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"Don't be so sure, Kevin, my boy, don't be so sure": First Edition of Six Days of the Condor; Lengthily Inscribed by James Grady
GRADY, James.
Six Days of the Condor.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of the author's first thriller, basis for the classic film film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page with a quote from the novel, "For John, 'Don't be so sure, Kevin, my boy, don't be so sure.' Thank you! James Grady Feb. 2023." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Antler. Author photograph by S. Hodgson.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145182
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Limited Special Edition of William Faulkner's Pylon; Signed by Him
FAULKNER, William.
Pylon.
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935.
Signed limited special edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original publisher's three quarter cloth over metallic silver boards. One of three hundred and ten copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 69. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146079
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Finley bound limited edition of J. Carpenter's French translation of The Rubáiyát
Roubayyat de Hafiz et d’Omar Khayyam. [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám].
Paris: Francis LeBegue, [1921].
Finely bound example of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt Art Deco style decorations to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, decorated borders and initials. One of 300 copies. Text in French. Translated by J. Carpenter after L. Cramner Byng for Haifiz and after the poetic English version of Edward Fitzgerald for Omar Khayyám. Original wrappers bound in. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 127096
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"Consider the lilies in the field... make them the object not of a fleeting glance in passing, but of thy consideration": First English edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Consider The Lilies
KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie.
Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.
London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.
First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard's important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A superior example of this rare work.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133137
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"These are tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the distant borderlands": First edition of Emily Post's Rare Third Novel Woven in the Tapestry; lengthily inscribed by her
POST, Emily.
Woven in the Tapestry.
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908.
First edition of Emily Post's third novel, published before she achieved fame with her seminal work, Etiquette. 12mo, original stiff paper boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Dear Mrs. Douglas, I have done this little book in the spirit of a memorial for my Father - & not for commercial reasons. Therefore I have a sentiment too, about its readers. Knowing your sympathy I am sending you this, in the hope that you will like it a little. Emily Post 10/34/1908." In near fine condition. Uncommon, particularly inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138531
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First Edition of William Faulkner's These Thirteen
FAULKNER, William.
These Thirteen (13).
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.
First edition of Faulkner's first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Near fine in a good dust jacket with loss to the spine. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 100021
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Otono del Patriarca; Signed by Him and Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1975.
First Argentine edition of this "majestic, superb...a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant" (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the translator Gregory Rabassa on the front free endpaper. Rabassa translated this novel into English. In very good condition, name to the title page.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119741
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First Edition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here; In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, Sinclair.
It Can’t Happen Here.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.
First edition of Lewis' later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine panel. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120988
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"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between": I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
ANGELOU, Maya.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
New York: Random House, 1969.
First edition, early printing of Angelou's critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Marv Appelbaum Joy! Maya Angelou Nov 20 '76." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 149493
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Sir Walter Scott's Ballads; Finely bound in full morocco with a spectacular double fore-edge painting
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. [Fore-edge Painting].
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne Co, 1819.
Finely bound example of Scott's Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt with a spectacular double fore-edge painting revealing scenes of Warwick Castle and Edinburgh. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright and detailed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131528
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"And he did bring them. It took a number of years, but one by one, he brought them here. Except for his father. That old man died where he was born": First Edition of Elia Kazan's America America; Signed by him and actor Stathis Giallelis,
KAZAN, Elia.
America America.
New York: Stein and Day, 1962.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1963 film starring Stathis Giallelis. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To June Elia Kazan" and below by actor Stathis Giallelis. Introduction by S.N. Behrman. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Abram Rudisill.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138692
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First Edition of Nicholas Mosley's Accident; Inscribed by Him
MOSLEY, Nicholas.
Accident.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Nicholas Mosley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear. Jacket design by John Woodcock.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 1409
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First Edition of Vedanta for Modern Man; Signed by Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten
PRABHAVANANDA, Swami.
Vedanta for Modern Man.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1951.
First edition of this collection of philosophical and religious essays. Signed by contributors Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143094
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First Edition of Ruth Rendell's The Best Man to Die; Signed by Her
RENDELL, Ruth.
The Best Man to Die.
London: John Lang, 1969.
First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 61004
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertesz's Kaddis a meg nem szuletett gyermekert; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
Kaddis A Meg Nem Szuletett Gyermekert (Kaddish For A Child Not Born).
Budapest: Magveto, 1990.
First Hungarian edition of Kertesz's mesmerizing novel of identity and memory. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 83049
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“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing": First Edition of Surfacing; Inscribed by Margaret Atwood
ATWOOD, Margaret.
Surfacing.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1972.
First edition of the author's classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rachel- Margaret Atwood June 4 1982." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Shaw. Author photograph by Amleto Lorenzini. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146203
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First Editions of Cadernos De Lanzarote I-IV; Each Volume Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario I- IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1994-1997.
First Portugese editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, 4 volumes. Each volume is signed by Saramago, who has added the word "Lanzarote." Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Seize the Day; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize The Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142270
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First Edition of Dickson's Kuwait and her Neighbours; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DICKSON, H.R.P.
Kuwait and Her Neighbours.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956.
First edition of Colonel H.R.P. Dickson's classic work on the people and history of Kuwait. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, maps, tables. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is price-clipped.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 140006
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"It may read better in print than it did in manuscript": First Edition of Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Inscribed by Him to Editor Ted Solotaroff
HELLER, Joseph.
Something Happened.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ted Solotaroff, With good wishes (It may read better in print than it did in manuscript.) Joseph Heller." The recipient, Ted Solotaroff was an editor and literary critic. Solotaroff attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1952, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he became friends with Philip Roth and dedicated himself to literature. He was an editor at Commentary from 1960 to 1966, then in 1967 founded The New…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142998