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Rare limited Grolier Club edition of The History of Helyas Knight of the Swan
COPLAND, Robert [Translator] Wynkyn de Worde; Robert Hoe.
The History of Helyas Knight of the Swan.
The City of New York: The Grolier Club, 1901.
Limited edition of the Grolier Club's beautiful and literal facsimile reprint of Robert Hoe's unique copy of the 1512 edition of the classic medieval tale. Octavo, original publisher's full pigskin elaborately stamped in blind with the devices of Caxton and De Worde to the front and rear panels, brass clasps, illustrated, title page in black and red. One of three hundred and twenty-five copies on Whatman paper, and three copies on vellum. Translated by Robert Copland from the French version published in Paris in 1504. In very good condition. Housed in the original folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147203
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First Edition of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jose Saramago 1.2006." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133715
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Rare sixth edition of William McGuffey's The Eclectic Fourth Reader
MCGUFFEY, William.
The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, From the Best American and English Writers. With Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors.
Cincinnati: Published by Truman and Smith, 1838.
Finely bound sixth edition of the fourth McGuffey Reader. Octavo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt ruling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140352
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First Edition of The War of The End of The World; Lengthily Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The War of The End of The World.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.
First edition of this classic work Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Greg, this Brazilian adventure and my best wishes Mario Vargas Llosa Nov. 85." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, review copy with slip. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132567
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First Edition of Born on the Fourth of July; Warmly Inscribed by Ron Kovic in the year of Publication
KOVIC, Ron.
Born on the Fourth of July.
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.
First edition of this classic book, basis for the 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "11/26/76 Mary Thank you for being so nice to me and my family Love Ron and Peace." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Bob Adelman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138131
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First Edition of James' Controversial Commentary on the social environment of turn-of-the-century-america: The American Scene
JAMES, Henry.
The American Scene.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907.
First American edition of James' account of his trip throughout the United States between 1904 and 1905. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt tooling to the front panel and spine. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. A nice example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 80105
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Alexandre Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires
DUMAS, Alexandre [Alexander].
Les Trois Mousquetaires.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1921.
Finely bound example of Dumas' classic work in the original French. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter crimson crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145243
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Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Poema
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Il Filostrato, Poema.
Paris: Presso Franc. Ambr. Didot Il Miaggiore, 1789.
Eighteenth century edition of this marvelous narrative poem. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary brown calf over blue marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, original silk ribbon laid in. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities, spine, front and rear panels, some loss to the calf binding and very light toning throughout.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146404
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FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS PYNCHON'S SECOND NOVEL THE CRYING OF LOT 49
PYNCHON, Thomas.
The Crying of Lot 49.
New York: J.B Lippincott, 1966.
First edition of Pynchon’s classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 112711
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“Please, sir, I want some more”: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
DICKENS, Charles.
Oliver Twist.
London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
Early edition of Dickens's classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition with some toning.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147626
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Finely bound collection of Le Tresor de la Maison, Le Journal des Femmes Economes
DE BASSANVILLE, Mme.
Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes.
Paris : de Beau, 1853-1854.
Finely bound collection of the May 1853 - April 1854 issues of Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes. Octavo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, index. In good condition. Rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 96210
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"What crimes? Were it not better to record facts, so that the contemplator might approve, or at least learn whence the crimes arose?" First edition of Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy. In Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem.
London: John Murray, 1821.
First edition, first issue of Byron's posthumously published tragedy with the Doge's speech on p. 151 that begins "What crimes ?" Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine and panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120688
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First Edition of Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay; Signed by Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx and Diana Ossana
PROULX, Annie; Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana.
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.
New York: Scribner, 2005.
First Scribner trade edition of this collection of essays on the process of adapting the critically acclaimed story for film, signed by all three contributors. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx, and warmly inscribed by Diana Ossana. Story by Annie Proulx. Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. Uncommon signed by all three contributors.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139493
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First Edition of The Game Of Thrones Deluxe Edition; Signed by George R.R. Martin
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Game of Thrones.
New York: Bantam Books, 2011.
First deluxe edition of the first book in the author's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in the fine blue slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145901
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; finely bound by Riviere & Son
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Edited by Rev. Walter W. Skeat.
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920.
Finely bound example of Chaucer's complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, supplied tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A nice binding.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130504
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Classic Till We Have Faces
LEWIS, C.S.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956.
First edition of Lewis' final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Biggs. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140483
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“experience nine times out of ten is merely stupidity hardened into habit": First Edition of Marjorie Morningstar; Signed by Herman Wouk
WOUK, Herman.
Marjorie Morningstar.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by John Scotford. Jacket photograph by Richard Avedon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 110555
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FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. A very sharp example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138068
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First Edition of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
The Real Inspector Hound.
London: Faber & Faber, 1968.
First edition of this work by the legendary playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Very good in wrappers.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 2376
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"WE WENT SLIPPING SILENTLY ALONG, BETWEEN THE GREEN AND FRAGRANT BANKS, WITH A SENSE OF PLEASURE AND CONTENTMENT THAT GREW AND GREW": FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S A TRAMP ABROAD
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Tramp Abroad.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.
First edition of Twain's classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, early issue with the portrait in BAL state B (no priority), frontispiece in the first state (captioned "Moses"), state A of the text block (no priority), and the cover stamping in state A. Octavo. 631, [1, ad] pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, with 328 illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow. BAL 3386. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144227