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First edition of Douglas Rutherford's Grand Prix Murder
RUTHERFORD, Douglas.
Grand Prix Murder.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1955.
First edition of Rutherford's early murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 119604
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
GREENE, Graham.
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146262
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Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age; finely bound
GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Golden Age.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1920.
Finely bound example of the author of Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame's collection of short stories for children. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, engraved frontispiece, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 111086
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"The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of the reissue of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959.
First edition of the reissue of Nabokov's first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 89025
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Rare First Edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad; volume III finely bound
JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna Brownell].
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected and a New Edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, headpieces, and tailpieces, all edges red. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 114061
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Harriet Martineau's Feats on the Fiord; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MARTINEAU, Harriet. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Feats on the Fiord.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, n.d.
Early printing of Martineau's classic collection. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, color pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with eight lithographic plates in color. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 142418
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First Edition of Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986; Signed by Cynthia Ozick, Robert Giroux, and Daniel Stern
MALAMUD, Bernard). Cynthia Ozick.
Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986.
New York: Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1986.
First edition, one of 150 unnumbered copies. 16 mo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Giroux, Daniel Stern, and Cynthia Ozick. In fine condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 47544
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Ruth Plumly Thompson's Kabumpo in Oz
THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly; Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum.
Kabumpo in Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1922.
First edition, early printing of Thompson's second fantastical continuation of Frank Baum’s 'Oz' stories. Octavo, original cloth with colored pictorial paper onlay, illustrated plates by John R. Neill. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145101
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First Edition of P.D. James' Death of an Expert Witness
JAMES, P.D.
Death of an Expert Witness.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
First edition of this mystery by the author of A Mind to Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Terry Trott. Photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 147305
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"Nobody knows anything about what will work": William Goldman's Tinsel; Inscribed by Him
GOLDMAN, William.
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman's novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Huebner.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 81342
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Jacinto Benavente's Cartas de Mujeres
BENAVENTE, Jacinto.
Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, patterned endpapers, engraved headpieces throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145262
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"From my youth I had greatly desired to see the Holy land and tread, if ever so distantly, in the footsteps of my Lord and Master": First edition of Clara Huston Miller's High Places of Sacrifice
MILLER, Clara Huston.
High Places of Sacrifice.
Philadelphia: Self Published, 1922.
First edition of Clara Huston Miller's detailed memoir of her pilgrimages to the most important holy places of sacrifice throughout the world. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, illustrated throughout with photographs. In very good condition.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 89033
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First Edition of Nadine Gordimer's Livingstone’s Companions; Signed by Her
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Livingstone’s Companions.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 2572
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"There are nights that have the length of centuries and this has been one of them": First signed limited subscriber's edition of Kathleen Coyle's There is a Door
COYLE, Kathleen.
There is a Door.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1931.
First signed limited subscriber's edition of Coyle's short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very good in the scarce original glassine which shows chipping and wear.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 96774
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First Edition of Octavia Butler's Imago
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Imago.
New York: Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler's acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne Barlowe.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 144356
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Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde
MASON, Stuart.
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..
Later printing of Mason's renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 140208
