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First edition of Barrie Pitt's The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941
PITT, Barrie.
The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941.
London: Book Club Associates, 1980.
First edition of the first volume in Pitt's masterful history of the war in the Western Desert. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124377
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First Edition of The Ghost in the Music; Signed by John Nichols
NICHOLS, John.
A Ghost in the Music.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
First edition of Nichols' fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Neil Stuart.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 95882
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First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Two Plays by Eugene O’Neill.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1929.
First edition of this collection of two of the great playwright's works including the long theo-philosophical meditation, Lazarus Laughed, which called for more than one hundred actors making up a masked chorus. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 111219
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First edition of Dennis Wheatley's The Rape of Venice
WHEATLEY, Dennis.
The Rape of Venice.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1959.
First edition of the sixth book in the best-selling author's Roger Brook espionage series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sax.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 128105
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"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish not to take delight in it while we have it": W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Our Betters.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.
Later printing of this incredible comedy in three acts. Octodecimo, original red cloth. In very good condition. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145200
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First Edition of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full
WOLFE, Tom.
A Man In Full.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition, early printing of this "masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket art by Daniel Lee. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 147402
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First edition of Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake; with contributions by Eric Linklater, C.S. Lewis, Hesketh Pearson, and Ludovic Kennedy
FRAZER, Allan. [Sir Walter Scott; C.S. Lewis].
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
First edition of this compilation of speeches delivered by the annual President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 132075
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason": T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
ELIOT, T.S.
Murder in the Cathedral.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First edition, early printing of Eliot's dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145271
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“You have tried to destroy me and though I perish daily, I shall not be moved": Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman
ANGELOU, Maya.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women.
New York: Random House, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this acclaimed group of four poems by the famed poet. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Steve Dunwell.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145178
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First edition of Louis L. Cornell's Kipling In India
CORNELL, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling In India.
London: Macmillan, 1966.
First edition of Cornell's study of Kipling's apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 135841
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Rare original pamphlet featuring tennis pro vincent "vinnie" richards; published by dunlop tire and rubber company
RICHARDS, Vincent "Vinnie".
Stroking with “Vinnie” Richards.
New York: Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co, .
First edition pamphlet of tennis pro "Vinnie" Richards demonstrating his renowned tennis serve, drive, volley, slice, and racket grip. Stapled pamphlet opening vertically with sequential halftones and filmstrip border. Photo portrait of Vinnie Richards on the cover holding tennis rackets and trophy, published by Dunlop Tire & Rubber Company with advertisements for their tennis balls, rackets, hockey pucks and golf balls at rear. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 81264
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First Edition of John Dos Passos' Chosen Country
DOS PASSOS, John.
Chosen Country.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
First edition of this work by Dos Passos. Octavo, original cloth. Advanced review copy with the slip laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel H. Bryant.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 101669
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First Folio Society of The Spy's Bedside Book
GREENE, Graham and Hugh.
The Spy’s Bedside Book.
London: The Folio Society, 2006.
First Folio Society edition of this sampler of excerpts from some of the greatest spy novelists of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 141349
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First Edition of Al Barkow's Sam: The One and Only Sam Snead
BARKOW, Al.
Sam: The One and Only Sam Snead.
Ann Arbor, MI: Sports Media Group, 2005.
First edition of this definitive biography of one of the greatest golfers of all time. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146680
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First Edition of David Fromkin's The Way of the World
FROMKIN, David.
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of the award-winning author's map of universal history. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photograph by Alfred W. Cook. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145172
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Two Forewords; One of 950 copies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Two Forewords.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935.
First edition of this collection of two letters written by Kipling to Frank Nelson and Nelson Doubleday. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of 950 copies. Fine in the original slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 123463
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“Either war is finished, or we are": First Edition of War and Remembrance
WOUK, Herman.
War and Remembrance.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.
First edition of Wouk's sequel to The Winds of War. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146719
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First Edition of Tasha Tudor's Favorite Christmas Carols
TUDOR, Tasha and Linda Allen.
Tasha Tudor’s Favorite Christmas Carols.
New York: David McCay Company, 1978.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 140687
