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First edition of Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of Cheever's candid portrait of her father, John Cheever. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York City October 1984 To Burrows with love from his old friend Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142633
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First Edition of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
First edition of this novel by "one of the master storytellers of our time” (Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142
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First American edition of Ron Padgett's Great Balls of Fire; Inscribed by him
PADGETT, Ron.
Great Balls of Fire.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First American edition of the poet's 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Shelly a [Great] idea... Gary Cooper Oscar Homosexual" and signed on the title page, "Ron Padgett." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129719
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First Edition of The Givenness of Things: Essays; Signed by Pulitzer-Prize winning Author Marilynne Robinson
ROBINSON, Marilynne.
The Givenness of Things: Essays.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015.
First edition of this collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Strick and Williams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 12057
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George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue; from the library of American Actor Zachary Scott
SHAW, George Bernard [John Steinbeck].
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936.
Early printing of one of Shaw's major works. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations from the play as presented by Katharine Cornell courtesy of Vandamm Studio. 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 to the pastedown.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114807
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First edition of George Alfred Henry's Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peacock. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122688
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First edition of Philip Reeve's Infernal Devices; signed by him
REEVE, Philip.
Infernal Devices.
London: Scholastic Press, 2005.
First edition of the third novel in Reeve's award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Frankland.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126739
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First edition of Josephine Hall's Damage; inscribed by her to photographer Sally Soames
HART, Josephine.
Damage.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of Hart's best-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally - who is on her own journey of the soul Much Love, Josephine." 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 be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126823
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First edition of Brian Moore's No Other Life; inscribed by him to famed photographer Sally Soames
MOORE, Brian.
No Other Life.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
First edition of the award-winning novelist's gripping drama. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames L'Image B S Moore." 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 be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126419
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First Edition of Roger D. Hunt and Jack R. Brown's Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue
HUNT, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown.
Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.
Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990.
First edition of Hunt and Brown's monumental compilation of biographical sketches of Union brevet brigadier generals in the Civil War. Quarto, original cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with portraits. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133074
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First Edition of The Charles Addams Mother Goose
ADDAMS, Charles.
The Charles Addams Mother Goose.
New York: Windmill Books, 1967.
First edition of this work by the legendary cartoonist. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145955
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"To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain": First Nonesuch Press Edition of the Anacreon
COWLEY, Abraham.
Anacreon, done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683.
Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923.
First Nonesuch Press limited edition of the Odes of Anacreon. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over gold paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with four full-page tissue-guarded copperplate engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, headpieces, and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden. One of only 725 copies produced, this is number 680. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 100305
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"The minute we look, we cease being afraid": Limited First Edition of Michael Crichton's Travels; Signed by Him
CRICHTON, Michael.
Travels.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of Crichton's fourth, final, and most famous non-fiction book, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece and interior illustrations by Robert Wisneiwski specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146870
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S ABAFT THE FUNNEL
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122911
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First edition of Robert Markham's Colonel Sun
MARKHAM, Robert. [Kingsley Amis].
Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.
First edition of the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Adams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129046
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First Edition of Henry James' The Real Thing
JAMES, Henry.
The Real Thing.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1893.
First edition, second issue of one of James' neatest tales. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, small tear to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 78041
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First Edition of Hayek's John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage
HAYEK, Friedrich August [F.A.].
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144349
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First edition of James Peckham's Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: A Monograph of the Great Rebellion
PECKHAM, James.
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861. A Monograph of the Great Rebellion.
New York: American News Company, Publishers, 1866.
First edition of Peckham's biography of the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132918
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Rossiter Johnson's The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession 1861-1865
JOHNSON, Rossiter.
The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession. 1861-1865.
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894.
Second edition of Johnson's authoritative work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132319
