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New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
First edition of Morrison’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “Best wishes Toni Morrison.” Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the $5.95 price and 1070 on the bottom of front flap. Dust jacket design by Herb Lubalin and JayContinue reading "The Bluest Eye."
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.
First edition, first impression of John Lennon’s first book. Octavo, original laminated pictorial boards, illustrated with Lennon’s own line drawings, some full-page, with an introduction by Paul McCartney. Boldly signed by John Lennon on the second free endpaper. In very good condition. Designed by Robert Freeman. Rare and desirable signed by Lennon.
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc/Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.
First edition of this comprehensive, insightful, and visually rich monograph on the influential American artist by famous author and art enthusiast Michael Crichton. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, profusely illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Michael Crichton on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.
First edition of Ginsberg’s collected verse of three decades. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Allen Ginsberg 2/26/96 for David and Naomi Savage.” Facing the title page is a full-page original drawing by Ginsberg in black ink, depicting a haloed Buddha figure seated inContinue reading "Collected Poems 1947-1980."
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New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
First edition of the first major collection of Annie Leibovitz’s photographs. Folio, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with Leibovitz’s celebrated portraits. Boldly signed by Annie Leibovitz on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introductory interview with Ingrid Sischy. An appealing copy of the photographer’s landmark first monograph.
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San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1968.
First edition of Ginsberg’s incantatory poem of television, empire, and American paranoia, issued in the striking form of a photographic facsimile of the poet’s own working typescript, its typed lines alive with his handwritten deletions and revisions. Quarto, original printed wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author with his red inked seal on the titleContinue reading "T.V. Baby Poem."
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London: Collins and HarperCollins, 1981-2025.
A superb run of twenty-eight of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels, in first edition and signed by the author. Octavo, twenty-eight volumes, in the original publisher’s boards and dust jackets, or wrappers where issued. First editions, nearly all signed by the author, with Sharpe’s Eagle bearing a signed presentation inscription. Each volume is near fine toContinue reading "The Sharpe Novels."
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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999.
Signed limited first edition of the Easton Press edition of Kesey’s classic work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by Milos Forman, starring an unforgettable role by Jack Nichoson. Octavo, original black leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed byContinue reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951.
First edition of the author’s first book and seminal work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William F. Buckley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
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Los Angeles: c. 1950.
Rare original carbon copy typescript of The Lure of Gold, the unpublished last project of the celebrated photographer Edward S. Curtis, bearing his own autograph pencil corrections. Quarto, housed in a folder with metal fasteners, 32 pages typed on rectos only, numbered 1 to 31 and including a leaf numbered 7 1/2, being carbon copiesContinue reading "The Lure of Gold."
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London: Fulcrum Press, 1968.
First edition of Ginsberg’s brooding long poem, composed by night amid the ruined temples of Angkor in Cambodia in 1963, a hallucinatory meditation on time, empire, memory, and the self. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Angkor Wat by Alexandra Lawrence. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with his red inkedContinue reading "Ankor Wat."
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London: William Heinemann, 1912.
First edition of Maugham’s four-act melodrama that follows Lucy Allerton, a woman whose family is disgraced by her father’s financial fraud. Duodecimo, original red cloth lettered in black. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Gerald Kelly from W. Somerset Maugham.” Somerset Maugham and Sir Gerald Festus Kelly enjoyed one ofContinue reading "The Explorer: A Melodrama in Four Acts."
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U.S. News & World Report, 1991.
Signed magazine leaf bearing an interview with the PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, boldly signed and dated by him during the fraught diplomacy that followed the Madrid Peace Conference, together with the original letter from his office returning it. A single leaf torn from the August 26 and September 2, 1991 issue of U.S. News &Continue reading "Yasser Arafat Signed Magazine Interview."
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Journal of Consumer Research, 1996.
Rare offprint of the December 1996 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, containing Sidney J. Levy’s Essay “Stalking the Amphisbaena”. Quarto, original printed wrappers, reprinted from the Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 23, Number 3. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “John Rogers, thank you for your interest, Sidney.” InContinue reading "Stalking the Amphisbaena."
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
First edition of Emily Wilson’s acclaimed new translation of Homer’s Iliad, the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey into English. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the translator Emily Wilson on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. A beautiful signed copy ofContinue reading "The Iliad."
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1990.
Color photograph of Nobel Prize-winner Yitzhak Rabin, inscribed and signed by him two years before his return to the premiership of Israel, showing Rabin in a dark suit before a wall map. Boldly inscribed by him along the lower margin, “To John H. Bullard with best wishes Y. Rabin 6.5.90.” Rabin was serving as aContinue reading "Yitzhak Rabin Signed Photograph."
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circa 1948.
Rare letter of condolence signed by David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, declaring the death in action of the soldier Ernest Yakov Muller. One page in Hebrew, executed in a neat calligraphic hand on parchment and signed “D. Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister.” The letter reads in translation: “We hereby declare in great sorrow thatContinue reading "David Ben-Gurion Letter Signed."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
First edition of the first volume of Stephen Sondheim’s collected lyrics, gathering the words to his songs from 1954 to 1981 with the composer’s own candid, witty, and famously exacting commentary. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Signed by Stephen Sondheim on a laid in Alfred A. Knopf bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designContinue reading "Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics 1954-1981."
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San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1993.
Signed limited edition from Upper Deck of this work which share the thoughts and observations and photographs of important moments in Michael Jordan’s life, and career highlights. Folio, original cloth, original slipcase. Contains the original shipping box and tissue. Boldly signed by Michael Jordan on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
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New York: Random House, 1969.
First edition of Kessler’s play, with “First Printing” stated on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with production photographs by Bert Andrews. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the director of the Broadway production on the front free endpaper, “For Alan, A tough little guy, A workhorse, A fine director, And Especially… AContinue reading "The Watering Place."
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London: Collins, 1975.
First edition of this classic work, which has sold over 50 million copies and basis for the 1976 film starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. Octavo, original cloth, endpapers illustrated endpapers with the “General area of Hobs End and Studley Constable.” Boldly signed by Jack Higgins and additionally signed by Sir Michael CaineContinue reading "The Eagle Has Landed."
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New York: Newmarket Press, 1996.
First edition of the shooting script of Milos Forman’s acclaimed film The People vs. Larry Flynt, printing the complete screenplay and scene notes by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs from the film. Signed on the half-title page by five figures central to the picture: Larry Flynt, theContinue reading "The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
First edition, early printing of this irreverent memoir of Herbert Asbury, the author of Gangs of New York. Octavo, publisher’s original cloth. Boldly signed by Herbert Asbury on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
First American edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five 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 edgesContinue reading "Midnight’s Children."
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Alexander, Scott; Larry Karaszewski [Larry Flynt; Oliver Stone; Milos Forman].
