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Special limited edition of Brown's Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake; one of 250 numbered copies signed by him
BROWN, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs.
Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.
London: Quiller Press, 1989.
Special limited edition of Brown's elaborately illustrated history of Kenya's northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher's three quarters pebbled morocco over leatherette boards, marbled endpapers, with 75 color and 50 black and white illustrations, folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 49. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 110678
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Signed Limited Edition of Max Beerbohm's A Survey
BEERBOHM, Max.
A Survey.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Signed limited edition of this work, number 237 of 275 copies. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece and 51 tipped-in chromolithographed plates, all edges gilt. Signed by Max Beerbohm to limitation. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 118774
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First edition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet
RODGERS, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein.
Me and Juliet.
New York: Random House, 1953.
First edition of the book companion to the sixth stage collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Fred Fehl. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 137268
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Signed Limited Edition of Winston Groom's Gump & Co.
GROOM, Winston.
Gump & Co.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1995.
Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Winston Groom. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 138538
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's The Humanities of Africa; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
The Humanities in Africa/ Die Geisteswissenschaften in Afrika.
Munchen: Carl Friedrich von Siemans Stiftung, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 2479
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Finely Bound Example of Samuel Maunder's Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres
MAUNDER, Samuel.
The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1858.
The new edition of Maunder's Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and the Arts. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, raised gilt bands to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges speckled red, frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 118021
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First edition of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, early issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade without the misprint on page 191. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 142153
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First and deluxe edition of A London Garland: Selected From Five Centuries of English Verse by W. E. Henley with Pictures of the Society of Illustrators
[THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS; ARTHUR RACKHAM],.
A London Garland: Selected From Five Centuries of English Verse by W. E. Henley with Pictures of the Society of Illustrators.
London and New York: Macmillan and Company, 1895.
First and deluxe edition of this selection of five centuries of verse with commentary by the Society of Illustrators. Quarto, original publisher's deluxe full vellum, illustrated, with one full page illustration by Arthur Rackham on page 104. In good condition with some chipping to the crown of the spine.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 142637
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Signed limited edition of Glenway Wescott's The Babe's Bed
WESCOTT, Glenway.
The Babe’s Bed.
Harrison of Paris, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Glenway Wescott's short novel. Octavo, original cloth. One of 375 numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 252. Near fine in the original slipcase.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 115108
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First Edition of Last Night; Signed by James Salter
SALTER, James.
Last Night.
London: Picador, 2005.
First edition of this collection of stories by the award-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146393
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First Edition of Booth Tarkington's The Lorenzo Bunch; Inscribed by Him
TARKINGTON, Booth.
The Lorenzo Bunch.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, May 9. 1940. Inscribed for Mr. Jerome Peltier." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 65791
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated by Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 199244
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First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town
FAULKNER, William.
The Town.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition, first printing of the second novel in Faulkner's celebrated Snopes trilogy with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good later issue dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ownership inscription to the pastedown. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140009
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First Edition of Burger’s Daughter; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Burger’s Daughter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Blanche Noonoo.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 133293
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First Edition of Toni Morrison's A Mercy; Signed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
A Mercy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Toni Morrison on a publisher's bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144102
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First Edition of Dusk and Other Stories; Signed by James Salter
SALTER, James.
Dusk and Other Stories
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988.
First edition of this collection of stories by the award-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Bullen.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146394