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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning": Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
Early printing of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135902
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The Metropolitan Magazine, September 1904; containing Rudyard Kipling's Mrs. Bathurst
KIPLING, Rudyard; Max Beerbohm; Lloyd Osbourne; Charles Sarka; Carolyn Wells; et al.
The Metropolitan Magazine, September 1904.
New York: The Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1904.
The September 1904 issue of The Metropolitan Magazine which includes Rudyard Kipling's most popular short story Mrs. Bathurst. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122140
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First Edition of James Morris' Sultan in Oman: Venture Into The Middle East
MORRIS, James [Jan].
Sultan in Oman: Venture Into The Middle East.
New York: Pantheon, 1957.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144487
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First edition of Josephine Hall's Damage; inscribed by her to photographer Sally Soames
HART, Josephine.
Damage.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of Hart's best-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally - who is on her own journey of the soul Much Love, Josephine." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126823
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First edition of Stedman Graham's You Can Make it Happen; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
GRAHAM, Stedman [William Safire].
You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of the author's nine-step plan for success. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Bill, Congratulations on all that you do - Keep making it happen and thanks for your support! Best wishes Stedman." 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 again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135838
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The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February - July, 1899; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.
London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.
The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations by numerous artists including six by Arthur Rackham for The Manoeuvres of Jerry on pages 71-77. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142672
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"We had, in silence, a little luminous talk about it, in the course of which she seemed to tell me the most interesting things": First edition of Henry James' The Soft Side
JAMES, Henry.
The Soft Side.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900.
First edition of this collection of James' novellas. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 80111
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First Edition of The End of the Earth; Inscribed by Him
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2003.
First edition of this “luminous and haunting work . . . the contemporary Thoreau" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ian Kind Regards Peter Matthiessen." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bea Jackson. With photographs by Birgit Freybe Bateman.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 130747
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Black and white photograph of pioneering African-American comic and actor Godfrey Cambridge; inscribed by him
CAMBRIDGE, Godfrey.
Godfrey Cambridge Signed Photograph.
Black and white photograph of pioneering African-American comic and actor Godfrey Cambridge, signed by him, "Bless ya Godfrey Cambridge." In very good condition. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132940
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“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain”: First Edition of Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Signed by Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
First edition of this novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Gregory Rabassa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Alain Gauthier. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146862
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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COFFIN, Robert P. Tristam.
Poems for a Son with Wings.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1945.
First edition. Inscribed by the author, "For Frangeon Jones Fellow poet and friend Robert P. Tristam Coffin". Coffin has also added a drawing a seaside home with a pine tree. Octavo. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1989
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"GIRLS AND BOYS COME OUT TO PLAY, THE MOON IS SHINING BRIGHT AS DAY!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Brushwood Boy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate American edition of Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Orson Lowell, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very condition. Bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121634