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"At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned": First Edition of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God; Signed by the author
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
Child of God.
New York: Random House, 1973.
First edition of the author's classic third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 141798
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The Works of Charles Dickens; Finely Bound by Bayntun and Complete in Thirty-one Volumes
DICKENS, Charles.
Complete Set of Dickens’s Works.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863-1878.
The Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Small octavo, thirty-one volumes, bound in three-quarter navy blue crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated by Phiz (H. K. Browne), John Leech, George Cruikshank, and others. In near fine condition. Twenty-six of the thirty-one volumes were published during the author's lifetime, and the final volume, published in 1878, is The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster. A bright collection.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145410
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First edition of Le Pléiade; exquisitely bound in full morocco with intricately carved gilt edges and elaborately decorated morocco doublures
HOMERE, Veda-Vyasa.
Le Pléiade. Ballads, Fabliaux, Nouvelles et Legends.
Paris: L. Curmer, 1842.
First edition of this collection which Carteret considers to be one of the most important illustrated books of the 19th century. Octavo, elaborately bound in full red morocco with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and stamping to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, elaborately decorated green morocco doublures, hand-stitched patterned endpapers, all edges gilt with intricate botanical carvings, illustrated with eleven frontispiece titles by Trimolet, Charles Jacque, Penguilly, etc., and numerous vignettes throughout the text. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 123046
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First Editions of Joseph Campbell's Mythology Quartet; Warmly Inscribed by Him in each volume
CAMPBELL, Joseph.
Masks Of God Mythology Set: Primitive Mythology; Oriental Mythology; Occidental Mythology; Creative Mythology.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959-68.
First editions of each volume in the author's classic quartet which explores the roots of mythology. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copies, each volume is inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Elda and Irving with love and admiration Joseph Campbell." The recipients were close friends of Campbell's who made several documentaries in which Campbell was featured. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. The author's portrait has been clipped from the rear flaps of Masks Of God and Occidental Mythology. Jacket design by Frank Wilimczyk. A…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 136191
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First Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Vegetable; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. A nice example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 123473
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Rare First Edition the author's Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road; Inscribed And Dated By Richard Yates
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 2784
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“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man": Rare first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.
First edition of Stevenson's classic gothic novella which preceded the first English edition by four days and was published on January 5, 1886 in an edition of 1,250 copies in cloth and 3,000 copies in paper wrappers. Beinecke 347. Octavo, original olive green cloth lettered in gilt, half-title and 2 pages of Scribner's advertisements at end. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 139554
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“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense": First Edition of Stoner; Inscribed by John Williams
WILLIAMS, John.
Stoner.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bob and Margaret, with much love- John Williams Christmas, 1970 Denver." The recipients were close friends of the author. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 122576
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“THE ORIGINATOR OF THE MODERN NOVEL”: TRUE FIRST EDITION OF FLAUBERT’S MADAME BOVARY
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.
Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1857.
True first edition, first printing with the mistake in the name of the dedicatee, "Sénart" written with T and not a D, "nor of your dedication" on the same page, which will become "and of your dedication", and the double space between two words p. 7 (23rd line) of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather over marbled boards. In near fine condition, owner name. A very sharp example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 144079
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First edition of James Baldwin's Just Above My Head; inscribed by him to close friend and biographer David Adams Leeming
BALDWIN, James.
Just Above My Head.
New York: The Dial Press, 1979.
First edition of the last novel published in Baldwin's lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "for my beloved David Adams Leeming: Godspeed. Jimmy Baldwin." The recipient, literary scholar David Adams Leeming, and Baldwin were close friends for twenty-five years. Leeming published his James Baldwin: A Biography in 1994, a vivid and intimate portrait of Baldwin, his complexities, and importance in the literary canon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 129068
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“I BELIEVE ALL YOUR LIES IMPLICITLY”: FIRST EDITION OF HENRY MILLER’S TROPIC OF CAPRICORN; INSCRIBED BY HIM
MILLER, Henry.
