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First Edition of The Suffrage of Elvira; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Suffrage of Elvira.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1958.
First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 2135
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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order TO Live; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.
Early printing of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 70983
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First Edition of Geek Love; Signed by Katherine Dunn and three times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd
DUNN, Katherine.
Geek Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition of this classic work, named by The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Dunn on the title page and signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel; on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. The book's original cover art by Chip Kidd caused a sensation at book conventions when it was introduced in 1989. Its plain, stark orange color and unusual fonts went against conventional design aesthetics. In keeping with the novel's theme of mutation, the lettering of the title employs mutated…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147967
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Finely Bound Example of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; With a Foredge
BUNYAN, John.
Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]
London : L. and G. Seeley, 1840.
Finely bound example with a foredge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840 of one of the most significant works of religious English literature, Pilgrim's Progress. Octavo, bound in full morocco, all edges gilt, 15 plates and illustrations, all hand-colored, with a fore-edge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. An nice presentation.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 120842
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Rare Autograph From the Legendary writer Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Agatha Christie Autograph.
London: .
Rare autograph from one of the most prolific writers in the mystery genre. Octodecimo, one page on Swan Court stationary, boldly signed by Agatha Christie in teal ink. In near fine condition with light rubbing and mail folds. A colorful signature on stationary featuring the address in Chelsea at which she lived and wrote for 28 years.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147515
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart; signed by Him and three time by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Sputnik Sweetheart.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this work which "grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami’s] never written anything more openly emotional” (Los Angeles Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author "Haruki Murakami 11/7/05" on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; on the front panel, title page and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 123751
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"How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water": First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's The Flame Trees of Thika; Signed by Her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.
First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129827
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"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some": Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz
DICKENS, Charles.
Sketches By Boz.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of the new edition of one of Dickens' collection of short pieces. Octavo, bound in full red calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, with forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147629
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First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Finely Bound
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
First American edition, which precedes the British edition of Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133892
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"And looking up at it I remembered that winter in Greece, that Gabbia I had constructed for myself out of light, solitude, and self-delusions": John Fowles Signed Quotation
FOWLES, John .
John Fowles Signed Magus Quotation.
Autograph quotation signed by John Fowles, from Chapter 9 of his classic work, The Magus, 1 p, 8vo, n.p., August 4, 1983. It reads in full, "Years later I saw the gabbia at Piacenza: a harsh black canaray-cage strung high up the side of the towering campanile, in which prisoners were once left to starve to death and rot in full view of the town below. And looking up at it I remembered that winter in Greece, that Gabbia I had constructed for myself out of light, solitude, and self-delusions. John Fowles August 4, 1983." Matted and framed. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 148243
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"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you": First edition of Langston Hughes' The Book of Negro Humor; inscribed by him to Civil rights figure Amy Spingarn
HUGHES, Langston.
The Book of Negro Humor.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966.
First edition of Hughes' compilation of classic and contemporary Negro humor. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "A Very Happy Birthday to Amy Springarn ~ Sincerely, Langston New York, January 29, 1966." The recipient, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a philanthropist, poet, and artist known especially for her paintings of prominent African-American cultural figures. Upon the death of her husband, Joel Spingarn, in 1939, Amy Spingarn was elected to finish out his term on the NAACP Board of Directors. Fine in a very good dust jacket. A fine…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129813
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it": First Edition of Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me
FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, bookplate. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140615
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"The mingled smells of hot horse and cold river mist filled my nostrils": First Edition of Dick Francis' Dead Cert
FRANCIS, Dick.
Dead Cert.
London: Michael Joseph, 1962.
First edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Trevor Denning.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144334
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"And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time." "And did she ever come out?" "Not yet": First Edition of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Lengthily Signed by Gregory Maguire With a Large Drawing
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.
First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author with a large drawing on the half-title page, "And then the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time." "And did she ever come out?" "Not yet." Gregory Maguire Sept 15, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Douglas Smith. Jacket design by Joel Avirom. A unique example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146864
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion; From the Library of Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
MARABLE, Manning. [J.M. Coetzee].
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990.
University of Mississippi Press: Jackson and London, 1990.
Revised second edition from the library of Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee with his ownership signature to the title page. J.M. Coetzee is an essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (three times), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. Waiting for the Barbarians received both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Age of Iron was awarded the Sunday Express Book of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144545
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"And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom": First Edition of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man
WELLS, H.G.
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.
First edition, first issue of Wells’ popular cautionary tale of overreaching scientific ambition. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt and black-stamped pictorial red cloth. First issue with the first page numbered 2, the title page printed in orange and black and publisher’s ad leaf at rear. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a slipcase.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146157
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First Edition of Anthony Burgess' One Hand Clapping; Inscribed by Him to the executive producer of A Clockwork Orange Si Litvinoff
[ANTHONY BURGESS] JOSEPH KELL,.
One Hand Clapping.
London: Peter Davies, 1961.
First edition of this work by the author of A Clockwork Orange. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To dear Si with affection 'Joe’(Anthony/John.” The recipient, Si Litvinoff was the executive producer for Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange that was based on Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel, with Litvinoff's signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Gorman. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134575
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First Edition of A Columbus of Space; Signed by Garrett P. Serviss in the Year of Publication
SERVISS, Garrett P.
A Columbus of Space.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911.
First edition of this classic interplanetary adventure novel. Octavo, original lime green pictorial cloth, frontispiece of a scene from page 47 "Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a man, but more savage than a gorilla." Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. In near fine condition. A rare example in this condition without any other signed copies in commerce.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146170
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Extra-illustrated first edition of Robert Southey's The Pilgrim's Progress With a Life of John Bunyan; elaborately bound in full morocco by bayntun riviere
SOUTHEY, Robert. [John Bunyan].
The Pilgrim’s Progress. With a Life of John Bunyan.
London: John Murray and John Major, 1830.
First edition of A Pilgrim's Progress to include Southey's Life of Bunyan, extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruling and decorative borders to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bunyan, illustrated with two engravings by William Raymond Smith after paintings by John Martin and woodcut illustrations in text by Charles Nesbit. This copy extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Southey's biography of Bunyan reinvigorated interest in…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133036
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First Edition of Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins
WILSON, Margaret.
The Able McLaughlins.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine second state jacket, with notice of the Harper Prize printed at the top of the front panel and the front flap, with $2.00 price present, but no Pulitzer Prize sticker or re-order coupon at bottom rear flap. Uncommon.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142067