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"Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray": First Edition of John LeCarres The Looking-Glass War; Signed by Him
LE CARRE, John.
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
First edition of the author's fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in the original price-clipped dust jacket with some light fading to the spine.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 121349
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First Edition of All Quiet On The Western Front; Inscribed by Eric Maria Remarque
REMARQUE, Erich Maria.
All Quiet On The Western Front.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1929.
First American edition of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, To Mary Constance Ryder with my best wishes- New York July 1945 Eric Maria Remarque." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and light wear. Jacket design by Paul Wenck. Translated by A.W. Wheen. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed and inscribed first editions are rare.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 121588
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"Turn up the lights—I don’t want to go home in the dark": Rare Manuscript Edition of the Works of O. Henry
O. HENRY [WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER],.
The Complete Works of O. Henry: The Manuscript Edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912.
The manuscript edition of the Works of O. Henry, limited to 125 examples. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in original half vellum. In fine condition. The manuscript is bound into volume one. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 121390
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Find the Constellations; Inscribed by H.A. Rey with a drawing
REY, H.A.
Find the Constellations.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
First edition, second printing of this classic illustrated work by the author of Curious George. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "To Brian happy stargazing! H.A. Rey 4-24-1960." Rey has added a drawing of a child looking at three stars. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 120761
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First Edition of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket; With an autographed Letter Signed
BEERBOHM. MAX,.
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.
London: William Heinemann, 1911.
First edition of Beerbohm's classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. According to Mark Samuels Lasner, the Beerbohm scholar and bibliographer, there have only been five copies of this book identified as still possessing their original dust jackets. Two are in institutions, two have been in private hands. Laid in is an autographed letter signed by Max Beerbohm dated August 3, 1911, the publication of Zuleika Dobson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 121225
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"Men often do their best work blind, for someone else's sake": First edition of Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling's Writings for Every Day in the Year
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling Calendar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. .
English printing of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126065
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Original color photograph inscribed by Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower to White House Administrative Assistant Helen Colle Donaldson Hollers
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud.
Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.
Original color photograph inscribed by the 34th President and First Lady of the United States, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Presentation photograph, inscribed on the mount, "For Mrs. Helen Colle with best wishes and warm regards from Dwight D. Eisenhower" and signed, "Mamie Doud Eisenhower." The recipient, Helen Colle Donaldson Hollers, was a White House administrative assistant who served under nine presidents from Harry S. Truman to George H.W. Bush. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 12.25 inches by 15.75 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 194042
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"Soul, be my song; return arrayed in white; lead home the loves that I have wronged and slain": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's The Heart's Journey
SASSOON, Siegfried.
The Heart’s Journey.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1927.
First edition of Sassoon's classic poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126713
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"Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them": Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Signed by Her
MCCULLERS, Carson.
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.
First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author's first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carson McCullers on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 121376
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's The King of the Fields
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis.
The King of the Fields.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
Early printing of Singer's masterful historical novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Alcorn. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126208
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First edition of Alasdair Gray's Something Leather; inscribed by him to photojournalist Sally Soames
GRAY, Alasdair. [Sally Soames].
Something Leather.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's sensational novel. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally from Alasdair 27 June 1990 Glasgow." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 124163
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"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate": First Editions of Each Novel in John Updikes Rabbit Quartet; Each Signed by Him
UPDIKE, John.
Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-2000.
First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume signed by John Updike. Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional signed set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 121353
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.
Kingdoms of Elfin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1977.
First edition, second printing of Warner's classic collection of fantasy tales. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Endpaper maps by Anita Karl.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126860
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore; Signed Three Times by Dust Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Killing Commendatore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
First edition of this “expansive and intricate novel" (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 125849
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Rare Complete Set of Dickens' Christmas Books; finely bound in full calf
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845-60.
First edition, early printings of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books, finely bound. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in full calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, black and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruled panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with sixty-three engravings altogether, four in color, by Leech, Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle and Landseer. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 121293