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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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Finely bound example of Bagot's Casting of Nets
BAGOT, Richard.
Casting of Nets.
Bernhard Tauchnitz: Leipzig, 1901.
Finely bound example of Bagot's early novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine. Ownership names. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114706
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"Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it": First Edition of Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra; Signed by the Author
FUENTES, Carlos.
Terra Nostra.
New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1976.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Some foxing to the page edges in an excellent dust jacket that shows light wear. Signed and dated by the author. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 1922
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Anita Lovitt. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Translated by George Kolovakos and Ronald Christ.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142083
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First edition of Morris Schaff's The Battle of the Wilderness
SCHAFF, Morris.
The Battle of the Wilderness.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910.
First edition of Schaff's history of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with maps and plans. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133027
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Rare Second Edition of Reed's Liquor Licensing Laws of Ireland
REED, Andrew.
The Liquor Licensing Laws of Ireland and Innkeeper’s Guide.
Dublin: Alex Thom & Co, 1881.
Rare second edition of Reed's Liquor Licensing Laws of Ireland. Small octavo, original cloth, paper spine label. In very good condition. Cancelled library stamp to the front free endpaper, ownership signatures to the title page.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 105545
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Signed Limited First Edition of Thornton Wilder's The Angel That Troubled The Waters and Other Plays
WILDER, Thornton.
The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Wilder photographed by Doris Ulmann. One of seven-hundred and seventy-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 726. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145431
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"Northern must wage unending war with the powers of nature, battling against snow and ice and ocean tempests, as ceaselessly as Thor banged away at the giants with his hammer": First Edition of Lars Christensen's Such Is The Antarctic; From the library of Explorer Steve Fossett
CHRISTENSEN, Lars.
Such Is The Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.
First edition of Norwegian Antarctic explorer Lars Christensen's account of his Antarctic voyages between 1930 and 1934. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with 44 plates and one folding map. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111526
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First edition of Martha Walker Freer's The Life of Jeanne D'Albert
FREER, Martha Walker.
The Life of Jeanne D’Albert Queen of Navarre.
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1855.
First edition of Freer's appreciation of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes. Octavo, bound in three quarters emerald green crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 139030
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First Edition of Major-General Dunsterville's Stalky's Adventures
DUNSTERVILLE, Major-General L. C.
Stalky’s Adventures.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.
First edition of this autobiography by Major-General Dunsterville. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122198
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada)
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada).
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908.
First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling's letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122384
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“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Pearl
STEINBECK, John.
The Pearl.
New York: The Viking Press, 1947.
First edition of this classic story of simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good variant dust jacket with Steinbeck looking to the right. Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 131797
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where": First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Poets Classic Work
NERUDA, Pablo; Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright.
Twenty Poems.
Madison: The Sixties Press, 1967.
First edition of Neruda's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146377
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First Edition of Gunter Grass' Die Vorzüge der Windhühner; Signed by Him
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.
Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 78905