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First edition of Charles Stuart Calverley's Verses and Translations
CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart.
Verses and Translations.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124130
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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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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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First edition of David Benedictus' The Fourth of June
BENEDICTUS, David.
The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond, 1962.
First edition of Benedictus' first novel. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 121643
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First edition of Kenneth Brown's The Medchester Club
BROWN, Kenneth.
The Medchester Club.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's collection of hunting reminiscences and tales of horsemanship. Octavo, original cloth with labels to the spine and front panel lettered in gilt, illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 814. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 116384
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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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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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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 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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“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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“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 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 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
