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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. Boldly signed by Archer Mayor on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 143897
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"This is Robert Francis Weatherbee who was just like you and me when he was little, only his ears were bigger": Munro Leaf's Robert Francis Weatherbee
LEAF, Monro.
Robert Francis Weatherbee.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935.
First edition of Munro Leaf's early children's tale. Octavo, original boards, illustrated by the author. In good condition with some preliminary leaves removed, ownership signature and bookseller's stickers to the front free endpaper and pastedown, rebacked.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 104087
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First Edition of Eric Ambler's The Care of Time; Warmly inscribed by Him
AMBLER, Eric.
The Care of Time.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981.
First edition of this novel by the author of The Mask of Dimitrios. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Anna Sklar, with best wishes from the conspirator, Eric Ambler." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Jacket photograph by Stephen Cornwell.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 106379
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First Edition of The Excellent Becomes The Permanent
ADDAMS, Jane.
The Excellent Becomes The Permanent.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 144207
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Halsman. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. A nice example.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 89070
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"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas": First unauthorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Abaft the Funnel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge and Company, 1909.
First unauthorized edition, second issue of Kipling's 1909 short story collection with red lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with the titles stamped in red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 120904
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First edition of Cyril Falls' Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study.
London: Martin Secker, 1915.
First edition of Falls' tribute to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling from the portrait by William Nicholson. In good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 125404
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First Edition of Michael Crichton's Rising Sun; Signed three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
CRICHTON, Michael.
Rising Sun.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of this work basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 124673
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First edition of George Edgar Turner's Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War
TURNER, George Edgar.
Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War.
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1953.
First edition of Turner's work on the role of the American railroad system in the military campaigns of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs and maps by George Richard Turner. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 133073
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Comedians
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 123659
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Limits and Renewals
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Limits and Renewals.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932.
First American edition of the Kipling's final collection of stories and poems. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 120680
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
New York : McGraw-Hill Company , 1973.
First McGraw-Hill edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 73094
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First edition in English of Jean Paul Sartre's Sketch For A Theory of The Emotions
SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Translated by Philip Mairet.
Sketch For A Theory of The Emotions. [Esquisse d’une théorie des émotions].
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962.
First edition in English of Sartre's work on the nature of psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Philip Mairet and with a preface by Mary Warnock. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 137129
