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First Edition of Jaws; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and signed by Peter Benchley
BENCHLEY, Peter.
Jaws.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of Benchley’s bestselling thriller and basis for the blockbuster 1975 motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Boldly signed by Peter Benchley on a page bound in. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 148167
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"a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power" First Edition of A House For Mr. Biswas; Signed by V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A House For Mr. Biswas.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the crown and foot of the spine. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 2909
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“If you are a dreamer come in": Where the Sidewalk Ends; Signed by Shel Silverstein
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
First edition, early printing of the author's first collection of children's poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With Love Shel Silverstein." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 120856
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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more": First Edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
London: Bloomsbury, 2005.
First edition of the sixth and penultimate novel in Rowling's Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Jason Cockcroft.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 139956
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The Black Flame Trilogy: The Ordeal of Mansart; Mansart Builds A School; Worlds of Color; With Volume One inscribed by Du Bois to his neighbors and close friends
DU BOIS, W.E.B.
The Black Flame Trilogy: The Ordeal of Mansart; Mansart Builds A School; Worlds of Color.
New York : Mainstream Publishers , 1957-61.
First editions of each of novel in the author's acclaimed Black Flame trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, three volumes. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to his close friends and neighbors Thomas and Patricia Bell in volume one. Each are near fine in a very good dust jackets. First editions are uncommon, especially signed.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 122355
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Rare First Edition of Over Sea, Under Stone; Signed by Susan Cooper
COOPER, Susan.
Over Sea, Under Stone.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Margery Gill. Boldly by Susan Cooper on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket, stamp to the copyright page. Jacket design by Margery Gill. First editions are rare, especially signed.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 145793
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"Time was not passing it was turning in a circle": One Hundred Years of Solitude; Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Translator Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel .
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 2011.
First edition of the Barnes and Noble edition of the Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in, illustrated. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Boldly signed by both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the translator Gregory Rabassa on half-title page. Illustrated by Cathie Bleck. A unique example.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 148031
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“The sandy beach reminded Harold of picnics": Rare First Edition of Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon
JOHNSON, Crockett.
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955.
First edition of the first book in Crockett Johnson’s Harold series. 12 mo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket without the price to top of front flap, with code "30-60 / No. 5671A" to front flap and "No. 5672A" to rear flap. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A nice example.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 107552
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"This One in me knows the universe of the many": Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Rabindranath Tagore
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Creative Unity.
London: MacMillan & Company , 1925.
First edition, later printing. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Rabindranath Tagore Feb. 26, 1932." In very good condition with some wear to the extremities and to the side front panel. Books signed by Tagore are rare.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 22096
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"I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart": Signed Limited First Edition of Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody
KEROUAC, Jack [Allen Ginsberg].
Visions of Cody.
New York: New Directions, 1960.
Signed limited first edition one of only 750 examples of this novel by the author of On The Road. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Jack Kerouac. Fine in the original acetate dust jacket, with the original publisher's original prospectus. Easily the nicest example we have seen.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 148010
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First editions of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius The God; in the rare original dust jackets
GRAVES, Robert.
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God and His Wife Messalina.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934.
First editions of Graves' celebrated Claudius novels. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Rare in the dust jackets and particularly so in such nice condition.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 144894
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"By way of thanks, I wanted to introduce you to a truly great writer": Ethan Canin's The Palace Thief; signed by him and Jeff Bezos
CANIN, Ethan. [Jeff Bezos].
The Palace Thief.
New York: Random House, 1994.
Jeff Bezos' special thank-you print run of his favorite book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author and by Jeff Bezos on the title page. Laid in is a letter from Bezos on amazon.com letterhead which reads, "Dear Friend of Amazon.com, What can I say? It's been five years since we sold our first book, and when I think about those of you who've become out most loyal customers, I am intensely grateful. We needed you to trust us and be willing to try something new, and you did. Your word of mouth - good and bad - brought new…
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 123037
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"As tall as two horses. Eyes like glowing balls of fire. Long, razor sharp claws. The ickabog is coming": Exceedingly rare first edition of J.K Rowling's The Ickabog; signed by her
ROWLING, J.K.
