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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookplate.
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London : Chapman and Hall, 1846.
First edition of this collection of 19th-century prose retellings and analyses of epic tales from famous Italian poets. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, triple ruling and floral designs stamped in blind to the front and rear panels. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
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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.
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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.
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961.
First edition of this work by the famed explorer. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. 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 SpiritContinue reading "Alone Across The Atlantic."
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New York : Atheneum, 1980.
First edition of Albee’s late play. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of the director Alan Schneider with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Schneider directed the play’s Broadway premiere at the Morosco Theatre in January 1980, starring Irene Worth, making this the director’s own copy of the work he carried to theContinue reading "The Lady From Dubuque."
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New York : Random House, 1973.
Later printing of the final volume in Boorstin’s The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Lydia A. Bogdoyan with admiration and warm regards from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 23, 1976.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition, later printing of this National Book Award winning biography of Thomas Jefferson. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Clayton Williams Best Wishes, Joseph J Ellis Deerfield, MD October 1999.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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New York : Random House, 1989.
First edition of Nancy Reagan’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Laid in is a note from her office thanking the recipient for the letter. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written in collaboration with William Novak.
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New York : Harper & Row, 1982.
Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the original acetate.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First printing of this edition of the author’s first book and the first title in her “Calico” series. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Tasha Tudor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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London : Penguin/ Viking, 2013.
First British edition of this New York Times bestselling spy thriller. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the limitations page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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: 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.
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London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.
First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Later printing of the “the magna carta of the information age” (Scientific American), Shannon’s work provided “a mathematical guide for the system’s engineers [at Bell Labs], a blueprint for how to move data around with optimal efficiency” (Gertner p.128). Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial boards, illustrated with equations. In fine condition.
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New York : The Citadel Press, 1968.
First edition of The Algonquin Wits. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with a portrait photograph of each author. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Cowan.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
First edition of Wharton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustration by Alonzo Kimball. In fine condition.
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London : Herbert Jenkins Limited, n.d.
First edition of Wodehouse’s brilliantly comedic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.
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London : Watts & Co., 1935.
The Thinker’s Library edition of this blueprint for a unified, scientifically planned world state. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth with titles stamped in black. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper and the previous ownership crossed out. Priest’s most famous works include The InvertedContinue reading "What Are We To Do With Our Lives?"
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1980.
First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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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.
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New York : Kite Trust Publishing Company, 1900.
First limited author’s edition of this novel critiquing wealth and its societal impact. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece with author’s signature facsimile. One of 250 copies, this copy for Henry S. Wellcome. In very good condition.
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