Revolutionary Road by Yates Richard, Signed (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. Orange/red paper binding rubbed at extremities; backstrip sun-faded; small label abrasion to front cover; leaf edges smudged. ; In wraps; half-title signed by author. ; DELTA/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE BOOK Series; 8vo; 337 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1983 First Delta/Dell Printing (April 1983) softcover (trade size softcover reprint of 1961 original classic from Yates - his first novel). Covers rubbed with closed tear on rear and crease on rear corner. Spine sunned (the red has faded to white, but black title is clear). SIGNED and inscribed by Yates on half-title page: "For Iris Chester, With thanks for her care and patience. Richard Yates, June 12, 1989". Novel nominated for National Book Award. Also includes laid-in from the 2008 film version of the novel: a small color photo SIGNED by actor DYLAN BAKER (played 'Jack Ordway' in Sam Mendes film version of novel). Also includes laid-in a small color photo SIGNED by director SAM MENDES; and a color photo-card SINED by JAY O. SANDERS (played 'Barrt Pollock'); and a small photo-card SIGNED by TARIQ ANWAR (the films Editor). Very scarce Yates signature on any edition of Yates' masterpiece Revolutionary Road. (Bonus: Comes with a DVD of movie). Note: No International orders for this item. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition. Yates's powerful first book which Kurt Vonnegut called "the Great Gatsby of our time." Tennessee Williams said of this book: "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is." The Academy-Award winning film AMERICAN BEAUTY echoes its theme of a soulless modern suburban marriage, and indeed this book too was made into a less successful film reuniting Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet from TITANIC. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to noted translator Helen Lane "who writes better sentences/than almost anybody./with best wishes,/Dick Yates/3-16-61." There is an excellent interview with Helen Lane online. Fine in a Good dustwrapper with edgewear and chipping at the top of the spine and the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. The advance reading copy in the promotional dust jacket. Very good book in a near fine jacket. Signed and inscribed in 1963 by the author on the title page. The book has a slight lean and staining to the boards else clean. The Dust jacket has light toning to the spine. Scarce with an early presentation inscription. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed. "Revolutionary Road is the The Great Gatsby of my time. One of the best books written by a member of my generation" (Kurt Vonnegut). "If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction I don't know what it is" (Tennessee Williams). Chosen by Time as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Adapted in 2008 to film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

First Edition. Cloth in jacket, neat ex-library with sticker on spine of jacket, bookplate, label residue on spine, abrasion to rear endpaper, numbers and date stamped on copyright page, but generally quite neat for an ex-library book. Slight wear and slight toning, near very good. INSCRIBED by Yates in 1983. Scarce signature. Signed by Author(s). Book.

First Edition. YATES, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly, (1961). Octavo, original half red cloth, original dust jacket. $7800.First edition of Yates' explosive debut novel, named "the Great Gatsby of our time" by Vonnegut, inscribed in the year of publication, "For N G with best wishes Richard Yates Bread Loaf8/24/61."Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' groundbreaking first novel, "creates an indelible portrait of lost promises and mortgaged hopes" in suburban America, a work richly praised for achieving "an intensity that excites the reader's compassion as well as his interest." A National Book Award finalist in 1962, the novel was hailed by Tennessee Williams as "intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is." To writer Richard Ford, Revolutionary Road remains a classic, decades after its first appearance: a work that is brilliant "in its apparent effortlessness, its complete accessibility, its luminous particularity, its deep seriousness toward us human beingsabout whom it conjures shocking insights and appraisals. We marvel at its consummate writerliness, its almost simple durability as a purely made thing of words that defeats all attempts at classification. Realism, naturalism, social satirethe standard critical bracketryall go begging before this splendid book" (New York Times). "First Edition" on copyright page. Yates, who was associated with the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont in the early 1960s, inscribed this copy in the year of publication to a Minnesota English teacher attending the conference.Book fine; trace of dampstaining, a couple scratches to rear panel, mild toning to spine of bright near-fine dust jacket. Signed.