Boston Book Fair 2023

Boston Book Fair 2023

The Boston Book Fair returns for its 45th edition at Hynes Convention Center starting October 27th and we can't wait to see some of you in person at booth #220. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a list of the inventory we will be exhibiting.

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Item #366498 Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle,...

PRESENTATION COPY

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing Their...

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition, first issue. Presentation set inscribed by Fitzroy. PRESENTATION COPY. A landmark of scientific exploration, one of the most important Pacific voyages, and Darwin's first substantial book publication, the account of the Beagle's two voyages was edited by Robert Fitzroy, who served as commander of..... Read More about Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years...

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Item #365957 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of...

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for...

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. New Edition, from the Sixth English Edition, with Additions and Corrections. “Certainly the most important biological book every written … The sixth edition, which is usually regarded as the last, appeared in [London in] February 1872 ... It is again extensively revised and..... Read More about On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in...

Price: $1,500

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Item #365975 Woodcock Shooting. Edmund W. Davis

Choice Copy

Woodcock Shooting.

New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution, 1908. First edition. One of 100 copies, printed on Imperial Japan paper. Choice Copy. A splendid work of unsurpassed, almost lyrical, prose, and superb photogravures. Davis, heir to a patent medicine fortune who was also author of Salmon Fishing on..... Read More about Woodcock Shooting

Price: $9,000

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Item #325063 The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained. Henry Dean

The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained.

New York: Published by N.C. Nafis; Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, [circa 1830s]. Early American edition. An early American edition of the first magic book published in the United States, first publlished by Carey in 1795. The work, often attributed to Dean was originally published in England in 1722. The..... Read More about The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained

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Item #353188 Joan Didion at Home in Malibu. Joan Didion, Jill Krementz

Signed by Didion and Krementz

Joan Didion at Home in Malibu.

[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu

Price: $15,000

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Item #353767 A Book of Common Prayer. Joan Didion

Inscribed 'with love'

A Book of Common Prayer.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. First edition, first printing. Inscribed 'with love'. Inscribed copy of Didion's third novel, which Joyce Carol Oates, writing in the New York Times called, “an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing;..... Read More about A Book of Common Prayer

Price: $7,500

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Item #366375 The undoubted art of thriving; wherein is shewed, 1. That a million L. sterling...

On the Darien Scheme

The undoubted art of thriving; wherein is shewed, 1. That a million L. sterling money, or more if need be...

Edinburgh: John Reid, 1700. First edition. On the Darien Scheme. Donaldson (d. 1719), by his own account the son of a Scottish landowner and an officer in a regiment for William III in the revolution of 1688, wrote on various agricultural and economic issues and served as the publisher of..... Read More about The undoubted art of thriving; wherein is shewed, 1. That a million L. sterling money, or more if...

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Item #353908 An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson's...

An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern...

London: Sold by Mr. Jolliffe [et al], 1748-1749. First edition. A rare and important narrative of an early exploratory expedition in Hudson Bay in search of the Northwest Passage. The expedition was dispatched by the North West Committee in 1746 as part of an attempt to verify the assertions of..... Read More about An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson's Streights, to the...

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Item #310707 The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great 20th-Century American Novel

The Great Gatsby.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First edition, first issue. The Great 20th-Century American Novel. In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald told his publisher Max Perkins, "I want to write something new—somethings extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately pattered"..... Read More about The Great Gatsby

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Item #365626 The Bookshop. Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop.

London: Duckworth, [1978]. First edition. Sharp, darkly comic novel of the misadventures of Mrs. Florence Green, a widow who determines to set up a bookshop in a village in Suffolk in the late 1950s; she sells hundreds of copies of the Olympia Press Lolita but the local powers and minor..... Read More about The Bookshop

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Item #332819 One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa....

Superb Copy of the Classic of Magical Realism

One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.

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 about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa

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Item #346601 Autograph Manuscript of his poem, "Aether," with annotations by Jack Kerouac and...

‘a magic universe’

Autograph Manuscript of his poem, "Aether," with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder.

Lima: May 28, 1960. ‘a magic universe’. The autograph manuscript of this long poem by Allen Ginsberg, a reflection on creation and the poet’s own mortality, composed at the Hotel Comercial, Lima, Peru, in May 1960. The manuscript varies slightly from the published text (which appears as the last poem..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript of his poem, "Aether," with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary...

