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"For, unlike you, I can't break through, a truant where the blue begins": First edition of Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins; wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MORLEY, Christopher. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Where the Blue Begins.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922.
First edition of Morley's classic canine story, wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with four color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. A nice example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 137414
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First Edition of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties; Signed by Michael Lesy
LESY, Michael.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
New York: Norton, 2007.
First Edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilted titles to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Lesy on the half title page.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 799
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First Edition of Archer Mayor's Borderlines; Inscribed by Him
MAYOR, Archer.
Borderlines.
New York: Putnam, 1990.
First edition of the author's second mystery in his acclaimed Joe Gunther series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Archer Mayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 2747
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First Edition of Richard Nixon's Six Crises
NIXON, Richard.
Six Crises.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
First edition of Nixon's first book, a summary of how he was tested in his public life up to the time of losing the 1960 Presidential election. Octavo, original cloth. Facsimile signature of Nixon to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. A sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147255
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First edition of Jim Lehrer's The Special Prisoner; inscribed by him to legendary American journalist William Safire
LEHRER, Jim [William Safire].
The Special Prisoner.
New York: Random House, 2000.
First edition, second printing of Lehrer's fascinating war story. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Helene & Bill - With love & affection J." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of “libertarian conservatives” and authored several political…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135274
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First edition of Frank Norris's Harper Prize-winning novel Tower in the West
NORRIS, Frank.
Tower in the West.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author's Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115647
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Volume 129 of Punch weekly; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.
London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.
Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issues of July 5, August 30, September 6, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 15, and November 29. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and ownership stamp.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142537
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Human Stain
ROTH, Philip.
The Human Stain.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Roth's award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146852
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First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Girl With Curious Hair
WALLACE, David Foster.
Girl With Curious Hair.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's second book and first collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 145192
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First Edition of Henry James' Within the Rim and other Essays, 1914-15
JAMES, Henry.
Within the Rim and Other Essays, 1914-15.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1918.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition. BAL 10702.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 110471
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"Yet this evening was an occasion and she hadn't had so many of those in her life": First edition of Angus Wilson's Late Call
WILSON, Angus.
Late Call.
London: Seeker & Warburg, 1964.
First edition of Wilson's satirical comedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. A sharp example.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96194
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First edition of Coyote Goes Walking: retold and with pictures by Tom Pohrt
POHRT, Tom.
Coyote Goes Walking.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.
First edition of Pohrt's wonderfully illustrated retelling of four of the adventures of the classic mythical creature. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 140125
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's Blue Pastures
OLIVER, Mary.
Blue Pastures.
New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146804
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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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"Girls and boys come out to play, the moon is shining bright as day!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907.
First separate edition of this Kipling children's classic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and vignette to the front panel, illustrated by F. H. Townsend, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 121482
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First edition of George A. Henty's On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the first Burmese War
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of The First Burmese War.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1897.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Overend. In good condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 122334
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"People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch": First Edition of Ryszard KAPUŚCIŃSKI's The Soccer War
KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard.
The Soccer War.
London: Granta Books, 1990.
First edition of this remarkable eye-witness account of "the emergence of the Third World," translated from the original Polish by William Brand. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146973
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Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip.
Philip Pullman Collection.
London: Various Publishers, 2000-2004.
Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in Boots (London: Doubleday: 2000), a first Picture Corgi edition of Puss in Boots (London: Picture Corgi Books, 2000), and a first edition of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2004). Each volume is in fine condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117733
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Advanced Readers Edition of the First Edition of Hunter Thompson's The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
THOMPSON, Hunter S.; Foreword by William J. Kennedy.
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1).
New York: Villard Books, 1997.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by William J. Kennedy.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146971
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First edition of Menke Katz's Burning Village; inscribed by him
KATZ, Menke.
Burning Village.
New York: The Smith, 1972.
First edition of the acclaimed poet's crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Feb 3rd 1977 For Prof. Chimieu Abronsky from Menke Katz." Katz has also added a large illustration of flowers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 124015
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"Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day": First Edition of Bellow's Seize the Day
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize the Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 90869
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First Edition of Herbert's humorous novel Holy Deadlock
HERBERT, A.P.
Holy Deadlock.
London: Methuen and Co, 1934.
First edition of this novel of two young people in search of a divorce after seven years of marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117239
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First Edition of Sport of Nature; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Sport of Nature.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
First British edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Robins.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 4160
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul": Collins Collectors' Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Peter Quennell.
Collins Collectors’ Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels.
London: Williams Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.
First printing of this edition of this collection of five of Nabokov's best known works including Lolita. Octavo, original leatherette gilt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 89097
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First edition in English of Jean Paul Sartre's Sketch For A Theory of The Emotions
SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Translated by Philip Mairet.
Sketch For A Theory of The Emotions. [Esquisse d’une théorie des émotions].
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962.
First edition in English of Sartre's work on the nature of psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Philip Mairet and with a preface by Mary Warnock. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 137129
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
New York : McGraw-Hill Company , 1973.
First McGraw-Hill edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 73094
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First edition of George Edgar Turner's Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War
TURNER, George Edgar.
Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War.
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1953.
First edition of Turner's work on the role of the American railroad system in the military campaigns of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs and maps by George Richard Turner. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 133073
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Comedians
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 123659
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First Edition of Last But Not Least; From the Library of Explorer and Adventurer Steve Fossett
KNOX-JOHNSTON, Robin.
Last But Not Least.
London: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this wonderful story of the round the world race. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most…
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 112459
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's Six Comedies
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Six Comedies.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937.
First edition of this collection of Maugham's six most famous comedies. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 136581
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But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window In the Tower of Song": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
COHEN, Leonard.
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
Toronto: McClellan & Stewart, 1993.
First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado. Jacket photograph by Edward Gajdel.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 129199
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First edition, first issue of Muriel Spark's The Fanfarlo and Other Verse
SPARK, Muriel.
The Fanfarlo and Other Verse.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952.
First edition, first issue of Spark's first book of verse, preceding her first novel by five years. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 127039
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"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas": First unauthorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Abaft the Funnel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge and Company, 1909.
First unauthorized edition, second issue of Kipling's 1909 short story collection with red lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with the titles stamped in red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 120904
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First edition of Cyril Falls' Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study.
London: Martin Secker, 1915.
First edition of Falls' tribute to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling from the portrait by William Nicholson. In good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 125404
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Halsman. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. A nice example.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 89070
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First Edition of John Updike's Self-Consciousness: Memoirs; Inscribed by Him
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 19053
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“It's best to be ruthless with the past": First Edition of Stephen King's Rose Madder
KING, Stephen.
Rose Madder.
New York: The Viking Press, 1995.
First edition of this King thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Author photograph by Tabitha King.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 116997
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants; with illustrations from the 1937 film Elephant Boy
KIPILNG, Rudyard.
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.
First separate edition Kipling's story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film "Elephant Boy" starring Sabu Dastagir, India's first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 121393
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First Edition of Shades of Difference; Padraig O’Malley
MAHARAJ, Mac] O'Malley.
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle For South Africa.
New York: Viking, 2007.
First edition of this work on apartheid activist Mac Maharaj. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Padraig O’Malley. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 3557