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First Edition of William Styron's Set This House on Fire; Signed by Him
STYRON, William.
Set This House on Fire.
New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Styron on the title page. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 143491
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
STEINBECK, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
London: William Heinemann, 1939.
First English edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143492
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First edition of Henry James' The Princess Casamassima: A Novel
JAMES, Henry.
The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First American edition of one of James's "three formidable novels" published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In near fine condition, name opposite the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143493
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First Edition of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
STEINBECK, John.
Cannery Row.
London: William Heinemann, 1945.
First English edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143494
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Lengthily inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. Presentation copy, warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "Por la mas grande y guapa de todos las Beatrices listísimas, con un abrizo estrangulaon Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971." Which translates into English as, "For the best, smartest, and most beautiful of all Beatrices, with a very tight hug Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971." The recipient, Beatriz Alarcón, was a friend of Garcia Marquez's in Colombia. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 143912
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"Doesn't bend like Piccadilly, or end abruptly like the Rue de la Paix": FIRST EDITION OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S NOVEL PARK AVENUE; SIGNED BY HIM
VANDERBILT, Jr.
Park Avenue.
New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1930.
First edition of Vanderbilt's intimate portrait of the luxurious jazz era Park Avenue lifestyle. 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. Signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 142172
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First Edition of Stephen King's Bag of Bones; Inscribed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Bag of Bones.
New York: Scribners, 1998.
First edition of this work which won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Patricia- Stephen King." Near fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 142294
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“Love is never any better than the lover": First Edition of Toni Morrison's First Book The Bluest Eye; Signed by her
MORRISON, Toni.
The Bluest Eye.
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
First edition of Morrison's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the $5.95 price and 1070 on the bottom of front flap, with some expert restoration. Dust jacket design by Herb Lubalin and Jay Tribich. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell slipcase.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 142255
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 106753
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Margaret Mead's From the South Seas; Inscribed by Her
MEAD, Margaret.
From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939.
First edition, third printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Hardin S. Rarny Margaret Mead May 6, 1946." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143499
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Signed Limited First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Mourning Becomes Electra.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1931.
Signed limited edition of O'Neill's classic play. Quarto, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label, signed by Eugene O'Neill, one of 550 copies this is number 363. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 142951
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The Selected Works of John Lothrop Motley; finely bound
MOTLEY, John Lothrop.
The Selected Works of John Lothrop Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic; Life and Death of John Barneveld; The United Netherlands.
London: John Murray, 1903-1904.
Finely bound set of the selected works of John Lothrop Motley. Octavo, 9 volumes bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispece to each volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 143815
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Antoine François Prévost's The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux; finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery
PRéVOST, Antoine François. [The Abbe Prévost D'Exiles].
The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1935.
First edition thus of Helen Wadell's translation of the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité which was adapted into the famous opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated by Pierre Brissaud. Translated by Helen Waddell. In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147343
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First Edition of Henry James' Roderick Hudson
JAMES, Henry.
Roderick Hudson.
New York: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876.
First edition of one of James' earliest novels. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 142180
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"One of the most splendid editions of Homer ever delivered to the World": First edition of the Foulis Homer
HOMER,.
Homeri Opera. [The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer].
Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-1758.
First edition of the Foulis Homer; the typographic masterpiece of the Foulis Press, and one of the finest editions of Homer. Folio, 4 volumes bound in full tree calf, rebacked with gilt titles and Greek key ruling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, Greek key ruling to the front and rear panels, text in Greek. Vols. I and II lacking the half-titles as usual. Provenance: John Hope (1868-1936) with his stamp to the title pages. Ownership signatures of Henry Schwab. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An excellent example of this typographic gem.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 143357
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The Haworth edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters in seven volumes; finely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son
BRONTE, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte.
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters.
London: John Murray, 1920-1926.
The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, 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 stamp-signed by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In near fine condition. A stunning set.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 143434