The Ickabog.
London: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
First edition of this work by Rowling. Octavo, original decorated boards, with illustrations by the winners of The Ickabog Illustration Competition. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title page. With Rowling's hologram opposite her signature. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With the original Foyles bookmark and shopping bag. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 132148
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First Edition, First Printing of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Of Human Bondage.
London: William Heinemann, 1915.
First edition, first printing which includes list of other “Works” by Maugham facing half-title, plus publisher’s ad page for works by other authors on half-title verso, with the misprint on page 257, line 4 ("help") of Maugham’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. A sharp example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 136601
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Rare First Edition in English of The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
London: Printed for J. Bew, 1783.
Rare first edition in English of the author's classic work. 12mo, 2 volumes, bound in full contemporary marbled calfskin. In very good condition, bookplate. Housed in a custom folding case.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 144141
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The Works and Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson; finely bound by Sotheran
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. [with] The Letters of Robert Stevenson. [Including Treasure Island,
London: Various Publishers, 1902.
Uniformly bound collection of the works and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo, 36 volumes bound in three quarter morocco by H. Sotheran and Co.with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142853
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Signed limited edition of Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946; one of 350 numbered copies signed by Pablo Picasso
JANIS, Harriet and Sidney. [Pablo Picasso].
Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946.
Signed limited edition of this compendium of over one hundred reproductions of Picasso's wartime paintings. Quarto, original publisher's half buckram, illustrated with 135 plates. One of three hundred and fifty numbered copies signed by Pablo Picasso on the limitation page, this is number 188. Near fine in the original glassine and rare original slipcase which is in very good condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 140734
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"Tarzan is the dream man we would most of us like to be": First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar; Inscribed by him
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1918.
First edition, first printing of the fifth book in Burroughs' epic Tarzan series with with "Published, April, 1918" and W. F. Hall on the copyright page. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stephen Gray Best All good wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzana California June 6 1939." In 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana". The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community,…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 96782
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"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me": First Edition, first issue of Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; In the Original First State Dust Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell To Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt labels to the spine and front panel. First issue with Scribner's seal to title verso and without legal disclaimer. Fine in a near near fine first state dust jacket priced at $2.50 and with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. Some neat professional repairs to the spine ends and corners of the dust jacket. A very sharp and attractive example of this highspot of American literature, among the best fiction to come out of the First World War.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 147588
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"No Dream Is Too High For Those with Their Eyes in the Sky": First Edition of H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon; With a note card lengthily signed by Buzz Aldrin
WELLS, H.G. [Buzz Aldrin].
The First Men in the Moon.
Indianapolis : The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers, 1901.
First edition of Wells's classic work of science fiction. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth, illustrated with plates by E. Hering. With a card signed by Buzz Aldrin laid in which reads, "No Dream Is Too High For Those with Their Eyes in the Sky Buzz Aldrin." In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 148027
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"Thank you for your kind words. Am I in that bath or serenading from a distance?": First Edition of Beautiful Losers; Lengthily Inscribed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Leonard.
Beautiful Losers.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
First edition of Cohen's second and final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Susan Farrier MacKay, Thanks for your kind words. Am I in that bath or serenading from a distance? All good things to you Leonard Cohen Toronto November 18, 1992." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Harold Town. Jacket design by Frank Newfeld. With a letter from the recipient laid in mentioning how she sent a letter to Cohen fantasizing of sitting in a bubble bath, drinking champagne and listening to Cohen sing…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 124873
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FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS OF EACH VOLUME IN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S ACCLAIMED GAME OF THRONES SERIES
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance with Dragons.
London: Harper Collins, 1996-2011.
First English editions of each volume in George R.R. Martin's acclaimed Game of Thrones series. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket artwork by Jim Burns and Larry Rostant.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 135214
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First Edition of Eric Carle’s Classic Work The Very Hungry Caterpillar
CARLE, Eric.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Cleveland: World Publishing, 1969.
