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First Edition of Martin Amis' Money; Signed by Him
AMIS, Martin.
Money.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author's photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 133821
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"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time": First Edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
LONDON, Jack.
The Call Of The Wild.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
First edition of one of the most desirable classics in American literature and London's best and most enduring work. BAL 1187. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth blocked in black, white, and terra-cotta, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Decorated with 11 color plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece and 5 color illustrations in text by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorations by Charles E. Hooper. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. A nice example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144519
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“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory": First Edition of Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Elephant Vanishes.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of this classic collection of stories, one of which was the basis for the 2018 acclaimed film Burning. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Karen Haruki Murakami (in both Japanese and English) 5/6/93 Princeton, NJ." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, above Murakami's signature and on the jacket rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 138128
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories; Signed by Him
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
Early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Rear panel photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. A superior example, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 97433
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First Edition of A Time of Gifts; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First American edition of the author’s masterpiece, which ranks among the greatest travel books of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146173
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Author’s Magnum Opus Infinite Jest; With a Signed Promotional of this Novel
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed promotional of Infinite Jest laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146279
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First Edition of Pearl Buck's Classic First Novel The Good Earth; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
BUCK, Pearl S.
The Good Earth.
New York: The John Day Company, 1931.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. 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. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143665
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow": First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison's Masterpiece Beloved; Inscribed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
Beloved.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of the author's fourth novel and considered by many her finest. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Debra Toni Morrison." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 132605
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Finely Bound Edition of Rudyard Kipling's The First and Second Jungle Books; Bound by Bayntun Bindery with a Fore-Edge Painting
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Macmillan, 1978.
Finely bound edition of both volumes of The Jungle Book, with an exceptional fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 139448
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"The Tin Drum Will Become One Of The Enduring Literary Works Of The Twentieth Century": Finely Bound First Edition Of The Tin Drum; Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
New York: Pantheon, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic first novel. Octavo, bound in full black morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, top edge gilt. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Ralph Manheim. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 3796
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
HURSTON, Zora Neale .
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition of this humorous novel set in Florida, a place Hurston knew well, having been born in Eatonville, an entirely black Florida town. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143512
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AMERICA’S "BEST WAR NOVEL": FIRST EDITION OF THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, INSCRIBED BY NORMAN MAILER TO PAUL BARTEL
MAILER, Norman.
The Naked and the Dead.
New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Paul after the pleasure of our first meeting Norman Mailer Oct. '87." The recipient, Paul Bartel was a director, actor and the creator of such films as Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000, Lust in the Dust, among others. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Jacket design by Karov.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 118122
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First British Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls in Exceptional Condition
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941.
First British edition of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Dust jacket designed by Hans Tisdall. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146090
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First edition of Henry Miller's Journey Into an Antique Land; inscribed by him to his second wife and muse June Mansfield
MILLER, Henry.
Journey Into an Antique Land.
Big Sur: Ben Ben Press, 1970.
First edition of Miller's short illustrated work on a visit to St. Remy in the South of France. 12mo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. One of only 2000 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front panel to his second wife, June Mansfield, "For June, All the best! Henry 1/16/67." In fine condition. Miller's second wife, June, convinced him to commit to writing full time and became the inspirations for most of his best known works including Tropic of Cancer. After they divorced in 1934, they remained close friends and Miller continued to send his…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 95358
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First British edition of Churchill's only full-length work of fiction: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania; bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
First British edition of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition, names. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144132
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First Edition of The Adventures of Augie March; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the John Steinbeck ad on the rear flap and no reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 58004
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"the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love": First Edition of Nothing More To Declare; Inscribed by John Clellon Holmes to His Wife
HOLMES, John Clellon.
Nothing More To Declare.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967.
First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "For Shirley- the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love- John Feb. 3, 1967." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Omin. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 103995
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“Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night": The Scottish Edition of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
POE, Edgar Allan.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875-1881.
Finely bound edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges marbled, tissue-guarded frontispiece to Vols. I and II, illustrated with etchings and headpieces in each volume, folding facsimile letter in Vol. I. Volumes I and II are second editions revised. In very good condition, ownership stamps to the front flyleaf.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147262
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"Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before": First Edition of The City and the Pillar; Signed by Gore Vidal
VIDAL, Gore.
The City and the Pillar.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1948.
First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with two small chips to the crown but does not show the fading endemic to the spine panel. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 25087
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First Edition of Mordecai Noah's Fortress of Sorrento
NOAH, Mordecai Manuel.
The Fortress of Sorrento: A Petit Historical Drama, in Two Acts.
New York: D. Longworth, 1808.
First edition of "the most important Jewish lay leader of the early 19th century" Mordecai Noah's early play, published when he was only 23 years old. 12mo, bound in modern calf, gilt titles to the spine, lacking the 2 advertisement leaves called for by Singerman. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 82504