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Giovanni Boccaccio's Novelle Ventotto
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Novelle Ventotto.
Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1769.
Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's twenty-eighth novella from his 'Decameron.' Octavo, original full vellum, engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio. In very good condition with light toning to the front and rear panel, rubbing to the spine.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146403
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First Edition of Eric Garcia's Matchstick Men; Signed by Eric Garcia and Actor Bruce Altman
GARCIA, Eric.
Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman and Alison Lohman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eric Garcia and actor Bruce Altman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140061
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First Edition of The Stone Raft; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Stone Raft.
New York: Harcourt, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Paola Piglia. Jacket design by Steven Cooley. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140682
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First edition of Janet and Isaac Asimov's Norby and The Queen's Necklace; signed by Isaac Asimov
ASIMOV, Janet and Isaac.
Norby and The Queen’s Necklace.
New York: Walker and Company, 1986.
First edition of the fifth book in the Asimovs' Norby series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Laurie McBarnette. Jacket illustration by Richard Rehbein.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142934
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners De Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, original decorative stiff paper dust jacket, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143953
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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"I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild": First Edition of Buffalo Girls; Signed by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
MCMURTRY, Larry.
Buffalo Girls.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry on the title page and the dedicatee "Best wishes Diana Ossana" on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed by both McMurtry and Ossana.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146185
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"When the water's countenance blurs 'twixt glance and second glance... hear the Channel Fleet at sea, Libera nos domine!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.
First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120541
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"Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change": Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin: A Novel; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MCCANN, Colum.
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.
New York: Random House, 2009.
First edition of the author's classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on both the half and title pages, "For Bettyann and Ed With the very best of Irish wishes- and with thanks!! Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change...Colum McCann." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Jacket drawing by Matteo Pericoli. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136604
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Eyeless in Gaza.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First edition of Huxley's classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138804
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Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Weary Kingdom In The Boston Review.
Cambridge, MA: Boston Review, 1968.
First edition of this early appearance by the author of The World According to Garp. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with a small crease to the bottom front panel. Signed twice by John Irving, once on the front free endpaper and at his contribution. An early appearance in print for John Irving, as his first novel came out months later in January, 1969.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 2850
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First 50th anniversary edition of The Tin Drum; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
Boston & New York: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of the fiftieth anniversary edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Breon Mitchell. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Gunter Grass. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Author photograph by Hans Grunert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142683
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"To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one": Signed limited edition of colson whitehead's The Nickel Boys
WHITEHEAD, Colson.
The Nickel Boys.
New York: Doubleday, 2019.
Signed limited first edition from the Powell's series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase with the original booklet laid in. Jacket design by Oliver Munday.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144172
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Silent House; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Silent House.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
First edition of this "superb novel, which grips the reader and refuses to let go" (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dated in the year of publication by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, once on the title page, and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122479
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J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish; Inscribed by Him
MACLEISH, Archibald .
J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of this classic play. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Benjamin Epstein cordially Archibald MacLeish." Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138201
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"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" GEORGE ORWELL’S MASTERPIECE ANIMAL FARM
ORWELL, George.
Animal Farm.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
Early printing of Orwell’s timeless allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Art Brenner.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146977
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King
WILDE, Oscar.
For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923.
First edition of the infamous fifteenth volume of Metheun's Collected Works of Oscar Wilde which caused a legal dispute between Wilde's bibliographer, Christopher Millard and the publisher. Octavo, original publisher's white linen cloth. One of 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's "Presentation Copy" stamp to the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139527
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First edition of The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller; inscribed by Erica Jong to her husband Ken Burrows
JONG, Erica.
The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.
First edition of Jong's appreciation of the life and legacy of Henry Miller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to her fourth husband, "For Ken The only husband I still liked after 4 years! (What a confession!) I love you, too - Erica 29 March 1993." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142504
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"One moonlit evening, mainly to prove himself he could do it, Harold went for a walk on a tightrope": Scarce First Edition of Harold's Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
JOHNSON, Crockett.
Harold’s Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.
