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First edition of Ken Follett's A Dangerous Fortune; inscribed by him to Erica Jong
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
A Dangerous Fortune.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1993.
First edition of the internationally bestselling author's classic thriller. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Erica + Ken - with love, Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. 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…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142786
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“Don't let the muggles get you down": J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; From the Library of Novelist William Goldman
ROWLING, J.K. [William Goldman].
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
Early edition of the third novel in Rowling’s acclaimed Harry Potter series; from the library of William Goldman. Octavo, original pictorial boards illustrated by Cliff Wright. In near fine condition with some toning throughout, very light bumping to the spine and extremities, and an ownership stamp to the dedication page, "From the library of William Goldman (1931-2018) jrg." William Goldman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. The amazing mind behind the Academy Award-winning thriller film 'All the President's Men' and the cult classic fantastical comedy 'The Princess Bride,' Goldman's skilled storytelling has helped form the backdrop of cinematic and…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145493
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott .
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Newmarket Press, 1987.
First edition of this classic collection of the words of Dr. King, selected by Coretta Scott King. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. & Mrs. Charles Martin with love and warmest good wishes, Coretta Scott King," beneath Florine B. Martin's mail address label. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146270
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Wall Street; Signed by Oliver Stone
LIPPER, Kenneth. Based On The Original Screenplay by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser.
Wall Street.
New York: Berkley Books, 1988.
First edition, early printing of this classic work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone by on the title page. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, dampstaining.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147112
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Vol. 33 of The Idler containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo's Prison Experiences of a Suffragette
[MAYO, Winifred].
The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. 33. April 1908 to September 1908.
London: The Idler Magazine, 1908.
First edition of Vol. 33 of The Idler, containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo's Prison Experiences of a Suffragette. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over pebbled boards, illustrated. A supporter of women's suffrage, Winifred Mayo joined the Kensington branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. Soon afterwards she was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons. In good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135904
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First Edition of Soul Clap Hands and Sing; Signed by Paule Marshall in the Year of Publication
MARSHALL, Paule.
Soul Clap Hands and Sing.
New York: Atheneum, 1961.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication, "Paule Marshall Dec. 1961." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Foster.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144354
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First editions of each volume in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica Trilogy
MORRIS, James. [Jan Morris].
Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, and Farewell the Trumpets.
London: Faber and Faber , 1968-1978.
First editions of each volume in the author's highly acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (1968), Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973), and Farewell the Trumpets (1978). Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Each volume is very good in a near fine dust jacket. Spotting to the top page edges of Pax Britannica and Farewell the Trumpets. Ownership name and numeric marking to the front free cartographic endpapers of Heaven's Command and Farewell the Trumpets.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144603
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Original Playbill of Fiddler on the Roof; Inscribed by Sheldon Harnick
STEIN, Joseph.
Fiddler on the Roof.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.
Original playbill of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the lyricist Sheldon Harnick on the front panel, "For Peter: Sheldon Harnick 12/16/15." In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 112721
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"This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Magnum Opus Independent People
LAXNESS, Halldor.
Independent People.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin. Translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 140244
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First edition of Ken Follett's Lie Down with Lions; inscribed by him to Kenneth Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken.
Lie Down With Lions.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1986.
First edition of Follett's riveting New York Times Best Seller. Octavo, original half-cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, with fond regards from Ken." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142243
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First editions of all three volumes in Albert Camus' Actuelles Chroniques
CAMUS, Albert.
Actuelles Chroniques 1944-1948; Actuelles Chroniques 1948-1953; Actuelles, III Chronique Algerienne 1939-1958.
Paris: Gallimard, 1950-1958.
First editions of all three volumes in Camus's collected articles and commentaries. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Each volume is fine condition. A rare complete set in exceptional condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137591
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First Edition of Salman Rushdie's East, West; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Novelist Erica Jong
RUSHDIE, Salman [Erica Jong].
East, West.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
First edition of this work by the Booker Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Erica with love Salman Rushdie 5 Sep 94." 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 the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142970
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Rare typed letter and autograph postcard collection signed by Kenneth Roberts
ROBERTS, Kenneth.
Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.
Collection of typed letters signed by American author Kenneth Roberts. The collection includes two typed letters signed by Roberts and addressed to Malcolm Decker dated May 21, 1937 and May 16, 1946. Additionally included are two signed postcards signed by Roberts. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 114028
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Photograph of Stephen King; Signed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Stephen King Signed Photograph.
November 12, 1989.
Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror”, boldly signed by him. Octavo, one page manufactured by Kodak, glossy color photograph of Stephen King, boldly signed and dated by him in black felt tip, "Stephen King 11/12/89." In near fine condition with a PSA authenticators sticker to the bottom corner. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authentication card from PSA authenticators, which verifies the authenticity of the signature with a certification serial number.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146563
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First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt's Memoirs of William Hazlitt
HAZLITT, W. Carew. [William Hazlitt].
Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of His Correspondence.
London: Richard Bentley, 1867.
First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt's authoritative biography of his grandfather, great English critic and philosopher William Hazlitt. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 124128
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First Edition of A Masque of Reason; Inscribed by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert.
A Masque of Reason.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.
First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Robert Frost to Samuel Plotkin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 97478
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"The farmer woke up from his dream, looked out of his window and saw snow. It was not dream snow. It was real snow": First Edition of Eric Carle's Dream Snow; Signed by Him
CARLE, Eric.
Dream Snow.
New York: Philomel Books, 2000.
First edition of this Christmas classic by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 103548
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First Edition of the Everman’s Library of A House For Mr. Biswas; Signed by V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A House For Mr. Biswas
New York: Everyman's Library/ Knopf, 1995.
First edition of the Everyman's Library of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 2188
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account; Inscribed by Saul Bellow in the year of Publication to Journalist Goran Bergstrom
BELLOW, Saul.
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account.
New York: The Viking Press, 1976.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's account of his journey to Jerusalem. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Mr. Bergstrom, who asks excellent questions Chicago, Nov 1, 76 Saul Bellow." The recipient was journalist Goran Bergstrom. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Photographs by Albert Margolies.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 86448
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"Dream Dangerously": First Edition of American Gods; Signed by Neil Gaiman
GAIMAN, Neil.
American Gods.
New York: William Morrow, 2001.
First edition of Gaiman's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 147188
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First Edition of Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination; Inscribed and dated by Him in the Year of Publication
TRILLING, Lionel.
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.
New York: The Viking Press, 1950.
First edition of one of the influential works of criticism published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Sue and George in friendship and regard Lionel March 1950." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 22071
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"Oh blest Other House, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by": First Edition of Henry James' The Other House
JAMES, Henry.
The Other House.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896.
First American edition of this terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences.. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 80007
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First Edition of Within the Gates; Warmly Inscribed by Sean O'Casey to His friend Joe Cummins
O'CASEY, Sean.
Within the Gates.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1933.
First edition of this work by the Irish dramatist and memoirist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "From Sean O'Casey to his dear friend Joe Cummins, Whose companionship, through hours of eventide, he often misses deeply Chalfont St Gilles 1933." Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 106738
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First Hardcover Edition of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station; Signed by Him
LERNER, Ben.
Leaving the Atocha Station.
London: Granta, 2012.
First hardcover edition of the Lerner's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ben Lerner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 63022