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First edition of George A. Henty's On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the first Burmese War
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of The First Burmese War.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1897.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Overend. In good condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 122334
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Advanced Readers Edition of the First Edition of Hunter Thompson's The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
THOMPSON, Hunter S.; Foreword by William J. Kennedy.
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1).
New York: Villard Books, 1997.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by William J. Kennedy.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146971
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First Edition of Herbert's humorous novel Holy Deadlock
HERBERT, A.P.
Holy Deadlock.
London: Methuen and Co, 1934.
First edition of this novel of two young people in search of a divorce after seven years of marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117239
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"Yet this evening was an occasion and she hadn't had so many of those in her life": First edition of Angus Wilson's Late Call
WILSON, Angus.
Late Call.
London: Seeker & Warburg, 1964.
First edition of Wilson's satirical comedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. A sharp example.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96194
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First Edition of Henry James' Within the Rim and other Essays, 1914-15
JAMES, Henry.
Within the Rim and Other Essays, 1914-15.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1918.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition. BAL 10702.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 110471
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First edition of Coyote Goes Walking: retold and with pictures by Tom Pohrt
POHRT, Tom.
Coyote Goes Walking.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.
First edition of Pohrt's wonderfully illustrated retelling of four of the adventures of the classic mythical creature. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 140125
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Human Stain
ROTH, Philip.
The Human Stain.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Roth's award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146852
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Limited First Edition of Joseph P. Lash's A World of Love; Signed by Him
LASH, Joseph P.
A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.
Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt by Peter Fiore specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition, illustrated with black and white photographs and a genealogical table. Signed by Joseph Lash on the front flyleaf. In near fine condition with a small abrasion…
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146857
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's Blue Pastures
OLIVER, Mary.
Blue Pastures.
New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146804
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First Edition of Sport of Nature; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Sport of Nature.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
First British edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Robins.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 4160
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First edition of Menke Katz's Burning Village; inscribed by him
KATZ, Menke.
Burning Village.
New York: The Smith, 1972.
First edition of the acclaimed poet's crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Feb 3rd 1977 For Prof. Chimieu Abronsky from Menke Katz." Katz has also added a large illustration of flowers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 124015
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"People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch": First Edition of Ryszard KAPUŚCIŃSKI's The Soccer War
KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard.
The Soccer War.
London: Granta Books, 1990.
First edition of this remarkable eye-witness account of "the emergence of the Third World," translated from the original Polish by William Brand. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146973
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"Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day": First Edition of Bellow's Seize the Day
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize the Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 90869
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"Fly over the valley when the winds are keen, and nestle where the earth receives another generation of exhausted leaves": First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' Starved Rock
MASTERS, Edgar Lee.
Starved Rock.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919.
First edition of the this early collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Inadvertently inscribed on the final free endpaper, "For S.D. Green...Edgar Lee Masters." In very good condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96230
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First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Girl With Curious Hair
WALLACE, David Foster.
Girl With Curious Hair.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's second book and first collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 145192
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Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip.
Philip Pullman Collection.
London: Various Publishers, 2000-2004.
Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in Boots (London: Doubleday: 2000), a first Picture Corgi edition of Puss in Boots (London: Picture Corgi Books, 2000), and a first edition of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2004). Each volume is in fine condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117733