London: Bernard Quaritch, 1879. Fourth Edition. Publisher’s quarter-leather and cloth; bookplate; ownership signature on the blank recto of the frontispiece; a very good copy and uncommon in the original binding. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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New York: Irving Berlin, Inc., 1938. Publisher’s printed stiff wrappers; featuring three new songs from the 1938 RKO musical, along with 25 older songs, each with a reproduction of its sheet music cover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Berlin to a Hollywood publicist and reviewer, “To Jerry [Hoffman] who saw all.....
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San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925. First Edition; one of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by Anderson. Printed at the Grabhorn Press; fine in a cracked, but lightly worn publisher’s slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
London: The Idler, 1892. Volume I of this magazine; bound in contemporary half-leather; owner’s inscription; the shabby binding is worn. One of the earliest Sherlockian parodies and illustrated by George Hutchinson, who had recently illustrated the 1891 Ward, Lock edition of A Study in Scarlet. These issues were originally published.....
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No place of publication: no publisher, 1945. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; gift inscription on the first blank; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1943. First American Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “To Hilda Vaughan, the gentlewoman, with best wishes from C.S. Forester - 1943.” The recipient, a well-regarded novelist herself, was the wife of novelist Charles Morgan, befriending Forester on moving to California.....
London: Chappell, 1929. First Edition of the vocal score. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “For Cissie, With my love and gratitude and affection and what not. Noel/ 1929.” Probably this is the dancer and actress Cissie Sewell who participated in foreign productions of this work, and was well-spoken of.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Twenty-four volumes. Original cloth and boards with paper spine labels. One of 750 numbered sets signed by Doyle. Very good. Gibson and Green A61. Compiled and published at the end of his life, Doyle was unable to provide revisions and prefaces as he.....
New York: Putnam & Co., 1856. First American Edition. Publisher’s cloth (minor spotting); very moderate foxing; a very good copy of Burton’s account of his penetration in disguise of Islam’s holiest shrine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
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Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1942. First Edition; first issue of Salinger's first book appearance. Only minute wear; a fine copy in a stamped and addressed first issue publisher's cardboard box. [With] a fine example of the second issue (1943) of the book in a very good, stamped and addressed example.....
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940. First Edition. Neat ownership signature; fine in a dust jacket with a faded spine and tiny chips at the spine ends. In a custom cloth clamshell box with a one page holograph letter (unsigned) to his secretary. Over 75 words, Sun Valley, undated but with.....
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First Edition. 600 copies were printed for England; bookplate; very good; spine ends a little chipped. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.