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Rare autograph note signed by American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Note.
Rare autograph note signed by American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. The note reads, "Yours Truly Harriet Beecher Stowe April 19 1892." In fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of the author. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 12 inches.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 95228
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"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him": First Edition of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock
GREENE, Graham.
Brighton Rock.
London: Heinemann, 1938.
First edition of Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 7206
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"The most ambitious attempt in the latter half of the eighteenth century to document the lives of notable British men and women": First edition of the Biographia Britannica
EDITED BY WILLIAM OLDYS,.
Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished In Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, both Printed an Manuscript, and Digested in a Manner of Mr. Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary.
London: Printed for W. Innys, W. Meadows, J. Walthoe, T. Cox, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Osborne, et al, 1747.
First edition of the Biographia Britannica. Folio, 7 volumes bound in contemporary full calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, engraved headpieces and tailpieces. In very good condition. Armorial bookplates to the pastedowns.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 114752
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“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same": First British Edition of Midnight's Children
RUSHDIE, Salman.
Midnight’s Children.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.
First British edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Botten.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 91456
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, William.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 138572
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First Edition of Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights And Days; Signed by Him
MAHFOUZ, Naguib.
Arabian Nights And Days.
New York: Doubleday, 1995.
First edition of this novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author who refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Naguib Mahfouz on the title page. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 272
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 116178
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First Edition of Baltasar and Blimunda; Inscribed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Baltasar and Blimunda.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
First British edition of Saramago's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Doris Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Rosemary Woods. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $1,300.00 Item Number: 140898
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live": First Edition of The White Album; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan.
The White Album.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,300.00 Item Number: 146032
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Rare Hand-colored engraved nineteenth century folding map of the United States by renowned Scottish cartographer Daniel Lizars
LIZARS, Daniel.
Daniel Lizars 19th Century Map of the United States.
Edinburgh: Published by D. Lizars, [1828].
Hand-colored engraved nineteenth century folding map of the United States by renowned Scottish cartographer Daniel Lizars. The hand-colored engraved folding map covers the territories of the United States circa 1828 extending as far west as the Missouri Territory, Arkansa [sic], and Louisiana. In very good condition with splitting to the central fold. Matted and framed the entire piece measures 24.5 inches by 21 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146295
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak": First Edition of the Authors Classic Work The Childrens Hour; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HELLMAN, Lillian.
The Children’s Hour.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
First edition of the author's first and most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Examples in the original jacket are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111712
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First Edition of J. Paul Getty and Ethel Le Vane's Collector's Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe; Signed by both authors
LE VANE, Ethel and J. Paul Getty.
Collector’s Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey Through Europe.
London: W.H. Allen, 1955.
First edition of this work by the legendary businessman and collector. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Signed by the authors opposite in the year of publication on the half-title page, "J. Paul Getty, Sept. 1955," and also inscribed by the co-author above, "To the Sprigg's, with all good wishes from Ethel LeVane (Bunny)." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Books signed by Getty are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139670
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"But the particular circumstance of dreaming is that the dreamer is bereft of power": John Williams' first novel Nothing But the Night; Warmly Inscribed by Him
WILLIAMS, John.
Nothing But The Night.
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1990.
First edition of the re-issue of John Williams' first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the month of publication, "For Bob and Margaret, with much love, for many years- John Williams Jan. 22, 1990." In near fine condition. Cover art by Donald Furst.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 122674
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"With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career": Into Thin Air; Lengthily Inscribed by Jon Krakauer
KRAKAUER, Jon.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
New York: Villard, 1997.
First edition, early printing of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Anita Karl, illustrations by Randy Rackliff. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his teacher on the half-title page, "For Loretta Smith- With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career. Thanks, Jon Krakauer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144146
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First Edition of Bernard Darwin's Golf Between Two Wars; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
DARWIN, Bernard.
Golf Between Two Wars.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1944.
First edition of this golf classic. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145701
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Rare 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook; containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years
[WARHOL, Andy].
The Thistle: Andy Warhol 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1949.
1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook featuring a rare photograph of Andy Warhol as a college senior. Folio, original boards, illustrated. Warhol is pictured as a member of Modern Dance club. The yearbook also includes a photograph of Philip Pearlstein, a fellow graduating senior. In near fine condition. Very rare, containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134091
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First Edition of Richard Neutra's Survival Through Design; Inscribed by Him To Adlai Stevenson
NEUTRA, Richard [Adlai Stevenson].
Survival Through Design.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
First edition of this work by one of the great modernist architects of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Adlai Stevenson hope and inspiration of his countrymen cordially Richard Neutra 54." The recipient, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, was an American politician and diplomat noted for his promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 1952 and 1956 elections. Adlai Stevenson's ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Near…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 93541
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"Be good and you will be lonesome": First Edition of Mark Twain's Following the Equator
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.
Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897.
First edition, first issue of the author's pointed social critique of British Imperialism with the signature mark "11" on page 161. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant navy morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain, illustrated by Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B.W. Clinedisnt, and Frederick Dielman among others. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146301
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Limited Special Edition of William Faulkner's Pylon; Signed by Him
FAULKNER, William.
Pylon.
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935.
Signed limited special edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original publisher's three quarter cloth over metallic silver boards. One of three hundred and ten copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 69. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146079
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First signed Limited Editions Club edition of the Complete Poems of Robert Frost; one of 1500 copies signed by him, illustrator Thomas A. Nason, and printer Bruce Rogers
FROST, Robert.
The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. With a Preface by the Author, an Appreciation by Louis Untermeyer, and Wood-Engravings by Thomas A. Nason.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950.
First signed Limited Editions Club edition of the Complete Poems of Robert Frost. Quarto, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spines, illustrated with wood-engravings by Thomas A. Nason. One of 1500 copies printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club and signed by Robert Frost, Thomas A. Nason, and Bruce Rogers on the limitation page, this is number 1103. Preface by Robert Frost. Appreciation by Louis Untermeyer. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146506