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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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The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February - July, 1899; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.
London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.
The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations by numerous artists including six by Arthur Rackham for The Manoeuvres of Jerry on pages 71-77. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142672
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Rudyard Kipling and C.R.L. Fletcher's A History of England; in the rare original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard and C.R.L. Fletcher.
A History of England.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1930.
Corrected edition of Kipling and Fletcher's history of Great Britain for boys and girls. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with colored plates and maps by Henry Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135268
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"We had, in silence, a little luminous talk about it, in the course of which she seemed to tell me the most interesting things": First edition of Henry James' The Soft Side
JAMES, Henry.
The Soft Side.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900.
First edition of this collection of James' novellas. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 80111
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"Translation is one of those most fascinating and misprized of the arts": First edition of On Translation in the rare original dust jacket
NABOKOV, Vladimir et al.
On Translation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
First edition of this extensive volume on translators, translating and works of translation. Octavo, original boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 89096
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First Edition of Felix Salten's Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family
SALTEN, Felix.
Bambi’s Children: The Story of a Forest Family.
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939.
First edition of this classic work, the sequel to Bambi. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Erna Pinner. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Translated by Barthold Fles. Edited by R. Sugden Tilley.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133117
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First edition of Stedman Graham's You Can Make it Happen; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
GRAHAM, Stedman [William Safire].
You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of the author's nine-step plan for success. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Bill, Congratulations on all that you do - Keep making it happen and thanks for your support! Best wishes Stedman." The recipient, 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” in The New…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135838
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First Edition of The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer; Inscribed by John Adams
ADAMS, John] Thomas May.
The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer.
New Jersey: Amadeus Press, 2006.
First edition of this compilation of writings by the famed composer. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the composer John Adams on the title page.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 1298
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Special limited edition of Brown's Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake; one of 250 numbered copies signed by him
BROWN, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs.
Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.
London: Quiller Press, 1989.
Special limited edition of Brown's elaborately illustrated history of Kenya's northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher's three quarters pebbled morocco over leatherette boards, marbled endpapers, with 75 color and 50 black and white illustrations, folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 49. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 110678
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Rare first edition of For Britain's Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families; with contributions by Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells
KIPLING, Rudyard; Sir Walter Besant; Max Pemberton; Morley Roberts; H.G. Wells; Percy White; et al.
For Britain’s Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families.
London: Methuen & Co, 1900.
First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 122456
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"At night the moon became a woman's face. I met the Spirit of Music”: First Edition of The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison
MORRISON, Jim.
The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison: Wilderness. [with] The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison.
New York: Villard Books, 1988.
First edition volumes I and II of this remarkable written collection of writings from The Doors' sensational singer-songwriter. Octavo, two volumes, original half cloth, illustrated with facsimile pages from Morrison's diaries and never-before-seen photos of Jim. Near fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Wendy Bass. Jacket photo by Frank Lisciandro.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145174
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First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town
FAULKNER, William.
The Town.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition, first printing of the second novel in Faulkner's celebrated Snopes trilogy with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good later issue dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ownership inscription to the pastedown. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140009
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Rare Original Harpo press kit from Oprah's 1993 sensational primetime interview with Michael Jackson
[WINFREY, Oprah; Michael Jackson].
Michael Jackson Talks to Oprah: 90 Prime-Time Minutes with the King of Pop Live!
Los Angeles: Harpo, 1993.
Original Harpo press kit from Oprah's 1993 sensational primetime interview with Michael Jackson. Quarto, the kit contains a press release and biographies of Oprah and Michael Jackson. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent…
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140126
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
The Dean’s December.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
First edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 19006
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First Edition of Toni Morrison's A Mercy; Signed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
A Mercy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Toni Morrison on a publisher's bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144102
