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First Edition of Jack Whittingham's Sabu of the Elephants
WHITTINGHAM, Jack.
Sabu of the Elephants.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition of Whittingham's account of the filming of "Toomai of the Elephants." Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126935
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics
SONDHEIM, Stephen.
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146134
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth From Collected Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].
First edition this selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121607
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Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Just So Song Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc: Garden City, 1903.
First edition of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123113
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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First edition of Bernard Darwin's Dickens; the 11th book in the Duckworth Great Lives Series
DARWIN, Bernard.
Dickens.
London: Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 117034
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First edition of Frank Norris's Harper Prize-winning novel Tower in the West
NORRIS, Frank.
Tower in the West.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author's Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115647
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First Edition of E.L. Doctorow's The March; Inscribed by Him
DOCTOROW, E.L.
The March.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of this novel, which won The National Book Critics Circle and Pen/ Faulkner Awards. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ken Reubens E.L. Doctorow." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 119781
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First Edition of Indignation; From the library of Fellow Writer John Barth
ROTH, Philip [John Barth].
Indignation.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
First edition of Roth's twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. From the library of fellow novelist John Barth, with his signature to the half-title page. Barth won the National Book Award in fiction for his novel Chimera. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144685
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First Edition of Elie Wiesel's The Accident
WIESEL, Elie.
The Accident.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1962.
First edition of the author's final book in his acclaimed Night Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, stamp of the Judah Magnes Museum to the front free endpaper and side edges. Jacket design by Saul Lambert. Translated from the French by Anne Borchardt.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147439
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First edition of Henry Williamson's How Dear Is Life
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
How Dear Is Life.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1954.
First edition of the fourth 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: $75.00 Item Number: 128068
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First Edition of McMurtry and Ossana's Pretty Boy Floyd; Signed by McMurtry
MCMURTRY, Larry and Diana Ossana.
Pretty Boy Floyd.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition of McMurtry and Ossana's first collaborative novel, a semi-fictional biography of American bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the second free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95120
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First Edition of Love, Roger; Signed by Charles Webb
WEBB, Charles.
Love, Roger.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
First edition of this brilliant absurdist comedy from the author of 'The Graduate.' Octavo, original blue cloth, orange top stain, frontispiece by Tomi Ungerer. Boldly signed by Charles Webb on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tomi Ungerer. Author photograph by Eve Webb.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145170
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"THE AIR WAS SWEET WITH NIGHT SCENT": First Edition of John Gardner's Licence Renewed
GARDNER, John.
Licence Renewed.
London: Jonathan Cape , 1985.
First edition of John Gardner's License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127673
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
OLIVER, Mary.
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146879
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First edition of Susan Cheever's The Cage; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
The Cage.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.
First edition of the author's third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows For Whom my affection will never be remaindered Love 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,…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142682
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“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see": First Edition of Jose Saramago's Blindness
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Blindness.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147085
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First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Girl from Hollywood
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
The Girl from Hollywood.
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923.
First edition of Burroughs' contemporary fiction novel. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece by P. J. Monahan. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145116
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Thy Servant A Dog.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.
First British edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121847
