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First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary: A Drama; Signed by Him
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Queen Mary: A Drama.
London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.
First edition, first issue of the first book in Tennyson's historical trilogy with “behled” on page 126. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, double gilt ruled, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Association copy, signed by Alfred Tennyson on the title page with Ellen Terry's inscription below, "From her loving Ellen Terry" and below that "Her old friend, Henry Irving." The recipient, Sir Henry Irving performed in and produced the the first production of Queen Mary at the Lyceum Theatre in April of 1876. The book was…
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 95173
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"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?": First Edition of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Work Age of Innocence
WHARTON, Edith.
The Age of Innocence.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good with some light toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 92355
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"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes": First Edition of Harry Houdini's The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin; Signed by Him
HOUDINI, Harry.
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.
New York: The Publishers Printing Co, 1908.
First edition of this work by Houdini regarding his one-time idol. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Houdini, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Harry Houdini on the front free endpaper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, in near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 99655
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it": First Edition of Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me
FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 131324
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"WE WILL MANAGE OUR WORLD FOR OURSELVES BECAUSE IT IS OUR WORLD, COSA NOSTRA": FIRST BRITISH EDITION OF THE GODFATHER; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY MARIO PUZO
PUZO, Mario.
The Godfather.
London: William Heinemann, 1969.
First British edition of Puzo's definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Nino, with love and best wishes Mario Puzo." Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 144167
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First Edition of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Signed by Tom Wolfe and Larry McMurtry
WOLFE, Tom .
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960's. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and Larry McMurtry on the title page. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 130974
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"And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly": "the greatest juvenile classic since Winnie the Pooh"; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Munro Leaf
LEAF, Munro. Illustrated By Robert Lawson.
The Story of Ferdinand.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936.
First edition, early printing of Munro Leaf's beloved children's classic. Octavo, 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 stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Munro Leaf Nov. 15, 1939." An exceptional presentation. One of the most sought after children's books of the twentieth century, uncommon signed.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 147120
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"Everybody must have a fantasy": The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; Signed Twice by Warhol with a drawing
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition, early printing of this work by Warhol. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed in green by Andy Warhol on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed by Warhol on the title page, "To Bob & son Andy Warhol," with a drawing of a can of Campbell's Pea Soup can. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146539
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First Edition of Death and Entrances; Inscribed by Dylan Thomas
THOMAS, Dylan.
Death and Entrances.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1946.
First edition of Thomas' most well-known collection of poetry. Small octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Charles Fox from Dylan Thomas." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, recipient name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 144289
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Two volumes from the Library of Ulysses S. Grant
SCOTT, Walter [Ulysses S. Grant].
Waverley Novels. Woodstock.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
Two volumes from the library of Ulysses S. Grant, published the same year The Civil War was raging. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes which reads, "Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, from the Citizens of Boston, January 1, 1866." In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 119455
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First Edition of The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag; Signed by Robert A. Heinlein
HEINLEIN, Robert A.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc, 1959.
First edition of this thrilling collection of science fiction stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Robert A. Heinlein on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by W. I Van der Poel.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 145369
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"Vogue has sometimes been called a civilizing force. If that is true, perhaps it is because a civilization, to endure, needs voices to sing its praise": The World in Vogue; inscribed by Cecil Beaton to actress Vivien Leigh
ROSENSON, Audrey; Executive Editor: Paul H. Bonner.
The World in Vogue.
New York: The Viking Press, 1963.
First edition of this work on the groundbreaking publication Vogue. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to actress Vivien Leigh from Cecil Beaton, "Merry Xmas, Vivien darling, with all my love always - Dec. 25/'63." Near fine in a fine dust jacket with a few tears. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 79103
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Rare first edition of Victor Hugo's La Légende des Siècles: First Series; From the Library of H. Bradley Martin
HUGO, Victor.
La Légende des Siècles. [The Legend of the Ages: First Series].
Bruxelles: 1859, Edition Hetzel.
First Brussels edition and true first edition of the first series of Hugo's epic work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Provenance: from the library of H. Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, October 16-17, 1989, lot no. 901; bookplate). "The H. Bradley Martin sale of 1989-1990 was a terribly significant sale of a stupendously varied and robust library that realized some major funds as well as publicity for Sotheby’s and for Martin’s executors. It also led H. Bradley Martin into the historic pantheon of legendary great bookmen. From it, we can surmise that book collecting on a massive scale and…
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 142580
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First edition of Albert Camus' Les Justes [The Just Assassins]; inscribed by him to Jean de Bosschère
CAMUS, Albert.
Les Justes: Piece en Cinq Actes. [The Just Assassins: A Play in Five Acts].
Paris: Gallimard, 1950.
First edition, early printing of Camus' classic examination of the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Jean de Bosschère [crossing through "Les"] an nom des que vous no sommes sens tes cordialement Albert Camus." The recipient, Jean de Bosschère lived for most of the 20th century between London and France, and illustrated his own works as well as the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, and the classical works of Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius. He published his own works of poetry, and in 1952…
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 137191
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First edition of The Lost World; signed by Michael Crichton and three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd and with an original drawing
CRICHTON, Michael.
The Lost World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
First edition of Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Crichton on the half-title page, "To Mrs. Pat Lisahie Best wishes Michael Crichton" and Chip Kidd Additionally signed by Chip Kidd with an original drawing mimicking the dust jacket art which he designed on the title page. Additionally signed by Kidd on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146453
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First edition of John Steinbeck's Classic Work East of Eden; In exceptional Condition
STEINBECK, John.
East of Eden.
New York: The Viking Press, 1952.
First edition, first issue of Steinbeck's epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptionally fresh example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 140275
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First Edition of Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer
O'FLAHERTY, Liam.
The Informer.
Jonathan Cape Ltd: London, 1925.
First edition of this classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, which was adapted numerous times, most famously by John Ford for RKO Pictures in 1935. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 143809
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"The Tin Drum Will Become One Of The Enduring Literary Works Of The Twentieth Century": Rare Proof Edition Of The Tin Drum; Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.
The uncorrected proof of the first British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition showing only light wear. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 560
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"With Much Love": First Edition of If Beale Street Could Talk; Warmly Inscribed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, James.
If Beale Street Could Talk.
New York: The Dial Press, 1974.
First edition of Baldwin's fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ethan Reinhard, Thank you. James Baldwin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Braswell.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 124543
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"Wishing you safe travels on your journey through the woods": First Edition of Into the Woods; Inscribed by Stephen Sondheim with a drawing of a musical notation
SONDHEIM, Stephen; James Lapine; Adapted and Illustrated by Hudson Talbott.
Into The Woods.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.
First edition of this classic work, the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stephen Sondheim on the half-title page, "To Harold Merry, with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim 1/12/89." Sondheim has also added a drawing of a musical notation with the lyrics, "Mother cannot guide you..." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Hudson Talbott. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 124779