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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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"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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“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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Publisher's advance proof and retained file copy of Joyce Cary's A Fearful Joy
CARY, Joyce.
A Fearful Joy.
London: Michael Joseph Limited, n.d..
Publisher's advance proof and retained file copy of the author's fine historical novel. Octavo, original wrappers. The publisher's retained file copy with their stamp to the title page, "File Copy Michael Joseph Ltd." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Nichols.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 127443
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First Edition of F. A. Hayek's Money, Capital, and Fluctuations: Early Essays
HAYEK, F. A; Roy McCloughry.
Money, Capital, and Fluctuations: Early Essays.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.
First edition of this collection of essays on monetary and capital theory, the business cycle, and the history of economic analysis. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146655
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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 Jane Jacobs' Cities and the Wealth of Nations
JACOBS, Jane.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.
New York: Random House, 1984.
First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher's cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear panel.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145275
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First edition of James Dugan's The Great Mutiny
DUGAN, James.
The Great Mutiny.
New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1965.
First edition of the author's account of one of the few successful military mutinies in recorded history. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 119226
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1926.
First Canadian edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 194552
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First Edition of Solzhenitsyn' Lenin in Zurich
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander [Solzhenitzyn].
Lenin In Zurich.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
First edition of Solzhenitsyn's account of Russian revolutionary history. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 147489
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Mark Twain's A Murder, a Mystery, and A Marriage with
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens].
A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Early printing of Twain's entertaining tale, published for the first time in 2001. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Peter de Seve. Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr. From the collection of William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 128640
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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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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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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 Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale & Company, 1937.
First edition of MacMunn's homage to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135157
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"Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there": First Edition of the Everyman's Library of Dispatches
HERR, Michael.
Dispatches.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2009.
First edition of the everyman's library of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Stone.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 147185
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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
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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
