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“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
To Have and Have Not.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
First edition of Hemingway's classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 130514
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"THE PAIN OF PARTING IS NOTHING TO THE JOY OF MEETING AGAIN": FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS' NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling, raised bands, morocco spine labels, top edge gilt, with the steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens in the first state, first four plates in later state without imprint, page 123 with "sister" (2d state) & page 160 with "letter" (2d state). Smith I:5; Eckel, p. 64. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 136224
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First Edition of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
STEINBECK, John.
Cannery Row.
London: William Heinemann, 1945.
First English edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143494
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"Come Then Let Us To The Task To The Battle & The Toil each to our part each to our station": First Edition of Winston S. Churchill "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145964
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Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies; Finely Bound and Decorated with a Double Fore-Edge Painting
MOORE, Thomas.
Irish Melodies. [Double Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1854.
Finely bound selection of lyrics set to Irish tunes. Duodecimo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, slight lean to the spine, light toning to the endpapers and margins, gift inscription to the front flyleaf, and a closed tear to the rear endpaper. Rare with an attractive double fore-edge painting. The term 'fore-edge painting' can refer to any painted decoration on the fore-edges…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146642
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First Edition of Balfour's Nationality and Home Rule; Inscribed by Him to Sir Harry Kottingham Newton
BALFOUR, Arthur James.
Nationality and Home Rule.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1913.
First edition of this work by the British Prime Minister and issuer of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Octavo, bound in full tan russia by Harrods Ltd., original printed wrappers bound in, marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "H. K. Newton, with the kindest regards of Arthur James Balfour Ap. 1914." The recipient, Sir Harry Kottingham Newton was a Conservative Politician, M.P. for Harwich from 1910-1922. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 116882
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First Edition of Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the author's first collection of children's poetry. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt onlay to the front panel, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146014
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?": Finely Bound Set of Havelock Ellis' Studies in the Psychology of Sex
ELLIS, Havelock.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 1905-1910.
Finely bound set of Havelock Ellis' landmark work Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Octavo, 6 volumes. Bound in three quarters levant morocco by Stikeman and Company, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 28043
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“All is vanity, nothing is fair": The Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. [Including The History of Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The Virginians].
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900-1902.
The Biographical edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Octavo, thirteen volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Maclehose with gilt titles and ruling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 126381
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“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded": Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco
DICKENS, Charles.
Oliver Twist.
London: Richard Bentley, 1839.
Early edition of Dickens' classic “novel of crime and terror” (Baugh et al). Octavo, three volumes bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. An attractive binding.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 139872
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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning": First Edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142902
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First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's The Logic of Political Economy
DE QUINCEY, Thomas.
The Logic of Political Economy.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844.
First edition of this study on economics. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, black morocco spine labels, gilt borders to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, silk ribbon tipped in, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers. In very good condition, bookplate to the front free endpaper belonging to Samuel Bronfman, the Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and owner of the world’s largest liquor distilling firm.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146689
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Finely bound set of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis. Illustrated by John Tenniel.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1953.
Finely bound editions of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarter navy crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, frontispiece in color to each volume. In near fine condition. A very attractive set.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145682
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The Works of Francis Bacon In Ten Volumes; From the Library of Elmer Holmes Bopst
BACON, Francis.
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
London: J. Johnson, 1803.
Large octavo, 10 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, edges speckled. Frontispiece of Francis Bacon in volume one. With the early armorial bookplate of J. Lawson Whalley and the modern bookplate of Elmer Holmes Bopst, namesake of New York University's Bopst Library. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 43014
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First edition of A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, by Several Hands; finely bound in full calf
GOLDSMITH, Oliver; Edmund Burke; Sir H. Walpole; et al.
A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, by Several Hands.
Dublin: Printed for the Editor by M. Graisberry, 1789.
First edition of this rare collection of early English literature. Octavo, bound in full calf, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, illustrated with engraved vignettes, lists of subscribers. In near fine condition. An attractive binding.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 137226
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First edition of Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad
TWAIN, Mark .
The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.
First edition, third state of the author's second book with "The History of the Bible advertisement on page 654. BAL 3316. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. From the library of Tiffany Thayer with his bookplate to the pastedown. American actor Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer wrote several novels, including the bestseller Thirteen Women. In a profile in Twentieth Century Authors, Thayer was described as "an atheist, an anarchist – in philosophy a Pyrrhonean – and…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 127837
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finely bound and copiously illustrated 19th century printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
BUNYAN, John.
The Pilgrim’s Progress and Other Works of John Bunyan with an Original Memoir by the Reverend George B. Cheever, D.D.
Howard Street, Glasgow; South Bridge, Edinburgh; 22 Paternoster Row, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1862].
Finely bound and copiously illustrated 19th century printing of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 31 plates and numerous in-text illustrations, additional pictorial title page, folding plate of Bunyan's Dream. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144028
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“INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE": First Edition of Martin Luther's King Jr.'s Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?; Finely Bound
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135189
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First edition of Albert J. Beveridge's Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Life of John Marshall
BEVERIDGE, Albert J.
The Life of John Marshall.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1919.
First edition of Beveridge's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marshall to each volume. In near fine condition. A sharp set.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 132009