Search results for: 'the works'
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Works.New York : 1923-26
Memorial Edition, number 440 of 1,000 sale copies (a further 50 were for presentation), signed by Edith Kermit Roosevelt, wife of Theodore, on the limitation leaf. Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 138232
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WARNER, Susan. WETHERELL, Elizabeth. The Wide, Wide World.New York : 1851
First edition of Susan Bogert Warner's first novel, written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell, in bright condition. Warner (1819-1885) began writing The Wide, Wide World in 1848. It was to become one of the most popular American novels of its time, however initially had difficulty finding a publisher. "Even when George P. Putnam accepted the... Learn More£2,650.00Stock Code: 139641
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POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1903
The Autograph edition, one of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the editors and publisher on the limitation leaf. The set collects all of Poe's works together with a biographic memoir and six volumes of literary criticism. Editors Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry were both well-known poets, literary critics, and scholars.... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 103856
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IRVING, Washington. The Works.New York : 1891-97
The Knickerbocker Edition of the Irving collected works, attractively bound. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 145030
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TWAIN, Mark. The Works.New York : 1911
The Author's national edition. The complete collected works of Twain very handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 111591
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LONDON, Jack. The Works.New York : 1903-24
The Collected works of Jack London. Learn More£3,850.00Stock Code: 147020
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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Works.Boston : 1873
A handsomely bound and illustrated set of Longfellow's works. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 138407
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MELVILLE, Herman. The Works.London : 1922-4
The Standard Edition. Limited to 750 numbered sets signed on behalf of the publishers, of which this is number 250. Volume 13 contains the first edition of the novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers in 1919 by Raymond M. Weaver, the author's first biographer. Original receipt of purchase, dated 1924, and publisher's... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 108786
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POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.Chicago : 1894
A handsomely bound set. There is extra material in volume VII, which was previously unpublished. This material is; the final paragraph of "Plagiarism," "An Author's Face," "Apothegms," "Hyperism," and the eleven pieces on pp.336-349. It also has the first American publication of " The Journal of Julius Rodman" in volume V. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114677
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WEST, Nathaniel. The Complete Works.1957
First UK edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 65670
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. The Works.Boston and New York : [c.1892]
Standard library edition. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119903
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COOPER, James Fenimore. The Works.New York and London : [c.1900]
Mohican edition. This edition is limited to 250 sets of which this is number 52. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 119787
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POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1894-95
A handsomely bound set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 38711
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Original drawing: the Prophet Almustafa.1923 or after
Original drawing by the author, a version of the same image that was used as the frontispiece to The Prophet. It is evidently an idealized portrait of Gibran himself. Several versions are known; this example was a gift to Barbara Young, his last companion and assistant, author of a biography of Gibran.
Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated from Lebanon... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 130660
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DERLETH, August. The Memoirs of Solar Pons; The Return of Solar Pons; The Reminiscences of Solar Pons; The Casebook of Solar Pons.Sauk City, WI : 1951-58-61-65
First editions, first printings, inscribed copies of four early titles in Derleth's Solar Pons series, of which there were 11 works. All these copies are inscribed by the author to F. H. Hollander (1915-2000) of the American Astronomical Society. The dust jackets were designed by Frank Utpatel, who also produced jackets for Arkham House. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122564
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BAUM, L. Frank - Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Silver Princess in Oz.Chicago : 1938
First edition, first printing, first state "A" binding with spine illustration of Handy Mandy's face. The 31st Oz book, one of the works. Scarce in such good condition. Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 99736
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CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the American Civil War.New York : 1895
First edition, first printing, first issue; exceptionally rare in the dust jacket. The Red Badge of Courage is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, a depiction of the cruelty of the American Civil War, features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield. The book made Crane... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 49515
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BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Octopus Frontier.San Francisco : 1960
First edition, first printing, of Brautigan's second collection of poetry, comprising 22 poems and featuring his first photographic cover, the image taken by North Beach photographer Gui de Angulo - "it is striking and just misses being sinister" (McClure, p. 172).
Brautigan collector Craig V. Showalter notes that The Octopus Frontier, along... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 145608
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PARKER, Dorothy. The Viking Portable Library.New York : 1945
First collected edition, fifth printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Ruthven Todd - with gratitude to him for wanting this miserable signature. Dorothy Parker". Todd was a Scottish poet, artist, and novelist, best known as an editor of the works of William Blake. He moved to the United States in 1947 where he lived for 13 years.
This... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 141988
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DICK, Philip K. The Collected Stories.Los Angeles, CA, Columbia, PA : 1987
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue. An unnumbered "presentation copy", with the author's signature mounted to the limitation leaf of Volume 1, from a total run of 100 signed copies. A further 400 unsigned copies were also released. This posthumous collection of Dick's works include a preface by the author adapted from a letter written... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131931
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JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales.New York : 1907
The New York Edition, the first and best collected edition of James's works. Complete as originally published in 1907 with 24 volumes, together with the two pendent volumes separately issued in 1917. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 138043
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TWAIN, Mark. The Writings.New York : 1922-5
The Definitive Edition, number 285 of 1,024 numbered sets, with the front blank signed by the author as "Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain" and with the limitation leaf signed by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. A handsome set in a contemporary fine binding of the most complete of all the collected editions of Twain's works. Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143379
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JAMES, Henry. The Madonna of the Future and other tales.London : 1879
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the vol. I half-title, "Mrs. Lombard, from her old friend, H. James, Paris. Nov. 3d 1879". The Lombards were from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and friends of the James family. Mrs Lombard (born Harriet H Jones, 1821-1884) often travelled in Europe with her daughters Fanny (Frances, 1840-1914)... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 132087
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SENHOUSE, Roger; TRILLING, Lionel. The Middle of the Journey.New York : 1947
First edition, first printing. Roger Senhouse's copy, sent to him by literary agents Pearn, Pollinger & Higham for the preparation of the first UK edition, published by Secker and Warburg the following year, and containing an illuminating collection of ephemera and correspondence exchanged between Senhouse, Frederic Warburg, Trilling, and critic Cyril... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 110965
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REXROTH, Kenneth (ed.) The New British Poets.[Norfolk, Conn.] : [1949]
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Theodore Weiss and his wife Renée: "For Renée & Ted Weiss in memory of a memorable weekend - Nov 48, Kenneth Rexroth" (front free endpaper). Ted and Renée Weiss edited the Quarterly Review of Literature for nearly sixty years, publishing the works of William Carlos Williams, Wallace... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 107186
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JARRELL, Randall. 5 Young American Poets, and four other first editions, inscribed.New York : 1940–48–51–53–65
A superb archive of family association copies, the first four works inscribed by Jarrell to his aunt and uncle, "To Uncle Howell and Aunt Elise, From Randall". It comprises includes Jarrell's first book appearance, in New Directions' 5 Young American Poets, his third, fourth, and fifth books, and his final book, The Lost World.
Jarrell's uncle,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 142534
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HAMMETT, Dashiell. [A set of 12 works of Hammet's collected short fiction:]New York : 1943-62
First editions, first printings, as well as the reissues of the first two volumes in the series: The Big Knock-Over (reissue of 106,000 Blood Money), and They Can Only Hang You Once (reissue of The Adventures of Sam Spade). A lovely set of Hammett's first twelve books of collected short fiction. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 94424
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KENT, Rockwell (illus.); MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale.Chicago : 1930
First Rockwell Kent edition, limited to 1,000 sets. It is considered one of the finest editions of Melville's masterpiece and one of the great American illustrated books of the 20th century. In 1926 Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), then just beginning to establish his fame as an artist, was approached by R. R. Donnelley and Sons to illustrate a new edition... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 120710
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STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath.New York : 1939
First edition, first printing, of Steinbeck's masterpiece and one of the great American novels of the 20th century.
The fine jacket design is by Elmer Hader, known primarily as a children's book illustrator (she was joint winner with his wife, Berta Hoerner Hader, of the Caldecott Medal in 1948 for The Big Snow). Supposedly, Steinbeck was so... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 147551
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GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and other poems.San Francisco : 1956
First published edition, first printing, with the spelling "Lucien Carr" in the dedication, and the eighth line of the second paragraph on the rear cover beginning "Harlem". The title poem Howl was in part a poem of love dedicated to Carl Solomon, a friend being held in a psychiatric institute, and caused much controversy for its explicit homoeroticism.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 133699
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FAULKNER, William. Intruder In The Dust.New York : 1948
First edition, first printing. Intruder in the Dust, which explores the South's racial problems through the medium of a murder mystery, was originally planned as a short story. But the work swelled to the size of a novel and was not completed until April 1948. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 112812
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THOREAU, Henry D. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.Boston and Cambridge : 1849
First edition of Thoreau's first book. Thoreau published at his own expense an edition of 1,000 copies: less than 300 sold, and in 1853 the remainder was returned to him - 256 bound up and 450 in sheets - prompting his rueful journal entry: "I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself."