First edition, first printing of Carle's most recognizable work (with the complete number line 1-5 on the copyright page and A3450 on the rear board). Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 140979
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First Edition of Dick King-Smith's The Sheep-Pig; boldly inscribed by him
KING-SMITH, Dick.
The Sheep-Pig.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983.
First edition, first issue of the basis for the Oscar-winning film 'Babe'. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Mary Rayner. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With best wishes - Dick King-Smith." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Mary Rayner. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 131618
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt": First Edition of Waiting For the Barbarians; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.
First British edition, preceding the South African first of this modern classic by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual sunning to the spine with a small closed tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 4295
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“Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination": First Edition of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon; Inscribed by Him to friends where he stayed and wrote this novel and Conceived Hannibal Lector
HARRIS, Thomas.
Red Dragon.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.
First edition of Harris' second novel. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece by William Blake. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Toby and Mille with my thanks for their hospitality and friendship Thomas Harris Oct. 21, 1981." The recipients were close personal friends of Harris, whose isolated house he stayed at for 18 months writing Red Dragon and where he conceived the character of Hannibal Lecter amidst his nocturnal breaks in the cotton fields. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Hollyn. Jacket illustration by Ron Walotsky.…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 141310
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“Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger”: First edition in the scarce original parts of Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son
DICKENS, Charles. Illustrations by H.K. Browne.
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48.
First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm with "delight" for "joy" on page 284. Octavo, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing all advertisements as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and chemise pull-off case. Scarce and desirable.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 96177
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The Works of Jonathan Swifts's Finely Bound
SWIFT, Jonathan .
The Works of Jonathan Swift: Including, Gulliver’s Travels.
London: Various Publishers, 1751-67.
Finely bound volumes of the works of Jonathan Swift. Octavo, 19 volumes, bound in contemporary calf, red morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, with the Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpaper. A very sharp set.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 140938
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“They use everything about the hog except the squeal": First Edition of Upton Sinclair's Classic The Jungle; Signed by Him
SINCLAIR, Upton.
The Jungle.
New York: The Jungle Publishing Co, 1906.
First edition of this classic political work, from the self-published sustainer's edition. This issue was published simultaneously to the Doubleday edition with the sustainer's edition label on the front pastedown. Octavo, original green cloth, 3 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Boldly signed by Upton Sinclair on the front free endpaper. From the library of writer George Sylvester Viereck and stamp of Carl E. H. Greab M.D. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142977
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“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words": First Edition, First Issue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1902.
First edition, first issue of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, and widely considered as the best of the series. Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth, illustrated by Sidney Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 143782
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“Live while you live, then die and be done with": Death Be Not Proud; Inscribed by John Gunther to His Wife
GUNTHER, John.
Death Be Not Proud.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.
First edition, later printing of this deeply moving book, a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound by the author in full morocco by "Kingsport Press," marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, cloth slipcase. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife in the year of publication, "This book belongs to Jane Perry Gunther given her this day- John New York February 1949." An exceptional association copy.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 130415
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"And if I should live to be the The Last Leaf upon the tree in the Spring, Let them smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough Where I cling": First edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Last Leaf; inscribed by him to Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie Grant
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Last Leaf. Poem. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co. The Riverside Press, 1886.
First edition of Holmes' classic poem. Folio, original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, top edge gilt, illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie Grant, "Oliver Wendell Holmes for Miss Nellie Grant" and additionally signed and inscribed by him on the second blank with a stanza from The Last Leaf, "And if I should live to be the The Last Leaf upon the tree in the Spring, Let them smile as I do now…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 138225
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"'Where is God?' Said the black girl to the missionary who had converted her?": First edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God; Inscribed by him and wife Charlotte to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and his wife Eleanor
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God.
Constable & Company Limited: London, 1932.
First edition of George Bernard Shaw's short story collection, including the satirical allegorical title story: The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, designed and illustrated with engravings by John Farleigh. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt this Visiting Card after a memorable day at Government House, Manila from Charlotte F. Shaw and G. Bernard Shaw 9th February 1933." Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw stopped at Manila on a round-the-world cruise where they were invited to lunch with Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 96134
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First Edition of Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves; Inscribed by Him
MISHIMA, Yukio.
