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"With best wishes for a pleasant trip, success, and luck. Hope to see you soon. Love, Mary": Hemingway: The Viking Portable Library; Warmly Inscribed by Mary Hemingway
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. [Mary Hemingway].
Hemingway: The Viking Portable Library.
New York: The Viking Press, 1944.
First edition, early printing of this compilation of Hemingway's works. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Mary Hemingway on the front free endpaper, "23 June 1947 Dear Nina, With best wishes for a pleasant trip, success, and luck. Hope to see you soon. Love, Mary." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. We have never seen another signed and inscribed example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135292
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"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself": First Edition of The Magus
FOWLES, John.
The Magus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed collector Rolland Comstock. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco case.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142119
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it": Finely Bound Set of Moliere's Oeuvres Complètes de Molière
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878.
Finely bound set of Moliere. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in full red morocco, illustrated with plates, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Edited by Adolphe Regnier. With the slipcovers in marbled paper. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 104673
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“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight": Herman Melville's Redburn
MELVILLE, Herman.
Redburn.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849.
First edition, second printing of this classic work with the extended publisher’s advertisements at end. Octavo, original plum cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt, yellow endpapers. In very good condition, bookplate.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144187
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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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Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II; including photographic portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
[ALCOTT, Louisa May; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe].
Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II.
Rare collection of albumen silver print portraits of eminent 19th century poets and American authors. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial covers, bound with the original ribbons. Including the portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In very good condition. Rare and unique.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 134524
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First edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts
TOLSTOY, Lyof [Leo].
The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1891.
First edition in English of Tolstoy's satirical play. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by E. J. Dillon. Introduction by Arthur W. Penero. In fine condition. An exceptional example of this rare work.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135733
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Early Printing of Thomas Aquinas' Masterpiece Summa Theologica
AQUINAS, Thomas .
Summa Theologica Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, Divinae Voluntatis Interpretis: Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum.
Parisiis: Sumptibus Maturini Henault, 1638.
Early printing of Aquinas' seminal work. Folio, bound in full leather with a red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, woodcut engraving of Aquinas in prayer to the title page. In very good condition with tape repairs to the title page.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 90390
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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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"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will": Rare First Edition of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
PORTER, Eleanor H.
Pollyanna.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of Eleanor H. Porter's classic of children's literature. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled endpapers, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. In near fine condition. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 136742
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“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it": First Edition of Joseph McElroy's Women and Men; Signed by Him
MCELROY, Joseph.
Women and Men.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of this modern classic compared with Joyce's Ulysses. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joseph McElroy on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket illustration and design by Carin Goldberg.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138905
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"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread": First Edition of Richard Wright's Native Son
WRIGHT, Richard .
Native Son.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
First edition, first issue binding with "A - P" on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 118656
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First edition of Nora Ephron's I Remember Nothing; inscribed by her
EPHRON, Nora.
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
First edition of Ephron's edgy collection of short observational stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Bill Zwecks With best wishes and thanks Nora. Nora Ephron 9-16-11." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 132355
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First Edition of Octavia Butler's Imago; Inscribed by Her
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Imago.
New York: Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler's acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bill Best Wishes, Octavia E. Butler." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne Barlowe.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 137805
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WILSON, Edmund.
To the Finland Station.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1940.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the top front panel and minor edge wear to the spine crown. A very sharp copy, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 3129
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"Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness": First Edition of Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver; Signed by her
OLIVER, Mary.
Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
First edition of this collection of poems of grief, love, and faith. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 96101
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn; Signed by Her and actor Kirk Douglas
BAKER, Dorothy [Kirk Douglas].
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, "with best wishes Dorothy Baker." Additionally signed by legendary actor Kirk Douglas, who starred as Rick Martin in the film. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 110742
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Signed Limited Edition of Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt
MALAPARTE, Curzio.
Kaputt.
Roma: Aria D'Italia, 1948.
Signed limited edition of Malaparte's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Curzio Malaparte copyright page, this is number 12. In good condition. Books signed by Malaparte are rare.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 118008
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“A BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED ADVENTURE INTO ANOTHER TIME”: First Edition of Umberto Eco's First Novel; inscribed by Him to Kenneth and Dee Gros Louis
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. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "to Ken & Dee Gros Louis, friendly, by Umberto Ecco Bloomington June 10, '83." The recipients, Kenneth and Dee Gros Louis, were people of scholarly proclivities like Eco: Kenneth was a university official and English professor at Indiana University Bloomington, later Vice President of the Bloomington campus from 1980 to 1988 and Vice President of Indiana University and Chancellor of the Bloomington…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146943
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First Edition of Virginia Lee Burton's Classic Maybelle: The Cable Car; Signed by Her
BURTON, Virginia Lee.
Maybelle: The Cable Car.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.
First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Virginia Lee Burton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 132568