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BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. Proust; [and] Three Dialogues.London : 1965
Signed limited edition, number 28 of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound. Proust, Beckett's epistemological and aesthetic manifesto, was first published in 1930. Three Dialogues, a series of letters between Beckett and Duthuit concerning contemporary art, was first published in the literary journal transition in 1949. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123408
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(DICKENS, Charles.) ECKEL, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens Their Points and Values.New York : 1932
Revised and enlarged edition, number 42 of 750 copies only. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138142
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(GILL, Eric.) TEGETMEIER, Denis. The Seven Deadly Virtues.London : [1934]
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both Tegetmeier and Gill on the limitation leaf. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74601
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KOONS, Jeff; Damien Hirst; Gerhard Merz; Matthew Barney; Douglas Gordon; Cy Twombly. Re-Object/Mythos.Bregenz : 2007
Signed limited edition of these luxurious catalogues, published in conjunction with the Kunsthaus Bregenz two-part series of exhibitions of the same name. Both volumes are number 37 of 170 copies; Re-Object signed in pencil on the jacket by Koons, Hirst, and Merz; Mythos signed in pencil on the jacket by Barney and Gordon. Text in German and English.... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 136326
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GREENE, Graham. The Bear Fell Free.London : 1935
First edition, signed limited issue, number 230 of 285 copies signed by the author, of which 250 were released for sale. This work was one of a series of 12 short stories edited by John Hackney, and "makes extensive use of 'stream of consciousness' techniques". Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 119797
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RULFO, Juan. Pedro Páramo.New York : 1959
First edition in English, first printing, signed by the author and lettered "B" of an edition of 26 specially bound and signed copies (with an additional four numbered 1-4, also specially bound and signed). There were also unsigned cloth and wrappers issues. This groundbreaking novel was first published in Mexico in 1955 but was not immediately successful.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136005
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GIRARD, Sébastien. Nothing but Home; Desperate Cars; Under House Arrest.2009-11
First editions, signed limited issues, Nothing but Home number 90 of 100 copies, Desperate Cars number 22 of 100 copies, and Under House Arrest number 81 of 100 copies. Each work has an original signed and matching numbered photograph loosely inserted. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 128740
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.London : 1924-7
Signed limited "Atlantic" edition, the preferred "London" issue, number 491 of 620 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of vol. I, for sale and distribution in Britain. A further 1,050 sets were produced and signed for the American issue, and are by far the more common of the two issues. The Atlantic edition is the finest collected edition... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 129483
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PENROSE, Roland. The Road is Wider Than Long.London : 1939
First and limited edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to French actor and writer Jacques B. Brunius (1906-1967) on the half-title, "à Brunius mon ami, Roland Penrose", number 137 of 510 copies. Penrose visited the Balkans with Lee Miller in 1938 and recorded the tour in this photographic diary, the first work in the Series of Surrealist... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 123648
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FORD, Charles Henri (ed.) View.New York : 1940-7
A complete set, one volume inscribed by Ford, of first printings of the remarkable American literary and art magazine published by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. View covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted. The roster of prestigious contributors,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109741
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(POETRY ANTHOLOGY.) THOMAS, Dylan; W. H. Auden; Archibald Macleish; Louis Macneice; Marianne Moore; Frederic Prokosch; Stephen Spender; Wallace Stevens, et al. New Poems 1942.Mount Vernon, NY : 1942
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 59 copies signed by the contributing poets, namely: Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125112
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HARDY, Thomas. Compassion.Dorchester : 1924
First edition, sole impression, number 8 of 25 copies numbered and initialled by Florence Emily Hardy; this copy is additionally signed by the author at the end of the poem. Hardy wrote this work at the request of the RSPCA as part of their centenary celebrations. It was printed in The Times on 16 June 1924, where it was stated that there was... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 126133
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DOUGLAS, Norman. Looking Back.London : 1933
First and limited edition, first impression, number 36 of 535 numbered copies signed by the author. "Douglas published Looking Back in 1933, a discursive, leisurely autobiography drawing upon material accumulated over several decades, and brought out as a two-volume limited edition of 535 copies under the guidance of Charles Prentice, his friend and... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 105292
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(NAPOLEON.) MASSON, Frederic. Napoléon chez lui.Paris : [1894]
First editions, presentation copies, inscribed by the author to his close friend, the dramatist and opera librettist Philippe Gille (1831-1901). Napoléon chez lui is inscribed on the limitation page "À Mon excellent ami Philippe Gille, sou bien reconnaissant Frederic Masson" To my excellent friend Philippe Gille, his very grateful Frederic Masson;... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 122623
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SVEVO, Italo. Zéno.Paris : 1927
First edition in French (second overall), first printing, presentation copy of the service de presse issue, inscribed by the translator on the front free endpaper "à Giuseppe Ungaretti, ce livre dont il a été l'un des premiers confidents. Avec toute mon amitié, Paul Henri Michel". The recipient Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was an Italian poet... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 132462
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LE GUIN, Ursula K. Adventures in Kroy:New Castle : 1982-83
First editions, limited issues, signed by the author and the illustrator, and respectively numbered 68 and 178 of 277 copies on Arches. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 137483
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KEY, Pierre V. R. Enrico Caruso.Boston : 1922
First edition, first printing, this copy subscribed for Marion Talley, signed by Caruso's widow Dorothy, Key, and Zirato on the limitation page, copy number 90 of 99 deluxe edition copies.
Marion Talley (1906-1983) was an American opera coloratura soprano. The present book would have reached her when, in 1922, she appeared as the lead in a production... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132883
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MAXSE, Frederick Ivor. Seymour Vandeleur, the Story of a British Officer.London : 1905
First edition, number 84 of 150 copies initialled by the author on the limitation leaf. A most attractive publication; a trade edition was published by Heinemann the following year. Vandeleur (1869-1901) was born in County Clare to a prominent soldiering family. He served in the conquest of Nigeria, in Uganda during the establishment of the protectorate... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 113689
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HARDY, Thomas. The Writings. In prose and verse. With prefaces and notes.New York & London : [1915]
The Autograph edition, limited to 153 sets signed by the author on an inserted leaf, this set number 3 bound ad personam for the American collector William Beers Crowell. The edition was based on the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition, "the definitive edition and last authority in questions of text" (Purdy), combining The Well-Beloved and A Group... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 115614
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BARBUSSE, Henri. Le Feu. (Journal d'une Escouade).Paris : 1916
First edition, number I of XX special copies printed on papier vélin de cuve des Usine d'Arches in large paper format and signed by Barbusse for the bibliophiles of Les XX, this copy presented to the society's president Henri Lenseigne, with an autograph letter from Barbusse dated 6 October 1917, and the hand-addressed envelope, here bound in. In the... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 124386
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(RIMBAUD, Arthur.) VIEILLARD, Roger. Hommage A Rimbaud.Paris : 1945
First edition, first printing, inscribed in pencil "à Ralph Kirkpatrick pour 'les possibilités harmoniques' Roger Vieillard amicalement" inside the first blank, including two musical drawings, further drawings on the title page with the caption "pour Ralph Kirkparick" signed with Vieillard's "RV" monogram and dated "1942-1971-1982". This copy number... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135463
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(ROLLING STONES.) SYKES, Christopher Simon. The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.Guildford : 2006
Signed limited edition, number 29 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship"... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141063