The Sound of Waves.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
First edition in English, preceding the British first by one year of "this classic work, its action might take place at any point across a thousand years" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dorothy Norman with the author's best wishes Yukio Mishima at the X'mas time 1957." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Jose de Almeida. Translated by Meredith Weatherby. Drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 131297
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"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.
First edition of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels. Housed in a custom clamshell slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 147046
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"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage": FIRST Curtis Guild extra illustrated edition of DICKENS’ The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Curtis Guild, 1882.
First Curtis Guild extra-illustrated edition of one of Dickens' greatest works. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full morocco by F.P. Hathaway with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, silk endpapers. With 53 illustrations by Seymour and Phiz extended by insertion of the Seymour, Buss, Onwyhn and Croquil plates and illustrations including 24 etchings by Pailthorpe , 4 steel engravings by Darley, the Buss plates, and many other illustrations some in color. In near fine condition. From the library of American…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 99841
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"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not": First Edition of The Green Mile; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen.
The Green Mile.
New York: Scribner, 2000.
First edition of this classic work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 147814
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"I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands": First edition of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali (Song Offerings); One of only 250 copies sold
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Gitanjali [Song Offerings].
London: Printed at The Chiswick Press for The India Society, 1912.
First edition of this collection of prose translated by Tagore from the original Bengali, largely for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Tagore with tissue guard present. One of 750 copies printed for the India Society only 250 of which were available for sale. Introduction by W.B. Yeats. In very good condition. Bookplate and stamps for the Northbook Society (a British advocacy society and reading room for Indian literature, defunct in the 1960s). Rare and desirable.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 130449
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Rare Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens to his close friend and financial adviser Thomas Mitton
DICKENS, Charles.
Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed.
1844.
Rare autograph letter signed by great English novelist Charles Dickens. One page, octavo, folded, the letter reads, "Devonshire Terrace Eighteenth April 1844. My Dear Mitton, I am sorry to say that plan won't do. Because although Coutts’s were so prompt and polite last time, still they did say 'that it wasn’t the kind of note’ &c &c - as I wrote you at the time. Indeed, I remember to have often heard that they avoid discounting... I wish to Heaven you could think of any other way. I will come down today, between 2 and 3. I have not seen…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 132057
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First Edition of The Civil War Classic Johnny Reb and Billy Yank; With the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HUNTER, Alexander.
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.
First edition of this epic Civil War novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the dust jacket with some chips and inner strengthening. First editions are rare, examples with the original dust jacket are exceptionally so.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 5588
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Rare First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Torrents of Spring.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
First edition of Hemingway's first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133647
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"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge": Rare First edition of George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss; in the original publisher's cloth
ELIOT, George.
The Mill On The Floss.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
First edition, first issue of Eliot's most deeply autobiographical work with no inserted preliminary advertisement leaf in volume I and with the seventh edition of Adam Bede cited in the 16 pages of undated advertisements at rear of volume III. Octavo, three volumes in the publisher's original terra cotta cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spines gilt lettered. Half-titles present, 16 pages of publisher's ads bound at the end of the third volume, without preliminary ads in the first volume, final blank in first volume (Z6) present. In very good condition. Each volume is housed in a custom half morocco…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146315
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First Edition of The Missing Piece Meets the Big O; Warmly Inscribed by Shel Silverstein with a large Drawing
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.
First edition of this work of poetry by the author on The Giving Tree. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of a hand with a pen on the front free endpaper continuing to the front pastedown, "For Daniel With Love Shel Silverstein." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 145791
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"I never promise lies and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie, and a bore too": First Edition of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Lengthily Signed by the Author
GREEN, Hannah [Joanne Greenberg].
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
First edition of the author's semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author as Joanne Greenberg and her pseudonym "Hannah Green", as follows, "I never promise lies and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie, and a bore too." "Hannah Green" Joanne Greenberg." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. An exceptional inscription.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 106831
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"One of the most groundbreaking and influential novels of all time—and one of the best": First Edition of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Anthony Burgess
BURGESS, Anthony.
