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Item 313742Setting Free the Bears.
Price: $900
New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of the author's first book. First book. Read More Item Details for Setting Free the Bears Add to Wish List
Item #313742
Modern literature, including poetry, science fiction, detective, and popular pulp literature.
Price: $900
New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of the author's first book. First book. Read More Item Details for Setting Free the Bears Add to Wish List
Item #313742
Price: $750
New York: A Henry Robbins Book. E.P. Dutton, [1978]. First edition. Made into a movie in 1982. Read More Item Details for The World According to Garp Add to Wish List
Item #266292
Price: $5,000
New York: Published by David Longworth, At the Shakspeare-Gallery, 1807-1808. Mixed set: Volume I title page dated 1807 (BAL title page C); vol II title page A; part I is third edition, parts II and III are second edition, parts IV through XX are first editions; frontispiece in part VIII..... Read More Item Details for Salmagundi: or The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others Add to Wish List
Item #316042
Price: $3,000
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, et al, 1765. First separate edition. First Separate Edition. The first separate printing of Johnson's Preface to his celebrated edition of Shakespeare. Johnson's "humanely poised preface" (ODNB) is the pinnacle of 18th-century Shakespeare criticism. Adam Smith described it as the "most manly piece..... Read More Item Details for Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays Add to Wish List
Item #313399
Price: $6,500
London: Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly, 1868. Second edition. 'And Wilderness is Paradise enow': Second Edition, in Wrappers. The best known of FitzGerald's works, his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayaym was almost entirely overlooked at its first appearance. D. G. Rossetti and Swinburne were among the earliest “believers.” Borges has written of the..... Read More Item Details for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse [By Edward FitzGerald] Add to Wish List
Item #313870
Price: $2,000
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our protagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon (i.,e., Byron), her helplessness is described thus: "The eye of the rattle-snake, it has been said..... Read More Item Details for Glenarvon Add to Wish List
Item #313277
Price: $1,750
[London: Privately printed for Subscribers], 1929. Deluxe issue of the definitive edition. “This edition is limited to 50 copies”. Unbound sheets, with Autograph Note. Set of the unbound sheets of the deluxe issue of the definitive edition of Pansies, printed on good paper. The edition published by Secker some months..... Read More Item Details for Pansies June, 1929 Add to Wish List
Item #302899
Price: $900
London: Cecil Palmer, 1923. The last issue of Graves’ irregular literary miscellany (two issues of The Owl were publsihed by Martin Secker in 1919) Contributors include Thomas Hardy, David Garnett, Max Beerbohm (an unpublished sonnet by Enoch Soames), Pamela Bianco, Siegfried Sassoon, William Nicholson (a caricature), and T. E. Lawrence..... Read More Item Details for The Winter Owl Add to Wish List
Item #308354
Price: $7,500
Various places: 1901-1929. An archive of material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre (1871-1943), the famed documentarian of Wall Street in the first decades of the 20th century. Lefévre’s first book, Wall Street Stories (1901), was a series of eight lightly fictionalized accounts of Wall Street operators which..... Read More Item Details for Archive of publisher correspondence and other material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre Add to Wish List
Item #307822
Price: $2,500
Cambridge, Mass: February 15, 1878. Bifolium. "I sat beside [Cruikshank] at dinner at Dickens's, in Devonshire Terrace..." A terrific Longfellow letter. In part: "It gives me very great pleasure to sign the paper that has been sent me. But as I am not a British subject, I think Lord Beaconsfield..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), to the English novelist Fanny Aikin Kortright, mentioning dinner with Cruikshank and others at Dickens' place Add to Wish List
Item #315675
Price: $5,000
[St. John’s Wood, London: 1926]. Published by Spurr & Swift in 1926, in an edition of 265 copies signed by the author. A choice and lengthy Machen holograph manuscript from the middle 1920s, at the apogee of his celebrity, in which he looks back at some of the ideas from..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Arthur Machen”), of the “Prospectus” Introduction to his collection of essays, Notes and Queries Add to Wish List
Item #314722
Price: $7,500
London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomare”). Fine first edition in publisher's cloth of Melville's first book. A fine first edition in publisher's cloth of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later..... Read More Item Details for [Typee] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence Among the Native of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life Add to Wish List
Item #313865
Price: $3,500
Oxford: J. Vincent, 1839. First edition of the author's first book. Presentation Copy. Ruskin’s first book, published while a student at Christ Church, Oxford, the Newdigate Prize poem for 1839. "With J. Ruskin's kind regards" on the title-page. Read More Item Details for Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem Add to Wish List
Item #315006
Price: $7,500
New York: August 26, 1963. Signed by Salinger, Brazilian rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Brazilian publisher Editora Nacional, twelve years after the book's original publication. Rights are granted..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Editora Nacional (São Paulo) Add to Wish List
Item #311577
Price: $10,000
New York: February 24, 1961. Signed by Salinger, Portuguese rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Lisbon publisher Livros do Brasil, ten years after the book's original publication. Rights are..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Livros do Brasil (Lisbon) Add to Wish List
Item #311581
Price: $10,000
New York: April 29, 1980. Signed by Salinger, Spanish rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Spanish-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and a Barcelona publisher for a book club edition. The final three provisions of the contract..... Read More Item Details for Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Spanish-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Mundo Actual de Ediciones S.A. (Barcelona) Add to Wish List
Item #311582
Price: $2,750
London: Constable, [1944]. First edition. Inscribed to Dean Inge of St. Pauls, with additional inscriptions and autograph notes. Inscribed, pre-publication, on the half title, “to Catharine & Ralph Inge, G. Bernard Shaw. Ayot Saint Lawrence. 3rd September 1944,” with a postscript, “Dear Catharine, You will see by the index that..... Read More Item Details for Everybody’s Political What’s What Add to Wish List
Item #266714
Price: $10,000
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894-95. One of 250 copies. The Magnificent Kelmscott Press Shelley. A very nice copy of the magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley. With interesting New York provenance, likely from the 1920s. With signatures on the two preliminary blank leavesof a number of New York businessmen..... Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Add to Wish List
Item #314918
Price: $22,500
Various places: Delhi, Baghdad, Asolo, Aden, Cairo, London, Cyrenaica, etc: 1935 to 1979. A substantial archive of unpublished letters of Freya Stark (1893-1993), author and intrepid traveller in the greater Middle East who moved in military and intelligence circles during the war years. Stark wrote a multi-volume autobiography and an..... Read More Item Details for Archive of 88 Autograph letters, signed, from Freya Stark, to Lucy Beach, Minnie Gray Granville, Stefana Drower, Peggy Drower, Sir Sydney Cockerell, and others, with related materials. [And:] Research archives of biographer Jane Geniesse, author of Passionate Nomad Add to Wish List
Item #314912
Price: $1,500
Churchtown, Dundrum, [Dublin]: Cuala Press, 1914. First edition, one of 400 copies. "In these poems Yeats, inlfuenced by his young secretary Pound, breaks away from his early manner and begins to purge his imagery of abstraction and to write more simply and directly …" (Connolly). Read More Item Details for Responsibilities: Poems and a Play Add to Wish List
Item #313984
Price: $1,000
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1919. First edition, one of 400 copies. Read More Item Details for Two Plays for Dancers Add to Wish List
Item #313981