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"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey": One of 100 Sets of The Works of Lord Byron
LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON],.
The Works of Lord Byron.
Boston: Francis A. Nicolls and Co, 1900.
The Edition des Amateurs, one of 100 copies signed by the editor of the complete works of Lord Byron. Octavo, 16 volumes. Bound in full contemporary morocco, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels with central arms, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, frontispieces and plates each in three states. Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 109282
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"Many thanks for your lucid thoughts and interest in my work": First edition of Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team; inscribed by John Steinbeck to Legendary literary critic Edmund Wilson
STEINBECK, John.
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team.
New York: The Viking Press, 1942.
First edition of Steinbeck's riveting account of his experiences with several bomber crews of the U.S. Army Air Forces during WWII. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 60 photographs by John Swope. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Mr. Wilson, Many thanks for your lucid thoughts and interest in my work, John Steinbeck." The recipient, Edmund Wilson, was an American literary critic and progenitor of the Library of America publication series. His critical works helped foster public appreciation for many of the foremost American writers of the 20th century including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,…
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 109635
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First Edition of John O'Hara's Classic Appointment in Samarra
O'HARA, John.
Appointment in Samarra.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter, in the first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 109228
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"The largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England": Rare Finely Bound Complete Set of Boydell's Monumental illustrated edition of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William. Revised by George Steevens.
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol., 1802.
Rare finely bound complete set of "by far the largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England", John Boydell's magnificent illustrated folio edition of the dramatic works of Shakespeare. Folio, 9 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine, all edges marbled. Elaborately illustrated with 96 plates engraved by the most eminent British engravers and painters of the era including Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Angelica Kauffman, Robert Smirke, James Durno, John Opie, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Kirk, and Henry Thomson. Edited by George Steevens, one of the greatest Shakespearean scholars of…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 109329
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First Edition of Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks; Warmly Inscribed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank.
Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.
New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frank Gehry on the half-title page, "For Bob and Annie Much Love from Frank Gehry 2001." Edited by Mildred Friedman. Essay by Michael Sorkin. Commentary by Gehry throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112371
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“But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect": First Edition of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Claverings.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.
First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110699
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"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you": First Edition of Sean O'Casey's I Knock At The Door
O'CASEY, Sean.
I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.
First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 112333
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First edition of J. E. Meade's A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth; in the rare original dust jacket
MEADE, James E.
A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on economic growth models. Octavo, original cloth, top edge blue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 115377
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"The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal...Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more": First Edition of H.G. Wells' The World Set Free; inscribed by him to George Bernard Shaw
WELLS, H.G. [George Bernard Shaw].
The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
First edition, first issue of Wells' prophetic novel predicting the arrival of atomic weaponry with the publisher listed as Macmillan and Co. Limited (as opposed to Ltd.), 8 pages of advertisements at rear, and no statement of printing to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. Association copy, inscribed by H.G. Wells to George Bernard Shaw, "G.B.S. from H.G." Like Wells, George Bernard Shaw used writing fiction as a vehicle to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. Wells and Shaw connected when Wells joined the…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 109903
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First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series
New Brunswick Readers: The Second Reader.
Toronto: W. J. Gage & Company, 1900.
First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series, prescribed by the Board of Education for use in the Schools of New Brunswick. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket from Hall's Book Store in St. John, New Brunswick. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 115364
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First edition of Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
First edition of the fifth and final volume in the author's Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Lawrence Durrell 1985." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket watercolor by David Gentleman. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115874
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First Edition of Gustav Hasford's The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam; Inscribed by Him with a Full Page Inscription in the month of Publication
HASFORD, Gustav.
The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam.
New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
First edition of the author's sequel to The Short-Timers, basis for the film Full Metal Jacket. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription in the month of publication, "To My Friend Gene- One Jarhead to Another- from Gustav USMC RTD. Gustave Hasford San Clemente Jan. 9, 1990." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Cover art by Dru Blair.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 109631
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First edition of Kenneth Brown's The Medchester Club
BROWN, Kenneth.
The Medchester Club.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's collection of hunting reminiscences and tales of horsemanship. Octavo, original cloth with labels to the spine and front panel lettered in gilt, illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 814. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 116384
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Rare Carte de Visite Signed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Carte de Visite.
Rare original carte de visite signed by Ulysses S. Grant, "U.S. Grant Maj. Gen. U.S.A." In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 9.5 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 109556
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's Between the Woods and the Water
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: John Murray, 1986.
First British edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by John Craxton.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 110261
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First edition of Star Chamber Revels (Or, The Fountayne of Justice); signed by Andre L. Simon
SIMON, Andre L.
Star Chamber Revels (Or, The Fountayne of Justice). A Satyre Acted on Friday the eleventh day of June, in the yeare 1602 by the then Lords of the Queen Elizabeth’s most honourable Council.
Peekskill: Printed by Crosby Gaige, 1937.
First edition of Andre L. Simon's retelling of a day in the life of the Lords of the Star Chamber. Octavo, original boards, engraved headpiece and tailpiece. Signed by the author at the conclusion of his introduction. Very good in the rare original glassine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115807