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Collins Crime Club : London, 1958.
First edition of Christie’s classic murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.
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New York : The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963.
First edition of the “brilliant… sardonic, ludicrously funny” (The New York Times) story of an aimless college graduate in 1960s America that inspired of the iconic 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, Anne Bancroft and William Daniels. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Charles Webb and Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock) onContinue reading "The Graduate: A Novel of Today’s Youth, Unlike Any You Have Read."
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New York : Random House, 1958.
First edition of this classic musical. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein on the half-title page and inscribed by Stephen Sondheim on the front free endpaper. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by theContinue reading "West Side Story: A Musical."
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San Francisco : Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition in English of Coelho’s classic work, which has been translated into over 70 languages. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Annie, follow your dreams! Paulo Coelho.” The recipient, fellow author Annie Dillard, has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well asContinue reading "The Alchemist."
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London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011.
Signed limited first edition of Zafón’s second young-adult novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 958. In fine condition. Cover illustration by Neal Murren.
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New York : Harper Collins, 2010.
First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Harper Lee on the front free endpaper, “With best wishes, Harper Lee.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Shirley Smith.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles E. Skaggs.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page. First-issue dust jacket, without the ISBN number on the rear panel. Octavo, original red cloth. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of Wodehouse’s light-hearted and witty mystery novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Shore. Photograph of the author by William Cole.
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London : Orion Children's Books, 2013.
Exclusive signed first edition of the third novel for younger readers from the author of ‘The Shadow of the Wind’. Octavo, original cloth. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on the title page with the publisher’s embossed limitation stamp, this is number 82. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. CoverContinue reading "The Watcher in the Shadows."
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
First edition of this classic collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow author Cormac McCarthy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. McCarthy has been widely praised as not only a disciple of Faulkner, but his literary heir. Both authors’ biblically influenced prose formed the basis of a largeContinue reading "From Death To Morning."
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Amsterdam : Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.
First English edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Picart’s illustrations. Folio, two volumes in one, bound in full in early mottled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, engraved title vignette. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, 130Continue reading "Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands."
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London : William Heinemann, 1950.
First edition of Priestley’s works on realism with elements of psychological insight and social critique. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpaper: “Raymond Chandler 6005 Camino de la Costa La Jolla, California OCT 13 1949.” Raymond Chandler was a pivotal figure in 20th-centuryContinue reading "The Plays of J.B. Priestley: Volume III."
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Boston : The Beacon Press, 1963.
First edition of this collection of interviews done by Kenneth B. Clark. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the front panel. With a talk with Kenneth B. Clark and with a note about the interviewsContinue reading "The Negro Protest."
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New York : Harcourt Brace, 1927.
First edition, second issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s controversial bestseller and basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear.
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New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece facsimile of “The Last Words That Conrad Wrote.” Near fine in the original dust jacket with the portrait of Conrad and large ad for Kipling’s works to the verso.
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London : Bernard Quaritch, 1879.
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, bound in full green crushed morocco with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt borders with red inlay flowers to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and innerContinue reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám; and the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; Rendered Into English Verse."
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London : Printed for J. Bew, 1783.
Rare first edition in English of the author’s classic work. Duodecimo, 2 volumes, bound in three-quarters contemporary calfskin over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels. In very good condition, signatures to the front pastedowns.
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New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1913.
First edition of this historical romance, the first of three novels on Southern heroes; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six images designed by J. N. Marchand including a frontispiece of a war scene from the book. Inscribed by the author to Philemon T. Sherman on an “Author’s AutographContinue reading "The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln."
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Pennsylvania : New Directions, 1949.
First edition of this seminal work of Italian literature. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Wilfrid David.
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New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1954.
First edition of these humorous pieces chosen from all of Robert Benchley’s writings. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with unique drawings by Gluyas Williams. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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London : Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1910.
Exceptionally rare bound in jewelled binding, set with 37 jewels by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Quarto, reproduced from a manuscript illuminated by F. Sangorski G. & Sutcliffe, with miniatures after E. Geddes, original red straight-grained morocco, upper cover with central sunken oval green morocco panel and a Peacock with light green, blue, white, and brown moroccoContinue reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
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San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1965.
Fourth edition of this significant collection of poems—including the title piece, part lamentation for his mother, part protest of American society. Duodecimo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Gerry Davis in thanks for clarity of Pat photo is a reality kick coast to coast –Continue reading "Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960."
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New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of the Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jack Kerouac To Judge Eno- belated Thanks for driving me home in your Buick in ’32, and for your friendship to my father-.” The recipient, Judge Eno was the father of Kerouac’sContinue reading "The Town and the City."
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Laurents, Arthur; Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Ovid
Baldwin, James; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr; Kenneth B. Clark
Fitzgerald, Edward [Translator]
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Dixon, Thomas [William Tecumseh Sherman]
Benchley, Robert
Fitzgerald, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac
