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First edition of The Chief European Dramatists; from the library of American actor Zachary Scott
MATTHEWS, Brander [Zachary Scott].
The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-One Plays From the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway From 500 B.C. to 1879 A.D.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
First edition of this compilation of the plays of the great dramatists. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen, The Unfaithful, Shotgun, Man in the Shadow, and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott’s bookplate and ownership inscription to the pastedown. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115680
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First Edition of Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress; Signed by Him
MOSLEY, Walter.
Devil In A Blue Dress.
First edition of this defining novel in Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, which was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Walter Mosley on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hugh O'Neill. Jacket illustration by John Jinks. Author photograph by Joyce Ravid.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 141535
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First Edition of The Ink Truck; Signed by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author William Kennedy
KENNEDY, William.
The Ink Truck.
New York: The Dial Press, 1969.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 2622
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First Edition of Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
HARDY, Thomas.
A Group of Noble Dames.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133304
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"Good Golfing": Byron Nelson's Winning Golf; Inscribed by Him
NELSON, Byron.
Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.
Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1988.
First edition of the re-issue of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Buck Ray Good Golfing Byron Nelson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146821
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First edition of Joseph Kessel's The Horsemen
KESSEL, Joseph. Translated by Patrick O'Brian.
The Horsemen.
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1968.
First edition in English of the basis for the 1971 American adventure film starring Omar Sharif and directed by John Frankenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Graham Percy. Translated by Patrick O'Brian
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135224
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Signed Limited Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
Signed limited edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert James Waller. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136512
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First Edition of Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was A Number Runner
MERIWETHER, Louise; Foreword by James Baldwin.
Daddy Was A Number Runner.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this modern classic “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145875
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First Edition of Lucinda Gosling's Drawing From History
GOSLING, Lucinda; Foreword by James Gurney; Illustrated by Fortunino Matania.
Drawing From History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania.
Book Palace Books, 2016.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133742
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First edition, first issue of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, first issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade. First issue with with page 191 misprinted as 19. Octavo, recased with the original publisher's cloth laid down, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced and rebacked.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142108
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First Edition of Few and Chosen: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras; Signed by Phil Pepe
FORD, Whitey with Phil Pepe; Foreword by Yogi Berra.
Few and Chosen: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras.
Chicago: Triumph Books, 2001.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on the Yankees. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Phil Pepe on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, sticker to the front panel. Foreword by Yogi Berra.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145762
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First Edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Life of Dante.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1904.
First edition of the first formal biography of the father of the Italian language. Small folio, original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles to the spine. One of two hundred and sixty-five copies printed for Houghton Mifflin and Company and stated on the colophon, this is number 18. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146440
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Lion Man
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Lion Man.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1934.
First edition, early printing of the seventeenth book in Burroughs' popular Tarzan series. Octavo, original gray cloth, frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136075
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"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them": First Edition of Trying To Save Piggy Sneed; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeffrey Fisher. Author photographs by Mary Ellen Mark and Isolde Ohlbaum.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 138144
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Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2006.
First edition of The New York Times Review of Books edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. In fine condition. Introduction by Patricia Storace.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 54
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First Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads; Signed by Him
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
First edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leisha Israel. Author photograph by Linda Solomon.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 137799
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First edition of Bertram D. Wolfe's Strange Communists I Have Known; inscribed by him to historian Arnold Krammer
WOLFE, Bertram D.
Strange Communists I Have Known.
New York: Stein and Day, 1965.
First edition of the author's collection of vignettes relaying the stories of ten personal friends involved in the communist movement. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Arnold Krammer inscribed with the regards of the author Bertram Wolfe." The recipient, Dr. Arnold Krammer, was an American historian who specialized in German and United States history. He was a professor at Texas A&M University and twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 1992-1993 and 2002-2003. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115624
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First Edition of Thomas de Quincey's Historical and Critical Essays
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
Historical and Critical Essays.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853.
First edition of this collection of essays by renowned writer and literary critic Thomas De Quincey. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, blind stamped triple rule frame with floral ornamental corners enclosing central floral quatrefoil device, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities of Vol. I and spine extremities of Vol. II, some toning and spotting to the rear panel of both volumes, ownership signatures to the front pastedown of both volumes with an additional ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Vol.…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145229
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"The vultures. They take the low road. They may wear suits, be articulate": James B. Stewart's Disney War; Inscribed by Him
STEWART, James B.
Disney War.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Early printing of this incredibly enthralling exposé on one of America's most powerful entertainment companies. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Fred, James B. Stewart." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147019
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Johann Gottfried Herder's Ausgewahlte Dichtungen
HERDER, Johann Gottfried .
Herder’s Ausgewahlte Dichtungen.
Stuttgart: J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder's selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128406