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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's Trilogy; Each volume signed by Him
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The Year of the French, Tenants of Time and The End of the Hunt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/ E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979-1994.
First edition of the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed and inscribed by Thomas Flanagan, with The Tenants of Time inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Ellen in the year of publication. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 107361
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Signed Limited Edition of Eudora Welty's Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
WELTY, Eudora.
Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
New York: Random House, 1977.
Signed limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by Eudora Welty. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 115699
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First Hungarian Edition of Imre Kertesz's Felszamolas; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
Felszamolas [Liquidation].
Budapest: Magveto, 2003.
First Hungarian edition, preceding the English edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 698
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First Edition of Charles Tazewell's The Littlest Angel
TAZEWELL, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans.
The Littlest Angel.
Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.
First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133161
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First edition of Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; from the library of American writer and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen
BROWN, Stephen [Editor]. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. Introduction by David Allen Sibley [Peter Matthiessen].
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2006.
First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 135489
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“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it": First edition of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
ELIOT, T.S.
The Cocktail Party.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950.
First edition of the most popular of Eliot's seven plays published during his lifetime. First issue with "here" for "her" on page 29, line 1. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with an archival tape repair to the front panel. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137195
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First American Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
First American edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 4159
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“We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have": No Ordinary Time; Warmly Inscribed by Doris Kearns Goodwin
KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition, early printing of the historian's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bonnie, With best my best wishes, Doris Kearns Goodwin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 143772
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First Edition of Ernest Seton-Thompson's The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; inscribed by him
SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
First edition of Seton-Thompson's illustrated work on the Sandhill wilderness. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panel, gilt ruled, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with 60 drawings by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "To S. D. Green with well best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 96113
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First Edition of Samuel L. Clemens' The Curious Republic of Gondour
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
First edition of Twain's classic collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137388
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“EVERYTHING WE ARE IS AT EVERY MOMENT ALIVE IN US”: FIRST EDITION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD; SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER
MILLER, Arthur.
The Creation of the World and Other Business.
New York: Viking Press, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 2010
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She Loves Me. She Loves Me Not; Signed by Maurice Sendak
KEESHAN, Robert; Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
She Loves Me… She Loves Me Not.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
First edition of the 1991 edition. Small quarto, original illustrated boards. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 27056
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Gore Vidal's Kalki; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Kalki.
New York: Random House, 1978.
First book club edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Hall. An exceptional association.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 126712
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Finely Bound example of Hallam's View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages
HALLAM, Henry.
View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1880.
Finely bound volume of Hallam's history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, gilt emblem to the front panel. From the library of I.H. Echalaz with a period gift inscription to him to the front free endpaper dated 1902. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 90436