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First Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Vegetable
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125443
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First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's The Bread Givers
YEZIERSKA, Anzia .
Bread Givers.
Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.
First edition of the author's classic novel of Jewish immigrants. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 82178
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First editions of all three volumes in Albert Camus' Actuelles Chroniques
CAMUS, Albert.
Actuelles Chroniques 1944-1948; Actuelles Chroniques 1948-1953; Actuelles, III Chronique Algerienne 1939-1958.
Paris: Gallimard, 1950-1958.
First editions of all three volumes in Camus's collected articles and commentaries. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Each volume is fine condition. A rare complete set in exceptional condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137591
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman": Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Signed by Her
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Second Sex.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979.
First Franklin Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt, raised bands, silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by H.M. Parshley. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 105112
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' A Christian Behaviour: A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
LEWIS, C.S.
Christian Behaviour: A Further Series of Broadcast Talks.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943.
First edition of the second book of Lewis’ BBC radio talks which would later appear in Mere Christianity. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper. An exceptional example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146041
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"Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, set me sun by sun near to one unchosen": The Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy; finely bound in full morocco by Bayntun
HARDY, Thomas.
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.
Finley bound early printing of the Golden Treasury Series Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. Small octavo, bound in full crushed crimson levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and cornerpieces to the front and real panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved title page. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 118019
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First Edition of Victor Bayley's House of Hatred; With Two Autographed Letters Signed
BAYLEY, Victor.
House of Hatred.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1935.
First edition of this novel of adventure set in Calcutta and the North-West Frontier along the borders of China and Russia. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Laid in are two autographed letters signed by Victor Bayley.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 122434
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First American edition of Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Sebastopol. [Sevastopol].
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887.
First American edition of Tolstoy's Sevastopol Sketches, which formed the basis of many of the episodes in his magnum opus, War and Peace. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated from the French by Frank D. Millet. With an introduction by W. D. Howells. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 123564
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"I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce": First Edition of Across the River and Into the Trees
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Across the River and Into the Trees.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
First British edition and true first, which precedes the first American edition by three days. of Hemingway’s first novel since For Whom the Bell Tolls. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147658
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“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops”: Rare Final Report of General John J. Pershing; Signed by Him
PERSHING, General John J.
Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing Commander-In-Chief American Expeditionary Forces.
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1920.
First edition of this final military report from the heroic Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with sixteen folding plates of maps, diagrams, and charts. Boldly signed by General John J. Pershing on the title page. In very good condition with light wear to the extremities and a chip to the spine. Rare signed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145457
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"Everything sounds big in the woods": First Edition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods; Signed by Him
BRYSON, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
New York : Broadway Books, 1998.
First edition of this classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny hike of the Appalachian Trail” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Scott, very best wishes- Bill Bryson." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Art Wolfe/ Tony Stone. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125611
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First Edition of The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild; Signed by Niall Ferguson
FERGUSON, Niall.
The House of Rothschild. The World’s Banker 1849-1999.
New York: Viking, 1999.
First edition of the Ferguson's monumental history of the Rothschilds. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Niall Ferguson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gail Belenson.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147603
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First signed limited edition of American Pastoral; privately printed and signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
American Pastoral.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1997.
First signed limited edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher's full leather elaborately stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated. Signed by Philip Roth on the limitation page. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143164
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Rare Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph
VON EHRENFRIED, Manfred .
Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph.
Rare original photograph of Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried. Boldly signed by him, Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried Apollo A9-11B Suit." The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 106020
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Rare 18th Century Map of Canada by French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy
DE VAUGONDY, Robert.
A New Map of Canada, Also the North Parts of new England and New York: with Nova Scotia and Newfound Land. [18th Century Map of Canada].
London: c. 1766.
Rare 18th century printing of Robert de Vaugondy's map of 1755 updated to indicate changes resulting from the Treaty of Utrecht. The hand-colored map includes a large inset map of the Great Lakes and is embellished with a large title cartouche. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 12.5 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138933
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Rare large paper edition of Reverend Edwards Forster's translation of The Arabian Nights
FORSTER, Reverend Edward.
The Arabian Nights, in Five Volumes, Translated by The Reverend Edward Forster.
London: Printed for William Miller, 1802.
Large paper edition of this early translation by Edward Forster (1769-1828), based on the French version of Antoine Galland which first appeared between 1704 and 1717. Royal octavo, bound in full period calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings from pictures by Robert Smirke. In very good condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown of each volume.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145199
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"This is my family, my history": First edition of Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
GOLDIN, Nan.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
New York: Aperture, 1986.
First edition of Goldin's masterpiece. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 125 color photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139413
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Johann Christoph Volkamer Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate of Arbutus Cotyledon Africana frutefcens
VOLKAMER, Johann Christoph.
Cotyledon Africana frutefcens [Fruiting African Cotyledon] Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.
Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.
Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer's 'Nürnbergische Hesperides.' Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of Cotyledon Africana frutefcens, or the fruiting African Cotyledon. In near fine condition. Double matted with a gilt ornamental border and framed. This piece measures 21.5 inches by 16.75 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145528
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Rare collection of early 20th century photographs of Indian landmarks and landscapes
Indian Landmark Photograph Collection.
Rare collection of black and white photographs taken by John Nort Hall an army photographer with the British military police stationed in India. 15 photographs measuring 8 inches by ten inches, the collection includes photographs of the Taj Mahal, temples, oxen bathing, and local people working and living. In near find condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 119534