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Paris : Edward W. Titus, 1931.
First signed limited subscriber’s edition of Coyle’s short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very good in the scarce original glassine which shows chipping and wear.
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New York : Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne Barlowe.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
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London : The Hogarth Press, 1952.
First edition, second printing of this self-portrait. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket and a couple of small losses to the crown of the spine and front panel of the dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.
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London : Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..
Early printing of Sharp’s children’s classic. Quarto, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charles Robinson. In good condition.
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Allahabad : Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.
Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling’s tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore and Aft. In very good condition.
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New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
First edition of Kipling’s beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985.
First edition of the fourth and final book in Asimov’s Robot series. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barclay Shaw.
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London : Sphere, 2014.
First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.
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New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author’s Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
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London : Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].
First edition this selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
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London : Chapman and Hall, 1869.
Rare second edition of the author’s melancholy novel. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
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London : Scholastic, 1999.
Early printing of Philip Pullman’s third book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best Wishes to Eileen, Philip Pullman Sept. 99.” In near fine condition.
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New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, .
Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In very good condition, ownership signature to the front free endpaper.
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New York : Arcade Publishing/Little Brown And Company, 1991.
First edition of Southern’s powerful critique of cultural and economic forces that shaped America. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor. Author photograph by William Claxton.
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London : Heinemann, 1961.
First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett.
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London : Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin’s concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921.
First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Translated into English verse by E.D.A Morshead. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2007.
First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Chris and Kathy, Dear friends and neighbors! Nathan May 3, 2007.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In good condition.
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Elkins Park, Pennsylvania : Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist’s first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.
First edition of the author’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows For Whom my affection will never be remaindered Love Susan.” The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989.Continue reading "The Cage."
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