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First Edition of Don DeLillo's The Names; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
The Names.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
First edition of this "brilliant... a powerful, haunting book" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140609
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First edition of More Tales of the Black Widowers; inscribed by Isaac Asimov
ASIMOV, Isaac.
More Tales of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.
First edition of the second book in Asimov's Black Widowers series. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Stephen Isaac Asimov." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142873
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"If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it": Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest; Gregory Peck; Susan Hayward; Ava Gardner].
Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Theatre Lobby Card Poster.
20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952.
Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro produced exclusively for display in theatres. One page, printed in color, featuring a still from the film of Peck and Hawyard embracing. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124199
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First Edition of Michael Herr's Walter Winchell; Inscribed by Him and signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
HERR, Michael.
Walter Winchell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93." Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120899
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"In the inner city or like we call it home we think a lot about uptown and the silent nights and the houses straight as dead men": First Vintage Books edition of Lucille Clifton's Good Times; inscribed by her
CLIFTON, Lucille.
Good Times.
New York: Vintage Books, 1969.
First Vintage Books edition of the former Poet Laureate of Maryland's first poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, "For Richard - who was part of the old Buffalo good times - Lucille Clifton 3/75." In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 135834
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods; Signed by Him
GAIMAN, Neil.
American Gods.
New York: William Morrow, 2001.
First edition, early printing of Gaiman's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 141802
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First edition of Ken Follett's The Third Twin; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
The Third Twin: A Novel.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.
First edition of Follett's New York Times bestseller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To Erica and Ken with love - Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142322
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First Edition of Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One; Signed by Judy Blume
BLUME, Judy.
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.
First edition of this collection of seven warm-hearted stories which give readers a peek at how a brother and sister relate to each other. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Love Judy Blume." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by James Stevenson.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144144
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"I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own Heaven to be happy": Mark Twain's Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven; from the library of American journalist William Safire
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.
New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d..
Early printing of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime. Octavo, original cloth with titles in white and vignette in black, frontispiece in blue and white, no publication date to the title page. From the library American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language”…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 127530
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"NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THIS LABEL ON THE BATTLE": Mark Twain's Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches; from the library of American journalist William Safire
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain.
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878.
First edition, second issue of Twain's collection of short stories with the author's name in facsimile autograph, undecorated cream end-papers, and second state scrap book illustration to the rear paste down. BAL 3378. Small octavo, original green cloth stamped in black with gilt titles to the spine. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 127364
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Rare collection of 12 works by Freya Stark; including first editions of A Winter in Arabia, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, and Ionia: A Quest
STARK, Freya.
Freya Stark Collection. [A Winter in Arabia, East is West, Traveller’s Prelude, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, Ionia: A Quest, The Lycian Shore, Riding to the Tigris, Dust in the Lion’s Paw, Rome on the Euphrates, The Minaret of Djam.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc./London: John Murray, 1940-1970.
Collection of 12 novels and autobiographies by British-Italian explorer and travel writer Freya Stark. Octavo, 12 volumes, original cloth. The collection includes first editions of A Winter in Arabia, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, and Ionia: A Quest. The Lycian Shore, Riding to the Tigris, Rome on the Euphrates, and The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan with early printings of East is West, Traveller's Prelude, Dust in the Lion's Paw. Each volume is in near fine condition, 8 are in the original dust jackets which are in good to near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142168
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137359
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First Edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Circle of Quiet; Inscribed by Her
L'ENGLE, Madeleine.
A Circle of Quiet.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1972.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Irene- joy in your own Circle- Madeleine L'Engle." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. First editions are uncommon signed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138849
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Signed limited editions of Robert Graves' Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate
GRAVES, Robert.
Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate.
London: Privately Printed at the Stellar Press, 1969-1974.
Signed limited editions of four volumes of Graves' collected verse, written between 1969 and 1974. Octavo, four volumes, original stiff paper wrappers. Each volume is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Robert Graves. In near fine condition. An attractive collection.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115104
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"She was a person of distinction he saw at once, moreover very handsome": Finely bound collection of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander's Bridge, and Shadows on the Rock
CATHER, Willa.
Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.
Finely bound collection of three of the author's best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of two volumes. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 105420
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First edition, first printing of Sedrick Arlington Goldbeck's I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere
GOLDBECK, Sedrick Arlington.
I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere.
Bronx, NY: The Bird Press, 1996.
First edition of the poet's collection of sonnets. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "1996 to Gary, Regards Sedrick A. Goldbeck." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115382
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Signed Limited First Edition of The Labyrinth of the Spirits; one of 250 numbered copies signed by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz; Translated by Lucia Graves.
The Labyrinth of the Spirits.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2018.
Signed limited first edition of the fourth and final installment in the bestselling author's 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books.' Octavo, original cloth. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 94. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover design by Steve Marking. Front cover photo by Andrzej Kwolek. Author photo by Marc Driessen.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145033
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First edition of Pete Hamill's The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook; signed by him
HAMILL, Pete.
The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of the author's classic collection of sketches encapsulating the essence of New York. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Susan Stillman. Signed by Pete Hamill on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket illustration by Susan Stillman. Author photograph by Brian Hamill.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124308
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“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe": First edition of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch; warmly inscribed by her
TARTT, Donna.
The Goldfinch.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
First edition of the bestselling author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "especially for John - on Halloween - Donna Tartt." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keith Hayes. Jacket painting: The Goldfinch (1654) by Carel Fabritius. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 141045
