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First Edition of Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture; Inscribed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].
Lisbon: Caminho, 1999.
First edition of the author's Nobel Prize speech given in 1998. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed and dated by the author in Portuguese. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1503
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"How long have we been sitting here?”: First edition of Berlin Game; inscribed by Len Deighton
DEIGHTON, Len.
Berlin Game.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1983.
First edition of Deighton's classic spy thriller, the first of 9 novels to feature secret agent Bernard Samson. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a transcription from this work on the title page, "For John Rogers - Len Deighton April 2015 How long have we been sitting here?" Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142611
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First Edition of The Cider House Rules; Warmly inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Cider House Rules.
New York: William Morrow , 1985.
First edition of Irving's sixth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rob with my appreciation John Irving." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145774
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Rare Rudyard Kipling Ephemera Collection
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling Ephemera Collection.
Rare collection of Rudyard Kipling ephemera from the collection of William Britton Stitt including his membership card to The Kipling Society, letters of correspondence between him and the President of The Kipling Society, newspaper clippings, articles, postcards, pamphlets and separate editions of Kipling stories and poems. In very good condition. A unique collection.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 122487
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"Wallace embraces the incompatibility of mathematics and prose and makes art from it": First Edition of Everything And More; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144245
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First Edition of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
GALLICO, Paul.
The Snow Goose.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
First edition of this classic story, the moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month prior to publication on the front free endpaper, "To Stuart Rose- Who has great patience with me- with my love- Paul Gallico March, 1941." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover art by George Salter.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110454
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's House of Light
OLIVER, Mary .
House of Light.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Dede Cummings. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146866
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1914; Inscribed by Him
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander (Solzhenitzyn).
August 1914.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
Early printing of the Solzhenitsyn's epic novel of Russian history. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design Guy Fleming. Translated by Michael Glenny.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131734
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": Book of Longing; Signed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page who has added his stamp. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 135256
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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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The Poetical Works - with a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged frigate
FALCONER, William.
The Poetical Works: With a Fore-Edge Painting of a British Flagged Frigate. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: William Pickering, 1836.
Octavo, bound in straight-grain full green morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged three-masted frigate, sails full, with land on the horizon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 52023
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"From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?": First Edition of Poems 1962-2012; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Louise Gluck
GLUCK, Louise.
Poems 1962-2012.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen Achilles.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146120
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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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First Edition of Forever Ulysses; Signed by Translator Patrick Leigh Fermor
RODOCANACHI, C.P. [Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor].
Forever Ulysses.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's first novel and Patrick Leigh Fermor's first significant literary contribution. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the translator Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the crown of the spine and a few small closed tears. Leigh Fermor translated this novel at the age of 22.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3901
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Finely bound collection of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine; featuring Arthur Rackham's first printed colour plate
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.
Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur "Rackham's 1st printed colour plate" (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the frontispiece. Quarto, Vol. II, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with numerous full page and in-text illustrations including 6 coloured plates. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142843
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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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"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true": First Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls in the Original First-Issue Dust Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
First edition with Scribner's A of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a good unrestored second-issue price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137027
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First Edition of Helen Adam's Turn Again To Me and Other Poems; Signed by Her
ADAM, Helen.
Turn Again To Me and Other Poems.
New York: Kulchar Foundation, 1977.
First edition of the first book by Adam. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "All good wishes Helen Adam." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 127711
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First Edition of Douglas Coupland's Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture; Signed by Him with a large drawing of his hand
COUPLAND, Douglas.
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
First edition of the author's groundbreaking first novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the half-title page, who has added a large drawing of his hand. In near fine condition. Illustrations by Paul Rivoche. Design by Judith Stagnitto. First printings are uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 128422
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138597