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"HOLMES' MOST CELEBRATED WORK": finely bound example of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1905.
Finely bound example of Holmes' famed work of prose. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 111034
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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 George A. Henty's Yule-Tide Yarns
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Yule-Tide Yarns.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with forty-five illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122632
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1926.
First Tauchnitz edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126441
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First Edition of Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat! ...or The Scarlet Slippers; inscribed by him
PULLMAN, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.
London: Doubleday, 1999.
First edition of Pullman's classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Eileen - greetings! Philip Pullman." In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114586
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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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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "XXX Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124841
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"So the talk while I was listening, so many voices smote or questioned Him." First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' Lee: A Dramatic Poem; inscribed by him
MASTERS, Edgar Lee.
Lee: A Dramatic Poem.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926.
First edition of Masters' play about Robert E. Lee at the dawn of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For William W. Pineos with the compliments of Edgar Lee Masters December 3 - 1928." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96232
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First edition of Robert Lowry's Casualty; inscribed by him
LOWRY, Robert.
Casualty.
New York: New Directions, 1946.
First edition of Lowry's powerful story about a WWII Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Robert Levine Good friend to the Little Man Robert Lowry." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Peter Martin.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115068
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Original Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game
[LUCAS, George].
Monopoly: Star Wars Limited Collector’s Edition: Twenty Years 1977-1997.
Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Hasbro, Inc./Lucasfilm Ltd., 1996.
Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game. In the original shrink wrap and with a £69.99 price tag from Forbidden Planet London. In near fine condition. Accompanied by a first edition Star Wars Episode I Play-a-Sound book [Lansing, Margaret. Illustrated by DiCicco Digital Arts. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 1999]. In fine condition and in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145241
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"SHERE KHAN SPEAKS THIS MUCH TRUTH. THE CUB MUST BE SHOWN TO THE PACK": Rudyard Kipling's Two Jungle Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Two Jungle Books.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.
Later printing of Kipling's Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookplate and small ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135221
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Rare First American edition of henry james' theatricals: two comedies
JAMES, Henry.
Theatricals: Two Comedies.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1894.
First American edition of Henry James' book of two plays which were never produced. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 81261
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First Edition of What the Twilight Says; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Derek Walcott
WALCOTT, Derek.
What the Twilight Says: Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Rebecca best Derek Walcott 2004." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 130537
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First Edition of Shirley Eaton's Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems; Signed by Her
EATON, Shirley; Foreword by Roger Moore.
Shirley Eaton’s Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems.
Tennessee: Concept Productions, 2006.
First edition of this diary by the famed actress of James Bond's Goldfinger. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "Best wishes Shirley Eaton Enjoy." In fine condition. Foreword by Roger Moore.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 123244
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"There was a blizzard early in November and, while the snow still lay unthawed in the gutters and gardens, another fiercer and colder." First edition of John Christopher's The World in Winter
CHRISTOPHER, John.
The World in Winter.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author's post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96196
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants; with illustrations from the 1937 film Elephant Boy
KIPILNG, Rudyard.
Toomai of the Elephants
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.
First separate edition Kipling's story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film "Elephant Boy" starring Sabu Dastagir, India's first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 123115
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First edition of Henry Williamson's Love and the Loveless
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author's semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128063
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn
BAKER, Dorothy.
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 127005
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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
First edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137801