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"In those days every month seemed endless, and the years an eternity": First edition of Impressions by Pierre Loti; with an introduction by Henry James
LOTI, Pierre. Introduction by Henry James.
Impressions.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1898.
First edition of Pierre Loti's Impressions. Octavo, original green pictorial buckram, woodcut pictorial title page, woodcut initials. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 109487
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' The Kipling Country
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins' illustrated homage to Kipling's home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135263
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“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real": First Edition of The Rum Diary
THOMPSON, Hunter S.
The Rum Diary.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition of Thompson's only published novel. Octavo, original black half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Perr.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147050
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First edition of The Letters of Tolstoy and His Cousin Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
TOLSTOY, Leo. Translated by Leo Islavin.
The Letters of Tolstoy and His Cousin Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (1857-1903).
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929.
First edition of the selected letters of Leo Tolstoy written to his cousin, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Leo Islavin. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127384
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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"Here at the quiet limit of the world": First edition of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh's short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146931
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First Edition of Nathan Glazer's From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City; Inscribed by Him
GLAZER, Nathan.
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 44001
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First edition of William Safire's The Relations Explosion; from his personal collection
SAFIRE, William .
The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of Safire's controversial book. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Abner Dean. From the library of the author, William Safire. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by S. A. Summit, Inc.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127393
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First Edition of William Rehnquist's Grand Inquests
REHNQUIST, William H.
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1992.
First edition, review copy with the photograph of Rehnquist and review material laid in of this account of two of the most significant trials and "cases" in American legal and political history. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Dick Adelson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147306
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"My small feet could walk the sun up and down across the stony hill-crests where we worked": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Teem"- A Treasure-Hunter; in the scarce original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121883
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V. S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow and Other Stories; inscribed by him to British photojournalist Sally Soames
PRITCHETT, V. S.
A Careless Widow and Other Stories.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First American edition, second printing of Pritchett's classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, "For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124590
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"In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say!": Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Fringes of the Fleet
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Fringes of the Fleet.
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122463
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First Edition of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties; Signed by Michael Lesy
LESY, Michael.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
New York: Norton, 2007.
First Edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilted titles to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Lesy on the half title page.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 799
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First Edition of The Sea Lion; Signed by Ken Kesey
KESEY, Ken.
The Sea Lion: A Story of the Sea Cliff People.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of this beautiful piece of children's literature. Super octavo, original half cloth, lavender endpapers, fully illustrated by Neil Waldman. Boldly signed and dated by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, "Ken Kesey 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145361
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First Edition of Education Nation; inscribed by Milton Chen
CHEN, Milton; George Lucas [Foreword].
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint, 2010.
First edition of this visionary framework for transforming secondary education to a more student-centered learning environment. Octavo, original publisher's boards, with black and white photographs and illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To the NPF Board, and the future of out National Parks! Milton Chen." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by George Lucas. Published with support from the George Lucas Education Foundation.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 148330
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth From Collected Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121607
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First Edition of Archer Mayor's Borderlines; Inscribed by Him
MAYOR, Archer.
Borderlines.
New York: Putnam, 1990.
First edition of the author's second mystery in his acclaimed Joe Gunther series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Archer Mayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 2747
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First American Edition of Henry James' The Sense of the Past
JAMES, Henry.
The Sense of the Past.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.
First American edition of one of James' two unfinished novels, published posthumously. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, in near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 81259
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"This is precisely what I expected Hong-Kong would be like": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's 'They' and the Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.
First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121873
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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George Ward Nichols' The Story of the Great March
NICHOLS, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.
Early printing of Nichols' account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133029
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics
SONDHEIM, Stephen.
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146134
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“There are always loose ends in real life": FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT GALBRAITH'S SILKWORM
GALBRAITH, Robert. [J.K. Rowling].
The Silkworm.
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 137033
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First Edition of The English: A Portrait of a People; Signed by Jeremy Paxman in the year of publication
PAXMAN, Jeremy.
The English: A Portrait of a People.
London: Michael Joseph, 1998.
First edition of this portrait of English history and culture. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Jeremy Paxman 19.x.98." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146933
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First Edition of Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
THE CAXTON CLUB,.
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
First edition of this work which compiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Neil Harris.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 140239
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Banquets of the Black Widowers
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Banquets of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984.
First edition of the fourth book in Asimov's Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142875
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First Edition of Jack Whittingham's Sabu of the Elephants
WHITTINGHAM, Jack.
Sabu of the Elephants.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition of Whittingham's account of the filming of "Toomai of the Elephants." Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126935
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Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip.
Philip Pullman Collection.
London: Various Publishers, 2000-2004.
Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in Boots (London: Doubleday: 2000), a first Picture Corgi edition of Puss in Boots (London: Picture Corgi Books, 2000), and a first edition of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2004). Each volume is in fine condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117733
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"People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch": First Edition of Ryszard KAPUŚCIŃSKI's The Soccer War
KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard.
The Soccer War.
London: Granta Books, 1990.
First edition of this remarkable eye-witness account of "the emergence of the Third World," translated from the original Polish by William Brand. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146973
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First Edition of Henry James' Within the Rim and other Essays, 1914-15
JAMES, Henry.
Within the Rim and Other Essays, 1914-15.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1918.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition. BAL 10702.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 110471
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First edition of Coyote Goes Walking: retold and with pictures by Tom Pohrt
POHRT, Tom.
Coyote Goes Walking.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.
First edition of Pohrt's wonderfully illustrated retelling of four of the adventures of the classic mythical creature. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 140125
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's Blue Pastures
OLIVER, Mary.
Blue Pastures.
New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146804
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Human Stain
ROTH, Philip.
The Human Stain.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Roth's award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146852
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"Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day": First Edition of Bellow's Seize the Day
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize the Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 90869
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First Edition of Herbert's humorous novel Holy Deadlock
HERBERT, A.P.
Holy Deadlock.
London: Methuen and Co, 1934.
First edition of this novel of two young people in search of a divorce after seven years of marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117239
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First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Girl With Curious Hair
WALLACE, David Foster.
Girl With Curious Hair.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's second book and first collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 145192
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First edition of Menke Katz's Burning Village; inscribed by him
KATZ, Menke.
Burning Village.
New York: The Smith, 1972.
First edition of the acclaimed poet's crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Feb 3rd 1977 For Prof. Chimieu Abronsky from Menke Katz." Katz has also added a large illustration of flowers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 124015
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"Yet this evening was an occasion and she hadn't had so many of those in her life": First edition of Angus Wilson's Late Call
WILSON, Angus.
Late Call.
London: Seeker & Warburg, 1964.
First edition of Wilson's satirical comedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. A sharp example.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96194
