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Finely Bound Set of the Novels of Victor Hugo
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Boston : Dana Estes, 1892.
The Illustrated Cabinet edition of the novels of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 12 volumes. Bound in three quarters navy blue morocco over blue cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with illustrated plates, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 105448
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First Edition of Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Yearling; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Mark David Corser with good wishes Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings April 1938.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, especially in the year of publication.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 116898
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"But hes a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid": First Edition of Arthur Miller's Pultizer Prize-Winning Classic The Death Of A Salesman; Signed by Him
MILLER, Arthur.
Death Of A Salesman.
New York: The Viking Press, 1949.
First edition of the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original orange cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Arthur Miller in a contemporary hand on the second free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Joseph Hirsch.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 107533
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Long Walk to Freedom; Inscribed and Dated by Nelson Mandela To Ambassador Jean-Pierre Masset
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition, early printing of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ambassador Jean-Pierre Masset of France. Compliments & best wishes. NMandela 29.1.96.” The recipient, His Excellency Jean-Pierre Masset served as the French Ambassador to Pakistan from 1989 to 1993, a period of intense bilateral relations between France and Pakistan, marked by the state visit of President François Mitterrand, the first visit of a French President since the creation of Pakistan. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An excellent association.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 89081
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“The world is full of places to which I want to return”: First Edition of The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
HUEFFER, (Ford) Ford Madox.
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.
London: John Lane Company, 1915.
First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements.of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 81026
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First Edition of Roald Dahl's The Gremlins; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket; Inscribed by Bill Justice With a Large Drawing
DAHL, Roald; Walt Disney [Bill Justice].
The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story.
New York: Random House, 1943.
First edition of Dahl’s rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin, “Sorry Ray That’s a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice.” Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip ‘n Dale. He was the director of The Truth About Mother Goose, Noah’s Ark, and A Symposium On Popular Songs, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon. In total, Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features. Good in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and wear.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 111721
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"It is easy to consider man unique among living organisms": First Edition of Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene; Signed by Him
WATSON, James D.
Molecular Biology of the Gene.
New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc, 1965.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed “J.D. Watson” on the title page (as his custom with this book, as that is how it appears on the title page). Editor’s foreword by Cyrus Levinthal. In very good condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 100193
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“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice”: First Edition of Leaf Storm and Other Stories; Signed by both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and translator Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel .
Leaf Storm and other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition with the statement of first edition to the copyright page and the full number line on the final page of this early collection of stories by Garcia Marquez. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 118624
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's If You Ask Me; Warmly Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
If You Ask Me.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Marie with love Eleanor Roosevelt.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 35094
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“Every real story is a never ending story": First Edition of The Neverending Story; Signed by Michael Ende
ENDE, Michael.
The Neverending Story.
New York: Doubleday & Company , 1983.
First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Michael Ende on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Illustrated by Roswitha Quadflieg. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 108738
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John Nash's Copy of the April 1959 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society; with his ownership signature
NASH, John. Edited by R. P. Boas.
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society: April, 1959.
Menasha, Wisconsin and Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1959.
Rare April 1959 American Mathematical Society journal from the collection of Nobel Prize-winning economist John Nash with his ownership signature. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Nash in green ink on the front panel, “J. Nash.” Nash was known to always carry a variety of colored pens and use many colors of chalk to differentiate mathematical problems before his students. The journal was published in the very month and year that Nash was committed to McLean Hospital after his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia manifested itself during a highly anticipated proof of the Reimann hypothesis in front of the American Mathematical Society at Columbia University. Nash was hospitalized several times after this initial diagnosis, but improved and returned to academic work in 1970. In near fine condition. Laid in is a postcard addressed to Nash at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inviting him to Arnold Shapiro’s seminars on “Symplectic Manifolds” at Brandeis University, beginning on June 2, 1959. Symplectic Manifolds was one of Nash’s areas of expertise. Rare and highly desirable signed by Nash at such a pivotal point in his career.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 95239
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"In keeping with the hacker ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained": First Edition of Hackers, Signed by Steven Levy and Founder of Artificial Intelligence Marvin Minsky
LEVY, Steven [Marvin Minsky].
