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Finely bound collection of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.
Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 96168
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“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters": First Illustrated Edition of the cemetary edition of King's The Shining
KING, Stephen.
The Shining.
Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2016.
First edition of the illustrated Cemetery edition of King's classic third novel. Octavo, original boards, afterword by Mick Garris, color paintings by Don Maitz. Fine in a fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase. Afterword by Mick Garris. Introduction by Stephen King and with his long lost 40 page prologue to the novel.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131210
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Rare Signed limited edition of Maugham's address to the Library of Congress upon the Library's acceptance of the original manuscript of Of Human Bondage
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Of Human Bondage With a Digression on the Art of Fiction: And Address by Somerset Maugham.
Washington: The Library of Congress, 1946.
Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is in very good condition. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 108345
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The Basis for the landmark film starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep: First Edition of Avery Corman's Kramer Versus Kramer; Inscribed by Him
CORMAN, Avery .
Kramer Versus Kramer.
New York: Random House, 1977.
First edition of Avery Corman’s powerful classic novel about the end of a marriage and the bond between a father and child, basis for the film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jeff! With My Thanks, Avery Corman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Davis. Uncommon signed.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131089
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"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate": First Editions of Each Novel in John Updike’s Rabbit Quartet
UPDIKE, John.
Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-2000.
First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131226
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Czeslaw Milosz's Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition; Signed by Him
MILOSZ, Czeslaw.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 142086
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“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame": William Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust
FAULKNER, William.
Intruder In The Dust.
New York: Random House, 1948.
First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a vry good dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 121493
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First American Edition of Vassilis Vassilikos' Z; Inscribed by Him
VASSILIKOS, Vassilis.
Z.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
First American edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Matthew with my love, Vassilis Vassilikos 5.05.01." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket that shows very light wear. Jacket design by Enrico Arno. Translated from the Greek by Marilyn Calmann.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 44632
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Samuel Smiles' Lives of the Engineers; decorated with a beautiful fore-edge painting of a steam locomotive
SMILES, Samuel.
Lives of the Engineers. The Steam-Engine. Boulton and Watt. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: John Murray, 1878.
Finely bound example of Smiles' work on Boulton and Watt. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by John Bumpus with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Decorated with a beautiful disappearing fore-edge painting of a steam locomotive. In near fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 135624
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First edition of John Le Carre's The Naive and Sentimental Lover; signed by him
LE CARRE, John.
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
First edition of le Carré's classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes. An exceptional example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146204
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain”: First Edition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
BALDWIN, James.
The Fire Next Time.
New York: The Dial Press, 1963.
First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 124915
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"It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself": First Edition of The Painted Bird; Inscribed by Jerzy Kosinski
KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
The Painted Bird.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed on the half title page, "with every best wish, cordially, Jerzy Kosinski Sept. 1975." Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 4491
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First Edition of The Cosmic Jest; Signed by Herbert Hoover, Clarence Budington Kelland, and another Bohemian Club Member
KELLAND, Clarence Budington; Music by Frank R. Denke; [Herbert Hoover].
The Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play.
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1949.
First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Budington Kelland, on the dedication page. Additionally signed by another member of the Bohemian Club. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146694
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Jack Gottlieb's personal copy of Leonard Bernstein: A Complete Catalogue of His Works; compiled by him and with his ownership signature
[BERNSTEIN, Leonard]. Compiled by Jack Gottlieb.
Leonard Bernstein: A Complete Catalogue of His Works. Celebrating His 60th Birthday August 25, 1978.
Amberson Enterprises, Inc. Publisher, 1978.
First edition of Gottlieb's complete catalogue of Leonard Bernstein's works of music, writing, and film. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, Bernstein's assistant and editor Jack Gottlieb's personal copy with his ownership signature to the title page. Gottlieb worked for Bernstein for more that thirty years, first as his assistant and later as his editor, preparing for publication Bernstein’s books, scores, catalogues, programs and jackets. In his memoir “Working with Bernstein”, Gottlieb relayed, “Close to my heart were the editing jobs I did on three of Bernstein’s popular books. First was ‘The Joy of Music,’ on which I had the pleasure…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135237
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First Edition of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust
WEST, Nathanael.
