Signed. Signed photograph. Framed. Matted to 6.5" x 9". Unexamined out of the frame but appears to be fine, other than a small scratch on the pelexiglass covering the image. Signed in lower margin "Edward Abbey". Three-quarter view of Abbey, who stands in a bookstore with one with one hand..... Read More about Signed Photograph of Edward Abbey
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Var, France; Berkeley, Brooklyn, etc: 1973-1982. ‘No one has ever given me such a boost’. Correspondence from poet and novelist Paul Auster to poet Charles Simic early in Auster’s career, evolving from an initial formal typed letter, expressing admiration and seeking a contribution to Living Hand, to a steady and..... Read More about Group of Correspondence to Charles Simic, comprising 1 Typed Letter, signed, and 10 Autograph...
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New York: Grove Press, (1954). First edition in English (translated by the author), preceding the British edition. Beckett’s Masterpiece, Inscribed. First edition in English (translated by the author), preceding the British edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slightest toning at the spine and a tiny tear, housed in a quarter..... Read More about Waiting for Godot
Price: $25,000
New York: Grove Press, (1959). First American edition. Copy number 2 of 4 numbered copies marked hors commerce and signed by Beckett. Barney Rosset’s Copy. First American edition. Quarter cloth gilt and paper covered boards. Fine, issued without printed dust jacket. This is copy number 2 of 4 numbered copies..... Read More about Watt
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New York: Doubleday, Page, [October], 1906. First edition, BAL state A (no priority). SIGNED BY BIERCE. First edition of a work (comprising definitions for A through L) that later gained fame as The Devil’s Dictionary (a complete alphabet was published in 1911 as volume VII of the Collected Works). Bierce’s..... Read More about The Cynic's Word Book
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[n.d., ca. 1930s?]. My station in life Is that of a clerk. But privately There are two things I love Surpassingly: Good wine And the women Of other men. Acting script of the Ethel van der Veer translation of a Chinese play, Circle of Chalk, which tells a tale of..... Read More about Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.) [Caption title
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August 3, 1950. Published: Mademoiselle, April 1951. Collected in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958). The Mademoiselle magazine file copy of the typescript, with editorial corrections, of Truman Capote’s acclaimed story, “House of Flowers”, the story of Haitian prostitute Ottilie, beautiful and strong-willed yet doomed by circumstances. With a short typed note..... Read More about The House of Flowers. Corrected Typescript
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [June], 1913. First Edition, first issue with date on title-page and copyright page. Read More about O Pioneers!
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Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878. First edition, preceding the English edition. Published in October, 1878. Collins’ novel of intrigue and experimental chemistry was serialized in Belgravia from June to November 1878. This Canadian printing precedes the Chatto & Windus edition, published in two volumes in 1879. Read More about The Haunted Hotel. A Mystery of Modern Venice
Price: $1,500
![Item #327268 [Offprint]: Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/327268.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656546228)
London / [Leipzig]: [Leipzig]: Zoollogischen Anzeigers, 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, an offprint limited to "about 50 copies for private distribution" and preceded only by periodical appearances. Written by Norman Douglas following a brief visit to the island of Santorin in early May of..... Read More about Offprint]: Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck aus dem...
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Chelsea, New York: Privately Printed, n.d. [1927]. No. 3 of 27 copies on Marlowe Antique. “Twenty-seven copies of this book have been printed privately in New York. Each copy contains a sheet of the original manuscript — Copy number one contains sheets one and twenty-eight of the manuscript” (from the..... Read More about The Carnegie Works at Pittsburgh
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The Bungalow, Baldrine, Isle of Man: 1983-1993. A choice clutch of correspondence from George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), author of the enormously popular adventures of Flashman, cad and scoundrel — or, “a coward, a bully, and a satyromaniacal philanderer” (ODNB) — who is nevertheless at the heart of the military and..... Read More about 3 Typed Letters, signed (“George Fraser”), to Robert E. Skinner, on the Flashman novels,...
