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LITTLE BIG MAN
BERGER, Thomas
New York: Dial Press, 1964.
Price: $1,500.00
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Second Edition of the first volume and First Edition of the other three volumes. Four quarto (8-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in contemporary sheep with the owner's coat of arms stamped on all covers, recently rebacked with new calf spines with gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels. Illustrated with two plates, one folding. The Earl of Bedford's copy with his arms on the covers and his Woburn Abbey bookplates dated 1873 on the front pastedowns.
COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR BOOKS
BLACKSTONE, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-1769.
Price: $6,500.00
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Four octavo (5-3/8" x 8-3/8") volumes bound in recent half brown morocco and marbled boards with gilt-lettered contrasting black and maroon morocco spine labels and new endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of Blackstone and a large folding chart. This edition contains the last corrections by Blackstone.
COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR BOOKS
BLACKSTONE, William
London: A Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1791.
Price: $1,500.00
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Bradbury's second book and a landmark of science fiction. First state with green boards stamped in red. Very nice copy with mild tanning to the endpapers from the presence of the dustwrapper and just a touch of fading to the cloth on the spine. A very faint spot of mild discoloration is barely visible on the upper corner of the rear cover. The dustwrapper is complete with a tiny pinprick on the spine fore-edge at the front and an internal dampstain to the front panel that is not visible on the exterior.
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
BRADBURY, Ray
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950.
Price: $5,000.00
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
CATHER, Willa
New York: Knopf, 1929.
Price: $2,000.00
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
CATHER, Willa
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1927.
Price: $7,500.00
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Bound in recent antique calf. Ashley I: 204; Grolier/English 70; Wise 32. With the half title but lacking the publisher's ads found in some copies. The first appearance of all three poems, including Coleridge's famous opium-inspired fantasy that begins "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree." The third poem included, however, "The Pains of Sleep," is perhaps a more realistic depiction of the effects of opium.
CHRISTABEL: KUBLA KHAN, A VISION; THE PAINS OF SLEEP
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
London: John Murray, 1816.
Price: $3,000.00
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PRUE AND I
CURTIS, George William
New York: Harper, 1858.
Price: $150.00
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PRUE AND I
CURTIS, George William
New York: Harper, 1856.
Price: $150.00
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Third Edition, published anonymously, bound in contemporary diced Russia leather with marbled edges and endpapers; iv, 206 pages. First published in book form in 1822, De Quincey's autobiographical study of his opium addiction is the first literary text in English to chart the evolution of a drug addict. In small script on the rule below the title on the title page is written "De Quincey" in a hand very similar to the author's but very likely not his. There are no advertisements bound at the end of this copy, as were at least with the first two editions. Recently rebacked retaining nearly all of the original spine but not the spine label.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823.
Price: $450.00
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Bound Cosway-style by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed levant morocco with five raised bands, spine and covers elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt with the front cover set with a large oval miniature painting of Dickens under glass, gilt dentelles, silk doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt. Small octavo, 4" x 6-1/2"; [8], 166, [2, ads] pages with the original cloth covers bound in at the rear. First edition, first issue: "Stave I"; text entirely uncorrected; green-coated endpapers; blue half-title page; red and blue title page. Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W. J. Linton after Leech. Two tiny pinholes, one at the bottom of the front joint and the other at the bottom of the rear joint. Housed in a red cloth slipcase.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL in superb COSWAY-STYLE BINDING
DICKENS, Charles
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Price: $30,000.00
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A scarce book in its true First Edition of 1900, this is a fairly early copy of a book rarely found signed let alone with such a superb presentation. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For/George W. Wilder/-The book that/introduced me - but/twenty years after/from/Theodore Dreiser/N.Y. April - 1926." Wilder, president of Butterick Publications, met Dreiser in June 1907, and on the basis of his growing reputation for SISTER CARRIE, hired him as editor-in-chief of his magazine THE DELINEATOR. Dreiser's statement of purpose published in the September issue of the magazine centered around woman's mastery of her own destiny, and he dedicated the publication "to strengthening her in her moral fight for righteousness in the world." Many of the magazine's readers were mothers, and one of the first series of articles that Dreiser commissioned was on the care and feeding of infants by Dr. Leonard K. Hirschberg, articles largely written by H. L. Mencken. Dreiser's relationship with Mencken eventually became one of the most interesting literary relationships of the twentieth century. A wonderful opportunity to obtain an outstanding association copy of one of the groundbreaking literary works of the twentieth century. Area of discoloration to the cloth at the upper right front corner; spine mildly sunned.
SISTER CARRIE
DREISER, Theodore
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925).
Price: $5,000.00
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA
FORSTER, E. M
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
Price: $500.00
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BAL 7100: First State. Illustrated with eight plates and text engravings. Pencil signature dated December 1880 along with later pencil inscription on front blank. Moderate edgewear, mostly to spine tips. Some spotting to rear cover. Text block cracked resulting in some looseness of signatures.
UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS
HARRIS, Joel Chandler
New York: Appleton, 1881.
Price: $1,500.00
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Author's uncommon and influential first book, basis for the popular film. This is a decent if not spectacular copy. The blue cloth is just a little faded but quite clean, the lettering still strong on the spine. A former owner's bookplate is on the front pastedown. The first issue dustwrapper is complete but for a 1/4" even chip at the head of the spine and two smaller chips at the base of the spine, one just touching the lettering in the publisher's name. There is a two-inch jagged closed tear near the bottom of the spine that just extends to the front panel but is barely visible under mylar. There is the soiling typically found on this dustwrapper along with mild sunning to the spine.
CATCH-22
HELLER, Joseph
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: $2,000.00
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CATCH-22
HELLER, Joseph
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: $4,500.00
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Original vellum spine and green boards with vellum tips. Copy #154 of 510 SIGNED by the author, Hemingway's only signed and limited edition. Some pages roughly opened resulting in short tears or small chips at the top edge or outside margin. On two pages the chips are deep enough to touch or come near to the running head, but usually they are very minor. The vellum spine is just a little darkened with a short tear to the top of the spine and minor rubbing to the black leather label. Slipcase lacking. Collector's bovine bookplate on front pastedown and his neat signature dated 1929 on the top of the front free endpaper.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Price: $11,500.00
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Price: $15,000.00
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A BOY'S TOWN
HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.]
New York: Harper, 1890.
Price: $150.00
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BAL 9619: First state of ads and with last word on p. 176 in broken type, similar to the copy Howell's inscribed as "First Copy." An important book in American Literature, one of Grolier's 100 Influential American Books, this is considered the first novel concerning the self-made American. Howells "taught the American novelist how to enter bourgeois life with comprehension.... [Howells] was to discover the prosaic ordinary man of the middle class and to make him tolerable in fiction" (Grolier).
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.]
Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1885.
Price: $225.00
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