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New York : Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra, number 166 of 200 examples. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in the original acetate dust jacket in the fine publisher’s cardboard slipcase.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
First edition of the final installment in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, pictorial endpapers, with ten illustrations. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.
Later printing of Kipling’s Two Jungle Books in one volume. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. In very good condition. Bookplate and small ownership inscription.
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London : Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Bill Botten.
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1925.
First American edition of this collection of Wells’ syndicated newspaper column from 1923-24. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. 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 The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 AcademyContinue reading "A Year of Prophesying."
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Franklin Center, PA : The Franklin Library, 1982.
The Franklin Library signed limited edition of this work by the author of Catch – 22. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon bound in, illustrated.Continue reading "Good As Gold."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Karen Davis Best- Wendy Wasserstein.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration and design by Laurie Rosenwald.
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Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
First edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author’s post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
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New York : Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931.
First edition of Cobb’s absorbing collection of historical essays. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Yours Sincerely Irvine S. Cobb.” Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
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London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1928.
Finely bound example of Head’s famous satirical autobiography. Quarto, bound in full tree calf with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with plates after the originals. In very good condition. Stamp to the half-title page.
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Garden City : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
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New York : Dutton, 2007.
First printing, advance uncopyedited manuscript of Follett’s bestselling historical novel, the sequel to The Pillars of Earth. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Erica Jong and her husband Ken Burrows. American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989 and became close personal friends of Follett’s. EricaContinue reading "World Without End."
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1949.
First edition of Perelman’s notion of intellectualism. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with unique drawings by Hirschfeld. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
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New York : Random House Inc., 2008.
First edition of Salman Rushdie’s richly imagined historical novel linking Renaissance Florence and the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar through the legend of a mysterious and captivating woman known as the “Enchantress.” Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. DustContinue reading "The Enchantress of Florence."
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Pasadena, CA : Published by the Author, 1936.
First edition of Sinclair’s Co-op. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking the front free endpaper.
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London : Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1916.
First British edition of Wells’ influential First World War novel depicting the moral and emotional upheaval of wartime Britain. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, titles and floral tooling stamped in blind to the front panel. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature toContinue reading "Mr. Britling Sees Through."
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Boston : Beacon Press, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
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London : Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
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New York : Scribner, 2011.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s magnificent memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Annie Proulx on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rex Bonomelli. Jacket photograph of Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.
First edition of this collection of two of Arnold’s most notable works. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt, with illustrations by E. H. New including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.
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London : Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.
First edition of Perelman’s critical examination of mid-20th century American society. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph by Ralph A. Brooks.
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