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New York : Rinehart and Company, 1948.
First edition of the author’s first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to journalist Joe Haas, “For Joe Haas in Jamaica after our Lady Norman Mailer May 1969.” Near fine in a very good first issue price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to theContinue reading "The Naked and the Dead."
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed on the half title page, “with every best wish, cordially, Jerzy Kosinski Sept. 1975.” Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with 46 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and golfing partner in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Peter Vermilze matters to be consumed in small tasty bites Merry Christmas John Updike 12/25/99.” UpdikeContinue reading "More Matter: Essays and Criticism."
Read more![Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/4634.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].")
Paris : Editions Du Chene, 1947.
First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Kazantzakis traveled to Paris frequently throughout his life and spoke French fluently. From 1902 Kazantzakis studied law at the University of Athens, then went to Paris in 1907Continue reading "Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek]."
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Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
First edition of this classic work in Carter’s binding “A”, which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copies). Octavo, original orange cloth. In near fine condition.
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Brooklyn, New York : Fowler and Wells, 1856.
Rare second edition, one of 1000 copies of the most important volume in American poetry, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition as well as a new section of correspondence and reviews entitled “Leaves-droppings” that begins with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation “I greet you at the beginningContinue reading "Leaves of Grass."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1987.
First British edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Robins.
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New York : Ecco Press, 1990.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition. The first article is 20 page essay from David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello on Rap music, entitled Signifying Rappers. Rare, especially signed.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities, name.
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New York : McDowell, Obelensky, 1958.
First American edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “J.P. Donleavy Washington D.C. March 1994.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alfred Manso. A bright example.
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New York : Random House, 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.
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New York : The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s first novel and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first significant literary contribution. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the translator Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the crown of the spine and a few small closed tears. Leigh Fermor translatedContinue reading "Forever Ulysses."
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New York : Pantheon, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic first novel. Octavo, bound in full black morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, top edge gilt. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Ralph Manheim. In fine condition.
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New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Joseph Heller’s copies of The Handbook of English, with his signature. Octavo, 2 volumes, original boards. From the library of Joseph Heller.
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London : Andre Deutsch, 1971.
First edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear. Jacket design by Sam Houston.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his neighbors Ken and Jane Field. A very sharp copy of Updike’s seventh novel.
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New York : Pantheon, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author to poet Robert Lowell in a German inscription, translated into English, which reads: “To Robert Lowell, in admiration and in the hopeContinue reading "The Tin Drum."
Read more![Manana en la batalla piensa en mi [Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3434.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "Manana en la batalla piensa en mi [Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me].")
Barcelona : Editorial Anagrama, 1994.
First edition of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.
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Barcelona : La Gaya Ciencia, 1972.
First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page.
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London : Faber & Faber, 1964.
First British edition. Octavo, original cloth.Signed by William Golding on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing. A very bright copy.
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New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the front free end paper. Light wear to the extremities, near fine in an excellent first issue dust jacket with light wear to the crown and foot of the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
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New York : William Morrow and Company, 1987.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s tenth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, “For Sidney and Fredda from an old friend Saul Bellow.” The recipient, Sidney Hyman as a fellow writer from Chicago and a close friend of Bellow. He is best know for his work The American President.Continue reading "More Die of Heartbreak."
Read more![The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dickens-works-charles-dickens.jpg?fit=1000%2C801&ssl=1 "The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].")
London : Chapman and Hall, .
Complete set of Charles Dickens’ works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated throughout. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
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London : Methuen & Co., 1931.
First British edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original light brown cloth. Signed by Pearl Buck on the title page. Near fine in the rare dust jacket which shows light wear to the extremities with minute expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed.
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First Edition
