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THE HORSE WHISPERER
by Evans, Nicholas
London: Bantam Press, (1995). First UK edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Basis for the Robert Redford movie. Advance reading copy (though labeled "uncorrected proof"). SIGNED BY EVANS on the title page, which is unusual as most copies we've seen were signed on a numbered bookplate. Fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps.
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€70.89
ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right
by Apple, Max
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person ever to mention my work in a magazine--not the kind of thing anyone forgets..." Fine in fine dust jacket.
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€94.52
Snow Angels.
by O'NAN, Stewart
New York: Doubleday, 1994. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. First state uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine. GRANTA 20 author.
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€94.52
THE WILD PALMS
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Advance reading copy, First printing. 339pp. Bound in original wraps designed like the first trade edition dust jacket, separation to flaps at folds but not detached and with old dried tape residue, edges and spine rubbed showing some wear to corners with light chipping to head and foot, rear panel darkened around the edges. A very good copy of a scarce and most often fragile title.
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€378.08
PATRIMONY: A True Story
by Roth, Philip
London: Jonathan Cape, (1991). First UK edition. Advance reading copy with "Uncorrected Proof" on front cover. Glossy white pictorial paperwaps printed in black and gray. A relatively scarce advance issue. Fine.
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€70.89
CYCLE FOR MOTHER CABRINI
by LOGAN, John
New York: Grove Press, (1955). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Poet's first book, the copyright page stating, "This copy is reserved for Review." Indeed this book is from the library of a reviewer. Dustwrapper with some soiling and short closed tear at the bottom front.
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€70.89
THE BLACK BOOK: (Advance review copy)
by Durrell, Lawrence
New York: Dutton, 1960. First U.S. edition. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936 when he was just 24. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Comprised of the unbound signatures (i.e., groups of pages) from the book laid into the trade dust jacket Fine in nice, bright jacket with just minor rubbing on corners and spine ends.
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€118.15
THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE And Other Stories
by Trevor, William
New York: Viking Press, (1972). First U.S. edition, printed and bound in England from the English sheets. Review copy with publisher's slip (with publication date Oct. 19, 1972) and "News from Viking" letter laid in. Fine in dust jacket with slight discoloration along upper edge front flap but otherwise quite fine.
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€141.78
THE SAD SUDDEN DEATH OF MY FAIR LADY
by Forbes, Stanton] Tobias Wells
Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday, 1971. near fine in dj. REVIEW COPY... 1933 Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress Exposition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.
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€31.76
DESCENT TO THE DEAD: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain
by Jeffers, Robinson
New York: Random House, 1931. First edition. ONE OF 50 SIGNED COPIES DESIGNATED FOR REVIEW, issued in addition to and, one would assume, prior to the 500 copies in the regular signed/limited issue (Broomfield A14[1]). Publisher's review slip laid in with projected publication date December 7, 1931. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on limitation page with "Review" written in black ink (in place of a number). Quarto cinnamon Tokugawa paper over flexible boards with vellum spine lettered in black. Broomfield doesn't call...
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€378.08
Underworld.
by DeLILLO, Don
New York: Scribner, 1997. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Mark Best ever. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected Proof - Special Advance Reader's Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Winner of the William Dean Howells Award for the best work of fiction published in the U.S. over a five-year period. Winner of the 1999 Jerusalem Prize. Selected as number 2 in the list of 25 best books of the last 25 years by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006.
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€165.41
FARTHEST NORTH.
by NANSEN, FRIDTJOF
London; MacMillan; 1897.. First Colonial Edition (Published in the same year as the First Edition); Cr. 8vo; Volume I. pp. viii, 351; Volume II. pp. viii, 471; both volumes bound in their original blue cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, cloth a little worn, endpapers browned, good set. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893-1896 was an attempt to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands...
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€55.60
Humboldt's Gift.
by BELLOW, Saul
New York: Viking, 1975. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Gold printed wrappers. Fine. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
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€189.04
THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD Essays
by Gass, William H
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in dust jacket with one short closed tear and slight soiling.
