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First Edition Collection of Bruce Catton's American Heritage: The Magazine of History
CATTON, Bruce.
American Heritage: The Magazine of History.
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1954-1958.
First edition collection of this historical magazine. Quarto, 6 volumes, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, the collection consists of: Volume. VI No. 1 (December 1954); Volume. VII No. 6 (October 1956); Volume VIII No. 6 (October 1957); Volume IX No. 3 (April 1958); Volume IX No. 6 (October 1958); Volume X No. 1 (December 1958). In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146066
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First edition of Mark Salisbury's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
SALISBURY, Mark [Stephen Sondheim].
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
London: Titan Books, 2007.
First edition of the in-depth companion volume to the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller. Quarto, original boards, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 140217
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First Edition of Sebastian Faulks' Devil May Care
FAULKS, Sebastian writing as Ian Fleming.
Devil May Care.
London: Penguin 007, 2008.
First edition of this James Bond continuation novel. Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 43644
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"As a young painter you are overwhelmed by the complexity of your subject. Every crease, every dimple, is an equally startling revelation": First Edition of John Berger's A Painter of Our Time
BERGER, John.
A Painter of Our Time.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the Booker prize-winning writer's debut novel. Octavo, original red half cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145491
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"What is necessary is to speak about a man as though painting him": Limited First Edition of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
HUFFINGTON, Arianna Stassinopoulos.
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of this ingenious biography of the prolific Cubist painter and hallmark of Surrealism, 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 four compartments within raised bands, decorated gilt panels with designs by Martha Phillips inspired by Picasso's hand-decorated books, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece painting 'The Old Man and Time' by Francoise Gilot, Picasso's companion and the mother of their children Claude and Paloma, illustrated…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146871
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“The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe": First Edition of Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto
RAND, Ayn.
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 144994
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"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it": First Edition of Roald Dahl's The Minpins
DAHL, Roald.
The Minpins.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.
First edition of the author's final work for children. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with pictures by Patrick Benson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147110
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Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard. Introduction by Irving Howe.
The Portable Kipling.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982.
Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher's date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 124503
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First Edition of The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining; Inscribed by Sally Quinn
QUINN, Sally.
The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of this practical and witty guide to the party scene. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Susan Davis. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, "To Bill and Idelene, you don't need any guidance from me about being great hosts or great guests - you're the best! Much love Sally Q." Near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Author photograph by Sigrid Estrada.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145210
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by Famed Architect Robert Venturi to Head of University of Iowa's Museum of Art Stephen S. Prokopoff
VENTURI, Robert.
Robert Venturi Typed Letter Signed.
Philadelphia: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc, August 11, 1999.
Rare typed letter signed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi. Quarto, one page on Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates 25% cotton stationary, the letter reads in full, 'August 11, 1999 Dear Stephen, At last, enclosed is a sketch [not present] which parallels one I've just made for the Las Vegas AIA! Hope you enjoy it. Very best wishes from us both, "Robert" RV:lp encl. Mr. Stephen S. Prokopoff University of Iowa Museum of Art.' In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146698
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First edition of Bonamy Dobree's Rudyard Kipling
DOBREE, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.
First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 126348
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"History's most romantic airplane - the fabulous flying clipper": First edition of Ken Follett's Night Over Water; from the collection of Erica Jong
FOLLETT, Ken.
Night Over Water.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1991.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author's classic novel of international suspense. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. From the collection of Erica Jong with her invitation to the book's publication party laid in. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 142574
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“There is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace": First edition of Jean Rhys's Tigers Are Better-Looking with a selection from The Left Bank
RHYS, Jean.
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968.
First edition of this collection incorporating the author's earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Barbara Brown.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 145495
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"Let me issue a warning to anyone who is tempted to settle for a peaceful life on what is called the cote d'azur": First Edition of Graham Greene's J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice
GREENE, Graham.
J’Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice.
London: The Bodley Head, 1982.
First edition of Greene's pamphlet on the civic government's role in organized crime in Nice which provoked a libel lawsuit. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated, text in English and French. In near fine condition.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 117041
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First edition of R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner's Adam Smith
CAMPBELL, R.H. and A.S. Skinner.
Adam Smith.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
First edition of Campbell and Skinner's accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 126943
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"The accursed day when Anton Petrovich made the acquaintance of the Berg existed only in theory": First Edition of Nabokov's Quartet in The Original Dust Jacket
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Nabokov’s Quartet.