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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 about New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
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![Item #324404 A Broadway Prostitute [Cover title]. Frank Harris](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/324404.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656545898)
Paris [i.e., New York?]: Privately printed for the Erotica Biblion Society, 1932. Contains two linked narratives, Abdallah Pasha's Seragilo [sic] and The Spanish Lady’s Story, which are the opening episodes from A Night in a Moorish Harem by Lord George Herbert (ca. 1896). The attribution to the notorious Frank Harris..... Read More about A Broadway Prostitute [Cover title
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[Dunblane, Scotland]: Urras Shomhairle. The Sorley MacLean Trust, 2002. First edition, signed issue; limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Heaney from a total printing of 200 copies. LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY. An elusive title, especially in this signed issue. Read More about Hallaig … Translated by Seamus Heaney
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(Schondorf, Germany/ Verona, Italy): Babel/ (Printed for Babel by Martino Mardersteig at Stamperia Valdonega), 1996. First edition, signed and illustrated issue; limited to 25 copies, signed by the contributing poets and the photographer, and illustrated with an original silver print portrait of George Mackay Brown by Gunnie Moberg [total edition..... Read More about Dove-Marks on Stone: Poems for George Mackay Brown. (Edited by K. A. Perryman
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Newark, Vermont: Printed for Charles Seluzicki at the Janus Press, 1979. First edition, limited to 285 numbered copies (this #22), signed by Seamus Heaney and Claire Van Vliet. "HEDGE SCHOOL" (PRINTED BY THE JANUS PRESS). Book was designed, set, and printed by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press, Newark..... Read More about Hedge School. Sonnets from Glanmore
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. Signed. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison..... Read More about If He Hollers Let Him Go
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. First English edition, first impression. One of 500 copies. SCARCE TWO-VOLUME EDITION OF WASHINGTON SQUARE. An attractive copy of a scarce title, in the two-volume English edition, of which only 500 copies were issued in the first printing. Read More about Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
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Cambridge, (England): The Orthological Institute/ (Made in England by Gramophone Co. Ltd.), [circa 1929]. First pressing. Original Recording of James Joyce Reading 'Anna Livia Plurabelle' : Signed by Joyce. With inscribed slip by Joyce, to Jean [E. Mison], a freelance journalist based in Cambridge from approximately 1927 to 1964. Recorded..... Read More about James Joyce Reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" (Parts I & II
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New York: Grove Press Inc, 1959. First edition. Larry McMurtry's Copy. Larry McMurtry's copy, with his ownership signature to the ffep. Read More about Dr. Sax
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1493 3/4 Allison [Ave.], Los Angeles 26: [n.d., ca. 1955]. One of Kesey’s earliest short stories. Beginning after his sophomore year at the University of Oregon, Kesey spent his summers in Los Angeles, trying to break into Hollywood as an actor, and later as a screenwriter. Starting in July 1955..... Read More about Typescript entitled "The Street in the Forest"
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. First edition, first state. Inscribed by author on the endpaper: Dear Bert, “The grip it laid on men’s souls, its irony and fathlessness, its risks and hazards and fierce insurgencies of the blood.” p. 179 Jack London. Read More about The Game
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Norfolk: New Directions, (1941). First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Nabokov’s First American Book, Signed in 1941. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Slight abrasion on the spine, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few modest..... Read More about The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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![Item #324526 Mariano Latorre, Pedro Prado, y mi Propia Sombra [Corrected typescript]. Pablo Neruda](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/324526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656545915)
[N.p., Santiago: n.d., 1962]. Published: Discursos (Editorial Nascimiento, 1962). ‘Yo soy un patriota poético, un nacionalista de las gredas de Chile’. Yo llegaba de la lluvia sureña y de la monosilábica relación de las tierras frías. (I come from the southern rains, and the monosyllabic exchanges of the cold lands.)..... Read More about Mariano Latorre, Pedro Prado, y mi Propia Sombra [Corrected typescript
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