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
New York: Anchor Press/ Doubelday, 1984.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, “In keeping with the hacker ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained. Best Steven Levy.” Additionally signed by Marvin Minsky on the half-title page, whose influence weighs heavily in this volume. Minsky won the Turing Award (the greatest distinction in computer science) in 1969, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982, the Japan Prize in 1990, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence for 1991, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute for 2001. In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum “for co-founding the field of artificial intelligence, creating early neural networks and robots, and developing theories of human and machine cognition.” In 2011, Minsky was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI Hall of Fame for the “significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems.” In 2014, Minsky won the Dan David Prize for “Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind”. He was also awarded with the 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by David Tamura. A unique example, rare and desirable signed by Minsky, the founder of AI.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 112477
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Rare Original Ship's Passport; Boldly signed by James Madison as President and James Monroe as Secretary of State
MADISON, James and James Monroe.
James Madison and James Monroe Signed Ship’s Passport.
February 3, 1812.
Original Presidential ship passport signed by James Madison as President and James Monroe as Secretary of State. One page partially printed on vellum with beautifully engraved headpiece of a ship and harbor by E. Savage and original wafer Presidential seal, the passport is dated February 3rd 1812 and reads in part, “By the President of the United States of America Suffer the Ship Calcutta of New York John Higginson master or commander of the burden of Three hundred seventy three & 94/95 tons or thereabouts, mounted with two guns, navigated with twenty men to pass with her Company, Passengers, Goods, and Merchandise without any hindrance, seizure or molestation: the said ship appearing by good testimony to belong to one or more of the Citizens of the United States and to him or them only.” Boldly signed by Madison at the conclusion, “James Madison” and countersigned by James Monroe as Secretary of State. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 101482
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First Edition of Joseph Campbell's The Flight of the Wild Gander; Inscribed to fellow writer Richard Adams
CAMPBELL, Joseph [Richard Adams].
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension.
New York: The Viking Press, 1969.
First edition of Campbell’s first collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Richard Adams on the occasion of our first meeting- with all good wishes Joseph Campbell 4/19/78.” Best known as the author of Watership Down, English novelist Richard Adams was heavily influenced by American professor Joseph Campbell’s work in comparative mythology, specifically the concept of the monomyth, or journey of the archetypal hero that can be applied as a common template to a range of mythological narratives. Popularized in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell described the narrative pattern of the hero’s journey as follows: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” He and other scholars described the narratives of Odysseus, Gautama Buddha, Moses, and Jesus Christ in terms of the monomyth. Adams’ Watership Down exhibits strong parallels to the epic themes of Homer’s Odyssey, following a group of anthropomorphised rabbits who encounter perils and temptations on their journey to establish a new home after their warren is destroyed. Bookplate of Richard Adams, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jules Maidoff.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 94764
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“this is the story of a great inventor, the most conspicuous figure of the age of electricity”: First edition of the Boy's Life of Edison; Signed by Thomas A. Edison
MEADOWCROFT, William H. [Thomas A. Edison].
The Boy’s Life of Edison.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1911.
First edition of Meadowcroft’s biography of Thomas Edison, written for children. Octavo, original cloth with paper label portrait of Edison to the front panel, illustrated with eight photographic portraits of Edison including tissue-guarded frontispiece. With Edison’s autobiographical notes. Boldly signed on the second free endpaper, “Thomas A. Edison.” In very good condition. First printings are uncommon signed.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 110225
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First Edition of Zaha Hadid; Each volume is signed by Her
GIUSTI, Gordana Fontana; Zaha Hadid.
Zaha Hadid.
New York : Rizzoli Press, 2004.
First edition of this comprehensive work on Zaha Hadid. Quarto, 4 volumes, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Zaha Hadid in all four of the volumes at Yale University. In fine condition. The original plastic case is in fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 75644
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Rare First Edition of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot
BECKETT, Samuel.
En Attendant Godot. Pièce en Deux Actes.
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952.