New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this collection of Nabokov's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photographic portrait of Nabokov by J.M. Schlemmer on rear panel.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 139288
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First British Edition of Portrait of A Romantic; Signed by Steven Millhauser
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
Portrait of a Romantic.
London: Routledge Y Kegan Paul, 1978.
First British edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 61014
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First edition of J.M.S. Tompkins' The Art of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.
First edition of Tompkins' work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135772
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of The Hotel New Hampshire
IRVING, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 144884
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First Edition of Laurence Irving's Henry Irving: The Actor and His World
IRVING, Laurence.
Henry Irving: The Actor and His World.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.
First edition of the author's major biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Henry Irving in color by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lettering by Charlotte Young. Small ownership inscription. Housed in the original slipcase which is in good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115678
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"THE LIGHT MUSIC OF WHISKY FALLING INTO GLASSES MADE AN AGREEABLE INTERLUDE": James Joyce's Dubliners
JOYCE, James.
Dubliners.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Later printing of Joyce’s first prose work, his great collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership signature.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115487
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First Edition of Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North
PULLMAN, Philip.
Once Upon a Time in the North.
Oxford: David Fickling Books, 2008.
First edition of this masterful prequel to Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Duodecimo, original cloth with gilt title and pictorial cover labels to the front panel, illustrated with in-line engravings by John Lawrence, immersive full-page facsimile documents, and folding pamphlets in a pocket adhered to the rear pastedown. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146926
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First Edition of Thomas Merton's Seasons of Celebration: Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts
MERTON, Thomas.
Seasons of Celebration: Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
First edition of this work by Merton. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 69959
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First Edition of Sorche Nic Leodhas' Claymore and Kilt
LEODHAS, Sorche Nic [LeClaire Gowans Alger].
Claymore and Kilt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
First edition of Sorche Leodhas' beloved collection of historical tales, never before recorded. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137529
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First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Last Tales
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen].
Last Tales.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper with loss and closed tears to the spine and extremities. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145706
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"The American dream was not supposed to look like this": First Edition of Nelson DeMille's The General's Daughter
DEMILLE, Nelson.
The General’s Daughter.
New York: Warner Books, 1992.
First edition of this unforgettable military mystery novel and basis for the 1999 film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Russo. Jacket illustration by Stanislaw Fernandez.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146906
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First edition of Beryl Bainbridge's Watson's Apology
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
Watson’s Apology.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1984.
First edition of the award-winning author's investigation of the Stockwell Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126810
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"Listen...Can you hear the thunder of ghostly hooves? The Demon Huntsman has come to claim his prey!" First Corgi Yearling edition of Philip Pullman's first children's edition
PULLMAN, Philip.
Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman.
London: Corgi Yearling Books, 1998.
First Corgi Yearling edition of Pullman's first children's novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Greetings to Eileen - Philip Pullman." Cover illustration by Peter Bailey. Illustrations by Patrice Aggs. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 88117
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First American edition of V. S. Pritchett's The Turn of the Years; one of 500 copies signed by him
PRITCHETT, V. S. Introduction by Paul Theroux.
The Turn of the Years: The Season’s Course Selected Engravings by Reynolds Stone As Old as the Century.
New York: Random House, 1980.
Signed limited edition of Pritchett's reflective essay written on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated with engravings by Reynolds Stone. On of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 105. Fine in the original slipcase.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115061
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First Edition of Dick Vitale's Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love; Inscribed by Him
VITALE, Dick.
Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love.
Indianapolis, IN: Masters Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the legendary commentator. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Eric Awesome Baby Dick Vitale." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 140213
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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. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some dampstaining. Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146068
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First edition of V.S. Pritchett's Blind Love and Other Stories
PRITCHETT, V.S.
Blind Love and Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.
First edition of Pritchett's collection of humorous short stories. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ionicus.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 120358
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Limited First Edition of Louis Auchincloss' Diary of a Yuppie; Signed by Him
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis.
Diary of a Yuppie.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1986.
Signed limited first edition of this narrative portrait of a ruthless climb up the corporate ladder, 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, double-page frontispiece by Jeffrey Smith. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine condition with a very small abrasion to the bottom edge.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146885
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First edition of The Country Life Press; with a complete index of the authorized American editions of Rudyard Kipling's works
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
The Country Life Press.
Garden City: Printed for the friends of Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
First edition of this history of Doubleday, Page & Company with a complete index of the authorized American editions of Rudyard Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123407
