Indiana Univ Pr, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy: Not signed, but from the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate. Appleman was known for his ecological work and poetry about evolution, and he was recognized as an expert on Charles Darwin. From the Poetry Foundation: "Regarding the poems of.....
Harcourt, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "Leo Connellan, for Annie Dillard, October 16, 1987." With Dillard's bookplate. Blurbs by Sydney Lea, Richard Eberhart, and Hayden Carruth. Connellan live in Greenwich Village during the Beat scene, and later was the the Poet Laureate of Connecticut.....
Heinemann, London, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the orange front free endpaper: "For Annie Dillard and Robert Richardson, in thanks for their Boston visit in April, admiringly, Peter Davison, 5/2/89." With Annie Dillard's bookplate. Davison's autobiography. He was an accomplished poet--his first book won the Yale Younger.....
Harpercollins, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Jen & Pete, love Annie." Uncommon because this includes her genuine signature, reserved only for friends and notables. Her perfunctory bookstore squiggle is also present here on the title page (for comparison). Near fine due to very faint foxing.....
NY: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing with number line on the final page to 2 (copies without the number line are the simultaneous Book Club edition), but signed within a month of first publication. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Dorothy Montgomery Johnson, best wishes.....
NY: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Jeri & Jim, best wishes, Annie Dillard." Her genuine signature which is rare aside her perfunctory, post-fame bookstore squiggle. Third printing with number line on the final page to 3 (copies without the number line are.....
Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For my dear new friend and colleague, Max Steele, with all best wishes, Annie Dillard." Novelist Max Steele was a longtime professor at UNC Chapel Hill, steering its creative writing program, and is a member of.....
NY: HarperCollins, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page to novelist Nicholas Delbanco and his wife: "For Elena + Nick, with love + eternal loyalty, Annie." Also signed in full lower on the page and dated "July 31, 09." An uncommon true signature.....
London: Canongate, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. An uncommon uncorrected proof of the British edition of The Abundance, in essence a volume of selected essays from Dillard including classics like "Total Eclipse" and "Living Like Weasels," and much more. Likely Dillard's last book. With a substantial foreword by Geoff Dyer. A fine paperback.....
Harpercollins, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The inscription reads: "For Bob, the love and light of my life, Annie." The relationship between Annie Dillard and her husband, Robert D. Richardson, is a remarkable and well-known story. Both were married, to different people, when Dillard sent Richardson a fan letter out of.....
NY: HarperCollins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page to National Book Award-winning novelist Robert Stone and his wife: "For Janice and Bob, love Annie." Also signed in full by Dillard lower on the page. Robert Stone and Dillard were good friends, and Dillard wrote.....
Columbia, MO: U Missouri P, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing in the year of publication. Dillard's first book, an association copy inscribed on the title page: "For my friends and colleagues Bill and Petch Peden, in all gratitude, Annie Dillard, Middletown, Connecticut, April 12, 1983." William Harwood Peden and.....
Tendril, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy: Not signed, but from the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate. Additionally Dillard has written the names of about a dozen well-known poets not included in the collection, including Anne Sexton, "John Ashberry" [sic], Adrienne Rich, etc., in blue ink at.....
Field Translation Series 3, 1980, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the translator Stuart Freibart to Annie Dillard: "Annie, if'n you have time for this some time, here! With affection + regard, S." With Dillard's bookplate. Near fine with faint foxing to upper.....
Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to author and radio broadcaster Art Bell, known for his nationally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM, which he hosted for Parhump, NV, outside Las Vegas: "For Art Bell, Thanks for your voice.....
Graywolf Press; Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy (copies): A pair of gem-like novels by Brian Kiteley, one inscribed to Lucia Berlin, the other to Annie Dillard. Those are Still Life with Insects (Graywolf, a paperback original, 1989), and I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot.....
Oberlin College Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by the translator Stuart Freibert to Annie Dillard: "Ditto! Love S." This book was given simultaneously with another book that Freibart inscribed to Dillard, *Sagittal section: Poems, new and selected* by Miroslav Holub (search our listings for it), thus the.....
Oberlin College Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy (copies), two books from the Field Poetry Series inscribed by the translator Stuart Freibert to Annie Dillard. The first is *Sagittal section: Poems, new and selected* by Miroslav Holub: "Annie, if'n you have time for this some time, here! With affection.....
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Annie Dillard, in appreciation for setting such high standards-- Page Lambert, Sundance, April '96." Sundance is the town in Wyoming closest to Lambert's ranch, so presumably Dillard was visiting her there. Lambert's first.....
Univ of Virginia Pr, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page to Annie Dillard: "For Annie--especially pg. 13 -- even though they edited out the dedication -- even though I wrote it before I Iearned much about sound -- + even though you'll hate the theology.....
Fanferon Press, Bellingham, WA, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy: From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate, and signed on the title page: "Mark M. Teicher, Oct. 23, 1984, Cambridge, MA, 02139." An uncommon chapbook, 40 pages in red wraps, perfect bound. This small press was based.....
Univ Pr of Florida, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, from the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate. Inscribed to her on the half title page: "For Annie, a true poet, even in prose. Lets see something about Rosie [her daughter]! Love, Michael, 2/7/84, Chapel Hill Come back and.....
Bridge Works, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, from the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate. Signed and inscribed "with admiration" on the title page. With a publicity sheet laid in advertising the forthcoming paperback. A New York Times notable book of the year, and perhaps of special interest.....
Putnam Adult, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by the late author in the year of publication on the title page to Annie Dillard: "For Annie, with admiration. Best in life, Tim McLaurin, 1/25/95." With Dillard's bookplate. Interestingly this book is a journey by two men, separately, from the.....
Vehicle Editions, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy: Not signed, but Annie Dillard's copy with her bookplate on title page. One of 500 copies. Very good plus with rubbing to spine and light bump to reverse side of lower corner. Dillard had high praise for Phillips's *Black Tickets.*.