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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
STEINBECK, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First edition with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 146082
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First Edition of The Tin Drum; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. 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 inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt stamped to the front panel mimicking the original jacket artwork by Grass. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on half-title page. In fine condition. Translated by Ralph Manheim. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 143646
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 106753
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First Edition The Road; Signed by Cormac McCarthy on a Bookplate, and three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Road.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
First edition of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on a laid in bookplate. Signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd three times; on the front panel, the front free endpaper and on the rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 139588
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“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale": First Edition of The Last Unicorn; Signed by Peter Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S.
The Last Unicorn.
New York: The Viking Press, 1968.
First edition of Beagle's classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter S. Beagle on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some restoration to the back panel. Jacket design by Mel Williamson.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 147133
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"Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!": First Edition of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewhit; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of this classic work. 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: $2,200.00 Item Number: 130567
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First Edition of The Crucible; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Arthur Miller
MILLER, Arthur.
The Crucible.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. 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 inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Arthur Miller on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 142667
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“Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?”: First Edition of Dickens' Dombey And Son; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
Dombey and Son.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). 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. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 130507
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First Edition of Jazzlife; Inscribed by Legendary Photographer William Claxton
CLAXTON, William and Berendt.
Jazzlife [Jazz Life].
Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag, 1961.
First edition of Claxton’s seminal photobook on jazz. Quarto, original black cloth, pictorial front endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title page, "For _______, William Claxton." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 393
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish": The Translator's Own Copy of the First Edition of The Tragedies of Euripides
EURIPIDES; TRANSLATED BY ROBERT POTTER,.
The Tragedies of Euripides.
London: J. Dodsley, 1783.
First translation of Euripides into English, translated by Robert Potter, from his own library. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary leather, engraved frontispiece to volume I, list of subscribers. The translator's own copy with his inscription, "From the Library of the Rev Robert Potter, M.A., Rector of Lowestoft from 1789 to 1804" to volume one of the front pastedown. Robert Potter was a poet and translator, completed his translation of Euripides in 1783. He established the convention of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for choruses. In good condition. Rare and desirable, with exceptional provenance.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 135391
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First Edition of The Dark Half; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen .
The Dark Half.
New York: The Viking Press, 1989.
First edition of this novel by the author of The Shining. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Front jacket photograph by Geoffrey Gove. Photograph of King by Tabitha King.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 144694
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“Some people are moulded by their aspirations, others by their hostilities”: FIRST EDITION OF ELIZABETH'S BOWEN'S THE DEATH OF THE HEART; INSCRIBED BY HER IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION
BOWEN, Elizabeth.
The Death of the Heart.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.
First edition of Bowen's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "William from Elizabeth October 1938." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed as most examples are signed on a bookplate.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 117614
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"When you read this book eight years from now, I hope you will not": First Edition of Mario Puzo's The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
PUZO, Mario.
The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw.
New York : Platt & Munk Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the author of The Godfather. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For ? When you read this book eight years from now, I hope you will not. Mario Puzo." Illustrated by Stewart Sherwood. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stewart Sherwood.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 121292
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The First Assault Upon the Sorbonne
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The First Assault Upon the Sorbonne (Le Premier Assault Contre la Sorbonne).
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.
Rare first American edition of Kipling's classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo, original publisher's half vellum, text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 123604
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"we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much": First Edition of the author’s first book run river; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan.
Run River.
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1963.
First edition of the Didion’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Post. A nice example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140695
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"Dear Mr. Updike, You and the prophet Isaiah are the only literary influences that I can clearly identify in my own writing"; Inscribed by Robert Olen Butler to Fellow Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author John Updike
BUTLER, Robert Olen (John Updike).
Countrymen of Bones.
New York: Horizon Press, 1983.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author to John Updike on the front free endpaper, "For John Updike 72000 more words from one of your biggest fans, Robert Olen Butler Sea Cliff, NY Oct 19,1983." Also laid into this book is a signed letter addressed to Updike from Bulter dated October 19, 1983, which reads, "Dear Mr. Updike, You and the prophet Isaiah are the only literary influences that I can clearly identify in my own writing. And so, in the wake of an Anatole Broyard rave about my new novel, I’m taking the liberty of sending…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 4403
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“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert": First Edition of J.K. Rowling's Quidditch: Through the Ages; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K [Kennelworthy Whisp].
Quidditch: Through the Ages.
New York: Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic Books, 2001.
First edition of this "amazingly imaginative work" (Associated Press). Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. In fine condition. Rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141463
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First Edition of the Saul Bellow’s First Book Dangling Man; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 81980
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"The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being": Rare First Edition of Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi; Warmly Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
MILLER, Henry.
The Colossus of Maroussi.
New York : Colt Press, 1941.
True first edition of the author's landmark travel book and frequently cited as one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Tania and Jimmy, from their good friend, Henry Miller, N.Y., 12/3/41." The recipients were James and Tania Stern, close friends of the author. Very good in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition with some rubbing and wear.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 127544
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FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FOUR FINAL NOVELLAS IN CHARLES DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS BOOK SERIES; ATTRACTIVELY BOUND
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.
First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The set is comprised of a first edition of The Chimes [London: Chapman & Hall, 1845 (1844)] Half-title and 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. Second state of the vignette title; First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth [London:…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132035
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"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again": First Edition of Cry The Beloved Country; Signed by Alan Paton in the Year of Publication
PATON, Alan.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.
First American edition of Paton's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Alan Paton Johannesburg May 27, 1948." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare and desirable signed in the year of publication.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 43091
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Signed Limited First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Mourning Becomes Electra.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1931.
Signed limited edition of O'Neill's classic play. Quarto, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label, signed by Eugene O'Neill, one of 550 copies this is number 363. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 142951
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First Edition of Jose Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo; Signed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].
Lisboa: Caminho, 1991.
First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition, with the original publisher's bookmark laid in.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 114809