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“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be": J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.
London: Bloombsbury, 2000.
Early printing of Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Giles Greenfield. Cover design by Richard Horne.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144125
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"And bitter was the rowers' song as they brought the war-boat round": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Years Between
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919.
First edition of this collection of 45 poems, often considered Kipling’s darkest work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120774
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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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“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 George Alfred Henty's Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Under Wellington’s Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated by Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123041
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First Edition of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
First edition of this novel by "one of the master storytellers of our time” (Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142
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First Edition of Henry James' The Real Thing
JAMES, Henry.
The Real Thing.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1893.
First edition, second issue of one of James' neatest tales. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, small tear to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 78041
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First edition of Gelett Burgess' The Maxims of Methuselah
BURGESS, Gelett.
The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem’s Coming of Age in Regard to Women.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
First edition of the humorist's colorful take on the Battle of the Sexes. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations, decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 119078
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First Edition of Judith Viorst's Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life; Warmly Inscribed by Her
VIORST, Judith.
Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First edition of this comical work by the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Laurie Rosenwald. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Helene + Bill with affection + thanks for many years of wonderful break-fasts- Judy." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142476
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"Translation is one of those most fascinating and misprized of the arts": First edition of On Translation in the rare original dust jacket
NABOKOV, Vladimir et al.
On Translation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
First edition of this extensive volume on translators, translating and works of translation. Octavo, original boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 89096
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First edition of Robert Markham's Colonel Sun
MARKHAM, Robert. [Kingsley Amis].
Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.
First edition of the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Adams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129046
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
First edition of the author's final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1589
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of Cheever's candid portrait of her father, John Cheever. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York City October 1984 To Burrows with love from his old friend 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 by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142633
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Rare first separate edition of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1921.
First separate edition of the play that established O'Neill as a successful playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118107
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's A March on London
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
A March On London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898.
First edition of Henty’s classic historical adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Margetson. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription, bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122907
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"Quick, one last kiss, Genevieve. It's my last fight, an' I'll fight as never before with you lookin at me": First edition of Jack London's The Game
LONDON, Jack.
The Game.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London's tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child's drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 128146
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First Edition of Sam Shepard's Five Plays
SHEPARD, Sam.
Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.
Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Patrick Sullivan from photographs by Hope Wurmfeld.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 141325