The Day of the Locust.
New York: Random House, 1939.
First edition of West's masterpiece. Octavo, original bound in full leather, raised bands, title to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140694
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Judgment of Paris; Signed by Him
VIDAL, Gore.
The Judgment of Paris.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1952.
First edition of this classic coming of age story. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Rare in this condition and signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 92437
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"In History There are dogs and dogs. I was among the chosen. I had good papers and wolf's blood in my veins": First Edition of Monologue of A Dog; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Poet Wislawa Szymborska
SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa; Foreword by Billy Collins.
Monologue of a Dog: New Poems.
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2006.
First edition of this collection of poetry from the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Wislawa Szymborska on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman. Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142558
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The Collection Française edition of Paul Bourget's Le Disciple; one of 1021 numbered copies
BOURGET, Paul.
Le Disciple.
Paris: Collection Française, 1925.
Limited Collection Française edition of Bourget's most notable work. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated with colored engravings. One of 1021 numbered copies, this is number 233. Text in French. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115687
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The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi; elaborately bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco by Bayntun
DICKENS, Charles.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”
London: G. Routledge & Co, 1853.
Finely bound example of Dickens' popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco by Baytun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt rulings and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. From the library of Albert Hooper with his bookplate to the pastedown. In fine condition. An exquisite example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119805
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Mark Twain's The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day; from the library of Arthur Balfour's younger brother Cecil Balfour and subsequently American journalist William Safire
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel Clemens] and Charles Dudley Warner.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1878.
Early printing of Twain and Dudley's satirical work on greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America which has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppins, Stephens, Williams, White, et al. In very good condition. Bound for and from the library of Cecil C. Balfour, the younger brother of Arthur Balfour. British Conservative statesman Arthur Balfour served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 127448
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First American Edition of Vassilis Vassilikos' Z; Warmly Inscribed by Him
VASSILIKOS, Vassilis.
Z.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
First American edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Warmly Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For George with my friendship, Vassilis Vassilikos." Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows very light wear. Jacket design by Enrico Arno. Translated from the Greek by Marilyn Calmann.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 1164
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The Salon edition of Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
A Simple Heart.
Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, n.d. [ca. 1895].
The limited Salon edition of Flaubert's classic novella. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red morocco onlays to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, with tissue-guarded illustrations by Emile Adan. Limited to five hundred and fifty numbered copies, this is number 152. Preface by A. de Claye. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139337
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First Edition of Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent; Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
TUROW, Scott.
Presumed Innocent.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.
First edition of Turow's first novel and the first book to feature his memorable character Rusty Sabich and basis for the film starring Harrison Ford, Raul Julia and Greta Scacchi. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Fran and Carl Korn Best wishes Scott Turow 1 Nov 87." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 132465
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First Edition of Sardines; Warmly Inscribed by Naruddin Farah
FARAH, Naruddin.
Sardines.
London: Allsion & Busby, 1981.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Greg: Always a pleasure: a friend, someone I admire. Stay well. Naruddin Farah Toronto 23 Oct 1998." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 4591
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First Editions of Each volume in The Spiderwick Chronicles; Each Signed by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
DITERLIZZI, Tony and Holly Black.
The Spiderwick Chronicles Complete Set [The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda’s Secret, The Ironwood Tree, The Wrath of Mulgarath; The Care and Feeding of Sprites; Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You; The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook for Fantastical Observations].
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003-2009.
First editions of each volume in the author's acclaimed series, basis for the 2008 film starring Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker and Sarah Bolger, with Nick Nolte, Seth Rogen, and Martin Short in voice roles. Octavo, 5 volumes, original illustrated boards. Each volume is signed by each author on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 141589
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together": First Edition of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
CARLYLE, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus.
