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Photograph of Stephen King with Clovis the Cat, Signed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Stephen King Signed Photograph.
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc, 1992.
Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror,” with Clovis, the feline hero of 'Stephen King's Sleepwalkers,' a 1992 Columbia Pictures release featuring Brian Krause, Alice Krige, and Madchen Amick as the main cast. Glossy black and white photograph of Stephen King petting Clovis, boldly signed in blue felt tip by Stephen King. In near fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145397
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First Edition of Breakfast of Champions; Boldly Signed by Kurt Vonnegut; In Exceptional Condition
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 147026
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"The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear": First Edition of White Noise; Warmly Inscribed by Don Delillo in the year of publication
DELILLO, Don.
White Noise.
New York: The Viking Press, 1985.
First edition of the author’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Scioscia Best ever Don DeLillo Feb 1985." Fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 133723
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“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded": Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco
DICKENS, Charles.
Oliver Twist.
London: Richard Bentley, 1839.
Early edition of Dickens' classic “novel of crime and terror” (Baugh et al). Octavo, three volumes bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. An attractive binding.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 139872
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First Edition of "This Masterwork of Photojournalism" Vietnam Inc.; Signed by Noam Chomsky
GRIFFITHS, Philip Jones [Noam Chomsky].
Vietnam, Inc.
New York: Collier Books, 1971.
First edition of Philip Jones Griffith's first book. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky, who in a later edition contributed an introduction to this volume. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146352
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First Edition of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana; From the library of Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd
BYRON, Robert.
The Road to Oxiana.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1937.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, 15 plates and a map. From the library of Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd. Medd, who was an architect and best-known for his collaboration with fellow architects, Edwin Luytens and Herbert Baker, in designing New Delhi. He remained in India and in 1939-47 held the role of Chief Architect to the Indian Government. Medd's ownership inscription is on the front free endpaper, there is also the bookplate of Gavin Stamp on the front pastedown, who notes that it was a gift from Medd. Stamp reviewed the Picador edition of this work…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 111765
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Simonetta; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Simonetta.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919.
First edition of this work by the author of Reminisces of a Stock Operator. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chipping to the spine. We have never seen another example in the dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 140668
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First editions of all three volumes of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
FLEMING, Ian. [Roald Dahl].
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car.
1964-65: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London.
First editions of all three volumes of Fleming's rare children's novel. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by John Burningham. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets with the final two volumes price-clipped. A sharp set.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146724
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“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.": James Legge's classic Chinese-English translation of the four major texts of Confucian philosophy
LEGGE, James. [Confucius].
Interpretation of the Correction of the Four Books of Huaying. [The Four Books: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Works of Mencius].
China: Kanshou, 1918.
James Legge's classic Chinese-English translation of the four major texts of Confucian philosophy. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates in both Chinese and English.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 127035
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; with pages from the original serial tipped in to to each volume
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Tipped in to the front and rear of each volume is an extensive collection containing pages from a number of the original Master's Humphrey's Clock…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 95116
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"All in the same web": First Edition of Gary Snyder's Turtle Island; Warmly inscribed by Him
SNYDER, Gary.
Turtle Island.
New York: New Directions, 1974.
First edition of the legendary poet's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Fred and Edie- All in the same web- Gary." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket woodcut by Michael Corr; design by Gertrude Huston.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135234
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"THE MOST PRAISED AND MOST CONDEMNED 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN WORK OF FICTION": FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PRECEDING THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
MARK TWAIN; [SAMUEL L. CLEMENS],.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.
First English edition, preceding the first American edition, of "the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction" (Legacies of Genius). Octavo, original decorative red cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated from 174 drawings by E. W. Kemble. Text leaves in state A, later issue of 32 pages of publisher's advertisements dated April 1885. The English edition of Huckleberry Finn preceded the American by a few months and was made from sheets sent by American edition publisher Webster. In very good condition with light toning to the spine.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145703
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First Edition of The Bread of Life; Inscribed by the Illustrator to Julie Andrews and signed by Halldor Laxness
LAXNESS, Halldor.
The Bread of Life.
Reykjavik: Vaka-Helgafell, 1987.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to actress Julie Andrews on the front free endpaper, "August 1988 To Julie Andrews with thanks and appreciations Snorri Sveinn Fridriksson." Additionally signed by Halldor Laxness on the half-title page. Illustrated by Snorri Sveinn Fridriksson." Translated by Magnus Magnusson. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. From the library of Julie Andrews.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 116748
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March; Signed by Him
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, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Saul Bellow. In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 117859
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Classic Till We Have Faces; Finely Bound
LEWIS, C.S.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956.
First edition of Lewis' final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 141307
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"Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day": First Edition of Bellow's Seize the Day; Inscribed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize the Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 84225
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart": First edition of Charles Dickens' Hard Times
DICKENS, Charles.
Hard Times. For These Times.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
First edition in book form of Dickens' attack on the living conditions of England's mid-19th century industrial cities. Octavo, original green cloth blindstamped with gilt titles to the spine including the "Price 5/-" in gilt at the base of the spine and p.244 misnumbered as 44. In near fine condition with the half-title present, which is often lacking. Housed in a custom three quarter morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 121032
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First Spanish Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Otono del Patriarca; Signed by Him and Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].
Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1975.
First Spanish edition of this "majestic, superb...a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant" (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the translator Gregory Rabassa on the front free endpaper. Rabassa translated this novel into English. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 46985
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926
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First Edition of Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke; Signed by Him
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
Summer and Smoke.
New York: New Directions, 1948.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145444