Showing items 3816-3840 of 4665
New York : Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927.
First American edition of this work on Conrad. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Near fine in the original dust jackets which are in very good condition.
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San Francisco : The Examiner, 1899.
Scarce first edition and only appearance of the Kipling Handbook issued as a single sheet in the San Francisco Examiner to be folded into 32 pages; the contents were all previously published. 16mo, original wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell and chemise case.
Read moreNew York : Random House, 1960.
First edition, early printing of P.D. Eastman’s beloved classic, one of the most cherished titles in Random House’s Beginner Books series. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by the author throughout. Early printing with 195/195 price code on jacket flap and only 24 titles listed on jacket rear. In very good condition with some toning andContinue reading "Are You My Mother?"
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London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011.
Signed limited first edition of Zafón’s second young-adult novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 958. In fine condition. Cover illustration by Neal Murren.
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London : Secker and Warburg, 1977.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : The Vanguard Press, 1947.
First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An excellent example in a near fine dust jacket.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1889.
First trade edition of Palgrave’s treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.
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London : Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [c. 1913].
First edition of Bentley’s groundbreaking detective novel, “one of the three best detective stories ever written” (Agatha Christie). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece in color. In very good condition. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Early printing of Fowles’ classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Alice and Martin Provensen.
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London : Hodder and Stoughton LTD, 1929.
First edition of this classic adventure thriller. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within gilt bands, illustrated with a map. In near fine condition.
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New York : Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1928.
Limited edition of The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton and Leonard C. Smithers. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with eight full page plates, rebacked. One of seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, this is number 170. From the library of Oliver Craus Safir with his ownership signature and, subsequently hisContinue reading "The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus."
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New York : Alred A. Knopf, 1998.
First Canadian edition of Irving’s powerful ninth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken With my appreciation John Irving.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Book design by Victoria Wong.
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New York : Scribner and Welford, 1882.
First American edition of the definitive biography of famed illustrator and satirist George Cruikshank. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters early morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with black and white illustrations throughout. In very good condition.
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London : Oxford University Press, 1966.
Finely bound edition of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, the new edition. Duodecimo, bound in full modern morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and innerContinue reading "The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918."
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London : Editions Poetry London, 1947.
First British edition of Nabokov’s criticism of the work of Russian literary master Nikolai Gogol. Octavo, original cloth. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gogol. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
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Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2007.
First Australian edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover design by Chong.
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New York : The Heritage Press, 1965.
The Heritage Press edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark historical romance. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, illustarted with color lithographs. In fine condition. Introduction by G.B. Stern. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Ward was a pioneeringContinue reading "The Master of Ballantrae."
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New York : Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First edition of Kipling’s classic short story which first appeared in Harper’s Short Stories in September 1890. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. In fine condition. House in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
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London : Canongate, 2015.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Matt Haig on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rafaela Romaya. Illustrations by Chris Mould.
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963.
First edition of the “the most original, unusual and interesting piece of prose writing of Russian emigre writing” (Simon Karlinsky). Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Michael Scammell.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Diane Large.
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Tacoma : John H. Williams, 1913.
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. With sixteen color plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. Signed by John H. Williams on the title page. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by John H. Williams. In near fine condition.
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.
Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of this marvelous play in two acts. Thin quarto, original wrappers and comb binding. In very good condition with a spot of toning to the front and rear panel, an inscription to the top edge of the front panel, a miniscule closed tear to the fore edge ofContinue reading "The Beauty Part."
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