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First Edition of Bernard Malamud's A New Life; Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MALAMUD, Bernard.
A New Life.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.
First edition of Malamud's third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul, Old friends, Everything good Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 100098
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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 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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Photograph of Stephen King; Signed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Stephen King Signed Photograph.
March 14, 1993.
Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror”, boldly signed by him. Octavo, one page, glossy color photograph of Stephen King, boldly signed and dated by him in black felt tip, "Stephen King 3/14/93." In near fine condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 146561
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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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FIRST EDITION OF GRAHAM GREENE'S THE HEART OF THE MATTER
GREENE, Graham.
The Heart of the Matter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1948.
Limited edition, one of 750 examples given to friends of the publisher of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 132711
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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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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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"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 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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"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 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 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
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer": Albert Camus’ Classic Novel The Stranger
CAMUS, Albert.
The Stranger.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition, third printing of Camus' first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth with red top stain. Near fine in a good dust jacket, loss to the crown and foot of the spine with a closed tear and some creasing to the front panel. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145104
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"To be witty is to be found out": First edition of Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts
WILDE, Oscar.
Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932.
First edition of Ricketts' recollections of Wilde, published posthumously with a design reminiscent of the Vale Press. "The only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private press movement of those years" (Dreyfus, 81). Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. One of 800 numbered copies, this is number 556. Near fine with the majority of the rare original dust jacket laid in.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 139784
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John Hersey's The War Lover; Warmly Inscribed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The War Lover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
First edition, early printing of this aviation history classic, basis for the 1962 film starring Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ethan C. LeMunyon- with best wishes to a fellow Tientsinite. John Hersey." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 140689
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Limited Edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan; Signed by Writer and Publisher Elbert Hubbard
KHAYYAM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; Elbert Hubbard.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1899.
Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay. Oblong octodecimo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel on a decorated morocco label, marbled endpapers, sparsely illustrated with decorative images and initials. One of nine hundred and twenty numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard on the limitation page, this is number 414. In very good condition, with some toning to the front and rear endleaves, previous owner calligraphic epitaph to the front flyleaf.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146603
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"Oh, let me sing one song before I lie enfolded in my shroud. Oh let me sing one dong before I die and mingle with the crowd": Rare signed limited edition of Louis K. Anspacher's Tristan & Isolde: A Tragedy; inscribed by him
ANSPACHER, Louis K.
Anspacher
New York: Brentano's, 1904.
Rare signed limited edition of the author's adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original boards. One of one hundred copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, this is number 93. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Henry Seligman, with the cordial greetings of Louis K. Anspacher." In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 115508
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Second Novel: The Green House; Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Green House.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John Mario Vargas Llosa." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144690
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes; inscribed by him
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.
First edition of Asimov's wonderfully woven, old-fashioned murder mystery. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Stephen Isaac Asimov." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 142352