First edition of the fifth book in the author's beloved series. 16mo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 101254
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Finely Bound example of The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.
Finely bound example of the Golden Treasury. Octavo, bound in full morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised spine bands, inner dentelles, moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 109328
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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In near fine condition. Rear endpaper clipped. Housed in a custom clamshell and folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139441
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth and Artist Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip [Milton Glaser].
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
First edition of the author's final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Additionally signed by artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 71974
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"I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, the deaths ye died I have watched beside, and the lives that ye led were mine": Scarce early printing of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses Together With Departmental Ditties.
New York: United States Book Company, 1892.
Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119266
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Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth; Signed by Chris Ware
WARE, Chris.
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
New York : Pantheon Books, 2000.
First edition of the author's inventive first book, which Publishers Weekly called "graphically inventive, wonderfully realized." Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed and dated by Chris Ware with a drawing of stars. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123992
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First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
GREENE, Graham.
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951.
First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, "one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146288
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First edition of Lord Byron's Werner
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Werner. A Tragedy.
London: John Murray, 1823.
First edition, first state of Byron's retelling of Kruitzner, or the German's Tale in Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales without "the end" and the imprint on page 188 and with 7 pages of advertisements at rear dated November, 1822. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. From the library of English astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile and philatelist James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford with his bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120540
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First edition of Danny Moynihan's Boogie-Woogie; one of 500 copies signed by him
MOYNIHAN, Danny; Damien Hirst.
Boogie-Woogie.
London: Duckworth Literary Entertainments Ltd, 2000.
First edition of Moynihan's satirical debut novel set in the contemporary art world of 1990s New York. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the title page and dust jacket designer Damien Hirst on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Damien Hirst. Author photograph by Jenny Von Sommers.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124404
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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television”: Rare Artist's Sketch of Woody Allen; Signed by Woody Allen
SOCCI, P.B. (Woody Allen).
Woody Allen Signed Sketch.
Rare graphite artist's sketch of American director and comedian Wood Allen. Signed by Woody Allen in the upper left corner of the sketch. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 89099
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First Edition of The Films of Kirk Douglas; Signed by Him
THOMAS, Tony [Kirk Douglas].
The Films of Kirk Douglas.
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1972.
First edition of this work on the legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs. Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by Vincente Minnelli.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 110148
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First edition of Charles Allston Collins' At the Bar: A Tale
COLLINS, Charles Allston.
At The Bar: A Tale.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866.
First edition of Collins' ambitious novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Embossed library stamp. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123135
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Kenneth J. Roberts' Black Magic; inscribed by him
ROBERTS, Kenneth J.
Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924.
Early printing of Roberts' work on fascism in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Mussolini. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For S. D. Green with the best wishes of Kenneth J. Roberts Palm Beach January, 1927." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96104
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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 S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S. with Peter B. Gillis; Art by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon.
The Last Unicorn.
San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2011.
First edition of the graphic novel adaptation 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 pictorial boards, illustrated by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon. Boldly signed by Peter S. Beagle on the front end paper. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147091
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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"Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return": FIrst British Edition of J.M.G. Le Clezio's Desert; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
London: Atlantic Books, 2009.
First British edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the wrap around band. Jacket design by Ghost.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 774
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"There's no greater pleasure than to talk over the big things with a believer": First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination; With an Autographed Postcard from WIlder
WILDER, Thornton.
Heaven’s My Destination.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935.
First edition of this comedic novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. Octavo, original cloth. With an autographed postcard from Thornton Wilder laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Haberstock.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140196
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"The Sun's not eternal, That's why there's the blues": Allen Ginsberg's White Shroud 1980-1985; Inscribed by Him with a large drawing
GINSBERG, Allen.
White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page, "for Lorraine & Gene Levy from cousin (first) Allen Ginsberg February 4, 1989 Pittsburgh." Additionally inscribed on the opposite with a large hand-drawn illustration of a Bhudda-like figure surrounded by stars, a sun with initials "AH" at the center, and a skull holding a flower at the bottom. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146471
