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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition, early printing of the author’s fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
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London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1889.
First edition of this collection of letters reflecting Victorian life. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, and tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Clipped newspaper article regarding Edinburgh University acquiring the collection of forty originalContinue reading "Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle Together with a Few of Later Years and Some of Thomas Carlyle."
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
First edition of this Edwardian novel. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with titles stamped in gilt and botanical detailing stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the front pastedown. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and TheContinue reading "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1948.
First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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Wien : Boomerang Cards, .
Austrian postcard signed by great spy novelist John le Carre. Featuring a black and white photograph of Le Carre, the postcard measures 5.75 by 4 inches. In near fine condition.
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New York : Doubleday & Company, 1956.
First edition of this classic collection of stories by the National Book Award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For John Lehmann from a proud old contributor to New Writing and the London Magazine – J.F. Powers.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.Continue reading "The Presence of Grace."
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London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.
First edition of this modern classic, basis for the miniseries starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Sarah Perry on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Peter Dyer.
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Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Gladwell’s debut work which seeks to explain and describe the “mysterious” sociological changes that mark everyday life. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Susan, enjoy! Malcolm Gladwell.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Photograph of actor Pierce Brosnan, as James Bond. Semi-glossy photograph of Brosnan in the iconic black and white tuxedo of the secret agent James Bond with a Walther PPK in his right hand. British Secret Service agent James Bond, often referred to by his code name 007, first appeared in 1953 with the debut ofContinue reading "Pierce Brosnan Signed Photograph."
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New York : The Harbor Press, 1929.
Signed limited edition and first separate edition of this one act play by Frost. Octavo, original half cloth. One of four hundred and eighty-five numbered copies signed by Robert Frost at the conclusion of the preface. In fine condition.
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Cambridge : Macmillan and Co, 1857.
First edition of the author’s classic work, containing some of his most profound passages of descriptive imagery. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
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Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1887.
First edition of Peter M’Naughton’s translation of the poems of Ossian. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Uncommon.
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New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1990.
First edition of this work in the author’s classic Fudge series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Linda Love, Judy Blume Oct. 1993.” Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Sue Truesdell.
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New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1995.
First edition of this writing primer from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Marilyn – Richard Rhodes.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Eric Baker.
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London : John Murray, 1823.
First edition, first state of Byron’s retelling of Kruitzner, or the German’s Tale in Harriet Lee’s Canterbury Tales without “the end” and the imprint on page 188. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with five raised gilt bands to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles. Lacking the publisher’sContinue reading "Werner. A Tragedy."
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New York : Random House, 1954.
First edition of the first novel to win both Pulitzer and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson. Inscription to the front free endpaper.
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Cambridge : Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Mess. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, et al, 1744.
18th century large annotated edition of Butler’s acclaimed mock romance, the “best edition” according to Lowndes. Octavo, two volumes bound in full calf with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins illustrated with 16 engraved plates by J. Mynde after William Hogarth including frontispiece portrait of Butler to Vol. I., errata, index, andContinue reading "Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written in the Time of The Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, L.L.D. Adorn’d with a new Set of Cuts."
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of Roth’s 30th book, concerning “an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a ‘counterplot of unusual erotic desire’.” Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and signed by legendary artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designContinue reading "The Humbling."
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New York : The Heritage Press, 1935.
First edition thus of Helen Wadell’s translation of the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité which was adapted into the famous opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartmentsContinue reading "The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux."
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London : Viking, 1994.
First edition of the sequel to the author’s I Dreamed of Africa. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Kuki Gallmann 1994.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
First edition of tenth anniversary edition of Walker’s third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Alice Walker on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Jacket illustration by Joan Eda.
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Toronto : James Campbell & Son, [1871].
Rare unauthorized edition of Twain’s witty collection of satirical sketches; this edition possibly containing the first appearance of My Late Senatorial Secretaryship. BAL 3334. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good condition. Rare.
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London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.
First edition of this humorous essay on hilarious answers from school children’s examination questions. With a commentary by Mark Twain. Duodecimo, original cloth with titles stamped in black, top edge gilt. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
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South Africa : Ravan Press, 1983.
First edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Some bleedthrough on the bottom pages, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marcus Wilson- Smith. Photograph of the author by Geraldine Farley.
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Biography and Autobiography
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Biography and Autobiography
