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First Edition of Kenneth S. Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor
LYNN, Kenneth S.
Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
First edition of Lynn's work examining the literary artistry of the legendary American writer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Allan Seide.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 139811
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First edition of David Benedictus' The Fourth of June
BENEDICTUS, David.
The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond, 1962.
First edition of Benedictus' first novel. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 121643
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First edition of Louis L. Cornell's Kipling In India
CORNELL, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling In India.
London: Macmillan, 1966.
First edition of Cornell's study of Kipling's apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 135841
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First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Two Plays by Eugene O’Neill.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1929.
First edition of this collection of two of the great playwright's works including the long theo-philosophical meditation, Lazarus Laughed, which called for more than one hundred actors making up a masked chorus. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 111219
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Rare original pamphlet featuring tennis pro vincent "vinnie" richards; published by dunlop tire and rubber company
RICHARDS, Vincent "Vinnie".
Stroking with “Vinnie” Richards.
New York: Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co, .
First edition pamphlet of tennis pro "Vinnie" Richards demonstrating his renowned tennis serve, drive, volley, slice, and racket grip. Stapled pamphlet opening vertically with sequential halftones and filmstrip border. Photo portrait of Vinnie Richards on the cover holding tennis rackets and trophy, published by Dunlop Tire & Rubber Company with advertisements for their tennis balls, rackets, hockey pucks and golf balls at rear. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 81264
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"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish not to take delight in it while we have it": W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Our Betters.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.
Later printing of this incredible comedy in three acts. Octodecimo, original red cloth. In very good condition. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145200
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“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us:" First Edition of Neil deGrasse Tyson's Death by Black Hole
TYSON, Neil deGrasse.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2007.
First edition of this vibrant collection of essays from America's best-known astrophysicist. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keenan. Jacket photograph by NASA. Author photograph courtesy of Dan Deitch.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145179
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"But hes a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid": Arthur Miller's Pultizer Prize-Winning Classic The Death Of A Salesman
MILLER, Arthur.
Death Of A Salesman.
New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
First edition of the special illustrated edition of the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146319
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First edition of Kenneth Brown's The Medchester Club
BROWN, Kenneth.
The Medchester Club.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's collection of hunting reminiscences and tales of horsemanship. Octavo, original cloth with labels to the spine and front panel lettered in gilt, illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 814. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 116384
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First Edition of Tasha Tudor's Favorite Christmas Carols
TUDOR, Tasha and Linda Allen.
Tasha Tudor’s Favorite Christmas Carols.
New York: David McCay Company, 1978.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 140687
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First Edition of The Ghost in the Music; Signed by John Nichols
NICHOLS, John.
A Ghost in the Music.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
First edition of Nichols' fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Neil Stuart.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 95882
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First Edition of Oliver Stone's A Child's Night Dream; signed by him
STONE, Oliver.
A Child’s Night Dream.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
First edition of Stone's first novel, a fictionalized account of his harrowing experiences in Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Joe, Oliver Stone." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Sonder. Jacket illustration by Sergio Premoli.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 115105
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Two Forewords; One of 950 copies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Two Forewords.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935.
First edition of this collection of two letters written by Kipling to Frank Nelson and Nelson Doubleday. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of 950 copies. Fine in the original slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 123463
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason": T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
ELIOT, T.S.
Murder in the Cathedral.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First edition, early printing of Eliot's dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145271
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“You have tried to destroy me and though I perish daily, I shall not be moved": Maya Angelous Phenomenal Woman
ANGELOU, Maya.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women.
New York: Random House, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this acclaimed group of four poems by the famed poet. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Steve Dunwell.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145178
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"He wrote us verse of all our sweet, familiar things, of religions, of working-folk, of man and maid and philosophies": Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, Sir George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1938.
New and revised edition of MacMunn's biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 122047
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“Either war is finished, or we are": First Edition of War and Remembrance
WOUK, Herman.
War and Remembrance.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.
First edition of Wouk's sequel to The Winds of War. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146719
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Nemeses
ROTH, Philip.
Philip Roth Nemeses [Everyman; Indignation; The Humbling; Nemesis].
New York: Library of America, 2013.
First edition of the ninth Roth volume in the Library of America series. Octavo, original green cloth, patterned endpapers, original silk ribbon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very light bumping to the foot of the spine. Light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine, botom edge of the front and rear panels. Edited by Ross Miller.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145727
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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
First edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117891
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First edition of Richard E. Danielson's Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories
DANIELSON, Richard E.
Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of Danielson's collection of sporting memories. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Edwin Megargee. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 775. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 116031
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First edition of Roger Lancelyn Green's Kipling: The Critical Heritage
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Critical Heritage.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1971.
First edition of Green's critical history of the great British author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126889
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"I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like": First Edition of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress
WALLIAMS, David.
The Boy in the Dress.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.
