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  • Little Big Man. THOMAS BERGER.
    BERGER, THOMAS

    Little Big Man

    New York: Dial Press, 1964. First Edition. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket with an unfaded spine; review copy; with review slip, promotional letter and photographs laid in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • The Crowborough Edition. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
    DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

    The Crowborough Edition

    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. Some bookplates; a nearly fine set, 16 volumes of which have their dust jackets, which are in various conditions. Gibson and Green A61. Compiled and.....

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  • Lysistrata. A New Version by Gilbert Seldes. PICASSO, ARISTOPHANES.
    [PICASSO]. ARISTOPHANES

    Lysistrata. A New Version by Gilbert Seldes

    New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. First Edition with these illustrations by Picasso, consisting of numerous drawings in the text and six original etchings. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist (the play’s author had long been unavailable). A fine copy in the publisher’s cardboard slipcase and chemise.....

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  • Potted Fiction. SHERLOCKIANA, JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
    [SHERLOCKIANA]. BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK

    Potted Fiction

    New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; Goldstone bookplate; good to very good. “A Pragmatic Enigma.” All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • The Lorgnette 1886. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
    BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK

    The Lorgnette 1886

    New York: George J. Coombes, 1886. First Edition of his first regularly published book. Bangs’s name appears in the copyright notice and his initials are on the front cover; publisher’s cloth; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Murder In The Cathedral. T. S ELIOT.
    ELIOT, T.S

    Murder In The Cathedral

    Canterbury, England: H.J. Goulden, 1935. First Edition; Gallup A29a, noting that 750 copies were printed. Publisher’s wrappers; very good to fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Jugged Journaism. SHERLOCKIANA, A. B COX.
    [SHERLOCKIANA]. COX, A.B

    Jugged Journaism

    First Edition. “Holmes and the Dasher.” Very good in a second issue (reduced to 2/6 rather than 7/6 - and with different text and green rules) dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • A Penny For The Poor. BERTOLT BRECHT.
    BRECHT, BERTOLT

    A Penny For The Poor

    New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First Edition in English; first American edition. Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. Inscribed by the author in 1946 to Saul Bellow’s especially close friend and attorney (as well as the model for Harvey Simkin in Herzog), “for Sam.....

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  • The Sign of Four. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
    DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

    The Sign of Four

    London: Spencer Blackett, 189. First Edition; in the first issue Spencer Blackett binding. Front hinge mended; rear hing splitting; minor cloth wear; overall, a sound, very good, clean copy; ein a clamshell box, paired with a near fine copy (bookplate on the front paste-down) of the first edition in the.....

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  • Sister Carrie. THEODORE DREISER.
    DREISER, THEODORE

    Sister Carrie

    New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, Reginald Marsh, who has embellished this copy with a full page drawing on the first blank. In pen and ink, Marsh depicts a couple with another figure in the background, identified as “Chas. H.,” evidently.....

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  • Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Chronology of Their Adventures. SHERLOCKIANA, H. W BELL.
    [SHERLOCKIANA]. BELL, H.W

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Chronology of Their Adventures

    London: Constable, 1932. First Edition. Some cover soiling; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress by "Boz&quot. CHARLES DICKENS.
    DICKENS, CHARLES

    Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress by "Boz"

    London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First Edition; three volumes; first issue; with “Boz” on the title pages and with the “fireside” plate in volume three. Publisher’s cloth; variant state binding with “London/ Bentley” at the foot of the spines (according to Smith, not a point of any significance); some cloth fading.....

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