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Signed limited first edition of Lauren Ford's The Ageless Story; Signed by the author with an original watercolor painting of a singing angel
FORD, Lauren.
The Ageless Story.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939.
Signed limited first edition of Lauren Ford's beloved retelling of the birth of Christ. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. One of only 350 copies, this is number 311. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with an original watercolor drawing of a singing angel. In near fine condition. Housed in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 96512
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Original theatrical poster from the Broadway Performance of Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking; signed by Joan Didion and actress Vanessa Redgrave
DIDION, Joan. [Vanessa Redgrave].
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Signed Theatrical Poster.
New York: Prof. D.R. McClennahan, 2006.
Original theatrical poster from Vanessa Redgrave's performance of Didion's 2005 best-selling memoir at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Signed by Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave on the lower portion of the poster. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143250
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"One of the earliest feminist journals published": First edition of Volume XIV of The Englishwoman
The Englishwoman. Volume XIV. April-June 1912.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912.
First edition of of Volume XIV of the Englishwoman's Review, one of the first feminist journals published. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135267
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Beverly Cleary's Ramona and Her Father; inscribed by her
CLEARY, Beverly.
Ramona and Her Father.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977.
First edition, early printing of the fourth book in Cleary's Ramona Quimby series; a 1978 Newbery Honor Book. Octavo, original boards. Illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jennifer Hall - Happy reading! Beverly Cleary." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 117994
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Signed Limited First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers
YEZIERSKA, Anzia.
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.
Signed limited first edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. One of 500 examples signed by Anzia Yezierska. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125779
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First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales
GASKELL, Elizabeth. [Mrs. Gaskell].
My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales; Included in “Round the Sofa.”
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861.
First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125281
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Sarah Churchill's A Thread in the Tapestry; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
CHURCHILL, Sarah [Winston S. Churchill].
A Thread in the Tapestry.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's deeply moving eulogy of her father, Sir Winston Churchill. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139833
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First edition of The Secret Papers of the Dutch Treat Club; inscribed by illustrator Ray Prohaska to American journalist Bill Safire
PROHASKA, Ray. [William Safire].
Secret Papers of the Dutch Treat Club.
n.p., 1950.
First edition of this book published upon the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Dutch Treat Club with a full list of members. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by illustrator Ray Prohaska on the title page, "To Phil Safire Hope it won't keep you awake. Ray Prohaska." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 128041
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First Paperback Edition of Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing; Inscribed by the author
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Crossing.
New York: Vintage International, 1994.
First paperback edition of the second book in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "For Randy, All best wishes, Cormac McCarthy." In near fine condition. Cover design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142420
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First Edition of George Saunders' CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella; Lengthily Inscribed by Him with Drawings
SAUNDERS, George.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella.
New York: Random House, 1996.
First edition of Saunders' acclaimed first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily inscribed by the author with three drawings, covering two pages, with the added words, "Don't think of yourself as a surrogate would, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical. George Saunders." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. A unique example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 114674
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Rare 17th century map of Florida published by French cartographer Alain Manesson Mallet
MALLET, Allain Manesson.
Floride. Das Landt Florida. [17th Century Map of Florida].
Frankfurt: Allain M. Mallet, c. 1686.
Rare 17the century copper engraved map of Florida from Allain Manesson Mallet's Description De L' Univers, Contenant Les Differents Systemes Du Monde, Les Cartes generales & particulieres.' One page, hand-colored, the copper-engraved map shows Canada or Nouvelle France, the Appalachians, Florida (Tegesta), the Gulf of Mexico, and Cuba. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138207
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“Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content": First Edition in English of The Nobel Prize-winning author Herman Hesse's The Prodigy; Lengthily Inscribed by the Translator
HESSE, Herman; Translated by W.J. Strachan.
The Prodigy.
London: Peter Owen and The Vision Press, 1957.
First edition in English of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by W.J. Strachan. Inscribed by the translator W.J. Strachan on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Pat Cullen who will appreciate that this sad tale has not lost its point even today- affectionately from Walker August 1957 Also in gratitude for advice in some royalty points." Also, signed by Strachan on the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear. Rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 32054
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First edition of Sarah Gainham's The Tiger, Life
GAINHAM, Sarah.
The Tiger, Life.
London: Methuen, 1983.
First edition of Gainham's largely autobiographical final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph courtesy of Popperfoto. Author photograph by H. Redl.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 126537
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"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility": First Edition of Chaos: Making of A New Science; Inscribed by James Gleick
GLEICK, James.
Chaos: Making A New Science.
New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
First edition of this modern classic in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Gleick on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140606
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First Edition of Poets from the North of Ireland; Signed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Poets from the North of Ireland.
1979: Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Edited by Frank Ormsby.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 141441
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Rare First Edition of Hermann Weyl's Raum Zeit Materie Vorlesungen uber Allgemeine
WEYL, Hermann.
Raum Zeit Materie Vorlesungen uber Allgemeine [Space, Time, Matter].
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918.
First edition of "the standard treatise on the general theory of relativity" (Nature). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142307