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"Best African Wishes": I Married Adventure; Inscribed by Osa Johnson
JOHNSON, Osa.
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.
First edition of Johnson's classic work. Octavo, original striped cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Esther Bates With my very best African wishes. Affectionately Osa Johnson." Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143893
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"ONE OF THE MOST ENDEARING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN": First edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
First American edition of Grahame's beloved children's novel which preceded the English edition by only four days, with Scribner's seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by W. Grahame Robertson. In good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143829
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FIRST EDITION OF NABOKOV'S THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA (DYING IS FUN); SIGNED BY DMITRI NABOKOV AND THREE TIMES BY DESIGNER CHIP KIDD
NABOKOV, Vladimir; Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov.
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun): A Novel in Fragments.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
First edition of Nabokov's final and incomplete novel which he was in the process of writing at the time of his death in 1977. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. Signed by Dmitri Nabokov on the title page and additionally signed three times by the jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and on the rear flap of the jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the original index cards that comprised the unfinished manuscript with accompanying printed annotations. Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140672
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First Edition of Andrew Macphail's Essays in Fallacy
MACPHAIL, Andrew.
Essays in Fallacy.
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co, 1910.
First edition of Macphail's essay on the psychology of the suffragette. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135199
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“TO ME EDUCATION IS A LEADING OUT OF WHAT IS ALREADY THERE IN THE PUPIL'S SOUL": FIRST EDITION OF THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
SPARK, Muriel.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
London: Macmillan, 1961.
First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 116307
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Lytton Strachey's famed Eminent Victorians; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
STRACHEY, Lytton.
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Finely bound example of the work that placed Strachey firmly in the top rank of biographers. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 129185
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First edition of Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage
Opinions of Women on Women’s Suffrage.
London: Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879.
First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women's Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage and containing the opinions of English women in official positions, scientific and political careers, and principals of colleges and high schools among others. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135724
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First Edition of William Thackeray's The Virginians; Finely Bound
THACKERAY, William.
The Virginians.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858-59.
First edition of Thackeray's memorable historical novel. Octavos, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 92535
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Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion; finely bound with a fore-edge painting of St. Saviour's church in London
Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: R. B. Seeley, 1830.
Finely bound poetry collection decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. 18mo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of St. Saviour's church in London. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 142387
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Rare first edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian; from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature
RUSSO, Joseph Louis. [John Steinbeck; Elaine Steinbeck].
Present Day Italian.
Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1947.
First edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian, from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature and marginal notes throughout. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 114534
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First edition of Frances Trollope's The Barnabys in America
TROLLOPE, Frances.
The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded.
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1843.
First edition of the third installment in Frances Trollope's greatest work, The Widow Barnaby Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, tissue-guarded frontispieces and 6 plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Bookplates and blindstamps of Bowdoin College.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 132860
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Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son
GAUTIER, Théophile.
Mademoiselle de Maupin.
Paris: L. Conquet; G. Charpentier, 1883.
Finley bound example of Gautier's retelling of the infamous legend of Mademoiselle de Maupin. Quarto, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, hand-colored frontispiece to volume one, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very attractive set.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138581
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“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.": First English Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First English edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137048
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“there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it": First edition of Harriet Lummis Smith's Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms; in the scarce original dust jacket
SMITH, Harriet Lummis. Illustrated by Weston Taylor.
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms.
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1924.
First edition of the third book in Smith's beloved Pollyanna series. Octavo, original publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Weston Taylor. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137089
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"Perhaps Mr. Addams is happiest in his dealing with the macabre": First Edition of Charles Addams' Drawn and Quartered
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].
Drawn and Quartered.
New York: Random House, 1942.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Boris Karloff. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 147269
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Facsimile Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby Manuscript Facsimile.
Washington, D.C: Microcard Editions Books, 1973.
The facsimile manuscript edition of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by Matthew Bruccoli.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140683
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First Edition of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; inscribed by her to Erica Jong
ATWOOD, Margaret [Erica Jong].
Alias Grace.
