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First Edition of Irving Stone's Lust For Life; Signed by Him and by Kirk Douglas
STONE, Irving [Kirk Douglas].
Lust For Life.
New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1934.
First edition of this classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rachel Ann Starr With my best wishes Irving Stone." Additionally signed by actor Kirk Douglas, who starred as Van Gogh in the 1956 film. Bookplate of the recipient, some rubbing and wear to the cloth in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. Rare and desirable signed by both Stone and Douglas.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 110767
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First Edition of The Panic In Needle Park; Signed by Joan Didion and Al Pacino
MILLS, James [Joan Didion and Al Pacino].
The Panic In Needle Park.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition of this work basis for the classic 1971 film starring Al Pacino, with the screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion and Academy-Award winning actor Al Pacino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 118864
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“A BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED ADVENTURE INTO ANOTHER TIME”: First Edition of Umberto Eco's First Novel; inscribed by Him to Charlie Winick
ECO, Umberto.
The Name of the Rose.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.
First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "a Charlie Winick Umberto Ecco 16 June 83." The recipient, Charles Winick, was an American author, psychologist, professor of anthropology and sociology, and academic, noted for his work in the fields of gender, drug addiction, and prostitution. After serving in Military Intelligence during World War II, he was a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 127038
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“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot": FIRST EDITION OF BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
CAPOTE, Truman.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories.
New York: Random House, 1958.
First edition of Capote’s seductive, wistful masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Ismar David. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146186
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First Edition of Peter Green's Achilles His Armour
GREEN, Peter.
Achilles His Armour.
London: John Murray, 1955.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Green on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 119653
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From the Library of Jack Kerouac: First Edition of I DODO A Poem Cycle; Inscribed to Him by Fred Kline
KLINE, Fred; [Jack Kerouac].
I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.
San Francisco: Double-H Press, 1968.
First edition of this charming book of poetry; from the library of 'On the Road' author Jack Kerouac. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. The first printing of 2000 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "to Jack Kerouac, with great admiration. Fred Kline. Nov. 11, 1968 Dos Palos." The recipient, Jack Kerouac, is generally considered the father of the Beat movement, although he actively disliked such labels. His method was heavily influenced by the prolific explosion of jazz in 1960s America and later by his studies in Buddhism that originated with fellow beat and academic Gary Snyder.…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146634
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Find the Constellations; Inscribed by H.A. Rey with a drawing
REY, H.A.
Find the Constellations.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
First edition, second printing of this classic illustrated work by the author of Curious George. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "To Brian happy stargazing! H.A. Rey 4-24-1960." Rey has added a drawing of a child looking at three stars. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 120761
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself": Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Point Counter Point.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel, one of 256 numbered copies, this is number 254. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130871
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"Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb": Rare Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of A Grain of Wheat; Inscribed by Ngugi
NGUGI, James.
A Grain of Wheat.
London: William Heinemann, 1967.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Warmly inscribed by Ngugi on the title page, "For John Your favorite? Mine too! Ngugi." In very good condition with some spotting to the wrappers.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 45014
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First Argentinian Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism; Signed by Him; From the Library of Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970.
First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of Gregory Rabassa, with his signature. Rabassa was the translator of La Hojaraca into English and Cien Anos de Soledad, among others. He was a translator of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One Hundred Years of Solitude. Garcia Marquez later declared Rabassa's translation to be superior to the Spanish original. In…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 60052
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"Howl for them that suffer broken bone homeless on moody balconies, Jack's soul returning to me over & over with prophecy": First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Iron Horse; inscribed by him to Fellow Beat John Clellon Holmes
GINSBERG, Allen (John Clellon Holmes).
Iron Horse.
Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.
First edition of Ginsberg's beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the half-title page, "a ah gha sa ma ha for John Clellon Homes Salem/Kerouac Mass from Allen Ginsberg 5 April 1973." The recipient, John Clellon Holmes was one of the foremost members of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. In November of 1952 Holmes introduced the phrase 'beat generation' as a term of common parlance with the publication of…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96567
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you... yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!" First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's If
KIPLING, Rudyard.
If.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1910.
First American edition of Kipling's ever-relevant tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. In near fine condition, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, some pages uncut. An exceptional example, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145798
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James Weldon Johnson's Classic Fifty Years and Other Poems; Inscribed by Him
JOHNSON, James Weldon.
Fifty Years and Other Poems.
Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Co., 1921.
Early printing of Johnson's first collection of classic poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mrs. Edward Lee McCatgin with the sincere regards of James Weldon Johnson." With an introduction by Brander Matthews. In very good condition, with an inscription below "To August Meier with best regards Frederick B. Artz." Artz was an author and professor at Oberlin College. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 123468
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First edition, signed limited issue of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts
HARDY, Thomas.
The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, the Time Covered by the Action Being About Ten Years.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927.
First edition, signed limited issue of Hardy's epic drama. Quarto, three volumes, original half vellum over decorated paper boards with gilt titles to the spine, etched frontispiece portrait by Francis Dodd. One of five hundred and twenty-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets which are in very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140594
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First American Edition of Leo Tolstoy's Where Love is, There God is Also
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Where Love Is, There God Is Also.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1887.
First American edition in English of Tolstoy's short story in reference to the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. Small octavo, original cloth with elaborate gilt tooling to the front panel. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. In near fine condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96100
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First Edition of Anecdotes of Destiny; Signed by Isak Dinesen
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen].
Anecdotes of Destiny.
New York: Random House, 1958.
First edition of this classic collection of stories and the last to be published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isak Dinesen on the half-title page, while on her only trip to the United States. In 1959, Dinesen had been invited by the Ford Foundation to travel to the United States to read and discuss her work as part of a film series on “the world’s greatest living writers.” Despite her failing health—the frail seventy-four-year old weighed just 80 pounds she accepted the invitation. From the library of Bruce and Beatrice Gould. Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144976
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"IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME"; FIRST EDITION OF SHOELESS JOE; SIGNED BY BOTH W.P. KINSELLA AND KEVIN COSTNER
KINSELLA, W.P. [Kevin Costner].
Shoeless Joe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner, which was later inducted into the National Film Registry. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by Bill Kinsella and by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner below Kinsella's. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed by both Kinsella and Costner.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146376
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Service de Presse First edition of Albert Camus' L'Exil et Le Royaume
CAMUS, Albert.
L’Exil et Le Royaume.
Paris: Gallimard, 1947.
First edition, Service de Presse-copy of Camus' short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism, with "S P" perforated stamp at top of rear wrapper. Small octavo, original publisher's stiff wrappers with titles in red and black. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "a M. Claude Leslise en sirene hommage Albert Camus." In near fine condition with some toning to the spine, front and rear panels, edges of the text block, a closed tear to the 'Table' page at the rear. Housed in a custom quarter red levant and patterned paper slip case and…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146463
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First Edition of Dangling Man; Signed by Saul Bellow and Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt borders to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by Saul on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146618
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Rare first edition, first issue of Lord Byron's The Giaour bound in contemporary calf with a rare first edition, first issue of The Corsair
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale; The Bride of Abydos; The Corsair.
London: John Murray, 1813.
First trade edition, first issue of Byron's The Giaour; bound with a second edition of The Bride of Abydos and a rare first edition, first issue of The Corsair. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable bound in contemporary calf and with two rare first issues.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 120498