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Gone with the Wind (Signed Pre-Publication Copy with Letters!!)
Margaret Mitchell
New York: Macmillan, 1936.
Price: $25,000.00
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A handsome copy of the correct 1852 1st edition, 1st issue. Complete in 2 Vols. Key issue points: No mention of additional printings on title pages; "Hobart and Robbins" printer's slug on both copyright pages; 6 plates total (3 in each volume); and title page vignetttes. Attractive early 20th century re-binding signed by P.B. Sanford Bindery of Boston. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands, bright gilt-decorated and lettered compartments. Both volumes clean and tight and solidly VG+. Minor foxing and spotting thruout text, very light wear to outer hinges. 12mos, 634 pgs. all told. Top-edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A very striking set.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (in 2 Vols.)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852.
Price: $5,000.00
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The 1884 "Amontillado" edition, limited to 315 copies and signed (in each volume) by the publisher on the limitation page. Bound in a very attractive, contemporary-to-the-period, 3/4 red morocco. Bright gilt-lettering, 5 raised bands and 6 gilt-ruled compartments along each spine. All volumes solid and VG+, with very light scuffing at the red cloth of several of the panels. Octavos, beautiful engraved frontispieces (with their original tissue-guards) to each volume.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (complete in 8 Vols.)
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1884.
Price: $3,000.00
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1907 1st edition. IN THE VERY UNCOMMON DUSTJACKET(!!) Clean and VG in a bright, VG example of the original publisher's dustjacket with very minor soiling to the front and back panels and a bit of chipping and darkening to the spine. The jacket is quite fragile and brittle but almost completely intact. Octavo, 153 pgs. Small, neat former owner inscription to front free endpaper. A Twain curio... and very unusual in its 100 year old printed dustwrapper.
A Horse's Tale
Mark Twain
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907.
Price: $2,500.00
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A handsome copy of the 1949 signed/limited.1 OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THOMAS MERTON on the limitation page. Bright and Near Fine in publisher's full buckram. And in a crisp, VG+ example of the pictorial dustjacket, with very light chipping at the spine ends and very modest scuffing along the spine. Also includes a solid, VG example of publisher's printed slipcase. Internally immaculate as well, with no writing or markings of any kind. Octavo, 201 pgs.
Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1949.
Price: $2,500.00
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New Hampshire
Robert Frost
Henry Holt, 1923.
Price: $2,000.00
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The 1927 1st US edition, IN THE UNCOMMON VANESSA BELL DUSTJACKET. VG in its original green cloth, with light fading to the spine and light offsetting to the endsheets. And in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with very light rubbing to the front panel, darkening along the spine and a 1 1/2" chip at the crown of the spine that affects the title lettering. Still though, a perfectly presentable and attractive copy of an elusive title in its jacket. 12mo, 310 pgs.
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927.
Price: $2,000.00
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The 1st hardback and 1st UK edition of this seminal first novel. SIGNED BY WILLIAM GIBSON on the title page. A clean, well-preserved copy to boot. VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light creasing at the front panel. Octavo, 251 pgs.
Neuromancer
William Gibson
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984.
Price: $2,000.00
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The 1st printing of the 1980 original screenplay, based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". A VG copy in its original yellow wrappers, with minor offsetting to the front panel (where there had been a label) and several very small, unobtrusive stains. Quarto, 140 pgs. Submitted to Sunset Gower Studios on Dec. 22nd, 1980, this screenplay-- in its original incarnation-- pre-dates the legendary 1982 Ridley Scott film by almost 2 years. Very scarce in its original state.
Blade Runner: The Original Screenplay
Hampton Francher and David Peoples
Los Angeles: Brighton Productions, Inc./Sunset Gower Studios, 1980.
Price: $1,500.00
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Oeuvres Completes: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (15 Vols.)
Marcel Proust
Paris: NRF,
Price: $1,500.00
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1837 1st issues of the 1st edition, all the original parts handsomely rebound in a 2 volume chocolate-brown cloth. Solid and VG, bright gilt-lettering and red-leather spine labels. Light fading to spine and very light spotting at panels. Original wrappers --with a degree of foxing-- bound-in. Octavos, 609 pgs. all told. Informative letter at front pastedown of Vol. I describing the scarcity of this, the true 1st issue (of which there appear to be only 400 copies), with the 5 R. Seymour drawings.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (2 Vols.)
Charles Dickens
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
Price: $1,500.00
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A solid "starter" copy of the 1929 1st trade edition. Clean and VG (with bright gilt-lettering at the spine) in a bright, price-intact, G+ dustjacket, with substantial paper loss (2") at the lower half of the spine. Both panels perfectly intact but front panel is separated, as is the base of the spine. Still though, a presentable copy. 12mo, 172 pgs.
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
London: Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: $1,500.00
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The Writings of George Eliot (complete in 25 Vols.)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
Price: $1,500.00
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The 1925 1st edition, IN THE UNCOMMON ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Solid and VG- (with light soiling at the rear panel and spine) in a bright, price-intact ($3.00), soft green/blue jacket. Light chipping at the top-edges and spine crown (with no loss at all to text) and more pronounced chipping at the foot of the spine, which shows a 2 1/2"loss (including publisher's name) at the base. Overall, upward of 10% loss to the jacket, rendering this copy a G+. Octavo, 235 pgs. As the 1st trade publication put out by William Carlos Williams, this represents an important mark in early 20th century American literature and, with its elusive dustjacket, is scarce as such.
In the American Grain
William Carlos Williams
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925.
Price: $1,500.00
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The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (Vol. I of 2 Vols.)
Elizabeth Bisland
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.
Price: $1,250.00
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INSCRIBED BY SAMUEL BECKETT TO C.G. BLUNTROIER (a Beckett translator) on the half-title. A clean, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1963 1st French edition of "Oh Happy Days". Tight and VG+ in its original wrappers, with very light spotting at the panel edges. 12mo, 90 pgs. Limited to 412 copies.
Oh Les Beaux Jours
Samuel Beckett
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1963.
Price: $1,250.00
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So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979
Ted Berrigan
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980.
Price: $1,000.00
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The 1953 Advance Review Copy, in its original pictorial wrappers. Solid and bright and VG, with light soiling to the rear panel, light fading along the spine and very light spotting along the fore-edge. Octavo, 303 pgs. Internally, very clean, with no writing or markings of any kind and bright, white pages thruout.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
Price: $1,000.00
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One-Way Ticket
Langston Hughes
Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
Price: $850.00
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The House of Incest
Anais Nin
Paris: Siana Editions, 1936.
Price: $850.00
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