The Queen of Pirate Isle.
London: Warne, [1886]. Greenaway, Kate. Warne edition, following the Chatto and Windus edition of 1886. Read More about The Queen of Pirate Isle
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London: Warne, [1886]. Greenaway, Kate. Warne edition, following the Chatto and Windus edition of 1886. Read More about The Queen of Pirate Isle
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, [1979]. Reissued 1979, first printing, originally published in 1966. Inscribed and signed on the title page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Gilded Bat
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1979]. Reissued in 1979, first printing, originally published in 1961. Signed. Inscribed and signed on the title-page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Willowdale Handcar, or the Return of the Black Doll
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1980]. Reissued 1980, first printing, originally published in 1961. Inscribed on the title page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Hapless Child
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ALtoona: Times Tribune Company, 1921. First edition. Presentation Copy. Compendium of bear lore and accounts of black bears in Pennsylvania. The back wrapper bears a presentation, Compliments of H.W. Shoemaker, McElhatton, Pa. Uncommon. Read More about The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus). Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters...
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[New York: Vehicle Editions, A. Levitt, 1979]. First edition, one of 500 hardcover copies. Striking and superbly produced volume of concrete poetry and typewriter art by Christopher Knowles, printed by Meriden Gravure on Beckett vellum. Read More about Typings (1974-1977
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New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. First edition. Read More about Sea and Sardinia
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London: Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Read More about England’s Pleasant Land. A Pageant Play
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Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. Esherick, Wharton. First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Edition of 925 copies, this copy unnumbered, “Remaindered” in pencil. The Second Book of the Centaur Press. Read More about Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
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Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966. First edition in English. First Edition in English. First edition in English of Mao's Little Red Book. 720 million copies of the Chinese text of Mao's Little Red Book were printed over a four-year period beginning in 1964; only the Bible has had a larger..... Read More about Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung [Little Red Book
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London: Constable & Co, 1934. First edition. A landmark of bibliography and scholarly enterprise, recounting the research that uncovered the forgeries of THomas J. Wise. Read More about An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
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New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First edition. Read More about England My England
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Boston: Joseph Bumstead, for D. West, Marlboro'-Street and E, 1791. Read More about The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian...
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Derby: John Drewry, 1789. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS ON ATOMOSPHERIC ELECTRICTY. Bennet was a clergyman who was also a physicist. He invented the gold-leaf electroscope and an improved magnetometer. Alesandra Volta regarded the theory of electricity that Bennet put forth in this book as a key influence in leading to the..... Read More about New Experiments on Electricity, wherein the causes of Thunder and Lightning as well as the...
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New York: Scribner's, 1940. First edition, first state dust jacket. Read More about For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Rheims: 1941. One of 2500 copies printed at the Humphrey Press in Geneva NY. With TLS from Kent to David Silve sending him this copy. Read More about Ten Woodcuts of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. [Text by JKent
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing with A-P below the editions statement. Rare Variant Issue Jacket. A landmark work in African American fiction, which became the first Book of the Month Club selection by an African-American writer, selling 250,000 copies in its first three weeks on..... Read More about Native Son
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London: Heinemann, [1968]. First edition. Inscribed. A memoir of literary life in the early twentieth century up to the eve of the second world war. Brigit Patmore (1882-1965), Ulster-born wife of the grandson of Coventry Patmore, was friends with Violet Hunt, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and D.H. Lawrence. She left her..... Read More about My Friends When Young. The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore. Edited with an introduction by Derek Patmore
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New York: 7 January 1989. Becket & Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. Sculptor Michael De Lisio (1911-2003) writes to actress and writer Helen Bishop (1931-2015) about his ideas for a sculpture of Waiting for Godot with Beckett and Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. De Lisio was a keen devotee of..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Mike”), to Helen Bishop, about plans for a sculpture of Beckett’s...
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First edition, first printing. Review Copy. The first entry into Kerouac's Dulouz Legend, or his autobiographical experimental epic series, this book is unique among Kerouac's work in its focus in the sensations and sensabilities of childhood. It's illustrated throughout by the drawings of..... Read More about Visions of Gerard
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Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1925; 1931. First edition, number 93 of 190 copies, signed by the author and D.H. Lawrence; number 264 of 300 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the Writings of D.H. Lawrence. With a Foreword ("The Bad Side of...
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Paris: Ernest Flammarion, nd. Inscribed to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr from uncle Luce and date Christmas 1916 added in pencil on the ffep. Read More about Robert Hellimont. Journal d'un Solitaire
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Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, nd. MRS T.R. TO CABOT LODGE. With Calling card of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt (Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt) tipped onto the front pastedown, and inscribed "Dear Cabot I hope you will care to read a very unprofitable little book." HCL and TR were the..... Read More about Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres
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Nagoya: Reimei Shobo, [1973]. Presentation Copy to Gershon Legman. Presentation copy of this Japanese text on string figures, inscribed by the author to a noted folklorist and scholar of human behavior: “To Mr. Gershon Legman from Seishiro Yuasa, 1976. 2. 6. Learn with Children Walk with Children” and with a...... Read More about Tanoshii ayatori asobi
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