First edition, one of 2500 copies printed of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 109378
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First Edition of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
RAND, Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by George Salter. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 120953
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“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end": First Edition of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch; Signed by Him With the original prospectus
BURROUGHS, William S.
Naked Lunch.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1962.
First American edition, first issue jacket with no zip code on rear panel and no roman numerals on lower spine near back panel of Burroughs’ classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William S. Burroughs on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Included is the original prospectus issued by Grove Press prior to publication. Photograph of Burroughs on the rear panel by Martha Rocher. An exceptional example, scarce with the original prospectus.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 87577
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“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found": First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash’s most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nash on the half-title page, “For Harry Williams 27 April 2009 John F. Nash, Jr.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 103443
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"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself": First Edition of Ogilvy On Advertising; Signed by David Ogilvy
OGILVY, David.
Ogilvy On Advertising.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1983.
First edition of one of the most important works on advertising ever published. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by David Ogilvy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James K. Davis. Rare signed by the legendary advertising innovator.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 99780
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in three quarters calf
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands, frontispiece, pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 11567
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's My Philosophical Development; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
My Philosophical Development.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which he summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 117453
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"If you will it, it is no tale": Rare Second Edition of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland
HERZL, Theodor.
Altneuland.
Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, 1902.
Second edition of Herzl‘s Utopian novel in which he envisioned the social and cultural climate of a new Hebrew Nation. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 101406
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First American Edition of Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World
DARWIN, Charles.
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1846.
First American edition of the publisher’s reissue of Darwin’s journals and remarks regarding his 5-year second survey expedition aboard the HMS Beagle. Octavo, two volumes in the original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front panels. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplates to the pastedown. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 111051
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First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash’s most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by John Nash on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 87438
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"The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions": First edition of The Warren Buffett Way; signed by both Warren Buffett and Robert Hagstrom
HAGSTROM, Robert G. Foreword by Peter Lynch (Warren E. Buffett).
The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994.
First edition on Robert Hagstrom’s work on the business and investment practices of Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett on the title page and inscribed by Hagstrom opposite the title page, “For John, The size of an investor’s brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions. Best Regards, Robert Hagstrom.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Peter Lynch. A unique example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 88130
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First Edition of The Extended Phenotype; Signed by Richard Dawkins
DAWKINS, Richard.
The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection.
Oxford: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1982.
First edition of Dawkins’ sequel to The Selfish Gene, and is considered his principal contribution to evolutionary theory. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Perry Smith.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 89548
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"I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart": Signed Limited First Edition of Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody
KEROUAC, Jack.
Visions of Cody.
New York: New Directions, 1960.
Signed limited first edition of this novel by the author of On The Road. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Jack Kerouac, this is number 472. Near fine in the original acetate dust jacket, with the original prospectus laid in.
Price: $2,450.00 Item Number: 114722
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. With frontispiece, engraved title-page and 38 plates inserted throughout. Plates by H.K. Browne. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,400.00 Item Number: 99845
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in three quarters calf
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands, frontispiece, pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 117844
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"A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales": First Edition of Benoit Mandelbrot's Fractals: Form Chance, and Dimension; Inscribed by Him
MANDELBROT, Benoit.
Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1977.
First edition of the mathematician’s groundbreaking work. Quarto. Light wear, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Inscribed by the author. An important work, rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 1584
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"ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN A GREAT WRITER AND A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER EVER PUBLISHED": Scarce First Edition of The Sweet Flypaper of Life; Lengthily inscribed by Langston Hughes
DECARAVA, Roy and Langston Hughes.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
First edition of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper, “Especially for Lucian Stanton whose photographs I very much enjoyed seeing- Sincerely- Langston Hughes New York Feb. 23, 1960.” An excellent example in the original dust jacket. Roth 101, Parr & Badger, The Photobook I, 242; The Open Book, 160. The hardcover is much more uncommon than the wrapper edition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 90534
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“The world is full of places to which I want to return”: First Edition of The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
HUEFFER, (Ford) Ford Madox.
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.
London: John Lane Company, 1915.
First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements.of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing and wear to the extremities.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 97211