London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
First edition of Atwood's Canadian Giller Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Erica - with thanks and many spiritual + actual handstands + hugs over the years Peggy Atwood." The recipient, Erica 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 Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142631
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RARE ANTIQUE POSTCARD COLLECTION ALBUM
Antique Post Card Album.
Antique postcard collection containing dozens of vintage postcards postdated in the early 1900s. From the collection of Dora Sims. Oblong octavo, bound in decorated cloth. The collection includes postcards with scenic views of Cleveland, Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, the Columbia River Highway, and the Mississippi River, In very good condition. A charming collection.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 116071
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"The eighteenth century proclaimed the rights of man, the nineteenth shall proclaim the rights of woman": First edition of Ray Strachey's "The Cause"
STRACHEY, Ray.
“The Cause” A Short History of The Women’s Movement in Great Britain.
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1928.
First edition of Strachey's history of women's suffrage in Great Britain. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Millicent Fawcett. In good condition. Ownership name.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135463
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"Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, set me sun by sun near to one unchosen": The Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy; finely bound in full morocco by Bayntun
HARDY, Thomas.
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.
Finley bound early printing of the Golden Treasury Series Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. Small octavo, bound in full crushed crimson levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and cornerpieces to the front and real panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved title page. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 118019
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Mathilde Blind's Madame Roland; from the library of English suffragette Emily Duval
BLIND, Mathilde. [Emily Duval].
Madame Roland.
London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1886.
The Eminent Women Series edition of Blind's biography of French revolutionary Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of English suffragette Emily H. Duval with her ownership signature to the half-title page. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s voting rights and was imprisoned several times. In good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135220
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Thomas A Kempis' Of the Imitation of Christ; finely bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun for Brentanos
A KEMPIS, Thomas.
Of the Imitation of Christ.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884.
Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Bayntun for Brentano's with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A handsome example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133424
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Reader's Union edition of Roger Fulford's Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle
FULFORD, Roger.
Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle.
London: Readers Union/Faber and Faber, 1958.
Reader's Union edition of Fulford's work on the UK women's suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth. English journalist, historian, writer and politician Roger Fulford authored several important biographies and other works. Between 1964 and 1981 he edited five volumes of letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal. He was President of the Liberal Party from 1964 to 1965. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135490
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" This isn't a pillow fight, Joe": P.B. Socci sketch of American Actor Henry Fonda; Signed by Henry Fonda
SOCCI, P.B. (Henry Fonda).
Henry Fonda Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of American film and stage actor Henry Fonda as Clarence Darrow. Signed by Henry Fonda to the left of his portrait. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 89102
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First Edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Dearly Beloved; Inscribed by her to her secretary and close friend Ruth Thompson
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Dearly Beloved.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.
First edition of the author's classic bestselling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Ruth with love from Anne May, 1962." The recipient, Ruth Thompson was a close friend of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's. Thompson was a babysitter and personal secretary for the Lindberghs in the 1940s. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 48732
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“Everything is possible, even the impossible.": The deluxe novelization of Disney's Mary Poppins Returns; signed by Legendary Actress Angela Lansbury
TRAVERS, P.L.. Adapted by Kathy McCullough. Screenplay by David Magee. [Angela Lansbury].
Mary Poppins Returns.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Disney Enterprises, Inc., 2018.
First edition, early printing of the deluxe novelization of the 2018 American musical fantasy film starring Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. Signed by Angela Lansbury opposite the title page. Lansbury played played the role of the Balloon Lady, a kindly old woman who sells balloons at the park. The part was written to be a cameo role for Julie Andrews who portrayed Mary Poppins in the original film, but she turned the role down as she felt her presence would unfairly take attention away from Emily Blunt. In fine…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138522
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First Edition of Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness; Signed by Him
OZ, Amos.
A Tale of Love and Darkness.
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2004.
First American edition of "one of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books"(The New Republic). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amos Oz on a University of the Negev bookplate with a portrait of David Ben-Gurion. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 107479
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"The mission of the lantern is to give light, to show the way": Grace Thompson Seton's Chinese Lanterns; lengthily inscribed by her
SETON, Grace Thompson.
