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"Nobody knows anything about what will work": William Goldman's Tinsel; Inscribed by Him
GOLDMAN, William.
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman's novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Huebner.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 81342
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First Edition of Christian Boltanski's El Caso
BOLTANSKI, Christian.
El Caso.
Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original stiff cardboard. In near fine condition. Introduction by Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon. Exhibition of the artist Christian Boltanski at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1988.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 15056
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First Edition of John Baxter's Locker Room Ballads; Inscribed by Him
BAXTER, John E.
Locker Room Ballads.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.
First edition of this collection of verses. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To C.D. Stimson with the compliments of the author, John E. Baxter 12/24/23." Near fine in a good dust jacket with a chip to the front panel. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 65472
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"From my youth I had greatly desired to see the Holy land and tread, if ever so distantly, in the footsteps of my Lord and Master": First edition of Clara Huston Miller's High Places of Sacrifice
MILLER, Clara Huston.
High Places of Sacrifice.
Philadelphia: Self Published, 1922.
First edition of Clara Huston Miller's detailed memoir of her pilgrimages to the most important holy places of sacrifice throughout the world. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, illustrated throughout with photographs. In very good condition.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 89033
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First Edition of Octavia Butler's Imago
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Imago.
New York: Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler's acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne Barlowe.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 144356
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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 edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 135674
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Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde
MASON, Stuart.
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..
Later printing of Mason's renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 140208
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First Edition of Nadine Gordimer's Livingstone’s Companions; Signed by Her
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Livingstone’s Companions.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 2572
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"There are nights that have the length of centuries and this has been one of them": First signed limited subscriber's edition of Kathleen Coyle's There is a Door
COYLE, Kathleen.
There is a Door.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1931.
First signed limited subscriber's edition of Coyle's short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very good in the scarce original glassine which shows chipping and wear.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 96774
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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 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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V. S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow and Other Stories; inscribed by him to British photojournalist Sally Soames
PRITCHETT, V. S.
A Careless Widow and Other Stories.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First American edition, second printing of Pritchett's classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, "For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993." 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…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124590
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“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see": First Edition of Jose Saramago's Blindness
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Blindness.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147085
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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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"Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray": First Edition of John LeCarre’s The Looking-Glass War
LE CARRE, John.
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
First edition of the author's fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146216
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"Much Love From Someone Who Cares": Original Beatles Fan Letter Template
MCCARTNEY, Paul; John Lennon; George Harrison; Ringo Starr.
Original Beatles Help Stamp Out People Who Want to Help Stamp Out Beatles Fan Letter Template.
c. 1960s.
A well-preserved piece of Beatles memorabilia from the fans of the Fab Four. Octavo, two pages, 'Help Stamp Out People Who Want to Help Stamp Out Beatles' (HSOPWTHSOB) typed folding letter and envelope, illustrated with a drawing of a mailman and the faces of each Beatles member. In near fine condition with some toning.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147066
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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 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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“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real": First Edition of The Rum Diary
THOMPSON, Hunter S.
The Rum Diary.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition of Thompson's only published novel. Octavo, original black half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Perr.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147050
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
OLIVER, Mary.
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146879
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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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"The best-printed American writer": First edition of Joseph Blumenthal's Robert Frost and His Printers
BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.
Robert Frost and His Printers.
Autin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.
First edition of this work on Frost's relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121466
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Banquets of the Black Widowers
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Banquets of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984.
First edition of the fourth book in Asimov's Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142875
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"Revolution, Revolution, Get your fresh hot revolution here": First edition, first printing of Jymi Jones' Guerilla Warfare in Philly
JONES, Jymi.
Guerilla Warfare In Philly.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist's first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 134011
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123068
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Rare first edition of 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.
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc: Garden City, 1903.
First edition of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123113
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“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux": Autobiography of A Yogi
YOGANANDA, Paramhansa.
Autobiography of a Yogi.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 2005.
Reprint of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135452
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First Edition of The Last King of Scotland; Signed by Giles Foden
FODEN, Giles.
The Last King of Scotland.
London: Faber and Faber , 1998.
First edition of this exceptional piece of historical fiction, the basis for the 2006 adaptation by the same name starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, and Gillian Anderson. Octavo, original flexible wrappers. Signed by Giles Foden on the title page beneath his typed name, which he has stricken out. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Steve Caplin.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146632
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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 Fedor Sologub's The Kiss of the Unborn
SOLOGUB, Fedor.
The Kiss of the Unborn and Other Stories.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
First edition of the author's timeless short story collection. Octavo, original cloth. Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126497
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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 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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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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Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking
CHILD, Julia; Beck.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.
Later printing of this classic work. Quarto, original patterned boards, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Typography, binding, and jacket design by Warren Chappell. Drawings by Sidonie Coryn.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147920
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud; one of 700 numbered copies signed by Frederic van de water and illustrator Bernadine Custer
VAN DE WATER, Frederic. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud.
Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1937.
First edition of Van de Water's account of Kipling's feud with his brother-in-law in Dummerston, which was made very public by local newspapers. Octavo, original buckram, illustrated with drawings by Bernadine custer. One of 700 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page, this is number 132. Fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121944
