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First Edition of Javier Marias' Manana en la batalla piensa en mi; Signed by Him
MARIAS, Javier.
Manana en la batalla piensa en mi [Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me].
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1994.
First edition of the author's classic novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3434
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Finely bound example of Arnold J. Cooley's Dictionary of the English Language
COOLEY, Arnold J.
A Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting the Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words According to the Prevailing Usage of Correct Writers and Speakers.
London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1861.
First edition of Cooley's Dictionary of the English language. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, black spine label, raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. Author's preface. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 92803
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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us": First Edition of the Making of Jurassic Park; Signed twice by legendary Designer CHIP KIDD and with a large illustration by Him
SHAY, Don and Jody Duncan [Michael Crichton and Chip Kidd].
The Making of Jurassic Park: An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
First edition of Crichton's gripping, bestselling scientific thriller. Quarto, original half cloth. Boldly signed by legendary designer Chip Kidd with a large original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur by him on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Additionally signed by Chip Kidd on the front jacket panel. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 147541
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Exceptionally rare self-published printing of Garabed Pashayan Khan's Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers
PASHAYAN KHAN, Garabed.
Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.
Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.
Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated, text in Armenian. This rare self-published text is primarily concerned with the health and wellbeing of students and teachers in academic buildings, addressing hygiene, posture, study habits, transmissible and contagious diseases, remedies and cures. In very good condition. Extremely uncommon with no holdings located by OCLC.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141034
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"ONE OF THE GREATEST OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS": FIRST EDITION OF THE KNAVE OF HEARTS; ILLUSTRATED BY MAXFIELD PARRISH
[PARRISH, Maxfield] SAUNDERS.
The Knave of Hearts.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1925.
First edition of "one of the greatest of American illustrated books" (Porter, 84), the last and most lavish children's book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, with mounted cover design, pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates, and nine in-text color illustrations. Folio, original black cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144228
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“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Winner Take Nothing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
First edition of Hemingway's third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 99567
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First Edition of Samuel Merwin's The Citadel; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
MERWIN, Samuel [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
The Citadel: A Romance of Unrest.
New York: The Century Co, 1912.
First edition of this political novel; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth. Signed and dated in ink by Gershwin on the front free endpaper, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman June 1912." Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis, Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society.…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145594
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"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge": First edition of George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss; finely bound by southeran
ELIOT, George.
The Mill On The Floss.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
First edition of Eliot's most deeply autobiographical work. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf by H. Sotheran & Co. with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels letter in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, navy blue endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the spine extremities.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 147792
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First Edition of Frank De Felitta's The Entity; Signed by Him
DE FELITTA, Frank.
The Entity.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frank De Felitta on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by The New Studio. Cover illustration by Charles Moll. First editions are rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120345
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"I do not ask for saintly souls to help me on my way, or male and female devilkins to lead my steps astray": First edition of Reveille: Devoted to the Disabled Sailor & Soldier with contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and John Galsworthy; with an autograph letter signed by the editor John Galsworthy tipped in
KIPLING, Rudyard; Joseph Conrad; John Galsworthy; J. M. Barrie et al. Edited by John Galsworthy.
Reveille: Devoted to the Disabled Sailor & Soldier.
London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, [1918].
First edition of this scarce WWII periodical dedicated to wounded soldiers and sailors, containing appearances of Rudyard Kipling's A Pilgrim's Way, John Galsworthy's The Gist of the Matter, Joseph Conrad's The First News, and J. M. Barrie's Barbara's Wedding. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. With an autograph letter signed by Galsworthy tipped in. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121473
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Rare first edition set of Finden's Landscape & Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron; uniformly bound with Finden's Byron Beauties
BROCKEDON, W. [Lord George Gordon Noel Byron].
Finden’s Landscape & Portrait Illustrations, to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. [with] Finden’s Byron Beauties: or, the Principal Characters in Lord Byron’s Poems.
London: John Murray, 1833-1834; 1836.
First edition in book form of Finden's celebrated illustrated edition of Byron's works; uniformly bound with a first edition of Finden's Byron Beauties. Octavo, four volumes bound in full pebbled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Finden's Landscape & Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron is illustrated with 129 engraved plates including illustrated title pages. Finden's Byron Beauties is illustrated with 39 engraved plates. In very good condition. A unique example of this important set in the Byron canon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 130405
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“faithful death that never forgets in the press of work the most insignificant of its children": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Tales of Unrest
CONRAD, Joseph.
Tales of Unrest.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.
First edition of Conrad's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, pictorial bookplate, ownership signature to half-title page. Housed in a contemporary clamshell and chemise box. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139203
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"If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the "79" MC Ball, I'll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct": First Edition of Pat Conroy's Classic The Great Santini; Signed by both Pat and Donald Conroy
CONROY, Pat.
The Great Santini.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Pat Conroy and his father Donald Conroy on the title and half-title pages respectively. Lengthily inscribed by Donald Conroy on the half-title page, "1/5/80 To Jimmy Barousse: If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the "79" MC Ball, I'll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct. Seriously My Best Don Conroy Col USMC (Ret)." Marine Colonel Donald Conroy was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and the basis for the protagonist in this novel. Near fine…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146097
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First edition of Morpurgo's War Horse
MORPURGO, Michael.
War Horse.
Kingswood, UK: Kaye & Ward Ltd, 1982.
First edition of this powerful novel that follows the journey of a horse during WWI. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial boards. In near fine condition. Cover design by Victor Ambrus.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141014
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Magnificent limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; with 20 remarkably intricate full color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac
FITZGERALD, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1909.
Limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japanese vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. This edition is limited to two hundred copies, for the United States of America, of which this is number 188. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 127331
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First Edition of Conversation in the Cathedral; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Mario Vargas Llosa and Gregory Rabassa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
Conversation in the Cathedral.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by both the author on the title page, "In friendship Mario Vargas Llosa." Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Cesar Malet.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139416
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First Edition of I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader; Inscribed by Alice Walker in the Year of Publication
HURSTON, Zora Neale [Edited by Alice Walker].
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader.
New York: The Feminist Press, 1979.
First edition of this classic collection of work, edited by Alice Walker. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To David Levin Peace Alice Walker 12-79." Edited by Alice Walker. Introduction by Mary Helen Washington. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141434
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First Editions of Each Volume the Classic Sword of Honour Trilogy
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951-1961..
First editions of each volume in the author's acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Each are near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. Officers and Gentleman is price-clipped. A nice set.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146294
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Iris Murdoch's Under the Net; Inscribed by Her to her Former Pupil
MURDOCH, Iris.
Under the Net.
London: Chatto & Windus, .
Early printing of Murdoch's first novel which announced "the emergence of a brilliant talent" (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Eddie... All best wishes to my dear pupil Iris Murdoch." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Ross. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 170039
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Otono del Patriarca; Signed by Him and Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1975.
First Argentine edition of this "majestic, superb...a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant" (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the translator Gregory Rabassa on the front free endpaper. Rabassa translated this novel into English. In very good condition, name to the title page.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119741