The present copy has the... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 52313
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HEINZ, W. C. The Professional.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Ruth & Alan Hilditch our good friends who have heard me talk a lot of this. Bill Heinz Xmas 1957". Alan Hilditch (1900-1971), a certified public accountant, was a graduate of Yale and "a member of the St. Elmo Society, the Yale Club and the Innis... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 134056
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STARR, Jimmy. The Corpse Came C.O.D.Hollywood : 1944
First edition, first printing. Signed by Starr on the front flyleaf and additionally inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: "To Bonita Porter - the first of my new fan club. Best wishes, Jimmy Starr. March 19 1980." Starr was an American screenwriter and columnist active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. The present novel was the basis... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 110379
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HOLDEN, Inez. To the Boating,London : 1945
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Dokter Hell, from Inez Holden, August 1950". Beatrice Inez Holden (1903-1974) was a British author and journalist whose work was admired by the likes of Graham Greene and Anthony Powell. A glamorous socialite, Holden became a close friend and lover to George Orwell after... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 137337
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COWLES, John Clifford. The Whispering Buddha.Los Angeles : 1932
First edition, first printing. John Clifford Cowles (1861-1951) was an American artist, and this was his only work of fiction. A review on rear of dust jacket states "Read It Once, You Will Read It Twice" - a claim somewhat undermined by the uncut pages of this copy. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116470
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald's fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 124269
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PRINCE, Richard. Why I Go to the Movies Alone.New YorK : 1983
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Prince, "To Glenn, From Richard, all the best". Why I Go to the Movies Alone was Prince's first work of published fiction. Prince is best known for his deadpan appropriations of mass media imageryoften using the technique of "rephotography," or taking photographs of others' photographs. Yet the artist also... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 145652
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FOWLER, Gene. Trumpet in the Dust.New York : 1930
First edition, first printing, fine presentation from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Ring Lardner what a sap I'd be to try to tell you what I think of you and your work - you know... Gene Fowler April 3, 1930". A major association. Fowler met Lardner when the two men joined Damon Runyon as writers on Hearst's paper The American.... Learn More£1,600.00Stock Code: 50429
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THOREAU, Henry D. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.Boston and Cambridge : 1849
First edition of Thoreau's first book. Thoreau published at his own expense an edition of 1,000 copies: less than 300 sold, and in 1853 the remainder was returned to him - 256 bound up and 450 in sheets - prompting his rueful journal entry: "I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself."
The advert leaf advises... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144727
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. "I Didn't Get Over", two draft manuscripts and typescripts, with holograph corrections, for the short story.[Asheville, NC : 1936]
Two original drafts, the first draft and the second and final draft, for Fitzgerald's short story "I Didn't Get Over", written in summer 1936 and published in Esquire magazine that October.
The most noticeable differences between the two drafts are at the beginning and end of the piece. The title is slightly changed: in the first draft, it is... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 100917
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(HEMINGWAY, Ernest.) O'BRIEN, Edward J. (ed.) The Best Short Stories of 1923Boston : 1914
First edition, first printing. This anthology of popular fiction from 1923 includes Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man", which first appeared in his first published work, Three Stories and Ten Poems, published earlier in the same year. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123600
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GIBRAN, Kahlil - DOLE, William Haskell. Omar the Tentmaker.Boston : 1899
First edition, with the cover design being the first attributed work published by Kahlil Gibran, the celebrated poet, artist, and author of The Prophet. This work is rare; although reasonably well-represented in institutions, many copies were rebound, thus losing the Gibran illustration; we could trace no copies on the market, and only three auction... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 144573
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GELBER, Jack. The Connection.New York : 1981
Later reprint of Gelber's hyper-realistic play about drug addicts, first published by the Grove Press in 1960, inscribed by the theatre's founder Judith Malina to the owner of the Press: "For Barney Rosset with loving gratitude for your pioneering work for art & freedom. With love, Judith."
