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First edition of Secondhand is Better; inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley to Kenneth David Burrows
MATTHEWS, Douglas; Suzanne Wymelenberg; and Susan Cheever Cowley [Erica Jong].
Secondhand is Better (2H=B).
New York: Arbor House, 1975.
First edition of this unique handbook to secondhand buying. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley on the front free endpaper, "To Burrows, without whose diverse and grateful help this book - and a lot of other things - would not have been possible. Susan." 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142533
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FIRST EDITION OF JOHN UPDIKE'S FIRST NOVEL THE POORHOUSE FAIR
UPDIKE, John.
The Poorhouse Fair.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
First edition of Updike’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear Jacket design by Harry Ford.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114676
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Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed twice by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel and on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 125773
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“THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SAGA OF HOW AMERICA BECAME INVOLVED IN VIETNAM”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Best and the Brightest.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005.
Signed limited edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Signed David Halberstam. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144148
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"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise": First Edition of Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye; Inscribed by Her To Sally Soames
ATWOOD, Margaret.
Cat’s Eye.
London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic... the story of Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer" (Boston Sunday Globe). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames- with best wishes- Margaret Atwood." 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, Alec…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118434
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale; Signed by Edith Grossman
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel; Edith Grossman.
Living To Tell the Tale.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's memoir. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated by Edith Grossman.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133748
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Little Mexican & Other Stories
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Little Mexican & Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924.
First edition of Huxley's third collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140252
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First Edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Existentialism.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947.
First edition of the philosopher's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. An exceptional example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144092
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First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch; one of 100 numbered copies
NORTON, Charles Eliot. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123761
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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day; in the original publisher's cloth
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanoton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.
Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Harriet Beecher Stowe to the front panel, illustrated with 18 tissue-guarded steel portraits including frontispiece portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Second state with the title page corrected to "Douglass." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 146452
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First Edition of Doubling the Point; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this collection of essays and interviews by the Nobel Prize winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1497
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First edition of Alasdair Gray's Something Leather; inscribed by him to photojournalist Sally Soames
GRAY, Alasdair. [Sally Soames].
Something Leather.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's sensational novel. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally from Alasdair 27 June 1990 Glasgow." 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, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 124163
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First edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Le Mur
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Le Mur. [The Wall].
Paris: Gallimard, 1939.
Limited edition of Sartre's 1939 short story collection, containing one of his greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall. Octavo, original boards. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 910. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137275
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First edition of Hokum: A Play in Three Acts; one of 73 copies hors-commerce
MCNEIL, Morris [Morris S. Musselman] and apparently Ernest Hemingway.
Hokum: A Play in Three Acts.
Wellesley Hills: The Sans Souci Press, 1978.
First edition, first printing of what is rumored to be Hemingway's first book, from the original typescript dated 1921 (which precedes the publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1923) and published for the first time in 1978. Octavo, original off-white buckram, antique green endpapers, title page in green and black. One of 73 copies hors-commerce numbered 1-73, this is number 24. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in the original antique green slipcase which is in fine condition. A superior example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120983
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First Edition of Nabokov's Notes on Prosody: from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Notes on Prosody.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.
First edition of Nabokov's analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 88174
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First Edition of Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Gathering Blue.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition of this work by the Newbury Award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathy Black.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 139213
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"Whisper there was not, nor word, shadow nor showing. Still the light stirred on the deep, glowing and growing": First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
First American edition of this collection of Kipling’s poetry, published October 30, 1896, the same day as the English edition. Octavo, original publisher's elaborately decorated cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121694
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Ring Lardner's The Ecstasy of Owen Muir; Inscribed by him to novelist Vera Caspary
LARDNER JR., Ring.
The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.
Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1966.
Paperback edition of Ring Lardner Jr.'s witty Candide-like satire. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. The recipient, Vera Caspary was a novelist, most well known for Laura, which was scripted by Lardner for the film, which starred Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. In good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 125577
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Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad; inscribed by Fagles to fellow writer and translator Charles Tomlinson
FAGLES, Robert.
The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.
Grand Street Publications, Inc, .
Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front panel of Book XVIII, "Charles and Brenda - Wonderful to have you back in Princeton with us - Love, Bob." The recipient, Charles Tomlinson, was a prolific English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator who taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University, where he became Emeritus Professor. Tomlinson was an authoritative translator of poetry from the Russian, Spanish and Italian, including work by Antonio Machado, Fyodor…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137120
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First Edition of Nick's Trip: A Nick Stefanos Mystery; Signed by George Pelecanos
PELECANOS, George.
Nick’s Trip: A Nick Stefanos Mystery.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by George Pelecanos on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. Jacket design by John Dawson. Review copy, with the publication from the publisher laid in.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144169
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"Perhaps no other Englishman has quite the same power": First edition, first issue of Rudyard Kipling's The Art of Fiction
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Fiction.
London: J. A. Allen & Co, 1926.
First separate edition, first issue of this report issued on the occasion of Kipling's acceptance of the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120430
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“EVERYTHING WE ARE IS AT EVERY MOMENT ALIVE IN US”: FIRST EDITION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD; SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER
MILLER, Arthur.
The Creation of the World and Other Business.
New York: Viking Press, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 2010
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First Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.
First edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to the spine.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 74009
