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"THE PAIN OF PARTING IS NOTHING TO THE JOY OF MEETING AGAIN": Charles Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of one of Dickens' most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated with 40 plates. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 130269
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"Art is language of the entire human personality": First Editions of Each Volume in the Author’s Acclaimed Cairo Trilogy; Each Volume Signed by Naguib Mahfouz
MAHFOUZ, Naguib.
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.
New York: Doubleday, 1990-1992.
First American editions of author's most well known work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950's and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades later in 1988. Octavo, 3 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume was signed by Naguib Mahfouz at the Shepheard Hotel in Cairo in 2006. All three are near fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket designs by Carin Goldberg. Translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Books signed by Mahfouz are rare as he left Egypt only…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 274
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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby; Finely Bound
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Morrell, ornate inlay to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, illustrated with 40 plates. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 109263
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is at last published in panoramic, earth-shattering, hyper-hysterical format": First edition of The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Signed by Douglas Adams in the year of publication
ADAMS, Douglas.
The Illustrated Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
First illustrated edition of Adams' modern classic. Folio, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "Douglas Adams 22-9-94." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146617
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First Edition of John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer; in the rare original dust jacket
DOS PASSOS, John.
Manhattan Transfer.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925.
First edition of Dos Passos' "novel of the very first importance...the dawn of a whole new school of writing" (Sinclair Lewis). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips to the extremities. Scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 95815
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The Harlequin edition of The Collected works of Max Beerbohm; elaborately bound by Henry Sotheran and Signed by Beerbohm
BEERBOHM, Max.
The Works of Max Beerbohm.
London: William Heinemann, 1922-1928.
The Harlequin edition of the collected works of Max Beerbohm. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd. with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of seven hundred and eighty sets signed by the author, of which seven hundred and fifty were for sale and thirty for presentation, this is number 780. In near fine condition. A lovely set in a unique binding.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 145008
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"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will": Rare First Edition of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna; Inscribed by Actress Hayley Mills
PORTER, Eleanor H. [Hayley Mills].
Pollyanna.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of Eleanor H. Porter's classic of children's literature. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. Inscribed by actress Hayley Mills. Mills starred in the 1960 movie adaptation Pollyanna, alongside Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 138834
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“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice”: First Edition of Leaf Storm and Other Stories; Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel .
Leaf Storm and other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition with the statement of first edition to the copyright page and the full number line on the final page of this early collection of stories by Garcia Marquez. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 118624
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“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love": First Edition of Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus; Signed by Actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw
ROTH, Philip [Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw].
Goodbye, Columbus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
First edition of the author's first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the half-title page, who starred in the 1969 film bearing the same name. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sanford Roth.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146076
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know": Rare First Edition of James Salter's A Sport And A Pastime; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
A Sport And A Pastime.
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.
First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher's compliments of the author laid in, fine in a good dust jacket with a few chips. Jacket collage by Alex Gotfryd. First editions are exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146210
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P.G. Wodehouse's The Clicking of Cuthbert; Inscribed by Him, in the rare original dust jacket
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Clicking of Cuthbert.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926.
Early printing of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Douglas With the author's compliments P.G. Wodehouse June 4 1926." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Jacket illustration by C. Morse. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 124787
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“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead”: First Editions of Angels in America; Both Volumes Signed by Tony Kushner
KUSHNER, Tony.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1993.
First editions of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Each volume is signed by Tony Kushner on the title page. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 1514
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First Edition of Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems; Signed by W.H. Auden
AUDEN, W.H.
Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972.
First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by W.H. Auden on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed as Auden passed away a year after publication.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 147744
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"O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?": The Virginia edition of the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
POE, Edgar Allan.
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1902.
The Virginia edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison. Octavo, 17 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissue-guarded photogravures. In very good condition. A sharp set.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 138956
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all": The Works of Oscar Wilde
WILDE, Oscar.
The Works of Oscar Wilde.
London and Paris: Methuen Charles Carrington, 1907-22.
The works of Oscar Wilde, bound in the original cloth, one of 1000 sets made on handmade paper. Octavo, 14 volumes, original cream cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 1000 sets of this edition on handmade paper. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 111362
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Complete first edition set of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet.; with The Jewel of the Crown; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
SCOTT, Paul.
The Raj Quartet. [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils; Staying On].
London: Heinemann, 1966-1975.
Complete first edition set of "one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction" (The Times). Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional set.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 148004
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"These short stories are among the finest, and best known, in American literature": First Edition of Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians; Inscribed by Him
BIERCE, Ambrose.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original publisher's pale green cloth (not noted by BAL). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "H.F. Peterson With compliments of The Author." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142120
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.
First edition of the second book in Lewis' beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership inscription to the inside jacket flap.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143020
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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning": First Edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Inscribed by Thornton Wilder to Fellow Writer Vincent Starrett
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Rufus H. Hathaway with all the regard of Thornton Wilder Tornoto March 1929." Near fine in a good jacket reinforced to the verso. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Housed in a custom chemise jacket with red morocco spine label.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 96138
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First Edition of Bernard Malamud's Assistant; Inscribed to Close Friends
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Assistant.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition of Malamud's second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Susie and Paul dear friends, greetings! Bern Corvallis, Oregon January, 1958." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 100045
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Rare Broadside of North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell; Signed by Elizabeth Bishop
BISHOP, Elizabeth.
North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell.
Northridge, CA: Richard Bigus for the Lord John Press, 1979.
Memorial broadside, signed by Elizabeth Bishop, one of only 150 examples. It measures 20.75 inches by 14 inches. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146196
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First Edition of James Dickey's Deliverance; Inscribed by Him and Legendary Director John Boorman and Actor Jon Voight
DICKEY, James [John Boorman and Jon Voight].
Deliverance.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.
First edition of Dickey’s first and most famous novel, basis for the classic John Boorman directed film, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Roy Grisham- from James Dickey." Additionally signed by actor Jon Voight on the title page and inscribed by director John Boorman opposite the title page. Boorman was the director of the classic film bearing the same name. Boorman has directed 22 films and received five Academy Award nominations, twice for Best Director (for Deliverance, and Hope and Glory). He is also credited with…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 136477
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“The world is full of places to which I want to return”: First Edition of The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
HUEFFER, (Ford) Ford Madox.
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.
London: John Lane Company, 1915.
First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements.of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 81026
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Scarce Limited First Edition of Gontran de Poncins' Kabloona; signed by him
DE PONCINS, Gontran. In collaboration with Lewis Galantiere. Illustrated by the author.
Kabloona.
New York: Reynal, Hitchcock, Inc, 1941.
First limited edition of French adventurer Gontran de Poncins' classic account of his solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. One on only 550 copies, this is number 81. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Before I disappear for good!...I remain your friend, 'Eskimo Miki', de Poncins." With the original Publisher's Note laid in which explains, "The Vicomte Gontran de Poncins, author of KABLOONA, called out of the Arctic to join the colors of his country, disappeared in the debacle of the…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 95094