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First edition of Hélène Adeline Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
GUERBER, Hélène Adeline.
Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1909.
First edition of one of the author's most enduring works. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant emerald green morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, frontispiece, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138991
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"Consider the lilies in the field... make them the object not of a fleeting glance in passing, but of thy consideration": First English edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Consider The Lilies
KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie.
Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.
London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.
First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard's important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144009
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"It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special": First edition of Oliver's Story; inscribed by Erich Segal to Paul Bartel and Signed by Actor Ryan O'Neal
SEGAL, Erich [Ryan O'Neal].
Oliver’s Story.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Paul Bartel Regards- Erich Segal 19 June 1978." Additionally signed by actor Ryan O'Neal on the half-title page. The recipient, Paul Bartel was a director, actor and the creator of such films as Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000, Lust in the Dust, among others. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145784
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Review Copy of J.F. Powers' Morte D'Urban; Signed by Him
POWERS, J.F.
Morte D’Urban.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
Review copy of the first edition of the author's masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by J.F. Powers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Slip laid in from the publisher. Jacket design by Joseph O'Connell. Uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137471
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
WILDE, Oscar.
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. A Study of Duty.
[London]: Privately Printed, 1904.
First separate edition of Wilde's classic collection of of mystery tales; a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, original wrappers bound in. One of 300 numbered copies, this is number 125. In fine condition. A very rare Wilde title.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140581
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First Edition of the Roots of Heaven; Signed by patrick Leigh Fermor
GARY, Romain (Patrick Leigh Fermor).
The Roots of Heaven.
London: Michael Joseph, 1958.
First edition in English of this novel, which was awarded France's Prix Goncourt in 1956. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free endpaper. Leigh Fermor co-wrote the screenplay for the 1958 film. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 47063
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First Edition of William de Morgan's Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography; Signed by Him
DE MORGAN, William.
Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography.
London: William Heinemann, 1906.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. With the author's signature on the front pastedown on the Lemperly bookplate. Also, included is the author's visiting card. In near fine condition, contemporary bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 85436
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First Edition of Alexandre Dumas' Henri III et sa Cour
DUMAS, Alexandre (Alexander).
Henri III et sa Cour.
Paris: Vezard et Cie, 1829.
Rare first edition of Dumas' first play. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. This work also includes Maximes et Pensées Du Prisonnier De Sainte-Hélène. In near fine condition with light toning. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 87497
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First Edition of Tomas Transtromer's Twenty Poems; Lengthily Inscribed by Him and Translator Robert Bly
TRANSTROMER, Tomas; Translated by Robert Bly.
Twenty Poems.
New York: The Seventies Press, 1970.
First edition of the first work in English to be translated by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of only 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by both Thomas Transtromer and the translator Robert Bly on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bilingual edition, Swedish and English. Translated by Robert Bly. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147497
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“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris": FIRST EDITION OF JACK KEROUAC'S BIG SUR
KEROUAC, Jack.
Big Sur.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.
First edition of Kerouac's poignant masterpiece of self-reflection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. A nice example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147506
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First Edition of Sex and the City: The Movie; Inscribed by Sarah Jessica Parker to Andre Leon Talley
SOHN, Amy; Introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Sex and the City: The Movie.
New York: Harper Collins, 2008.
First edition of this work on the first movie of Sex and the City. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by Sarah Jessica Parker on the half-title page, "To Andre- All my love Sarah." The recipient, Andre Leon Talley is fashion journalist, and the former creative director and American editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He was the magazine's fashion news director from 1983 to 1987 and then its creative director from 1988 to 1995. Introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker. Introduction by Michael Patrick King. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 128767
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First Edition of The Price of Prosperity; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter. L.
The Price of Prosperity.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.
First edition of the Wall Street legend's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Paul- Best wishes for much prosperity- Peter Bernstein." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 511
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Rare Original Playbill from the 1952 Broadway Performance of Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra; Signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
OLIVIER, Laurence and Vivien Leigh.
Original Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra Signed Playbill.
New York: Laurence Olivier Productions Ltd, 1952.
Rare original playbill from the February 25th 1952 performance of the Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra repertory at the Ziegfeld Theatre starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Octavo, illustrated with photographs and advertisements. Signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on the front panel and inscribed by Ronald Adam, "with happy memories and good wishes, Ronald Adam." A close friend of Olivier's, WWII RAF fighter pilot Ronald Forbes Adam made his stage acting debut at this very performance. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 90375
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"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF GEORGE ORWELL’S MASTERPIECE ANIMAL FARM
ORWELL, George.
Animal Farm.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
First American edition of Orwell’s timeless allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket art by Art Brenner.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145465
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"When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever": A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MILNE, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.
Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, decorations by Ernest Shepard. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129436
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First edition of Eden Phillpotts' Children of the Mist; with an autograph letter signed by him and inscribed by English swindler Whitaker Wright
PHILLPOTTS, Eden [Whitaker Wright].
Children of the Mist: A Novel.
London: A. D. Innes & Company, 1898.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by famed English swindler Whitaker Wright on the front free endpaper, "Clara Hubbard from Mr. Whitaker Wright Lea park Mitford Surrey." Whitaker Wright was regarded as a financial wizard at the turn of the 20th century in London. He built the Park Lane house at the height of his power. Like his celebrated country home at Lea Park, where he had music and billiard rooms under an artificial lake, No. 18 Park Lane was a…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137170
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Signed Limited First Edition of William Styron's Classic The Confessions of Nat Turner
STYRON, William.
The Confessions of Nat Turner.
New York: Random House, 1967.
Signed limited first edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of only 500 signed examples. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142690
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"The whole thing was an affair of misty shadows": First edition of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
WELLS, H.G.
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.
First edition of Wells' satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 95220
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First edition of Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek; bound in a unique full blue morocco decorative binding
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
Frenchman’s Creek.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1941.
First edition of du Maurier's third novel. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco to mimic a gentleman's coat with four titanium skull-shaped buttons. In fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129408