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Item #352924 The Garden. Louise Gluck

The Garden.

[New York]: Antaeus Editions, 1976. First edition, signed issue. Limited to 50 numbered copies Signed by Glück (of 500 total). Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. Very scarce. Glück received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read More about The Garden

Price: $1,500

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Item #353866 [Printed letter signed, an invitation to the among the earliest exhibitions of the...

The Introduction of Photography in America

[Printed letter signed, an invitation to the among the earliest exhibitions of the daguerreotype in America].

New York: 29 November 1839. The Introduction of Photography in America. The author of this printed letter, Francois Gouraud (1808-1847), served as the principal agent for Alphonse Giroux & Cie., the manufacturer of the daguerreotype cameras designed by Daguerre himself; i.e. the first commercially manufactured photographic camera in the world..... Read More about Printed letter signed, an invitation to the among the earliest exhibitions of the daguerreotype...

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Item #365561 Appeal to Christian Women of the South [caption title]. Angelina E. Grimke

Appeal to Christian Women of the South [caption title].

[New York]: [American Anti-Slavery Society], [1836]. Third edition. "Angelina called her Appeal '46 pages of foolscrap paper' but it was in actuality a passionate sermon to white women like herself who could 'use their influence with their husbands and brothers' to enact the 'justice and humanity' denied to the enslaved..... Read More about Appeal to Christian Women of the South [caption title

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Item #365444 Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett. Dashiell Hammett, ed

Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First British edition, published in U.S. as Creeps By Night. With inserted slip about John Collier’s Green Thoughts. A notable anthology of strange tales, including Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann”, and stories by John Collier, Robert Dean Frisbie..... Read More about Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett

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Item #365050 Desperate Remedies. A Novel. Thomas Hardy

Hardy’s Rare First Book

Desperate Remedies. A Novel.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. First Edition of author’s first book, one of 500 copies, with all half-titles. Hardy’s Rare First Book. Hardy's first novel manuscript was turned down by George Meredith, reading for Chapman & Hall, who advised him to write something with a more "complicated" plot, than the first..... Read More about Desperate Remedies. A Novel

Price: $14,000

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Item #365030 Far from the Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy

Hardy's first great Wessex novel

Far from the Madding Crowd.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1874. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Hardy's first great Wessex novel. First issued serially in the Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874, published in book form it comprised Hardy's first major novel and his first success. "[I]t established precisely the kind of richly..... Read More about Far from the Madding Crowd

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Item #365311 Miriam Coffin or the Whale-Fisherman: A Tale. Joseph C. Hart

Presentation Copy of the First American Whaling Novel

Miriam Coffin or the Whale-Fisherman: A Tale.

New York: Carvill; Philadelphia; Carey & Hart; Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1834. Second edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the title page of volume I: “Sarah L. Dixon from her Uncle Joseph.” Both volumes are also signed in pencil the flyleaf: “Roscoe Hart”. Presentation Copy of the First American Whaling Novel..... Read More about Miriam Coffin or the Whale-Fisherman: A Tale

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Item #324792 Our Bodies Our Selves. A Course By and For Women. Nancy Miriam Hawley

Our Bodies Our Selves. A Course By and For Women.

Boston: Boston Women's Health Course Collective [printed by New England Free Press], April 1971. First edition, second printing. The first under this title (previously titled Women & Their Bodies). "In May of 1969, as the women’s movement was gaining momentum and influence in the Boston area and elsewhere around the..... Read More about Our Bodies Our Selves. A Course By and For Women

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Item #354349 Memoirs of Major-General Heath. Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes,...

Memoirs of Major-General Heath. Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and other Military Events, During the American War.

Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews [and others], 1798. First edition. The author was a major-general in the Continental Army during the Revolution, a "man of solid rather than brilliant parts," according to the DAB. He commanded Massachusetts during the paroling of Burgoyne's army, later commanding along the Hudson. "This..... Read More about Memoirs of Major-General Heath. Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and other...

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Item #354145 Dune. Frank Herbert

'I know nothing comparable to it in science fiction or fantasy except The Lord of the Rings' – Arthur C. Clarke

Dune.

Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Book Company, [1965]. First edition, first issue of DJ with $5.95 on front flap and four lines of publisher information on back flap. 'I know nothing comparable to it in science fiction or fantasy except The Lord of the Rings' – Arthur C. Clarke. Originally..... Read More about Dune

Price: $16,500

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