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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Seize the Day; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize The Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. 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: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142270
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First Edition of The Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace; Inscribed to John Steinbeck
PRINCESS CHUMBHOT OF NAGARA SVARGA [JOHN STEINBECK],.
The Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace.
First edition of this work, inscribed by Chumbhot to Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed opposite the title page, "To Mr. and Mrs John Steinbeck with compliments by Pantip Chumbhot Bangkok 27/1/67." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. From the library of John Steinbeck.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111531
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“I guess you could call it a failure, but I prefer the term learning experience": Signed limited First Edition of The Martian; Signed by Andy Weir and Academy Award-Winning Actor Matt Damon
WEIR, Andy.
The Martian.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2016.
Signed limited first edition of this modern science fiction classic, basis for the 2015 film directed by Ridley Scott starring Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by Andy Weir and actor Matt Damon opposite Weir's signature. Map by Fred Haynes. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 147124
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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 For These Times
DICKENS, Charles.
Hard Times For These Times.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ attack on the conditions of life in England’s industrial cities with all 11 of Smith's points. Octavo, original publisher's first cloth binding, light yellow endpapers. Smith I:11. In very good condition. A nice example, uncommon in the original binding.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131408
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College
TENNYSON, Alfred.
Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1869.
Finely bound example of Tennyson’s “long-meditated great task” which brought him to fame; decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bound in full pebbled green morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise bands, gilt ruling and scrolled cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a highly detailed concealed fore-edge painting of the Great Court of Trinity College. Ownership inscriptions. In good condition with the fore-edge painting very crisp.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139645
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"I am afraid that 'Kaspar's Song In Varda' is one of my own compositions": Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling Autograph Letter Signed.
September 2, 1907.
Rare autograph letter signed from Rudyard Kipling to R. G. Von Berg. One page on Bateman's Burwash Etchingham letterhead, the letter reads in full, "Sep. 2 1907 Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 28th Aug. I am afraid that 'Kaspar's Song In Varda' is one of my own compositions and that you will not find it in the works of your great poet. Sincerely yours Rudyard Kipling R. G. Von Berg." Also known as 'Butterflies,' 'Kaspar's Song in Varda' was a sister-poem that accompanied Kipling's short story 'Wireless,' first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1902 and later…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146537
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"And bitter was the rowers' song as they brought the war-boat round": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Years Between
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1919.
First edition of this collection of 45 poems. Octavo, original half vellum over buckram boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt with others uncut. One of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Scarce, this title was printed in three formats: the first trade edition with a run of 10,000 copies, the large paper edition with 200 copies, and this, the rarest form, one of only 30 copies.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120530
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Rare 1950s-1970s Paperback Collection including Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck's Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and many others
BRONTE, Emily; Agatha Christie; Ernest Hemingway; Jack Kerouac; Rudyard Kipling; John Steinbeck et al.
1950s-1970s Paperback Collection.
New York: Avon, Bantam, Dell, et al, c. 1940-1960.
Large collection of first edition and early printings including a variety of classic literature and pulp fiction. Small octavos, 60 volumes, the collection includes Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck's Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans and many others. In very good to fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121681
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"The poem is seen from all sides , everywhere, at once": First Edition of Gary Snyder's Turtle Island; Signed 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. Signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket woodcut by Michael Corr; design by Gertrude Huston.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131784
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun; Signed by Him and four times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
South of the Border, West of the Sun.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of one of Murakami's most touching novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Haruki Murakami and four times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once below Murakami's, on the front panel, on the front panel of the jacket and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Kapo Ng. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. A unique example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145943
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Limited Special Edition of William Faulkner's Pylon; Signed by Him
FAULKNER, William.
Pylon.
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935.
Signed limited special edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original publisher's three quarter cloth over metallic silver boards. One of three hundred and ten copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 69. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146079
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Finely bound example of Charles Dickens' Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall and Bradbury Evans, 1858.
Rare finely bound Library Edition of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, pictorial title pages. In very good condition. Housed in the binder's original slipcases. With the original invoice on Sangorski & Sutcliffe's letterhead dated January 3rd 1934 laid in.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119937
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First Edition of Terry Southern's Blue Movie; inscribed by Him
SOUTHERN, Terry.
Blue Movie.
New York: New American Library, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Harry with all best wishes Terry Southern." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121449
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"And he did bring them. It took a number of years, but one by one, he brought them here. Except for his father. That old man died where he was born": First Edition of Elia Kazan's America America; Signed by him and actor Stathis Giallelis,
KAZAN, Elia.
America America.
New York: Stein and Day, 1962.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1963 film starring Stathis Giallelis. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To June Elia Kazan" and below by actor Stathis Giallelis. Introduction by S.N. Behrman. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Abram Rudisill.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138692
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Rare Ordinary People Original Script; Signed by Director Robert Redford
SARGENT, Alvin; [Robert Redford].
Ordinary People Original Script.
Burbank, CA: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc, 1979.
Rare original screenplay from the 1980 film 'Ordinary People,' produced by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. Quarto, original orange wrappers, bound with two brass tacks. Boldly signed on the front panel, "Best wishes Robert Redford." In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146472
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The Oxford Book of Light Verse; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
AUDEN, W. H.
The Oxford Book of Light Verse.
London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Finely bound example of the Oxford Book of Light Verse. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131263
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First Edition of Annie Leibovitz's Women; Signed by Her and Susan Sontag
LEIBOVITZ, Annie.
Women. Essay by Susan Sontag.
New York: Random House, 1999.
First edition of this powerful work. Quarto, original cloth, with over 115 black-and-white and color photogravures (many double-page). Signed by both Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 132901
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First Edition of Javier Marias’ first novel Los Dominios del Lobo; Signed by Him
MARIAS, Javier.
Los Dominios del Lobo.
Barcelona: Edhasa, 1971.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 994
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First Edition of Dickson's Kuwait and her Neighbours; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DICKSON, H.R.P.
Kuwait and Her Neighbours.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956.
First edition of Colonel H.R.P. Dickson's classic work on the people and history of Kuwait. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, maps, tables. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is price-clipped.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 140006
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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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author's photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143070