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Rare Original Shooting script of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana; Actress Sylvia Miles' copy with her annotations
WILLIAMS, Tennesse. [Sylvia Miles].
The Night of the Iguana Original Shooting Script.
New York: Studio Duplicating Service, Inc, .
Rare original shooting script of Tennessee Williams' great stage play. Quarto, original blue Studio duplicating service leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. Advertisements laid in. Sylvia Miles' copy with her annotations throughout. Miles played Maxine Faulk in the play's 1976 Broadway revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre. In very good condition.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 110701
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The Night Traveler; Signed by Twice by Her
OLIVER, Mary.
The Night Traveler.
A Bits Chapbook, 1978.
First edition of this early collection by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed twice by Mary Oliver, once on the front free endpaper and on the title page. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 133671
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"I was wide awake, packed and ready to go at dawn": Eric Ambler's The Night-Comers
AMBLER, Eric.
The Night-Comers.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
Early printing of Ambler's inventively thrilling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126375
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First Edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Nobel Lecture on Literature; Inscribed by Him
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander [Solzhenitzn].
The Nobel Lecture on Literature.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this powerful Nobel lecture by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Small octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page entirely in his hand. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138171
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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good": First Edition of Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture; Signed by Him
CARTER, Jimmy.
The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
First edition of Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 138018
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First Editions of Each work in John Jake's Historical Epic, North and South; Love and War; and Heaven and Hell; Each signed by Him
JAKES, John.
The North and South Trilogy. [Including, North and South; Love and War; and Heaven and Hell].
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982-87.
First editions of each novel in the author's acclaimed North and South Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed by the author. North and South is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Carl with every good wish John Jakes 2-11-82." Each are near fine to fine condition in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119784
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THE FIRST EXPLORER TO REACH THE NORTH POLE: Deluxe signed limited edition of Robert Peary’s The North Pole; one of only 500 copies
PEARY, Robert E. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
The North Pole.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Deluxe signed limited edition of Peary’s illustrated account of his journey to the North Pole, number 4 of only 500 copies signed by Peary and Captain R. A. Bartlett. Thick quarto, publisher's original full vellum decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated with a large folding map printed in color, four black-and-white mounted photogravures and 112 tipped-in photographic plates. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. In very good condition.
Price: $2,450.00 Item Number: 125090
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“My wisdom is for my friends, my folly for myself": The Novels of Captain Marryat; Finely Bound
MARRYAT, Frederick.
The Novels of Captain Marryat.
London: J.M. Dent, 1895-96.
Finely bound set of the works of Captain Marryat, one of 750 copies printed on handmade paper. Octavo, complete in 24 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with tissue-guarded frontispieces and plates. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 110464
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": THE Winchester Edition of the Novels OF JANE AUSTEN; Finely Bound
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels of Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].
London: Grant Richards, 1898.
The Winchester edition of the novels of Jane Austen containing each of her major works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Austen to the first volume, top edge gilt. Contains Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 141674
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First Edition of The Novels of Muriel Spark
SPARK, Muriel.
The Novels of Muriel Spark Volumes I and II.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
First edition of this collection of novels by the acclaimed author. Octavo, original boards, original slipcase. Fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Mark Caleb. The slipcase is in fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139652
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The Large Paper Edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett; Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press
SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Novels of Tobias Smollett.
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926.
The Large Paper edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in three quarter morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in, Illustrated with frontispieces and several inserted plates each with lettered tissue guard. In near fine condition. An attractive set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144984
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Finely Bound Set of the Novels of Victor Hugo
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Boston : Dana Estes, n.d.
The Illustrated Cabinet edition of the novels of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 12 volumes. Bound in three quarters navy blue morocco over blue cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with illustrated plates, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 105448
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Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story; inscribed by her
HULME, Kathryn.
The Nun’s Story.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.
First edition, early printing of Hulme's best-selling novel, basis for the classic film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Virginia Stanley with Best Wishes Kathryn Hulme." Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 95304
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First Edition of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story
HULME, Kathryn.
The Nun’s Story.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.
First edition of Hulme's best-selling novel, basis for the classic film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel Bryant.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118429
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First edition of Ray Bradbury's The October Country; signed by him
BRADBURY, Ray.
The October Country.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955].
First edition of Bradbury's classic collection of nineteen macabre short stories. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. In Currey's "B" binding in its first state, with the Ballantine Books monogram at spine foot printed upside down. One of three bindings, no priority determined. Currey p.57. Signed by the author on the title page, "Ray Bradbury 1/22/81." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Mugnaini. Author photograph by Morris Dollens.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142805