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€42.53
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
by Mitchard, Jacquelyn
(New York): Viking, (1996). First edition. Advance reading copy in glossy, pictorial paperwraps with "Advance Uncorrected Proofs - Not for Sale" banner at top front cover. SIGNED by Mitchard on title page and dated "5-20-98." Fine.
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€37.81
BEAT THE DEVIL
by Helvick, James
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 and his cousin was the novelist Evelyn Waugh. The book was made into a 1953 film directed by John Huston, with the screenplay by Huston and...
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€472.60
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NUTCRACKER; [Advance excerpt for the British distribution]
by Hoffmann, E. T. A., Maurice Sendak, illustrator
New York: Crown Publishers [Bodley Head], 1984. First edition with illustrations by Sendak. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Uncorrected proof in stapled paperwraps; excerpt only -- 16 pages (non-consecutive) including covers. This copy for British distribution with large label on rear cover indicating an export date of August 1984, publication date of October 1984, and a promotional price until the end of the year Touch of edge rubbing, still near fine.
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€47.26
MR. SOUTH BURNED HIS MOUTH: A Mystery Story
by Nyland, Gentry
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. First edition. Advance copy fashioned from gathered signatures with a trimmed-down dust jacket pasted at spine acting as the covers. Publication date "Jan - 2 1941" stamped on second front free endpaper. Very good or better in pictorial paperwraps with rubbing, light soiling and dampstain on back panel. Scarce early state.
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€141.78
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
by Jong, Erica
New York,: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971). First edition. Her first book, although she went on to become more famous for her FEAR OF FLYING. Presumed review copy, without a review slip but with photo of Jong laid, which differs from the one used on the back of the dust jacket (photo is very good with spotting on verso visible at margins). Fine in bright, fine dust jacket with inconspicuous foxing to rear flap.
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€141.78
Colonel Sun. A James Bond Adventure.
by MARKHAM, Robert [AMIS, Kingsley]
Jonathan Cape, 1968. VG. Uncorrected Proof Copy. 13 x 18.5cm. Publisher's device in white repeated over lime green softcovers, 255pp. Gilbert, p612. Spotting to both covers with slight toning and creasing to the spine. Light creases to the corners of the covers slightly affecting the corner tips the first and last few pages. The binding is firm and square. Internally, there is no name, inscription or bookplate, a number "10" in pencil at the top corner of the first page and "Kingsley Amis"...
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€443.40
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD
by Matthiessen, Peter
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Advance reading copy in white paperwraps printed in blue, with swirl design on front cover in orange. SIGNED by author on title page. Covers lightly soiled, spine lightly creased, otherwise very good to fine.
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€283.56
Krome-Kraft by Farber Brothers New York City
by Farber Brothers
New York: Farber Brothers, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Near Fine. 47 pp. primarily illus. 31 cm. Folio. Softcover. Staplebound stiff wraps in shiny silver and aqua, lettering in black, watercolor decorations to upper cover. [Title from cover]. Book Condition: Near fine with bits of salt and pepper wear to extremities. A very handsome copy. The original Krome Kraft product catalog with a profusion of half-tone illustrations, depicting hundreds of named and numbered Krome...
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€51.99
THROUGH THE IVORY GATE: A Novel
by Dove, Rita
New York: Pantheon Books, (1992). First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's first novel. Advance reading copy in glossy pictorial paperwraps SIGNED BY DOVE on the half-title page. Near fine.
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€42.53
La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts
by Arnoult, Léon
Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed...
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€188.09
IT'S A BATTLEFIELD
by Greene, Graham
New York: The Viking Pess, 1962. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Viking review copy with slip laid in. Forward by Greene, who explains why this book was eventually republished. He found after re-reading the first edition which was first published 28 years earlier in 1934, he didn't care much for parts he had written and made changes. 214pp., bound in light blue cloth, upper board stamped in blind, spine lettering lime green; fine in unclipped near fine dust jacket with a small...
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€66.16
