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First American edition of Ron Padgett's Great Balls of Fire; Inscribed by him
PADGETT, Ron.
Great Balls of Fire.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First American edition of the poet's 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Shelly a [Great] idea... Gary Cooper Oscar Homosexual" and signed on the title page, "Ron Padgett." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129719
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First Edition of Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond; Inscribed by Him
HALL, Donald.
Seasons At Eagle Pond.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987.
First edition of Hall's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Betsy seasonally! with pleasure Donald Hall 18 September 1987." Fine in a near fine slipcase. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 587
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COFFIN, Robert P. Tristam.
Poems for a Son with Wings.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1945.
First edition. Inscribed by the author, "For Frangeon Jones Fellow poet and friend Robert P. Tristam Coffin". Coffin has also added a drawing a seaside home with a pine tree. Octavo. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1989
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1959.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, map on the rear pastedown. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 143506
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I; Signed by Niall Ferguson
FERGUSON, Niall.
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I.
New York: Basic Books, 1999.
First edition, early printing "rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking. Ferguson is a talented writer and a versatile scholar" (Atlantic). Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Niall Ferguson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David J. High. With a letter from the publisher laid in.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145605
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First Edition of Tremor; Signed by Award-winning poet Adam Zagajewski
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Tremor: Selected Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.
First edition of the poet's first book to be published in English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Adrienne- with best wishes, Adam Zagajewski Houseton, May 2004." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cathy Saksa. Laid in is a black and white photograph of the author.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147466
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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First edition of George Alfred Henry's Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peacock. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122688
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First edition of richard ford's the sportswriter; inscribed by him
FORD, Richard.
The Sportswriter.
New York : Vintage Books, 1986.
First edition of this paperback original as issued. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Elias Kanner with the very warmest wishes. Richard Ford January 8, 1990 NYC." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120536
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Rudyard Kipling's The Just So Song Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.
Macmillan and Co., Limited: London, 1918.
Early printing of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126592
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First edition of Josephine Hall's Damage; inscribed by her to photographer Sally Soames
HART, Josephine.
Damage.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of Hart's best-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally - who is on her own journey of the soul Much Love, Josephine." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126823
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First edition of Brian Moore's No Other Life; inscribed by him to famed photographer Sally Soames
MOORE, Brian.
No Other Life.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
First edition of the award-winning novelist's gripping drama. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames L'Image B S Moore." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126419
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First Edition of Roger D. Hunt and Jack R. Brown's Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue
HUNT, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown.
Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.
Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990.
First edition of Hunt and Brown's monumental compilation of biographical sketches of Union brevet brigadier generals in the Civil War. Quarto, original cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with portraits. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133074
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First Edition of Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays
THACKERY, Miss.
Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1874.
First edition of this work by Thackeray. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. top edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $110.00 Item Number: 3005
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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. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137801
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First edition of Douglas Rutherford's Grand Prix Murder
RUTHERFORD, Douglas.
Grand Prix Murder.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1955.
First edition of Rutherford's early murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 119604
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Without Benefit of Clergy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121504
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Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire; Inscribed by Him
BRANCH, Taylor. [Martin Luther King Jr.].
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the second book of the author's epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed on a bookplate, "For Gail Mitchum Taylor Branch 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Seow.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140029
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"Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove": Uncorrected Advance Galley Printing of Various Positions; Signed by Ira B. Nadel
NADEL, Ira B. [Leonard Cohen].
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first authorized biography of author, poet, and singer song-writer Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147094
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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "XXX Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124841
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn
BAKER, Dorothy.
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 127005
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"They know the merriest tunes and dance the jolliest dances. They like witty stories and they love love": First edition of Tales Told From Holland
BEAUPRE MILLER, Olive. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Tales Told in Holland.
Chicago and Toronto: The Book House for Children, 1929.
First edition of Maud and Miska Petersham's charmingly illustrated compilation of Dutch children's tales. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135419
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First edition of A Flyer's Dad's Assembly Call: A Play
A FLYER'S DAD,.
Assembly Call: A Play.
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, Inc., 1943.
First edition of this classic WWII-era play. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Cover design by Pennington. Ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133436
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"There was a blizzard early in November and, while the snow still lay unthawed in the gutters and gardens, another fiercer and colder." First edition of John Christopher's The World in Winter
CHRISTOPHER, John.
The World in Winter.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author's post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96196
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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "To Anne with XXs, Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124701
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First edition of Henry Williamson's Love and the Loveless
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author's semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128063
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First Edition of Annie Proulx's Memoir Bird Cloud; Signed by Her
PROULX, Annie.
Bird Cloud: A Memoir.
New York: Scribner, 2011.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's magnificent memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Annie Proulx on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rex Bonomelli. Jacket photograph of Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140722
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146171
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves": First Edition of Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147113
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"Please may I come in? I am Boots. I am son of Kildonan Brougue - Champion Reserve - V.H.C. - very fine dog": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
First edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121841
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First edition of John Codman Ropes' The Story of the Civil War
ROPES, John Codman.
The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes' account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133077
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
GREENE, Graham.
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146262
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First Edition of John McPhee's The Deltoid Seed; Inscribed by Him
MCPHEE, John.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For Mike Hutcheson many thanks and all the best John McPhee Bradford 1/23/89." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2544
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First edition of Hugh Thomson's illustrated rendition of William Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEARE, William. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1910.
First trade edition of Hugh Thomson's elaborately illustrated rendition of Shakespeare's famed comedy. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 39 colored plates by Hugh Thomson. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135149
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"They toil, argue, starve and siffer, hope and fear, love and hate": First Edition of Co-op: A Novel of Living Together
SINCLAIR, Upton .
Co-op: A Novel of Living Together.
Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, 1936.
First edition of Sinclair's Co-op. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking the front free endpaper.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146055
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122446
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First edition of Eric Linklater's Position at Noon; one of only 250 copies signed by him and illustrator Hans Tisdall
LINKLATER, Eric. Decorations by Hans Tisdall.
Position at Noon.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.
First edition and signed limited edition of Linklater's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. With decorations by Hans Tisdall. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, this is number 247. Near fine in the original glassine jacket with printed paper flaps which is in good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128153
