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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns. Quarto, original original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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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 : Doubleday, 2001.
First edition of this work, basis for the 2009 film directed by Jason Reitman, starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Jason Bateman. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Walter Kirn and Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney, and director Jason Reitman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Umi Kenyon. JacketContinue reading "Up In The Air."
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New York : The Modern Library, 2001.
First Modern Library edition of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marion Ettlinger. Introduction by Harold Bloom. Uncommon signed.
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New York : William Morrow, 2001.
First edition of Gaiman’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “-Neal- dream dangerous- Neil Gaiman.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.
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New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow author Peter Matthiessen, “For Peter Thank you! with warm regards Louis Menand.” From the library of National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. TheContinue reading "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America."
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Ashland, Kentucky : Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001.
First edition of the re-issue of Eckert’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ed- With warmest good wishes! Allan Eckert.” With photograph of the author laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Art by John Alan Maxwell. Jacket design by Brett Nance. RareContinue reading "The Frontiersmen: A Narrative."
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by both Mario Vargas Llosa and translator Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Eric Fuentecilla. Translated by Edith Grossman. Rare and desirable signed.
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New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow Pulitzer Prize award winning author Edward O. Wilson, “For Edward with best wishes Louis Menand.” Wilson’s signature to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near dust jacket. Jacket designContinue reading "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this “fabulously rich novel, highly compelling” (The Independent). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Orhan Pamuk and three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front jacket panel, title page and on the jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from theContinue reading "My Name Is Red."
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London : The Folio Society, 2001.
The Folio Society reissued edition of each volume in the Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in fine condition. Illustrations by John Lawrence.
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New York : ReganBooks, 2001.
First edition of Maguire’s haunting novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page with a quote from the novel, “The sky behind, higher up, bleeding the last of the sunset, is bright with disillustion. Gregory Maguire 22 Sept 07.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustrations byContinue reading "Lost."
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New York : Scribner, 2001.
The Binder’s Copy of the author’s manuscript signed limited edition of John Dunning’s classic work, with two pages of the original typed manuscript tipped in and inscribed by the author, “Original working draft ms. page for Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime John Dunning.” Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime."
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New York : Newmarket Press, 2001.
First edition of this work on the biopic film on Muhammad Ali, directed by Michael Mann starring Will Smith. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Muhammad Ali, Will Smith and Michael Mann on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Timothy Shaner. Introduction by Michael Mann. Story byContinue reading "Ali: The Movie and the Man."
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New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.
First edition, first printing of the 2001 edition of this compilation of the author’s classic Night Trilogy. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For John, “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” Eugenides.” Near fine inContinue reading "Middlesex."
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Tucson, AZ : Hrymfaxe, 2002.
First edition of the Hrymfaxe edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Blake on the half-title page, “For Tracy (from me and John) Michael Blake.” Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner and Wes Studi on the half-title page. Near fineContinue reading "Dances with Wolves."
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New York : St. Martins Press, 2002.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in this volume of feuds.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
First edition of Reich’s collection of music from 1965-2000. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Peter Happy Birthday! Steve Reich.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Paul Hillier.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
First edition of this “beautifully cadenced work of art―it will remind some readers of Nabokov’s classic Speak, Memory” (Joyce Carol Oates). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, ” For Renee and Ted whose tenderness, poetic spirit, and wit are so precious to all their friends – AffectionatelyContinue reading "Trains Of Thought: Memories Of A Stateless Youth."
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, “To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton, February 2005.” Also, laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that “Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy…”Continue reading "Without End: New and Selected Poems."
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New York : Random House, 2002.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 cult film directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman and Alison Lohman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eric Garcia, actors Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Bruce Altman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by DanielContinue reading "Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes."
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Madrid : Alfaguara, 2002.
First Spanish edition and true first of the first novel in the author’s acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
First edition of this work “destined to become a special kind of classic” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Merry Christmas Mark! from Donna.” Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and on theContinue reading "The Little Friend."
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Biography and Autobiography
Biography and Autobiography
First Edition