First edition of the award-winning sketch actor's first children's book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145190
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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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First Edition of Herblock Special Report; Inscribed by Him
BLOCK, Herbert.
Herblock Special Report.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of this work by the cartoonist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jeff Cohen with best wishes of Herb Block." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Antler.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 88110
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"Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!" First edition of Nabokov's Transparent Things
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Transparent Things.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
First edition of Nabokov's 1972 novella. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Photographic portrait of Nabokov on the rare panel of dust jacket by Halsman.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 140097
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"Peace is always preferable... but war is news": First edition of Israel at War
ERED, E; Ch. Yaniv; N. May-Tal [Editors].
Israel at War: June 5-10, 1967 A Pictorial Record.
London: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1967.
First edition of this pictorial record of the Six-Day War. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jesse Zierler.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126941
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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
First edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 137261
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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. In fine condition. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 116901
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First Edition of Nelson Demille's Wild Fire; Signed by Him
DEMILLE, Nelson.
Wild Fire.
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
First edition of this novel by DeMille. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nelson DeMille on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Cornell and Anne Twomey.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 44839
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First edition of Morton Cohen's Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship
COHEN, Morton.
Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.
London: Hutchinson, 1965.
First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135911
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First Edition of Lionel Tiger's The Pursuit of Pleasure; Inscribed by Him
TIGER, Lionel.
The Pursuit of Pleasure.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
First edition of this work by the famed anthropologist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To William Rogers I hope this provides you pleasure! Lionel Tiger." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117834
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"During this period Kipling's fame and the demand for his work were constantly growing": Revised edition of Rudyard Kipling in New England
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling in New England.
Brattleboro: The Book Cellar, 1951.
Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123411
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“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world": First Edition of Jimmy Buffett's A Salty Piece of Land
BUFFETT, Jimmy .
A Salty Piece of Land.
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145150
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"Who dost though love O seer in thy vision? Women I love, slender and strange and stately waiting untroubled for the years to bear them": First Edition of Sir George Macmunn's Kipling's Women
MACMUNN, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Women.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society's study of the women portrayed in Kipling's song and story. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135257
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1897.
First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123492
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First Edition of Jane Jacobs' Cities and the Wealth of Nations
JACOBS, Jane.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.
New York: Random House, 1984.
First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher's cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 146415
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First edition of Estella Cave' Ant Antics; with accompaniments by Stanley Baldwin, Beverley Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling
CAVE, Estella. [Rudyard Kipling; Stanley Baldwin; Beverley Nichols].
Ant Antics.
London: John Murray, 1933.
First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo, original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin, Basil Cave, Baden-Powell, Beverly Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123072
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First Edition of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two
CLARKE, Arthur C.
2010: Odyssey Two.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1982.
First edition of the second volume in Clarke's acclaimed Odyssey series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gary Friedman. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145180
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"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you": First Edition of Sean O'Casey's I Knock At The Door
O'CASEY, Sean.
I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.
First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 112333
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First edition of Paul Scott's The Corrida at San Feliu
SCOTT, Paul.
The Corrida at San Feliu.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964.
First edition of Paul Scott's rich, multi-layered novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 138733
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First edition of Paul Hare's Planning the British Economy
HARE, Paul.
Planning the British Economy.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
First edition of Hare's treatise on economic investment in post-World War II Britain. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 127003
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First Edition of John O'Hara's Pal Joey
O'HARA, John.
Pal Joey.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
First edition of this classic novel, basis for the 1957 film starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 133139
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Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years
BOYD, Brian [Vladimir Nabokov].
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Early printing of this biography on Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 87069
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First Edition of Harold Pinter's Poems and Prose 1949-1977
PINTER, Harold.
Poems and Prose 1949-1977.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1978.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Quarto, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 144974
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"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellects get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics": First Edition of The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
NABOKOV, Vladimir and Edmund Wilson. Edited.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of this annotated compendium of the Nabokov-Wilson letters. Octaovo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 89093
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets": First Edition of Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
MILLER, Arthur.
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.
New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
First American edition of this incredibly entertaining play. Octavo, original black half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Inge Morath.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145186
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First edition of James Goodwin's Burwash and the Sussex Weald
GOODWIN, James [Rudyard Kipling].
Burwash and the Sussex Weald. (“An English History in Miniature.”).
Turnbridge Wells: Printed for the Author by The Courier Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., n.d.
First edition of work on the history and landscape of the Sussex Weald where Rudyard Kipling resided from 1902 until his death in 1936. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 136107
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First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.
London: Constable and Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 138394
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William Attwood's Making It Through Middle Age; inscribed by him
ATTWOOD, William.
Making it Through Middle Age: Notes While in Transit.
New York: Atheneum, 1982.
First edition, second printing of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 142304
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"I was wide awake, packed and ready to go at dawn": Eric Ambler's The Night-Comers
AMBLER, Eric.
The Night-Comers.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
Early printing of Ambler's inventively thrilling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126375