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First Edition of Howard Greenfeld's Puccini; lengthily inscribed by him
GREENFELD, Howard. [Puccini].
Puccini.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.
First edition of Greenfeld's authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To James Canner, With gratitude, admiration, and friendship. Howard Greenfeld Jan 23, 1981." In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115708
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First Edition of The Right Stuff
WOLFE, Tom.
The Right Stuff.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.
First edition of Wolfe's classic work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Kiyoshi Kanai.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147143
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Signed by Michael Rosen
MCGOUGH, Roger and Michael Rosen; Illustrated by Sara Midda.
You Tell Me: Poems by Roger McGough and Michael Rosen.
London: Puffin Books, 1981.
First edition of this collection of poems for children. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper, "Michael Rosen 12/10/85." In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 89125
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Charles Lever's Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
LEVER, Charles.
Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon.
London: James Nisbit & Co., Limited, 1899.
Later printing of this tale illustrated by Arthur Rackham very early in his career. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with frontispiece and 15 plates. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142691
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First edition of Bernard Darwin's Dickens; the 11th book in the Duckworth Great Lives Series
DARWIN, Bernard.
Dickens.
London: Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 117034
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"STILL FIGHTING FOR POPULIST CAUSES": FIRST EDITION OF BERNIE SANDERS' OUR REVOLUTION
SANDERS, Bernie.
Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016.
First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as "well worth reading… his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn." Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Bernie Sanders in facsimile. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 130641
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First edition of Thomas Wolfe's The Hills Beyond
WOLFE, Thomas.
The Hills Beyond.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
First edition of Wolfe's acclaimed posthumously published short story collection. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, embossed stamps.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 120308
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First Edition of Mark Singer's Funny Money; Signed by Him
SINGER, Mark.
Funny Money.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mark Singer on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket illustration and design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126326
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First Edition of McMurtry and Ossana's Pretty Boy Floyd; Signed by McMurtry
MCMURTRY, Larry and Diana Ossana.
Pretty Boy Floyd.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition of McMurtry and Ossana's first collaborative novel, a semi-fictional biography of American bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the second free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95120
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First edition of The Letters of Tolstoy and His Cousin Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
TOLSTOY, Leo. Translated by Leo Islavin.
The Letters of Tolstoy and His Cousin Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (1857-1903).
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929.
First edition of the selected letters of Leo Tolstoy written to his cousin, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Leo Islavin. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127384
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First Edition of Diane Johnson's Le Mariage; Signed by Her
JOHNSON, Diane.
Le Mariage.
New York: Dutton Book, 2000.
First edition of this "splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle. Jacket illustration by Nina Berkson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110599
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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"My small feet could walk the sun up and down across the stony hill-crests where we worked": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Teem"- A Treasure-Hunter; in the scarce original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
First edition of Kipling's beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121883
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"The frayed sojourn of the secret price of sorrow simmers on the slow fire of remembrance where the onion plays the lead": First edition of Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5
PICASSO, Pablo; Salvador Dail; Andre Breton; E. E. Cummings; Kenneth Allott; Dylan Thomas; et al.
Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5.
London: The Farleigh Press, 1936.
First edition of this scarce pamphlet containing six poems by Picasso and additional contributions by Dali, Dylan Thomas, Andre Breton, and E. E. Cummings. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 125908
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"THE AIR WAS SWEET WITH NIGHT SCENT": First Edition of John Gardner's Licence Renewed
GARDNER, John.
Licence Renewed.
London: Jonathan Cape , 1985.
First edition of John Gardner's License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127673
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George Ward Nichols' The Story of the Great March
NICHOLS, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.
Early printing of Nichols' account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133029
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"Fade in: film - a quick group of shots showing New York in a real thunderstorm": First edition of Best Television Plays; edited by Gore Vidal
VIDAL, Gore. [Editor].
Best Television Plays.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.
First edition of this collection of eight previously unpublished television scripts selected by Gore Vidal. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Editor photograph by Roger Moore.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 139759
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First edition of Derek Patmore's Private History: An Autobiography; lengthily inscribed by him
PATMORE, Derek.
Private History: An Autobiography.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1960.
First edition of the author's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For dear Jonathan, in memory of our long friendship & with admiration & affection Derek Patmore London Feb. 17 1961." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 119388
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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 This collection of Nadine Gordimer’s Writings; Signed by the Nobel Laureate
GORDIMER, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman.
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 546
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First Edition of Nathan Glazer's From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City; Inscribed by Him
GLAZER, Nathan.
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Chris and Kathy, Dear friends and neighbors! Nathan May 3, 2007." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 44001
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth From Collected Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].
First edition this selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121607
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First Edition of Jack Whittingham's Sabu of the Elephants
WHITTINGHAM, Jack.
Sabu of the Elephants.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition of Whittingham's account of the filming of "Toomai of the Elephants." Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126935
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"Hello Sun in my face": First Edition of Mary Oliver's Why I Wake Early
OLIVER, Mary.
Why I Wake Early.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146882
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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First Edition of Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
RUSCHA, Ed [Karin Breuer; Kerry Brougher and D.J. Waldie].
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.
San Francisco: Fine Arts of San Francisco, 2016.
First edition of this work on the renowned artist. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144358
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First Edition of The Sea Lion; Signed by Ken Kesey
KESEY, Ken.
The Sea Lion: A Story of the Sea Cliff People.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of this beautiful piece of children's literature. Super octavo, original half cloth, lavender endpapers, fully illustrated by Neil Waldman. Boldly signed and dated by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, "Ken Kesey 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145361
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Thy Servant A Dog.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.
First British edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121847
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"There are few pastimes that supply their followers with more innocent merriment than is afforded by the royal and ancient": First edition of Mr. Punch's Golf Stories
PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR. EDITED BY J.A. HAMMERTON,.
Mr. Punch’s Golf Stories: Told By His Merry Men.
The Educational Book Co. Ltd, 1909.
First edition of this charming compilation of golf stories. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 88075
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First British Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960.
First British edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine. Jacket design by Eric Ayers.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133254
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Willard Espy's Words at Play Finely Bound; Presentation copy with a Typed Letter Signed by the author laid in
ESPY, Willard R.
An Almanac of Words at Play.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1975.
Early printing of Espy's work on wit in wordplay. Quarto, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red spine labels, marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, from the library of Jonathan Goodman with his embossed library stamp to the front free endpaper. Enclosed is a typed letter signed by the author to the recipient date March 7, 1977 in the original envelope. The letter reads in part, "First time any correspondent has mentioned giving the Almanac the leather treatment. Next time I'm in London I must call to learn whether you really did it...Sincerely, Willard…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95845
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H.G. Wells' Love and Mr. Lewisham; with the deaccession stamp from the Library of Congress
WELLS, H.G.
Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Early Scribner's reprint of one of Wells' first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. Surplus deaccession stamp from the Library of Congress.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 141534
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First edition of William Safire's The Relations Explosion; from his personal collection
SAFIRE, William .
The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of Safire's controversial book. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Abner Dean. From the library of the author, William Safire. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by S. A. Summit, Inc.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127393
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First edition of War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited
War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, 1952.
First edition of the Commercial Bank of Scotland's War Service Record 1939-1945. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124208
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First expanded edition of Jason Fry's Star Wars: The Last Jedi
FRY, Jason. Based on a story by Rian Johnson.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
London: Century, 2018.
First expanded edition of the international bestselling author's novelization of the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145011
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First English edition of Kipling's October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123116
