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“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime": Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Resurrection: A Novel.
London: The Brotherhood Publishing Co., 1900.
Second edition in English of Tolstoy's final novel which outsold both Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Tall octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Uncommon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 127408
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First edition of John Le Carre's The Naive and Sentimental Lover; signed by him
LE CARRE, John.
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
First edition of le Carré's classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136318
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First English Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s First Book; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
London: John Lehmann, 1946.
First British edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Robert Medley.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 190
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The Poetical Works - with a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged frigate
FALCONER, William.
The Poetical Works: With a Fore-Edge Painting of a British Flagged Frigate. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: William Pickering, 1836.
Octavo, bound in straight-grain full green morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged three-masted frigate, sails full, with land on the horizon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 52023
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Rare First Edition of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. [Solzhentizyn].
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Ralph Parker. A very sharp example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147134
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First edition of Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon; finely bound in full morocco
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [Eleanor Farjeon].
Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.
London: The Medici Society, 1930.
First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119841
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First edition King Albert's Book; containing the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Outlaws
[KIPLING, Rudyard; Winston S. Churchill; John Galsworthy; Sir Henry Haggard; Edith Wharton; et al].
King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914.
First edition of King Albert's Book, produced to profit the Belgian Fund. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of King Albert, with numerous tipped-in color plates illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and Maxfield Parrish. Contains the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Outlaws. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is lacking the spine.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126384
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1914; Inscribed by Him
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander (Solzhenitzyn).
August 1914.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
Early printing of the Solzhenitsyn's epic novel of Russian history. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design Guy Fleming. Translated by Michael Glenny.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131734
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“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate”: First Edition of The Piano Teacher; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek
JELINEK, Elfriede.
The Piano Teacher.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, "For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133735
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“'You're the wrong person to be permitted to do it": Lederer and Burdick's The Ugly American; Lengthily Inscribed by both authors
LEDERER, William J. and Eugene Burdick.
The Ugly American.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed W.J. Lederer on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Haemer.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139901
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Uncorrected Proof of Saramago's The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Signed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
Uncorrected proof of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original blue wrappers. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 2631
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First Edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Scherz, List und Rache [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge]
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Scherz, List und Rache. [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge].
Leipzig: Bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790.
First edition of this libretto in the original German. Octodecimo, in wrappers. In near fine condition with very light toning. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half cloth case. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145573
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"YES I LOVE YOU BUDDY": First Separate Edition OF ONE CHRISTMAS, SIGNED BY CAPOTE
CAPOTE, Truman.
One Christmas.
New York: Ladies' Home Journal, 1982.
First separate edition of this work by Capote, an offprint put out by the Ladies' Home Journal in advance of the story's appearance in the December 1982 issue. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Truman Capote on the front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 109651
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First Edition of Isabel Allende's Classic First Novel The House of Spirits; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
ALLENDE, Isabel.
The House of the Spirits: A Novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Presenation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Sharon with the compliments of the extravagant spirits of this story Isabel." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michel Guire Vaka. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147059
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered; inscribed by him to Elsie Tritton
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinamann Ltd, 1932.
First edition of Maugham's popular play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "by W. Somerset Maugham for Elsie Tritton." The recipient, Elsie Tritton, was a noted collector and friend of Maugham's who introduced him to Alan Searle. A younger man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had previously embarked upon an affair with the writer Lytton Strachey. Maugham began a relationship with him after his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944. In 1962, Maugham attempted to adopt Searle as his son and heir when he disowned his daughter after a financial dispute,…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133055
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First Edition of Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom and Marc Norman.
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay.
New York: Miramax, 1998.
First edition of the screenplay, which won Stoppard an Academy Award. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the half-title page. In fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140189
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First Edition of The Cider House Rules; Warmly inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Cider House Rules.
New York: William Morrow , 1985.
First edition of Irving's sixth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rob with my appreciation John Irving." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145774
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The Aldine Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetical Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: William Pickering, 1852.
The Aldine edition of Chaucer's brilliant poetical works. Duodecimo, six volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer to Vol. I, decorated with botanical headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels, very light toning to the endpapers of each volume. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146338
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' George Macdonald: An Anthology; in the rare original dust jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
George Macdonald: An Anthology.
London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1946.
First edition of C.S. Lewis' anthology of extracts from the sermons and writings of George Macdonald. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mansell. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132399
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Lord Macaulay’s Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888.
Finely bound example of Macaulay's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a view of ancient Rome. In very good condition. Bookplate and ownership inscription.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138642
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First Edition of More Matter; Inscribed by John Updike To His Friend and Golfing Partner With A Drawing Of Santa Claus
UPDIKE, John.
More Matter: Essays and Criticism.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with 46 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and golfing partner in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Vermilze matters to be consumed in small tasty bites Merry Christmas John Updike 12/25/99." Updike has also drawn a nice drawing of Santa Claus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll. Jacket photograph by Steve Buhman.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3569
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First Edition of Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Yearling
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 53043
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First Edition of The White Plague; Signed by Frank Herbert
HERBERT, Frank.
The White Plague.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982.
First edition of this classic novel which explores madness and revenge on a global scale. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Abe Echevarria. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126758
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"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is": First Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the rare wrap around band present. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 100101