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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
New York: Scribner’s, 1938. First Edition. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with very minor wear. Bookplate; in a quarter leather slipcase with chemise.
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Price: $8,500.00
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972. First Edition. Edges a little rubbed; very good plus in a price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Gorey.
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Price: $300.00
Korai Celadon in America
Pages 37 - 121 from Eastern Art: An Annual. Philadelphia: College Art Association, 1930. Bound into full greenish-brown morocco, signed “Asper, Geneve.” Decorative Asian silk endpapers; spine browned; very good.
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Price: $300.00
Mr. Justice Raffles
New York: Scribner’s, 1909. First American Edition. Ownership signature; near fine in the rare dust jacket, which has chips along the edges.
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Price: $1,250.00
The Maracot Deep
London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition. Covers dampstained, else very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author on the title page the day after publication, “To my friend Lady Sackville...
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Price: $5,500.00
Shooting an Elephant and Other Stories
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950. First American Edition. Small bookplate; fine in a very good or slightly better dust jacket.
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Price: $175.00
The Enchanted Castle
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. 1935. A very good copy; signed by Moore. A copy of Colleen Moore’s Doll House is laid in. The author was a star in...
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Price: $65.00
An Evening with Ninon...Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff
New York: Harbor Press, 1941. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed by How. A publisher’s announcement and a one page holograph letter (with the original envelope) by How are laid in...
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Price: $65.00
Edition Deluxe: Longfellow Portfolio, being a Selection of Seventy-Five Artist Proofs from the Original Wood-Cuts Illustrating the New Subscription Edition of Longfellow's Poetical Works
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881. First Edition thus; one of 500 numbered sets; 75 plates plus title page, index, and introductory leaf; in a folding cloth portfolio (some wear). The plates...
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Price: $3,250.00
Sam and Emma. Drawings by Edward Gorey
New York: Parents’ Magazine Press, 1971. First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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Price: $125.00
The Mysterious Card/ The Mysterious Card Unveiled
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1895, 1896 [actually 1912]. First Edition. Two short stories; in Bleiler. The paper seal is still bound in around the second story, but has been broken. Very...
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Price: $750.00
Blasting and Bombardiering: Autobiography (1914-1926)
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. First Edition; second variant of the cloth (bound later than the first); near fine in a dust jacket with a little darkening of the spine...
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Price: $275.00
The Bounty Hunters
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954. First Edition; clothbound issue of Leonard’s first book. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, stains and tears; in...
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Price: $3,000.00
The Utter Zoo
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.
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Price: $275.00
Typed Letter Signed
Two pages; dated July 24, 1966 on his Remsenburg letterhead. To “Gene,” with much friendly chat, “I shall be eighty-five (of all absurd ages) in October, and I don’t feel...
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Price: $850.00
Moonraker
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition of the third Bond book. This copy has “shoot” on page 10; no priority has been established, nor, for that matter, presumed. Previous owner’s...
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Price: $10,000.00
Original Typescript Poem, Signed
One page; titled “MY MAIDEN”; 24 lines; signed in ink by the author, “Celia Thaxter.” Folded twice; tender and splitting at the folds, but overall very good. Undated, but likely...
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Price: $1,500.00
Rose Bowl All-American
New York: Crowell, 1949. First Edition of this novel for juveniles. Very good plus in a price-clipped dust jacket.
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Price: $50.00
Thurber's Dogs
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some foxing.
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Price: $100.00
The Silent Six
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First American Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a number of small chips and tears.
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Price: $500.00
Three Pairs of Silk Stockings: A Novel of the Life on the Educated Class Under the Soviet. Translated by Leonide Zarine. Introduction by Stephen Graham
London: Ernest Benn, 1931. First English Edition. Goldstone bookplate; minor staining on the endpapers; near fine in dust jacket.
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Price: $300.00
Portrait Photograph; Presented to One of His Publishers
c. 1917-1918. Dunsany is seated holding his riding crop, in captain’s uniform (he was wounded in 1916). Image approximately 4 x 5 1/2”; on the photographer’s mount (Lafayette, Ltd., Photographers...
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Price: $1,500.00
Dictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier Francais de l'Epoque Carlovingienne a la Renaissance
Paris: Bance, Editeur, 1858. First Edition of the first volume in what was to become a six volume series by the French architect and theorist. Profusely illustrated in color and...
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Price: $1,500.00
Confessions of a Mask
New York: New Directions, 1958. First American Edition. Review copy; fine in dust jacket.
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Price: $450.00
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Humorous Tales
New York: George H. Doran, 1922. First Edition. Fine in a very lightly worn dust jacket; presentation copy, inscribed by the author.
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Price: $250.00
The Gun
Boston: Little, Brown, 1933. First American Edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket. A novel of the Peninsular War, made into a film with Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
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Price: $350.00
Antidote to Venom
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. First Edition. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with minor wear and tear,
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Price: $2,000.00
Freedom and Death
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956. First English Edition. Minor foxing of the book and the dust jacket.
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Price: $250.00
The Mill On The Floss
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860. First Edition; three volumes; original publisher’s cloth; without the ad leaf in volume one (Carter’s first state); publisher’s catalogue in volume three; endpapers replaced at what appears...
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Price: $1,650.00
The Loved One
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948. First Edition; limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Waugh and the illustrator, Stuart Boyle. A fine copy.
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Price: $1,750.00
Hiroshima
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Trade Edition; preceded by a New Yorker edition. Fine in dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page by the author, “...What a beautiful...
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Price: $1,500.00
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton: With Engravings and an Appendix
London: Printed by T. Bensley; for B. White and Son, 1789. First Edition; including the errata leaf and all plates (two folding). A classic of natural history, and, as one...
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Price: $5,000.00
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1943. First Edition; 1200 copies printed; Aside from a little bumping a fine copy in a fresh dust jacket originally from the estate of Donald Wandrei.
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Price: $5,500.00
Both Your Houses
New York: Samuel French, 1933. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.
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Price: $650.00
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1965. First Edition. A very good plus copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. A bookplate signed by the author is laid in.
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Price: $650.00
The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein)
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Ink date on the title page below the author’s name; pages browned and brittle as always; very good in a good...
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Price: $3,500.00
Original Variant Cover Illustration for Collier's Weekly
9.25 x 6.5”; framed, matted and glazed; gouache, oil, ink and watercolor and pencil; a different version of this cover, depicting a young boy sledding towards the viewer, was used...
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Price: $27,500.00
Rodney Stone
London: Smith, Elder, 1896. First Edition. Bottom of spine chipped, else very good. Inscribed by the author a day before publication, “With A Conan Doyle’s kind regards Nov 12/96/.”...
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Price: $2,750.00
The Beautiful and Damned
New York: Scribner’s, 1922. First Edition; first printing; in a first printing dust jacket. Aside from minor offsetting on the front endpapers, very nearly fine. The dust jacket has several...
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Price: $22,500.00
Lassie Come-Home. Illustrated by Margaret Kirmse
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1940. First Edition. Gift inscription; a fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with with some chipping. Basis for the 1943 movie that...
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Price: $650.00