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  • Limited First Edition of A Turn in the South; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author V.S. Naipaul

    NAIPAUL, V.S.

    A Turn in the South.

    Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989.

    Signed limited first edition of captivating travelogue of the American South, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Bart Forbes specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.

    Price: $75.00     Item Number: 147061

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  • Limited First Edition of Joseph P. Lash's A World of Love; Signed by Him

    LASH, Joseph P.

    A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.

    Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.

    Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt by Peter Fiore specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition, illustrated with black and white photographs and a genealogical table. Signed by Joseph Lash on the front flyleaf. In near fine condition with a small abrasion…

    Price: $65.00     Item Number: 146857

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  • "What is necessary is to speak about a man as though painting him": Limited First Edition of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's Picasso: Creator and Destroyer

    HUFFINGTON, Arianna Stassinopoulos.

    Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.

    Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

    Signed limited first edition of this ingenious biography of the prolific Cubist painter and hallmark of Surrealism, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, decorated gilt panels with designs by Martha Phillips inspired by Picasso's hand-decorated books, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece painting 'The Old Man and Time' by Francoise Gilot, Picasso's companion and the mother of their children Claude and Paloma, illustrated…

    Price: $50.00     Item Number: 146871

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  • Magali Boisnard's Le Roman de La Kahena

    BOISNARD, Magali.

    Le Roman de La Kahena: d’Après Les Anciens Textes Arabes.

    Paris: Édition d'Art, 1925.

    Later edition of this work by the French poet and novelist. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ornamentation by Paul Zenker, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

    Price: $30.00     Item Number: 145217

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