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“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode": First Edition of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story
VIZZINI, Ned.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story.
New York: Miramax Books, 2006.
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Number Seventeen. Jacket illustration by Abigail Smith.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 101921
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First edition of Michael Frayn's The Trick of It; inscribed by him to Sally Soames
FRAYN, Michael.
The Trick Of It.
London: Viking, 1989.
First edition of of Frayn's reverential novel. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally with best wishes from Michael Frayn 15 August 1989." 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 her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 119338
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs From Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs From Books.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121421
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S ABAFT THE FUNNEL
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122911
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First edition of Arthur Schnitzler's Casanova's Homecoming
SCHNITZLER, Arthur.
Casanova’s Homecoming.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947.
First edition of of Schnitzler's famous novella. Quarto, original boards. In near fine condition. Numbered 96 of 1499 examples. Artwork by Rockwell Kent.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137532
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VARGAS LLOSA, Mario; Edited and translated by John King.
Making Waves: Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 1997.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1736
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"You won't get me being...I won't be lost in it": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Playright’s Classic Play The Homecoming
PINTER, Harold.
The Homecoming.
London: Methuen & Co, 1965.
First edition of the two-act play by the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144687
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George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue; from the library of American Actor Zachary Scott
SHAW, George Bernard [John Steinbeck].
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936.
Early printing of one of Shaw's major works. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations from the play as presented by Katharine Cornell courtesy of Vandamm Studio. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen, The Unfaithful, Shotgun, Man in the Shadow, and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott’s bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114807
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First Edition of Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir; Signed by Ngugi in the month of Publication
THIONG'O, Ngugi Wa.
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir.
New York: The Free Press, 2018.
First edition of this unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author in the month of publication, "NW Thiong'o 10th March 2018." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Emmanuel Polanco.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145757
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First edition of richard ford's the sportswriter; inscribed by him
FORD, Richard.
The Sportswriter.
New York : Vintage Books, 1986.
First edition of this paperback original as issued. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Elias Kanner with the very warmest wishes. Richard Ford January 8, 1990 NYC." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120536
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Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
SELECTED BY COETZEE, J.M.
African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006.
Claremont, SA: Spearhead/ New Africa Books, 2006.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page, who selected these stories.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 2478
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The Metropolitan Magazine, September 1904; containing Rudyard Kipling's Mrs. Bathurst
KIPLING, Rudyard; Max Beerbohm; Lloyd Osbourne; Charles Sarka; Carolyn Wells; et al.
The Metropolitan Magazine, September 1904.
New York: The Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1904.
The September 1904 issue of The Metropolitan Magazine which includes Rudyard Kipling's most popular short story Mrs. Bathurst. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122140
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First edition of Philip Reeve's Infernal Devices; signed by him
REEVE, Philip.
Infernal Devices.
London: Scholastic Press, 2005.
First edition of the third novel in Reeve's award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Frankland.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126739
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First Edition of Memories of the Ford Administration; Signed by John Updike and Chip Kidd
UPDIKE, John.
Memories of the Ford Administration.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133586
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's A Critic in Pall Mall: Beings Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies
WILDE, Oscar. Selected by E. V. Lucas.
A Critic in Pall Mall: Beings Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919.
First edition of this selection of Wilde's literary criticism. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139580
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First Edition of Henry James' View and Reviews
JAMES, Henry.
Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1908.
First edition of this series of literary essays written in James' earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 78043
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“Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread”: Signed Limited First Edition of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities
WOLFE, Tom.
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.
Signed limited first edition of the author's first novel, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by the author depicting a powerful scene from the book. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147056
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The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February - July, 1899; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.
London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.
The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations by numerous artists including six by Arthur Rackham for The Manoeuvres of Jerry on pages 71-77. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142672
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First edition of Ralph Durand's A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
DURAND, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling].
A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126349
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Soldiers Three. The Story of the Gadsbys. In Black and White.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1892.
First edition of this collection of Kipling's stories; the first collected edition of these three tales. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121044
