers, printed in dark blue. Number Two in the Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets. 12mo. 24 pp. An erudite discussion of artists' and authors' political obligations. Woolmer 459. Kay Boyle and Stephen Spender were both prominent figures in the literary world, with Boyle being a celebrated short story writer and Spender a well-known poet and critic. Their connection is through their work, notably Stephen Spender providing an introduction to Kay Boyle's book, "The Man Outside". Signed.

8°. 21 cm. XIV, 262 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit 10-zeiliger signierter Widmung von Kay Boyle auf Vortitel, datiert June 198[x] sowie handschriftlichem Eintrag auf S.3. Schutzumschlag leicht gebräunt. Vorsatz mit Besitzerstempel, ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. With a 10-lined signed dedication by Kai Boyle on half title, dated June 198[x], additionally with a handwritten note on p.3. Original cloth binding with dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly darkened. Endpaper with owner stamp, otherwise fine copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition, trade issue. BOLDLY SIGNED BY JONG ON TITLE PAGE. Four essays by "as disparate a crew as America is a country, [who] have created a crashing concert of voices that could bring down Mt. Rushmore" (from the jacket flap). Includes "Report from Lock-Up" by Boyle; The Real Cowboys and Indians" by Sanchez; "East-West Blues" by Jong; and "A Nation of Lunatics" by Miller. Fine in fine silver foil dust jacket. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. First Ediiton. First Edition. Original cloth, minor wear. Inscribed by Kay Boyle to her sister-in-law, Clotilde: "Nice, June 30, 1932 with love to Clotilde Kay." Scarce inscribed. By the Author.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 127. 1/225 numbered copies, signed by the authors. A nice copy in scuffed dj. The pieces are: Report from lockup, by Kay Boyle; The real cowboys and Indians, by Thomas Sanchez; East-West blues, by Erica Jong; A nation of lunatics, by Henry Miller.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Large paper-covered boards over cloth spine, printed labels on cover and spine, t.e.g. One of 245 numbered copies, signed in full by William Stanley Braithwaite. An extremely nice copy with sharp corners and virtually little or no wear, mostly uncut.Previous neat ownership signature on front free endpaper. Contains "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost as well as the first appearance of Kay Boyle with her poem, "Monody to the Sound of Zithers." Hard to find a nicer copy. Signed By the Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY of Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez, Kay Boyle, and Henry Miller's "Four Visions of America." Published in Santa Barbara, CA by Capra Press in 1977. Signed by all four authors on page preceding back free end page, which also reads: "For Peter Trump." Book fine, except for some fading along edges of covers. DJ fine, except for slight wear at ends of hinges and top end of spine and a small tear and some creasing at edges of back cover. Also, a faint line of wear running down front cover and back cover. DJ price reads "$8.95" on front flap. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Typed letter: left edge is creased. Postcard: one word is smudged. Greeting card: two words have been whited out and corrected. ; Letter typed on thin "onion-skin" style paper, signed Kay Boyle, one page, approx. 8 1/2" wide by 11". Heading 326 North K Street, Cottage Grove, Oregon 97424, October 9, 1981. Folded for mailing. To: "Dear Robert Parrish: Thank you for your contribution to the Nelson Algren Fund." Included are a handwritten postcard [signed with initials] and handwritten greeting card [signed in full], also to Bob/Robert Parrish. Postcard: Mill Valley, CA, address label "I can't tell you much I'm enjoying your book, many thanks for sending it." Greeting card: ".thanking you for sending me your wife's article on Nelson Algren.".

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original black cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine, near fine. In original dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. PRESENTATION COPY signed by Kay Boyle: "October 1962 With cordial good wishes to . with my gratitude for the good hours spent here. . PA Kay." We could locate no other copies of this book signed by Kay Boyle. Scarce thus and in great condition. By the Author.

Condition: Fine Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. First Edition. Original grey cloth, fine minus, in very good minus dust jacket with chipping along spine folds, but the original price intact on the front flap. Presentation copy from Kay Boyle to her mother: "April 26, 1951 For mother- and the vistas she opened, and the vision that speaks wide - with my love- Kay." Exceptional association copy. RARE. By the Author.