Tropic of Capricorn.
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1939.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies printed in Paris, to avoid obscenity laws in the United States. Octavo, original red and white wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Church with best wishes, Henry Miller 5/5/39." Henry Church and his wife Barbara were patrons of the arts in 1930s-40s France, and were friends with many of the important writers of the era. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the fragile wrappers. With first issue price of 60 francs printed on the spine. With errata slip,…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 110655
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Inscribed by Graham Greene to Fellow Writer Norman Douglas
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. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Norman Douglas on the front free endpaper, "Dear Norman This with my love. Thank you so much for the nostalgic picture postcard. Catherine and I both miss you a great deal and our drinks at the Victoria. We hope to come and find you sitting there in June and I will bring with me your Chinese snuff box! Love Graham." With Norman…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 23055
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First Edition of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; with a typed letter signed by Fitzgerald’s legendary editor Maxwell Perkins
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
This Side of Paradise.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, with an initial print run of only 3,000 copies. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. With a rare typed letter signed by by Fitzgerald’s legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, laid in. One page, typescript, on Perkins' Charles Scribner's Sons Publishers letterhead, the letter reads in full, 'August 10, 1937 Dear Mr. Kozlenko: I think the idea you outline in your of August 7th for an anthology of on act plays is a good one. I'd like to see you at any time convenient to talk it over. The…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 147295
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"Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean": Finely Bound Set of The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; With Eight Original Photographs
MUIR, John.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript edition of The Writings of John Muir. One of only 750 numbered copies, this is number 461. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in the original green with morocco spine labels with gilt titles, containing the original gelatin silver photographic frontispiece to each volume with tissue guards present, illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates; folding map in volume two. Edited by William Frederic Badè. The scenes depicted in the inserted photographs are: The House of John Muir, Martinez, California; The Cathedral Spires, Yosemite National Park; Eucalyptus on Muir's Ranch, Martinez, California; An Orange Tree in Front of Muir's House,…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 96258
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First Edition of Thomas Merton's The Waters of Siloe; signed by Thomas Merton
MERTON, Thomas.
The Waters of Siloe.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
First edition of Merton's companion volume to his famed The Seven Storey Mountain. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 110762
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all": The Works of Oscar Wilde; complete with the rare 15th volume issued in 1922
WILDE, Oscar.
The Works of Oscar Wilde.
London: Methuen & Co, Ltd./Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908-1922.
Complete set of the works of Oscar Wilde, including For Love of a King issued in 1922 and often missing from this set. Octavo, 15 volumes in the publisher's original gilt-decorated full buckram, top edge gilt with others uncut. One of 1000 copies issued on handmade paper. The Picture of Dorian Gray bears the imprint of Charles Carrington of Paris while the rest bear Methuen and Co. In near fine condition. Very rare with the inclusion of the 15th volume.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 139028
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Rare 16th century printing of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; bound with Antonius Andreas's Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis
ARISTOTLE; ANTONIO ANDREAS. EDITED BY WALTER BURLEY AND ROBERT GROSSETESTE,.
Analytica Posteriora [bound with] Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis.
Venice: Gregorium de Gregorijs, 1514.
Rare 16th century printing of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; bound together with Spanish Franciscan theologian Antonius Andreas's best known work, Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis. Quarto, bound in contemporary parchment over handmade paper-covered boards, woodcut initials, text in two columns. In very good condition. A rare and desirable collection.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 104082
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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 118355
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"There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur": First Editions of Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People; Each Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
The Karla Trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974-1979.
First editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Karla Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Each volume is signed by John le Carre on a bookplate, with two signed "John le Carre aka David Cornwell." Each are in fine condition. Each volume is housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional set, uncommon signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 135339
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First Edition of John O'Hara's Classic Appointment in Samarra
O'HARA, John.
Appointment in Samarra.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. A very nice example.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 5829