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$450.00London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. First edition. 256 pp. Very light foxing to the least leaf, else very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light chipping to top edge and crown, and an internally mended tear to the rear panel near the spine. An early collection of Dahl stories.
$250.00Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1979). First edition. 185 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Davenport's least common trade title. Crane A11.a1.$200.00NY: Samuel French, 1926. First edition. 138 pp. Inked initials to front cover, light wear to base and crown of spine. In all, near fine in printed wrappers. The loosely adapted source for Danny Kaye’s first movie, “Up in Arms,” in which he portrayed a hypochondriacal G.I. The play itself is based on a 1922 novel by E.J. Rath.$250.00NY: Grove Press (1975). First US edition. 265 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sam Flores. Winner of the 1973 Prix Médicis.$500.00NY: Random House (1939). First trade edition, first issue. 339 pp. Light soiling to bottom edge, else very near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with several short edge-tears and wear to base and crown of spine.
$200.00NY: Equinox, 1932. First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrated with four drawings by Albert Heckman. Original very good unprinted mailing envelope (split along two sides) accompanies. Number one of the “Equinox Quarters.” Peterson C17a.
$45.00NY: Spiral Press/Random House (1951). First printing of this edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with integral printed dust jacket.
$450.00Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press [1970]. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. First edition; an offprint from MOSAIC III:4. INSCRIBED by Fowles inside the front cover, “Allen [McGuire] / One of a very limited / number - twenty-five if / I remember / John Fowles.”$1,000.00Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, Roman numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Lacks the unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 26 copies SIGNED by Fowles, “I, fuge... / John Fowles / 7 June 1983.”
$500.00NY: Knopf, 1975. Uncorrected proof. 725 pp. “10” penned to spine, else near fine in printed red wrappers. Publication information taped to front cover, promotional flyer stapled to verso, with a bit of a rust stain from the staple. Laid-in is a holograph note, “Geoff Wolff / 1,500 words / Deadline: Sept. 1” and a printed slip providing essentially the same information, but spelling out “Geoffrey Wolff.” An uncommon proof. Gaddis’ second novel, winner of the 1976 National Book Award.$850.00NY: Harcourt, Brace (1955). Uncorrected proof. 956 pp. A small scuff along the bottom edge of the rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers.$350.00Decatur: Wisteria Press, 1995. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 20 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine. Fine elaborate publisher’s clamshell case. Frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser. One of 26 lettered copies on Twinrocker paper SIGNED by Gibbons and Moser, and accompanied by a loose SIGNED copy of the Moser print.$250.00Paris: NRF (1924). First edition. Three volumes, each near fine in printed wrappers with slight leans to spines. One of 550 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper.
$450.00NY: St. Martin's (1987). First US edition. 501 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some very light edgewear. Goddard’s first novel, nominated for the Booker Prize. Promotional flyer laid in.
$750.00NY: Doubleday (1996). First US edition. xxix + 769 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky. SIGNED by Gorbachev on the title page.
$150.00Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press (1982). First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Gordon on the title page. Halftone photographs and text combined and stretched.$250.00NY: Dutton, 1929. First US edition. 269 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with black lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Green’s second novel.$450.00London: Bodley Head (1980). First edition, first issue. 139 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.”$450.00London: Bodley Head (1961). First edition. 123 pp. Light foxing to fore-edge, else near fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.”
$2,500.00London: Bodley Head (1966). First edition. 313 pp. Light foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel and light wear to crown. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.” Based on the Haiti of Duvalier, who was not pleased. Source for the film of the same title starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov.
$125.00Durham: Friends of the Library, NCWC (1981). First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with just a bit of rust to the staples. One of fifty numbered copies SIGNED by Gurganus. His first book.
$350.00Madrid & Palma de Mallorca: Papeles de Son Armadans (1962). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. A section of Hawkes’ first novel, THE CANNIBAL. Translated into Spanish by Jorge A. Franco Irizarri with his introduction. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Hawkes.$200.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1994). Uncorrected proof. 464 pp. Near fine in printed yellow wrappers with a small pressure-dent to the front cover, and a little wrinkle at spine. Promotion sticker on front cover. INSCRIBED by Heller on the title page, “To David, / Good luck with / this one -- for both of / us. Joseph Heller.”
$750.00Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. 249 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to base and crown, and sunning to red lettering on spine. First novel by Himes, in much better condition than normally encountered.
$250.00Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. Printed letterpress and hand bound. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$350.00Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. [22 pp]. One by two inch sticker scar to rear cover, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Errata slip tipped-in after the colophon. Slocum & Cahoon A24.$500.00NY: Dial Press, 1969. First edition. 278 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the dark portions of the front panel. Kennedy’s first book.$2,500.00Garden City: Doubleday (1978). Later printing. xxii + 336 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and has some faint sunning to spine. The lower corner of the front flap is clipped, and there is a publisher’s price sticker “$8.95 / D & CO. INC.” over the printed prince. Introduction by John D. MacDonald. Dated (9/12/79) and SIGNED by King on the title page.$350.00[Ottawa]: Oberon (1978). First edition. 154 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Kinsella on the front free endpaper, “Best Wishes / Bill Kinsella.” His second book, less common in nice condition.
$2,500.00NY: Theatre Communications Group (1993 & 1994). First editions. x + 119 & xi +158 pp. Two volumes, both fine in fine dust jacket. Cover designs by Milton Glaser. “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika.” Dated (10/1/94) and INSCRIBED by Kushner in both volumes, “For Michael / with best wishes / Tony Kushner” and “For Michael / again / Thanks for / showing me / the / Duncan! / Tony Kushner.” Winner of two Tony Awards for Best Play, and a Pulitzer Prize. For the pair:
$500.00Sherman Oaks: D’Ambrosio, 1992. First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in a “book-in-a-box” modular binding. Introduction by Patrick Magarick. One of 75 numbered copies on handmade “Misty Rose” paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. A short story by this French Symbolist, contemporary of Maupassant and Huysmans. Original prospectus accompanies.$500.00Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. First printing of this edition. 365 pp. Bookplate inside front cover, corners lightly bumped, split along one edge of spine (that has been reattached), printed spine label. In all, a solid very good plus copy in a custom chemise and slipcase with gilt-stamped leather spine. One of 1000 numbered copies. An early pirated edition.