Malina's inscription further notes that it was inscribed... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 107213
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GOODMAN, Paul. The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories.Norfolk, CT : 1949
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Leo Raditsa, Paul Goodman". Raditsa (1936-2001) was a distinguished Harvard academic, an expert in ancient history and also an editor and founder the Cambridge Review, which published early work by Goodman. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 88666
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O'CONNOR, Flannery. The Violent Bear it Away.New York : 1960
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Louis Dollarhide in appreciation - Flannery O'Connor, Millidgeville, April 8, 1960". Inserted is O'Connor's calling card on which she has written "I took the liberty of correcting the typographical error on page 242, FOC". On page 242 she has crossed out... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 62636
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SANFORD, John. SHAPIRO, Julian. The Water Wheel.1933
First edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper: "This one for them Abernathys for having helped me in so many ways, sincerely Julian Mar.7.33." The recipient was Milton Abernathy, the editor of Contempo, a short lived but notable little magazine published in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 65534
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DICKEY, James. The Zodiac.Bloomfield Hills, MI : 1976
First edition, number 39 of 61 copies signed by the author with a single leaf of the typescript working draft bound in, Dickey's manuscript corrections in ink. A trade issue was released by Doubleday later in the same year. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140558
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, second issue binding. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his friend the film producer Paul Nathan on the front free endpaper: "To Paul, fondly, Tennessee". Paul Nathan (1912-1977) produced the 1961 film adaptation of Williams's play Summer and Smoke. He also worked on several Westerns, among them True Grit and... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 90192
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NOVIK, Naomi. Temeraire; The Throne of Jade; Black Powder War; Empire of Ivory.London : 2006 & 2007
First UK editions, signed limited editions of 100 copies each, with limitation blind stamps on the title pages. The first four novels in the ongoing Temeraire series, first published in the US the same year, set amid an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars, which includes squadrons of dragons. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 87253
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THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden.Boston : 1894
First edition, with a card signed by the author tipped onto the front free endpaper. Poet and writer Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) spent the majority of her life on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine living and working with her father at his Appledore Hotel, a setting which inspired many of her works. This work is described by BAL as being "one... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125680
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![Looking Backward 2000-1887. [Together with:] Equality.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/137673.jpg)
BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward 2000-1887. [Together with:] Equality.Boston : 1888 & 1897
First editions, first printings, of Bellamy's enormously popular Looking Backward 2000-1887 and its sequel Equality. First issue of Looking Backward with the misprint "wore" in line 8 on page 210 and the J. J. Arakelyan slug on the copyright page; Equality in the rare first-issue dust jacket. Looking Backward 2000-1887 established Bellamy's utopian... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 137673
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FAULKNER, William. New Orleans Sketches.[Tokyo] : [1955]
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor Ichiro Nishizaki on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Garland Taylor, with remembrances and gratitude from the editor, Ichiro Nishizaki. Tokyo, Japan", and with a typescript of the English translation of his introduction tipped-in following the Japanese language version. Nishizaki... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 83742
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STEVENS, Wallace. Ideas of Order.New York : 1935
First and limited edition, signed by Stevens; this one of just 10 copies for review and marked "out of series", from a total edition of 165.
An excellent association copy: with the pencilled ownership inscription of F. O. Matthiessen on the front free endpaper and some pencilled underlings and occasional marginal notation. F. O. Matthiessen... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 72150
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings.New York : 1919
First edition, trade issue, of Gibran's first and only collection of drawings, retaining some parts of the rare dust jacket laid in. "For Gibran the canvas represented another form in which his poetry could be expressed... the pieces included in Twenty Drawings clearly demonstrate the mystical qualities Gibran imbued in all his works, whatever the medium"... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137326
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works. Due to the fragile paper stock used for the dust jacket copies in such... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131845
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LEVY, D. A. Cleveland undercovers.Cleveland : 1966
First edition, this one of 65 special copies "bound with freak covers by the author" (each being thus unique, this one incorporating old maps of Ohio, a striking photograph of two Native Americans, and newsprint collage), from a total edition of 500. This copy is inscribed on the title page, "many thanks, d. a. levy". Levy (1942-1968) was a leading... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138636
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BURROUGHS, William S. Dead Fingers Talk.London : 1963
Advanced reading copy, later inscribed on the half-title "For Richard Aaron. William S. Burroughs". Aaron negotiated the sale of Burroughs' literary archive to Robert Altmann of Liechtenstein. As recounted in an interview with Eric C. Shoaf, once the sale's contracts were signed, "a button was pushed. In about ten minutes a door in the wall opened and... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 140218
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MALAMUD, Bernard. Pictures of Fidelman.London : 1983
First edition thus, published as part of the collected works of Bernard Malamud. This copy from the library of the author with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Originally published in the US in 1969. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 60992
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DEPEW, Wally (ed.) PN2 experiment flipbook, nos 2 & 5.Scranton, PA : [c.1964-1966]
Two rare flipbooks of avant-garde mimeo-art/concrete poetry issued by the Poetry Newsletter, which was published by Pennsylvania native Wally Depew in the mid-1960s and ran through 12 issues. The somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Bibliography" for each flipbook includes the Works of Rabelais, "Eadweard" Muybridge's Human Figure in Motion, John Cage's Silence,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135171
