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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Banquets of the Black Widowers
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Banquets of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984.
First edition of the fourth book in Asimov's Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142875
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First Edition of Diane Johnson's Le Mariage; Signed by Her
JOHNSON, Diane.
Le Mariage.
New York: Dutton Book, 2000.
First edition of this "splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle. Jacket illustration by Nina Berkson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110599
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First edition of George Clinch's English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times
CLINCH, George.
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, 1919.
First edition of Clinch's history of hop cultivation. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115808
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V. S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow and Other Stories; inscribed by him to British photojournalist Sally Soames
PRITCHETT, V. S.
A Careless Widow and Other Stories.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First American edition, second printing of Pritchett's classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, "For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993." 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…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124590
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"In a little village there was a church, and on the top of the church stood a weathercock": Evelyn Sharp's The Story of the Weathercock
SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
The Story of the Weathercock.
London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..
Early printing of Sharp's children's classic. Quarto, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charles Robinson. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135422
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First Edition of Howard Greenfeld's Puccini; lengthily inscribed by him
GREENFELD, Howard. [Puccini].
Puccini.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.
First edition of Greenfeld's authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To James Canner, With gratitude, admiration, and friendship. Howard Greenfeld Jan 23, 1981." In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115708
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First Edition of Archer Mayor's Open Season
MAYOR, Archer.
Open Season.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.
First edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 140494
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Yuichi Hibi's A Weekend With Mr. Frank; one of 500 copies signed by Hibi on the verso of an original print
HIBI, Yuichi. [Robert Frank].
A Weekend With Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print.
Tuscon, Arizona: Nazarelli Press, 2006.
Signed limited edition of the companion book to Yuichi Hibi's 2001 documentary on the life and work of Robert Frank. Small octavo, original boards, containing five reproductions of black and white photographs and one original print. One of 500 numbered copies signed on the verso of the original print by Yuichi Hibi, this is number 240. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122098
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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"Hello Sun in my face": First Edition of Mary Oliver's Why I Wake Early
OLIVER, Mary.
Why I Wake Early.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146882
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First edition of Bernard Darwin's Dickens; the 11th book in the Duckworth Great Lives Series
DARWIN, Bernard.
Dickens.
London: Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 117034
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First Edition of This collection of Nadine Gordimer’s Writings; Signed by the Nobel Laureate
GORDIMER, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman.
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 546
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First Edition of The Prince of the Marshes; Inscribed by Rory Stewart
STEWART, Rory.
The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Stewart's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Rory Stewart on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 3491
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"Hans Breitmann gife a barty; Dey had biano-blayin, Ifelled in lofe mit a Meixcan frau, Her name vas Maidilda Yane": Charles G. Leland's The Breitmann Ballads
LELAND, Charles G.
The Breitmann Ballads.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1902.
Early printing of Leland's classic collection of poems, including several of Rudyard Kipling's personal favorites. 12mo, original cloth, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123543
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First Edition of All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game
SEYMOUR, Bert.
All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game.
London: Ward, Lock & Company, 1924.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated by 33 action photographs and many diagrams. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 87637
