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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
First edition of this “brief novel of deep feeling” (Time). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by ChipContinue reading "Seek My Face."
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Stuttgart : J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder’s selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1971.
First English edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora. Translated by J.S. Bernstein.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
First edition, second printing of the first book in the Rabbit quartet. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth, stamp of number 23 to the top of the textblock and “Library Copy” to the bottom. Boldly signed by John Updike on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and soiling. JacketContinue reading "Rabbit, Run."
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this modern classic “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem” (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by BobContinue reading "Daddy Was A Number Runner."
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New York : The Viking Press, 1963.
First American edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill English.
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New York : Ecco/HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003.
First edition of Edith Grossman’s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Translated by Edith Grossman. Introduction by Harold Bloom. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and photograph by David High and Ralph Del Pozzo.
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New York : Atria/Emily Bestseller Books, 2014.
First edition of the first book in the best-selling ‘You’ series, which spawned the popular Netflix show by the same name starring Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Natalie C. Sousa. Author photograph by Katheen Szmit.
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London : Published by R. Ackermann, 1831.
First edition of Harrison’s popular Christmas miscellany. Duodecimo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, ruling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece, illustrated with fifty black and white engravings. In very good condition with some rubbing. Illustrated from designs by Thomas Rowlandson.
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New York : The Viking Press, 1931.
First edition, early printing, of Parker’s third collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the uncommon original dust jacket which is in good condition.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
First American edition of this historical novel that reimagines the life of the exotic dancer and courtesan Mata Hari. Boldly signed by Paulo Coelho on the second front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry. Jacket design by Stephanie Ross. Author photograph by Xavier Gonzales.
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London : Cassell and Company, Limited, 1905.
First edition of Rackham’s beautifully illustrated work. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, rebacked, illustrated with 36 full-page and vignette line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Neat ownership name. In very good condition.
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Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo’s first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, “for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May ’84.” From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. CoverContinue reading "Yellow Light."
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New York : The Viking Press, 1981.
First American edition of one of the author’s most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studios.
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Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983.
First edition. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.
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New York : The Dial Press, 1969.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
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New York and London : The Macmillan Company/Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904 and 1906.
First editions of Thomas Hardy’s only major dramatic work. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles. First American edition, first issue of part one. First British edition, second issue of part two. In very good condition with light bumping and rubbing, and light toning.
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London : Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First British edition of this allegorical novella in which Wells explores the psychology of fear and collective anxiety in the troubled years between the world wars. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Priest’s most famous works include TheContinue reading "The Croquet Player."
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London : Michael Joseph, 1988.
First edition of the author’s artistic detective story. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to photographer Sally Soames, “For Sally Soames Alison Lurie 21 June ’88.” The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 andContinue reading "The Truth About Lorin Jones."
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1964 : William Morrow & Company, New York.
First edition of Huxley’s authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley.” Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter,Continue reading "With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook."
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New York : Doubleday, 1990.
First edition of the fifth book in Asimov’s Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Steinberg.
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New York : The Viking Press, 1991.
First edition of King’s critically praised “horror ride… where all hell breaks loose.” Octavo, original half cloth. Fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Rob Wood/Stansbury.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1908.
First edition of Lucas’ compilation of the verse from the greatest French poets of the 13th and 14th centuries. Octavo, bound in half vellum for Christ’s Hospital boarding school with their armorial crest to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction in English, text inContinue reading "The Oxford Book of French Verse."
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New York : The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1959.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Robert Micklewright. Author photograph by Eddie Fong.
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