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Price: $200
London: Printed for Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, by the Chiswick Press, 1919. No. 296 of 1013 copies printed in the Riccardi Press fount on Riccardi paper. Read More Item Details for The Collected Poems Add to Wish List
Item #319402
Price: $3,500
New York: Grove Press, [1959]. First American edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. SIGNED. Read More Item Details for Naked Lunch Add to Wish List
Item #326991
Price: $5,400
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions. In Presentation Bindings. Issued in four volumes, this is the very rare U.S. publisher's deluxe issue, bound for presentation. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, presented to the president of the Book-of-the-Month Club..... Read More Item Details for A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New World; Volume III: The Age of Revolution; Volume IV: The Great Democracies] Add to Wish List
Item #334887
Price: $7,500
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Presentation Copy, Inscribed. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed "From the author"..... Read More Item Details for An Outcast of the Islands Add to Wish List
Item #303354
Price: $6,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More Item Details for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Add to Wish List
Item #322233
Price: $1,500
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 293 of 1475 copies. Read More Item Details for La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casella.. with the .English version of H.F. Cary Add to Wish List
Item #300833
Price: $300
Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, [1967]. Finely Bound. Binder's stamp on inside front cover smudged and illegible. Read More Item Details for Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary Add to Wish List
Item #314016
Price: $500
Boston: The Cushman Press, January, 1905. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Brady was an immigrant from Ireland and a Methodist minister who did much of his ministering in New Jeresy. Read More Item Details for Beacon Search-Lights on Pioneers and Millionaires Add to Wish List
Item #313138
Price: $900
London: George G Harrap &Co, 1910. Read More Item Details for Representative Men Add to Wish List
Item #346021
Price: $13,500
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, trade issue. NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost, with an eleven-line poem in ink holograph on front flyleaf, with unrecorded title ("Winter Will Go") with eight variant textual differences from the final..... Read More Item Details for New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes Add to Wish List
Item #324958
Price: $10,000
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition, first state dust jacket (with the exclamation point). Superb Copy of the Classic of Magical Realism. An outstanding copy of the generation-spanning novel of Colombian village life, García Márquez’s masterpiece and the defining work of late twentieth-century magical..... Read More Item Details for One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa Add to Wish List
Item #332819
Price: $8,000
New York: Randon House, 1932. First Edition. One of 300 copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV. Containing the words and music to some of the best known American music ever written: "Lady be Good," "I Got Rhythm," "Swanee." The list goes on and on. The..... Read More Item Details for George Gershwin's Song-book Add to Wish List
Item #310443
Price: $350
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American Edition. "Keynes’ Best Book" A book whose prophetic insight into the terms imposed on the Central Powers at the end of World War I is now legendary.“[It]…Has the claim to be regarded as Keynes's best book. In none of the others..... Read More Item Details for The Economic Consequences of the Peace Add to Wish List
Item #323171
Price: $1,500
New York: Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan, 1968. First printing. Life with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. Attractive copy of a pioneering American photography book. Read More Item Details for The Bikeriders Add to Wish List
Item #324955
Price: $1,000
New York: A Studio Book/ The Viking Press, -1983. First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lisa Lyon, on the half-title page. Read More Item Details for Lady Lisa Lyon Add to Wish List
Item #329840
Price: $900
London: Methuen, 1927. First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, one of 1,500 copies bound in green leather. Deluxe Issue. Increasingly scares in the original publisher's limp sheep. Read More Item Details for Now We Are Six Add to Wish List
Item #320840
Price: $9,000
London: Martin Secker, 1945. First edition. The most celebrated political satire of the Twentieth Century. An attractive copy of the greatest of postwar political satires. Read More Item Details for Animal Farm Add to Wish List
Item #338568
Price: $800
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. "Disguised and designed in the form of a book, Speculation! stands out as a vivid memento of the twenties bull market. It reproduces stock reports, city pages, and the movement of the tape, 'For Wall Street sharks it may be played, however..... Read More Item Details for Speculation! The Wall Street Game-Book Add to Wish List
Item #326975
Price: $250
London and Glasgow: Collins, [1971]. Third Edition. Read More Item Details for Roget's International Thesaurus Add to Wish List
Item #312947
Price: $900
Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. First edition, edition of 5000. Stills taken from a film based on Mason Williams’ essay How To Derive The Maximum Enjoyment from Eating Crackers in Bed. Read More Item Details for Crackers Add to Wish List
Item #325644
Price: $450
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. Steadman, Ralph. First edition, first printing, second state jacket. Read More Item Details for Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Add to Wish List
Item #325198
Price: $1,200
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. Read More Item Details for Eloise Add to Wish List
Item #302008
Price: $750
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Read More Item Details for Andy Warhol's Index (Book) Add to Wish List
Item #335005
Price: $3,750
London: Duckworth, 1927. “Cheap Edition”, i.e., first American edition, English issue. Read More Item Details for The Voyage Out Add to Wish List
Item #325105
Price: $9,000
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, c. 1921. Original Illustration of Winkle by Wyeth. A charming pen-and-ink sketch of Rip Van Winkle inscribed to Veronica S. Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a Carnegie Institute of Technology-trained librarian who worked first as a children's librarian at the Cleveland Public Library before joining the rare book..... Read More Item Details for Ink drawing of Rip Van Winkle Add to Wish List
Item #320296