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New York: The Viking Press, 1986.
First edition of this “landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times). Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by actor Tim Curry in red on the half-title page, who famously played Pennywise the clown in the acclaimed movie. By 1990, Tim Curry had already established himself as one of the most distinctive character actors of hisContinue reading "It."
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New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
First edition of this novel of a Navy sailor stranded on liberty in Seattle, the basis for the acclaimed 1973 film. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Wayne Warga on the half-title page, “To Wayne – smooth sailing on still waters – Darryl Ponicsan.” From the library ofContinue reading "Cinderella Liberty."
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.
First edition of this illustrated children’s guide to easy magic tricks and stunts performed with everyday household materials. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated in color. In good condition with rubbing, creasing, and a small loss to the front panel.
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New York: Random House, 1939.
First edition of this classic firsthand account of the FBI special agent who helped break up the German espionage ring operating in the United States in 1938. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John Payette – With best wishes – Sincerely, Leon G. Turrou.” InContinue reading "Nazi Spies in America."
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Scotland: The Macallan,
The Macallan Impressions of Flavour, a handsome presentation tasting journal produced by the renowned Highland single malt distillery. Royal octavo, red cloth ring-binder boards with a magnetic side closure. Fitted with tabbed dividers for an Introduction, Double Cask, and Sherry Oak, together with lined note-taking pages, a pencil held along the inner cover, a setContinue reading "The Macallan: Impressions of Flavour."
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New York: International Music Company,
Orchestra score of Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic masterpiece Otello, a lyrical drama in four acts, with the libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Association copy, inscribed on the title page to composer Charles Strouse by the celebrated orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, “ 5/11/83 ToContinue reading "Othello: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts."
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New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
First American edition of Churchill’s thrilling personal narrative of the opening months of the Second Boer War, including his celebrated capture by the Boers, his imprisonment at Pretoria, and his daring escape. Octavo, original pebble-grain red buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated with eight maps and plans including the folding frontispiece map. In very good condition.Continue reading "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria."
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
First edition of this classic work by Muir. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with twelve plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. In near fine condition, signature to the front free endpaper and bookplate to the front pastedown.
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Wilmington, DE: James Adams, 1790.
Rare early edition of Jonathan Edwards’s celebrated treatise on the freedom of the will, one of the landmark works of American philosophical theology. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label and raised bands. In good condition with losses to the joints and spine, toning, and the front cover withContinue reading "A Careful and Strict Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will."
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New York: The Book League of America, c. 1940.
The Book League of America edition, early printing of selected comedies of Molière, the great French playwright. Octavo, original cloth, the covers decoratively blind-stamped. From the library of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman, with Strouse’s ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Over his 50-year career,Continue reading "Comedies of Moliere."
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New York: E. Merck, 1889.
First edition of Merck’s Index, the celebrated reference of chemicals and drugs first issued in 1889 and published continuously ever since as the standard Merck Index. Octavo, bound in full brown morocco with a gilt “G.M.” monogram to the front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges red-stained, the volume interleaved throughout with ruled blank leaves andContinue reading "Merck’s Index of Fine Chemicals and Drugs for the Materia Medica and the Arts."
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.
First American edition of the author’s first book, basis for the 1965 film directed by Sidney J. Furie, from a screenplay by Bill Canaway and James Doran, starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer in his breakthrough role. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Harry TombContinue reading "The Ipcress File."
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.
First edition of this classic retelling of Moses’ exodus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. FoundedContinue reading "Moses, Man of the Mountain."
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New York: New Directions, 1962.
First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece. Boldly signedContinue reading "The Night of the Iguana."
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London: Hamlyn, 1981.
First British edition of this lavishly illustrated guide to the workings of the human body and to personal health, edited by the celebrated heart-transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. Quarto, original cloth, profusely illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Barnard in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “30 Sept. 1981 To Denise with my bestContinue reading "The Body Machine."
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Constantinople: 1824.
Rare nineteenth-century Armenian edition of the Yachakhapatum, the celebrated collection of homilies traditionally ascribed to St. Gregory the Illuminator, the apostle and first Catholicos of the Armenian Church. Octavo, printed in Classical Armenian, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments with floral ornament and aContinue reading "Yachakhapatum: The Homilies of St. Gregory the Illuminator. [Collection of Sermons]."
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London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1894.
First edition, early printing of Hardy’s collection of tales and colloquial sketches, published between Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Octavo, original sage-green cloth with gilt titles, the front panel blocked in brown with three conventionalized flowers. In very good condition.
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Los Angeles: Atelier Éditions, 2024.
First edition of this handsomely produced volume celebrating The Macallan, the renowned Highland single malt Scotch whisky. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated with photographs of cocktails. One of only 250 copies. In fine condition. A scarce limited edition, an ideal gift for the whisky enthusiast.
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
First edition of this storybook version of Disney’s classic. Slim folio, original pictorial paper boards, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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London: Edmund Ward, 1966.
First edition of this work in the Rev. W. Awdry’s beloved Railway Series, the source of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends. Oblong octodecimo, original blue cloth lettered and pictorially stamped in silver, illustrated throughout in color by Peter and Gunvor Edwards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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1940.
Rare photograph of Princess Antoinette of Monaco in court dress, wearing a tiara and a sash with orders. Octavo, black and white photograph, dated the 14th of March, 1940. Boldly inscribed in French by Princess Antoinette across the lower portion of the image, presented to a countess with all her sympathy and signed “Antoinette deContinue reading "Princess Antoinette of Monaco Signed Photograph."
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Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Publishers, 1971.
First edition of the celebrated heart surgeon’s guide to heart disease for the general reader, written by the man who performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the frontispiece leaf, “21 October 1978 To Steve Feingold with my very best wishes Chris Barnard.” FineContinue reading "Heart Attack."
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
First edition of the memoir of General of the Air Force H.H. “Hap” Arnold, the father of the modern United States Air Force and the only man ever to hold five-star rank in two branches of the armed forces, his sweeping account of the rise of American air power. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated withContinue reading "Global Mission."
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.
First edition of the beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel of the American Revolution, the story of a young Boston silversmith’s apprentice caught up in the events leading to the War of Independence. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a newspaper clipping picturing the old Treman King &Continue reading "Johnny Tremain."
Read more Verdi, Giuseppe; Arrigo Boito [Jonathan Tunick; Charles Strouse].
Edwards, Jonathan.
Merck, E.
Gregory the Illuminator.
Hardy, Thomas.
Grimaldi, Louise Alberte Suzanne [Princess Antoinette of Monaco].
