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Rare first edition of Hornblower One More Time; signed by Alexander Kent
FORESTER, C.S. [Alexander Kent].
Hornblower One More Time.
Tacoma: The Non-Profit Press, 1976.
First edition of this collection of three Hornblower stories never before published in book form. Octavo, original boards, cartographic endpapers. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Alexander Kent of an edition of 350 numbered copies. Additionally one of 15 copies with one of the co-sponsors' gilt names to the front panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131908
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First edition of John Le Carre's The Naive and Sentimental Lover; signed by him
LE CARRE, John.
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
First edition of le Carré's classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136318
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First Edition of Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom and Marc Norman.
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay.
New York: Miramax, 1998.
First edition of the screenplay, which won Stoppard an Academy Award. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the half-title page. In fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140189
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The Aldine Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetical Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1886.
Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, decorated with botanical headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, light toning to the text blocks, and a bookplate to the front pastedown of Vol. VI. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145246
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Limited Edition of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
Portnoy’s Complaint.
New York: Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of Roth's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original cloth, topstain red, slipcase. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Philip Roth with this being number 407. Fine in a fine dust jacket in the original slipcase.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147571
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First Edition of Anthony Powell's Temporary Kings
POWELL, Anthony.
Temporary Kings.
London: Heinemann, 1973.
First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142957
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“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate”: First Edition of The Piano Teacher; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek
JELINEK, Elfriede.
The Piano Teacher.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, "For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133735
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“'You're the wrong person to be permitted to do it": Lederer and Burdick's The Ugly American; Lengthily Inscribed by both authors
LEDERER, William J. and Eugene Burdick.
The Ugly American.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed W.J. Lederer on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Haemer.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139901
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"ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF MODERN FICTION": FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos [Kazantzaki].
Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].
Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1947.
First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Kazantzakis traveled to Paris frequently throughout his life and spoke French fluently. From 1902 Kazantzakis studied law at the University of Athens, then went to Paris in 1907 to study philosophy. Here he fell under the influence of Henri Bergson. His 1909 dissertation was titled "Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State." In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 4634
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“But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect": First Edition of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Claverings.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.
First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110699
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FIRST EDITION OF EDNA FERBER'S CLASSIC WORK GIANT; SIGNED BY HER
FERBER, Edna.
Giant.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952.
First edition of this "powerful story...truly as big as its subject" (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edna Ferber. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Fred McCarroll.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 114531
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Joseph Heller’s Copy of The Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook
HELLER, Joseph.
Harbrace Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Joseph Heller’s copies of The Handbook of English, with his signature. Octavo, 2 volumes, original boards. From the library of Joseph Heller.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3735
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Both First and Second Editions of the Golfer's Rubáiyát
BOYNTON, Henry Walcott.
Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.
Chicago/ New York: Herbert S. Stone/ Duffield, 1901, 1907.
Both the first and second editions of the Golfer's Rubaiyat. Octavo, original cloth, two volumes, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 75645
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"THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAPPENS TO BE MYSELF IS ONLY OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE": FIRST EDITION OF CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S LIONS AND SHADOWS
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.
First edition of Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104893
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Rare First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's On A Chinese Screen in the original dust jacket
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
On A Chinese Screen.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor's Edge. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear and expert restoration.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 115242
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First edition of Henry Porter's Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives; inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
PORTER, Henry.
Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1984.
First edition of Porter's revealing exposé of the Fleet Street Press. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Sally Soames who contributed the author photograph to the dust jacket, "To the best photographer that I know with belated love and gratitude. Henry Porter 14.6.91." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev,…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 120450
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Salvador; Signed by Her
DIDION, Joan.
Salvador.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
First edition of this classic work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124791
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Lord Macaulay’s Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888.
Finely bound example of Macaulay's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a view of ancient Rome. In very good condition. Bookplate and ownership inscription.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138642
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“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes; In Exceptional Condition
CONRAD, Joseph.
Under Western Eyes.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1911.
First American edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145907