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.
First American edition of this literary parody of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and German Idealism. Octavo, full green cloth with branching pattern. In very good condition with sunning to the spine and rear panel, rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145348
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"Some things aren't any good unless they're shared": First Edition of A Fine and Private Place; Signed by Peter S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S.
A Fine and Private Place.
New York: The Viking Press, 1960.
First edition of Peter Beagle's first fantasy novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Beagle on the front free endpaper with a smiley in the "P." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146917
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First edition of Ring Lardner's The Ecstasy of Owen Muir; signed by him
LARDNER JR., Ring.
The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.
New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1954.
First American edition of Ring Lardner Jr.'s witty Candide-like satire. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ring Lardner on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 123524
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First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales
GASKELL, Elizabeth. [Mrs. Gaskell].
My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales; Included in “Round the Sofa.”
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861.
First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125281
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"Well," said Stuart, "a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone": First Edition of Stuart Little
WHITE, E.B.; Illustrated by Garth Williams.
Stuart Little.
New York: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.
First edition, first printing, with code "I-U" on copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Garth Williams. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131373
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"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me": First Edition of Rock ‘n’ Roll; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rock ‘n’ Roll.
New York: Faber & Faber, 2006.
First edition of "one of the great political plays in the English language (John Peter). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by AKA.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 141491
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"The greatest description of war since Goya" (Henri Cartier-Bresson); Vietnam Inc.; Signed by Noam Chomsky
GRIFFITH, Philip Jones; Foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Vietnam Inc.
New York: Phaidon Press, 2001.
First edition of the re-release of classic photojournalist work. Folio, original black boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125511
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First Edition of Langston Hughes' Troubled Island. An Opera in Three Acts; Signed by Him
HUGHES, Langston and William Grant Still.
Troubled Island. An Opera in Three Acts.
New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1949.
First edition of the first grand opera composed by an African American to be produced by a major company. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140395
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First Edition of Gone Baby Gone; Signed by Dennis Lehane and Academy Award Winner Ben Affleck
LEHANE, Dennis [Ben Affleck].
Gone Baby Gone.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1998.
First edition of this "chilling novel...an absolutely gripping story" (Chicago Tribune), basis for the film directed by Ben Affleck, starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Amy Ryan. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Dennis Lehane and director of the film Ben Affleck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147401
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First edition of Sarah Gainham's The Tiger, Life
GAINHAM, Sarah.
The Tiger, Life.
London: Methuen, 1983.
First edition of Gainham's largely autobiographical final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph courtesy of Popperfoto. Author photograph by H. Redl.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 126537
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"I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender!": Signed Limited First Edition of On the Waterfront FInal Shooting Script, Signed by Schulberg and Kazan
SCHULBERG, Budd and Elia Kazan.
On the Waterfront Final Shooting Script
Hollywood and New York: Samuel French, 1980.
Signed limited first edition of this classic Academy Award–winning screenplay, one of only 300 copies, this is number 82. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135323
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First Edition of Death With Interruptions; Signed and Dated in the Year of Publication by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Death With Interruptions.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.
First edition of Saramago's philosophical page-turner, which hinges on death taking a holiday. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication on the half-title page by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 1504
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First Edition of Javier Marias' While The Women Are Sleeping; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MARIAS, Javier.
While the Women Are Sleeping.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Harold Billings, who shall find an old friend in one of these old stories, with thanks for his middle years and best wishes, Javier Marias December 2010." The recipient is a well-known editor, author and librarian, known for his work on M.P. Shiel. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 12061
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"A fragrant flame rose, and before as glow'd fruit, viand, blossom, and amber wine and gold": First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess; A Medley
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
The Princess: A Medley.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847.
First edition of Tennyson's serio-comedic narrative poem about the heroic Princess Ida. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and ruling to the panels stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 101523