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New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the film bearing the same name starring Academy Award-winning actor Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frederick Forsyth and Academy Award-winning actor Michael Caine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
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Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1959.
The Peter Pauper Press edition of one of the great spiritual classics of the world. Duodecimo, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and elaborate gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,Continue reading "The Bhagavad-Gita."
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.
First edition of this classic retelling of Moses’ exodus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. FoundedContinue reading "Moses, Man of the Mountain."
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New York: New Directions, 1962.
First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece. Boldly signedContinue reading "The Night of the Iguana."
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Constantinople: 1824.
Rare nineteenth-century Armenian edition of the Yachakhapatum, the celebrated collection of homilies traditionally ascribed to St. Gregory the Illuminator, the apostle and first Catholicos of the Armenian Church. Octavo, printed in Classical Armenian, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments with floral ornament and aContinue reading "Yachakhapatum: The Homilies of St. Gregory the Illuminator. [Collection of Sermons]."
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Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1792.
The third American edition of this theological work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition with rubbing, toning, and damp staining to the first and last few leaves.
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London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973.
Signed limited edition of this children’s classic, one of only 300 signed numbered copies signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard, this is number 90. Octavo, original publisher’s full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt vignette of Christopher Robin and Winne the Pooh to the front panel, allContinue reading "Winnie-the-Pooh. With Colour Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard."
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilts titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilts bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.Continue reading "Dombey and Son."
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New York: Shepard Kollock, 1786.
An early edition of this theological work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label and raised bands. In very good condition with rubbing and toning. Early ownership inscriptions to the title-page.
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New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2014.
First edition of Leander Kahney’s biography of Jony Ive, the legendary British designer behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad and the guiding force of Apple’s design studio during its most transformative era. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raisedContinue reading "Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products."
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1943.
First edition of this early Greene work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Founded over aContinue reading "The Ministry of Fear."
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New York: Everyman's Library, 1999.
First edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by theContinue reading "The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain."
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c. 1900.
A striking Italian painted and parcel-gilt wooden portfolio, or book-form case, the upper cover finely painted with a copy of Pinturicchio’s celebrated fresco in the Piccolomini Library of Siena Cathedral depicting the meeting of the Emperor Frederick III and his bride Eleonora of Portugal. Constructed of wood with a soft leather spine and fabric ties,Continue reading "An Italian Painted and Gilded Wooden Portfolio, After Pinturicchio."
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Imprinted at London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1619; Robert Barker and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1620.
An early quarto edition of the King James Bible, the Authorized Version that would become the most influential book in the English language, printed in 1619 and 1620 by the King’s Printers Bonham Norton and John Bill. Quarto in eights (21.1 by 15.4 cm), in an eighteenth-century blue calf binding, the smooth spine ruled andContinue reading "The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongue; The New Testament of Our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ."
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Edinburgh: Henry Charteris, 1596.
Rare Scottish metrical psalter of 1596, printed at Edinburgh by Henry Charteris, containing the psalms as they were sung in the Kirk of Scotland together with the catechism, common prayers, and the forms of church discipline of the early Presbyterian church. Octavo, early nineteenth-century embossed calf binding with a Gothic architectural design in the mannerContinue reading "The Psalmes of David in Metre. According as they are sung in the Kirk of Scotland."
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Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, 1726.
Exquisitely bound Georgian Bible, printed by John Baskett and extra-illustrated with over two hundred engravings by T. Cole, bound together with the Book of Common Prayer and the metrical Psalms. Quarto, finely bound in in full contemporary polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling tot the spine, rebacked, gilt ruling, panelling and scrollingContinue reading "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments; The Historical Part of the Holy Bible; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues; The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out ot the Original Greek."
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
First edition of the collected Giver Quartet, gathering all four of Lois Lowry’s acclaimed novels in a single volume, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. Octavo, original boards with decorations stamped in red. In fine condition. Accompanied by a laid in clipping bearing a photographic portrait, signed by Lois Lowry and dated September 2003.Continue reading "The Giver Quartet."
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.
First edition of H.M. Tomlinson’s powerful novel of the Great War, a searching and elegiac account of the generation swept up and consumed by the First World War. Octavo, original cream linen cloth with a gilt device to the front cover, with a portrait frontispiece from a drawing by Percy Smith. One of only 1025Continue reading "All Our Yesterdays."
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New York: Archipelago Books,
First edition set of Knausgaard’s masterpiece My Struggle, with volume one a second edition, but first hardcover edition. Octavo, 6 volumes, original cloth. Each volume signed signed by Karl Ove Knausgaard on the title page. Volume one is signed by legendary artist Anselm Kiefer on the front free endpaper of volume one, who contributed theContinue reading "My Struggle Complete Set: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V & VI – A Death In the Family, A Man In Love, Boyhood Island, Dancing in the Dark, Some Rain Must Fall & The End."
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977-1994.
A collection of three first edition works by John Kenneth Galbraith exploring the great sweep of economic history and ideas, including his celebrated venture into fiction. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s original publisher’s cloth or half-cloth. The collection comprises: The Age of Uncertainty (Houghton Mifflin, 1977), his acclaimed history of economic thought and its makers;Continue reading "John Kenneth Galbraith: Economics and Its History."
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Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1947.
First edition of Ida Bailey Allen’s classic guide to the modern art of pressure cooking. Octavo, finely bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ribbon bound in, illustrated with photographs. In near fine condition. A charming mid-century American cookbook in a handsome leather binding.
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New York City: The American News Company, 1879.
First edition of Young’s illustrated narrative of Grant’s international travel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full brown morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, elaborate floral tooling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of GrantContinue reading "Around the World with General Grant."
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Aberdeen: Milne & Hutchison, 1925.
First edition of this handsomely produced private genealogical history of a branch of the Lawrance family of Aberdeenshire, traced with extraordinary diligence by the antiquary Robert Murdoch Lawrance back to one John Lawrance, born in 1667 at the Barnyards of Philorth near Fraserburgh. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, a monogramContinue reading "A Branch of the Aberdeenshire Lawrances."
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Paris: Quillau, Esprit, et l'Auteur, 1773.
First edition in French of Franklin’s collected works, a rare presentation copy inscribed by Franklin to his friend and fellow polymath Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry. Quarto, two volumes bound into one in full contemporary French mottled calf, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpaper,Continue reading "Oeuvres de M. Franklin."
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Milne, A.A.; Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard.
Kahney, Leander [Jony Ive].
McCarthy, Cormac.
[After Pinturicchio].
Charteris, Henry.
Baskett, John. [Horace Walpole].
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. [Anselm Kiefer].