Condition: Very good +. Max Ernst (illustrator). First, Limited Edition, signed. 8vo, 7 × 4 7/16 inches (178 × 113 mm); [8], 38, [8] pp. 19 original photograms/Cliché-verres by Max Ernst, the first bearing a small SIGNATURE OF THE ARTIST in pencil on the lower right hand corner. Tissue guards captioned in red; rubricated title page. Publisher's black cloth boards, decorated in gilt and blind on design by Ernst in collaboration with A.J. Gonon. Black endpapers; previous owner's pen inscription of free endpaper, small floral plate pasted inside front cover. Spine ends chipped, superficial split to front and back joint, one inner hinge partly cracked but firm; page edges evenly toned, contents fresh and unmarked, photograms clear and bright, all tissue guards with captions present, one detached (p.26). In spite of these minor flaws, an exquisite copy of this important Surrealist work. One of 200 copies on "finest bristol paper," out of a total edition of 255 copies. [Roth, The Book of 101 Books, 66-67] MoMA collection no 300323797 / Harvard P1997.4. A cornerstone of Surrealist literature, WITH A RARE SIGNATURE of MAX ERNST on the first plate, and one of the most celebrated books of the Black Sun Press. The text was the first chapter of Crevel's novel Babylone, translated by Kay Boyle at the request of Black Sun publisher Caresse Crosby. The illustrations of the book by Max Ernst were produced using a similar process to Man Ray's rayographs. Ernst's images were made by combining rubbings and line drawings on sheets of thin translucent paper, and then using those sheets as negatives to create a reverse image on photosensitive paper. These were then reproduced in the form of negative photograms, with the assistance of Man Ray in his studio after days of trials. "Ernst had developed his frottage technique as a visual counterpart to the Surrealist ideal of 'automatic writing,' a way to get beyond personal intention into the realm of the unconscious." (Roth, The Book of 101 Books, p.67). The dark visions produced for this work perfectly capture the darkness of Crevel's own vision. Ernst chose quotations from the book to appear as titles on the tissue guard for each image. He also collaborated with the book's binder, J.G. Ganon, to produce the black binding with gold tooling that is reminiscent of the bindings of old nineteenth-century sentimental fictions. The Black Sun Press was founded by Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and published -in small, exquisite editions and with no expense spared- the work of English and American expatriate modernists such as Crane, Eliot, Jolas, Joyce, Lawrence, MacLeish, and Pound. Signed.

First edition, sole printing, number 27 of 50 copies signed by Crevel on the half-title and Ernst on the frontispiece and printed on Hollande paper, from a total edition of 255 copies. This is one of the most celebrated books of the Black Sun Press and a cornerstone of Surrealist literature. Crevel was a student of 18th-century rationalism "when he encountered the surrealists and, joining this group of iconoclasts, came to believe that Reason had betrayed the mind" (Balakian). He was infamous for instigating group seances and hypnotic sleep sessions, with participants including André Breton and Robert Desnos. Despite Surrealism's secular roots, the group's desire to liberate imagination from the confines of reason owed a significant debt to Western Esotericism. However, after Crevel's attempt to orchestrate a group suicide and an incident involving Desnos and a carving knife, Breton terminated the group's esoteric experiments. This work is a fragment from Crevel's novel Babylone (1927), translated by Kay Boyle, and illustrated with some of Max Ernst's most successful book illustrations. Ernst also collaborated with the binder, A. J. Gonon, on the binding. "The white-on-black images do a fine job of representing the dark visions of death and desire that come to the young girl in Crevel's story" (Roth). The Black Sun Press was founded by Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and published (in small, exquisite editions and with no expense spared) the work of English and American expatriate modernists such as Crane, Eliot, Jolas, Joyce, Lawrence, MacLeish, and Pound. Minkoff A-41; Rainwater 30; Roth 101. See Anna Balakian's preface to the 1985 edition of Babylon. Small octavo. With 19 original photograms by Max Ernst, tissue guards captioned in red. Original black buckram, spine and rear cover decorated in gilt, front cover in gilt, red, and blue after a design by Ernst, top edge gilt, black endpapers. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine ends bruised, superficial split to head of joints, small chip to cloth on rear cover, touch of wear to couple of tips, inner hinges partly cracked but firm, trace of label removal to rear pastdedown, contents fresh and unmarked, photograms clear and bright. These minor flaws notwithstanding, a lovely, sharp copy, exceptionally well-preserved.

First Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-103,[1]pp. Inscribed on the half-title page by Atwood in the year of publication to American novelist and political activist Kay Boyle (1902-1992): "For Kay Boyle / With much admiration / Margaret Atwood / 1981." Light wear to and yellowing to extremities, with subtle, upward curl to front wrapper; Very Good or better. With a brief etter from Atwood to Boyle tipped onto the verso of front wrapper. Original typed letter on cream stock (measuring 8.5" x 11"), dated May 2, 1981; 16 lines (64 words), signed "With all best wishes, Margaret Atwood." Two old folds, with a few stray ink spots, and a brief holograph note in Boyle's hand on verso. A distinguished copy of Atwood's ninth collection of poems, inscribed to author and political activist Kay Boyle (1902-1992). Atwood would write a generous introduction to the reissue of Boyle's Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter, The Bridegroom's Body, and Decision), published in 1982. In 1986, both women received Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Boyle was presented the Robert Kirsch award for a body of work by an author living in the West, while Atwood received the fiction prize for The Handmaid's Tale. A warm association. Ahearn APG 037a.

Paris, Siana Editions, 1936. 4°. 89 Seiten, 2 Bl. OUmschlag. Erste Ausgabe. - Anais Nins erster Roman - ein ausgedehntes Prosa-Gedicht - wurde mit Unterstützung von Michael Fraenkel und Alfred Perles auf ihrer eigenen Presse gedruckt. - Eins von nur 249 numerierten Exemplaren. Vorliegendes Buch with handwritten dedication to /mit Widmung an die in Paris lebende amerikanischen Autorin Kay Boyle: "To Kay Boyle, "the fear of madmen will burn down the walls of our secret house and send us out into the world." Anais Nin, Paris 1937." Beide Frauen waren Schlüsselfiguren der Literatur- und Kunstszene, die in den 30er Jahren so viele Amerikaner nach Paris zog. - An den Rändern etwas angedunkelt, einige kleine Fleckchen auf dem Umschlag (hinten), sonst sehr schönes Exemplar. - One of 249 numbered copies of the true first edition of Nin's second book, first novel, signed by the author. A surreal novel looseley based on Nin's ménage à trois with Henry and June Miller and her incestous relationship with her father. Jack Kahane, publisher of the Obelisk Press - which had published Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" two years earlier - turned down the book, and Nin set up her own inprint, Siana Editions (Anais backward!), with the help of Miller, Michael Fraenkel and Alfred Perlès. Although the limitation page indicates 249 copies signed by the author, years after the publication Nin sold the last hundered copies, unsigned, to American underground publisher Sam Abramson, meaning that fewer than 150 copies of the edition were numbered and signed by Nin. A nice, near fine copy with near fine d/j of this large, fragile association copy we have ever seen. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. This 4-page narrative ballad begins: "There was one man and he was not an Irishman but he might have been with all his lying thieving ways. . . ."  The ballad was published in American Abroad: An Anthology (The Hague, Servire Press, 1932). The ballad is typed double spaced on four sheets of 11" x 8 ½" onionskin paper and is signed in full in black ink. Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was a visionary, avant-garde, writer, editor, and publisher. In his famous tome, "The Readies," he set out to revolutionize reading as a visual experience, advocating for the invention of a hypothetical reading machine that could keep up with the visual media of cinema. He is attributed with poetic visual analogs, such as em dashes, and creating a "cinemovietone" shorthand system. In France, he was part of the expatriate avant-garde group that included Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle and Nancy Cunard. Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American Modernist writer and a political activist who championed civil rights and spoke against the Vietnam War. She wrote more than 40 volumes of influential works of fiction, short fiction, poetry, and children's stories. Her stories were also widely published in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post. She won the O. Henry Award for short fiction twice. She also taught at several American universities and colleges after her return from France in 1941. Condition: The typescript is in excellent condition with a large bold signature. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine, Near Fine. In 1912 at the age of nine, Kay Boyle was photographed by the noted impressionist painter and photographer Morton Livingston Schamberg. Over 60 years later, Kay Boyle wrote about her meetings with Schamberg and his friend Charles Sheeler and of Schamberg's final ghostly deathbed visit. Present are the following: 1). Original Photographic Portrait of Kay Boyle by Morton Livingston Schamberg. Original silver print on gelatin printing-out paper, measuring approximately 4¾" x 6½", double-mounted on deckle-edge paper measuring 5½" x 7¾". Signed and dated by Schamberg, in pencil, "Schamberg 1912," on the lower edge of first mount. The photograph shows a nine-year-old Boyle clad in a thin white dress, photographed from the shoulders up facing to the photographer's right, with her face and eyes looking slightly down, her dark long curled hair hanging to her shoulders, with a large white ribbon carefully placed in her hair to produce an artistic silhouette, complementing her dress. Photographed with unusual lighting, Boyle's face and hair are surrounded by light, but the texture of her dress and of the ribbon create many subtle shades of white. The larger outer mount on gray paper has a few tiny tears with two very small, faint tape marks at edge of the smaller mount (on white paper) just touching the edge of the image else the photograph is just about fine. Morton Livingston Schamberg was born in 1881. After obtaining a degree in architecture, he took a summer course in art with William Merritt Chase, later doing graduate work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After spending a year in Paris, in 1907 he shared a studio with his friend, the noted painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler. In 1910 Schamberg had his first solo exhibition of painting, and in 1913 he had five paintings exhibited at the important Armory Show. In 1912 Schamberg began taking photographs to supplement his income. Joining with other avant-garde artists and writers, he became part of the Arensberg Circle and in 1916 he was introduced by Charles Sheeler to Alfred Steiglitz. In 1917 his photographs were exhibited, along with those of Sheeler and Paul Strand, at de Zaya's Modern Gallery in New York. in 1918, two days before his 37th birthday, he died of influenza. Knoedler's Gallery held a posthumous solo exhibition of his work in 1919. Given his brief professional life, Schamberg paintings and photographs are quite scarce. A single photograph of his has appeared at auction, bringing $390,000 in 2007 (with the buyer's premium). His photographs are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Alfred Steiglitz Collection. with 2). A Typed Form Letter from an English student, Ben Noakes, addressed to Boyle, asking if she would be willing to contribute an anecdote or story for a book he was compiling about experiences that writers may have had with ghosts or supernatural apparitions. with 3). [Caption title]: "One Early Morning in Cincinnati." Autograph Manuscript by Kay Boyle. Unsigned. First draft handwritten manuscript with corrections, undated, but circa 1970s. Two quarto pages on lined off-white paper, beginning "In my childhood, there were two young men [Morton Schamberg and Charles Sheeler] who came to visit my mother. ." In very good condition. with 4). Carbon Typescript entitled, "One Early Morning in Cincinnati, Ohio," signed in type "Kay Boyle," undated but circa 1970s. Two quarto pages on thin white paper, beginning "During my childhood, there were two young men who came to visit my mother and aunt. ." An autobiographical essay about visits by Schamberg and Sheeler, ". exceptionally gifted young men, Morton an Impressionist painter, and Charles a remarkable photographer of America's farms and factories. They were both protégés of Alfred Steiglitz. Charles used to push me in a velour-cushioned rolling-chair. Morton had painted my aunt's portrait in our house. And then in 1918 came the influenza epidemic, which history tells us killed at least ten million.

1 carte autographe signée 1 p. In-12 oblong 6 avril 1959 Bon Jolie carte de Samuel Beckett, adressée à laromancière,nouvelliste,poétesse,essayisteet une activiste politique américaineKay Boyle (1902-1992). En anglais. "Dear Kay Boyle. Thanks for sending me theletter andto Nina Schneider for writing it. Did you ever see this place when you lived near here ? Full of irishghosts, columbanus and daughters of kings. Hope things are well with you, with me there comes to worse. Yours ever. Sam. Beckett". Adresse autographe en regard avec la mention "AIR MAIL". Au verso, reproduction en noir et blanc d'une photo de la crypte Saint-Paul dans l'ancienne Abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre. Kay Boyle eut une vie exceptionnelle et une oeuvre littéraire riche. Elle fréquenta l'avant-garde artistique française, de Gertrude Stein à Ernest Hemingway, se maria de nombreuse fois et écrivit romans, essais et poèmes tout au long de sa vie ; elle fut aussi victime du maccarthysme. Écrivain et dramaturge irlandais, prix Nobel de littérature (1969).