A Clockwork Orange.
London: William Heinemann, 1962.
First edition of Burgess' landmark novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Anthony Burgess on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146487
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“Freedom is often the first casualty of war": First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El General en su Laberinto; Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
El General en su Laberinto. [The General in His Labyrinth].
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1989.
First edition of this "fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1990 with a drawing of a flower, "Una flor Para Juana, y un abrazo para Sergio en L.A. Gabo 90." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133247
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Where the Sidewalk Ends, Signed by Shel Silverstein
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition, early printing of the author's first collection of children's poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 145319
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Rare Original Silver Gelatin Print of Rabindranath Tagore; Signed by Him
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.
Rare original silver gelatin print of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed by Rabindranath Tagore below the photograph. The entire piece measures 5 inches by 3 inches.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 120647
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First Edition in English of Thomas Mann's Death In Venice; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
MANN, Thomas.
Death in Venice.
London: Martin Secker , 1928.
First British edition of Mann's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light shelfwear and small repairs to the verso. First editions are rare, especially in the original dust jacket and in this condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142045
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“Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me": First Edition of the Saul Bellow’s First Book Dangling Man; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Matthew and Adrienne greetings and blessings (on your wedding) Saul Bellow." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 18037
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142971
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First Edition of Len Deighton's The Ipcress File; Inscribed by Him
DEIGHTON, Len.
The Ipcress File.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.
First American edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Harry Tomb Len Deighton." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey. Housed in an elaborate half morocco clamshell box mimicking the front panel of the dust jacket. From the library of bibliophile Donald Drapkin with his bookplate. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 96914
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First Edition of White Writing; Inscribed by J.M. Coetzee to his Wife
COETZEE, J.M.
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
First edition of the Nobel Prize winning-author's first book of criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, "Philippe- Love from John." Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1968 graduated with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages. His doctoral dissertation was on the early fiction of Samuel Beckett. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 108011
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“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration": First Nicolas edition of Walton's Complete Angler
WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas.
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing Written by Izaak Walton and Instructions on How to Angle For A Trout of Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton.
London: William Pickering, 1836.
First Nicolas edition of this classic of English literature. Quarto, two volumes bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engraved frontispieces and plates. In near fine condition. Bookplate. A superb example of this classic work.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 135618
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"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey": One of 100 Sets of The Works of Lord Byron
LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON],.
The Works of Lord Byron.
Boston: Francis A. Nicolls and Co, 1900.
The Edition des Amateurs, one of 100 copies signed by the editor of the complete works of Lord Byron. Octavo, 16 volumes. Bound in full contemporary morocco, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels with central arms, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, frontispieces and plates each in three states. Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 109282
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“In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man and the Word is with Men": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Nobel Lecture; Inscribed by Him
STEINBECK, John.
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First edition of Steinbeck's Nobel Lecture. Octavo, original wrappres. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For the Waldmanns with pleasure John Steinbeck." Presented with original mailing envelope. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 122693
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Selection of Olympia Press Erotica from the Traveller's Companion series
VARIOUS AUTHORS,.
Olympia Press Collection.
Paris: Paris, Various Dates.
First editions of a selection of works from Olympia Press, which was based in Paris and specialized in English-language books which could not be published elsewhere without risking legal action. Octavo, 44 volumes, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 129671
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First Edition of You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown; Inscribed by Charles Schultz with a large Drawing of Charlie Brown
SCHULZ, Charles M.
You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Charlie Brown on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front jacket photograph by Cynthia Farah. Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146002
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First Edition of Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s; Signed by Him
WARHOL, Andy; David Whitney.
Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of Warhol's Portraits of the 1970s. Quarto, original half cloth, with Warhol's triple self-portrait, with 112 color illustrations of the artist's portraits. Boldly signed by Andy Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Essay by Robert Rosenblum. Edited by David Whitney.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142806
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First Edition of Herman Melville's Omoo
MELVILLE, Herman .
Omoo.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.
First edition of this classic Melville work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise slipcase. BAL 13656. A sharp example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 144159