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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Works
BALDWIN, Stanley P.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Works.
New York: Spark Publishing, 2003.
First edition of this overview of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. In fine condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 114889
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MERTON, Thomas. Complied by Frank Dell'Isola.
Thomas Merton: A Bibliography.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Dell’Isola’s concise bibliography of Merton’s works up until 1956. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 96129
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First Edition of Sue Grafton's R is for Ricochet
GRAFTON, Sue.
R is for Richochet.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.
First edition of the 18th book in Grafton’s Alphabet Mystery series. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri. Author photograph by Steven Humphrey.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 118017
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First Penguin Paperback edition of Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads
GREENE, Graham.
The Lawless Roads.
London: Penguin Books, 1947.
First Penguin paperback edition of Greene’s account of his 1938 trip to Mexico, the counterpart to his award-winning novel The Power and the Glory. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Ownership name to the front panel and half-title page. In very good condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 119678
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First Edition of Bernard Darwin's Pack Clouds Away
DARWIN, Bernard.
Pack Clouds Away.
London: Collins, 1941.
First edition of this collection of autobiographical essays by the great golf writer. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 117839
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis: A Play
BELLOW, Saul.
The Last Analysis: A Play.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1966.
First edition of the only play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Ball.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 34864
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
QUENNELL, Peter.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of this tribute to Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Edited by Peter Quennell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 36337
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's Down There On a Visit
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 112391
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"The Architect, by his arrangement of forms, realizes an order which is a pure creation of his spirit": First edition exhibition catalog from the Yale University School of Architecture
HOUGH, Jessica and Monica Ramirez-Montagut.
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture.
New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 2008.
First edition catalog of the Painting the Glass House exhibition organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum with the Yale School of Architecture. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated with photographs. In fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 88094
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"How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, when fond recollection presents them to view!": First edition of Samuel Woodworth's The Old Oaken Bucket
WOODWORTH, Samuel.
The Old Oaken Bucket.
Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881.
First edition of Samuel Woodworth’s best-known work. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humprey, engraved by and under the supervision of W. B. Closson. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 117640
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Albert Camus' autobiography The First Man
CAMUS, Albert.
The First Man.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Early printing of the first American edition of Camus’ deeply moving autobiography, the original manuscript of which was discovered in the car wreckage when Camus was killed and was subsequently transcribed by his daughter. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Translated from the French by David Hapgood. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 119460
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Gerald Stern's This Time: New and Selected Poems; Signed by Her
STERN, Gerald .
This Time: New and Selected Poems.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Early printing of this collection of poems. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Gerald Stern on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 99822
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First Edition of By Request: An Autobiography of André L. Simon
SIMON, André L.
By Request: An Autobiography of André L. Simon.
London: The Wine and Food Society, 1957.
First edition of the “the charismatic leader of the English Wine trade”, André L. Simon’s autobiography (Johnson). Octavo, original cloth with spine label lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded illustrations after photographs, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Simon after a drawing by Youngman Carter. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 110682
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First Edition of Gilles Peress's The Rockaways
PERESS, Gilles.
The Rockaways.
Concord Free Press, 2013.
First edition of the photographic work, which looked at the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaways in Queens, New York. Edited with an introduction by Hamilton Fish. Essays and reporting by Daniel Borrero, Christopher Carr, Luke Hammill, Mary Norris and Joshua Ogogo. Oblong quarto, original illustrated wrappers, photographs throughout. In fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 75423
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First Edition of Patrick White's The Cockatoos
WHITE, Patrick.
The Cockatoos.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
First edition of this collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 43763
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"Let the organ moan her sorrow to the roof- I have told the naked stars the grief of man!" First edition of A Choice of Songs From the Verse of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Choice of Songs From the Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, 1925.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s songs. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 121544
