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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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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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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 PASSAGE TO INDIA
FORSTER, E. M
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
Price: $500.00
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
WOOLF, Virginia
New York/London: Fountain/Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: $7,500.00
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Two large quarto volumes (8.5" x 10.6875"); [8], 510; [8], 589, [1] pages. Complete with half-title in Volume II (no half-title called for in Volume I). Contemporary calf, rebacked, with original gilt spines and morocco labels laid down. Corners renewed. First published in 1776, this Second Edition is scarcer than the first with only 500 copies printed and is the only other edition published in quarto format. "The second edition exhibits a number of alterations large and small, some providing new information, some correcting matters of fact, some perfecting the idiom, and a large number now documenting references in footnotes" (William B. Todd, in the 1976 Oxford edition of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS). Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months. Goldsmith 11663; Grolier, 100 English, 57; KressB 154; PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 221: "The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." Some foxing and browning, heavier in the first volume which has the front free endpaper and the title strengthened at inner and outer margins. Occasional slight offsetting to the text in the second volume which has the final gathering strengthened in the gutter. Armorial bookplate of Gorham Parsons on the front pastedown of each volume.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
SMITH, Adam
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1778.
Price: $75,000.00
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ATLAS SHRUGGED
RAND, Ayn
New York: Random House, (1957).
Price: $2,500.00
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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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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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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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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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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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DEATH OF A SALESMAN. CERTAIN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN TWO ACTS AND A REQUIEM
MILLER, Arthur
New York: Viking Press, 1949.
Price: $7,500.00
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DUBLINERS
JOYCE, James
London: Grant Richards, 1914.
Price: $12,500.00
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FINNEGANS WAKE
JOYCE, James
London/New York: Faber & Faber/Viking Press, 1939.
Price: $17,500.00
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SIGNED by the author on the original front free endpaper. Recently rebound in full Confederate gray calf leather with a decorative gilt border, gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and front cover, and marbled endpapers. Small ink stain on fore-edge of bulked text with negligible effect on the interior of those pages. Text a little aged, a bit moreso to the first few pages including the autographed page. Occasional small and light stain.
GONE WITH THE WIND
MITCHELL, Margaret
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936.
Price: $7,500.00
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