Chinese Lanterns.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924.
Early printing of Grace Thompson Seton's work on Chinese lanterns. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated with photographs, many taken by the author. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To S.D. Green with the all good wishes of the author: Grace Thompson Seton. July 20, 1927. 'Through the Eastern Gates I wandered far where cloud-like beauties I roughed the way' -Shi-King." In near fine condition. Rare inscribed by the author.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 96116
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Finely bound example of Alain-René Lesage's famous 18th century novel History of Gil Blas De Santillane
LESAGE, Alain-René.
Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.
Finely bound example of Lesage's famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings by the best artists of Paris. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145006
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First Edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Dearly Beloved; Inscribed by her to her secretary and close friend Ruth Thompson
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Dearly Beloved.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.
First edition of the author's classic bestselling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Friedel and Paul Thompson with all good wishes from Anne M.L. June 1962." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114233
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"Keep the gimlet with you": Rare 1933 Special Carling Hotel edition of The Gimlet
The Gimlet: Miami, Palm Beach, Havana.
Miami: John Ashe Scott, Publisher, 1933.
Special Carling Hotel edition of The Gimlet, "published in the interest of the many visitors to Cuba and Florida and other fascinating resorts of the South." Slim octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with numerous vintage advertisements. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 134108
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"THE GREATEST ART OF THE WORLD WAS DONE FOR ITS PLACE AND IN ITS PLACE": FIRST EDITION OF NANCY MCCLELLAN'S THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF DECORATIVE WALL-TREATMENTS
MCCLELLAND, Nancy.
The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments.
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1926.
First edition of Nancy McClelland’s authoritative work on interior design. Octavo, original decorated cloth, frontispiece in color with tissue guard present, eight other illustrations in color and 206 in doubletone. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice example, uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132062
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First edition of Andre Maurois' Byron; finely bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MAUROIS, Andre. [Lord Byron].
Byron.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition of Maurois' appreciation of Byron. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Byron. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 136270
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"She was a person of distinction he saw at once, moreover very handsome": Finely bound collection of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander's Bridge, and Shadows on the Rock
CATHER, Willa.
Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.
Finely bound collection of three of the author's best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of two volumes. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 105420
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First edition of Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson
WINFREY, Oprah.
Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson.
Auckland, New Zealand: PQ Blackwell Limited/Los Angeles: Harpo, Inc., 2010.
First edition of the book companion to Oprah Winfrey's Master Class series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140634
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First British edition of Jose Luis Gonzalez-Balado's Heart of Joy; lengthily inscribed by Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix
GONZALEZ-BALADO, Jose Luis. [Mother Teresa] Agnes Mariam de la Croix.
Heart of Joy.
London: Founts Paperbacks, 1988.
First British edition, second impression this collection of Mother Teresa's thoughts on the transfiguring power of self-giving. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix on the front free endpaper, "Dear Saruleh, you are God's gift to us and our poor. Remain in His love and share His love with all you come in contact with. May God bless you Sr. M. Agnes, mc 26th Aug. 1989." Christian nun Mother Agnes is mother superior of the monastery of St James the Mutilated in Syria, a Melkite Greek Catholic monastery in the town…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115901
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First Edition of Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-Wind
CARSON, Rachel L.
Under the Sea-Wind.
London: Staples Press Limited, 1952.
First British edition of Carson's first book and her personal favorite. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125649
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"BON APPETIT!": FIRST EDITION OF FROM JULIA CHILD’S KITCHEN, SIGNED BY BOTH JULIA AND PAUL CHILD
CHILD, Julia.
From Julia Child’s Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
First edition of Child's fourth book. Octavo, original pictorial coated cloth boards. Boldly by the author on front free endpaper, "Bon Appetit to Carol & Jim Julia Child." Additionally signed by Paul Child on the front free endpaper. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Photographs and drawings by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147065
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“There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple”: First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's The Bread Givers
YEZIERSKA, Anzia .
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.
First edition of the author's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 42014
