Literature

Scott, Paul

A Male Child.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1956.

First edition of Paul Scott’s third novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

The Book of Bebb: Lion Country, Open Heart, Love Feast, Treasure Hunt.

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First edition of the compilation of the four books that make up the Bebb Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Designed by Harry Ford.

Tolstoy, Leo

What Is Art?

London : The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

First edition of this work by the Russian master. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Tolstoy. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the half-title page. Translated by A. Maude.

Teresa, Mother

Life in the Spirit: Reflections, Meditations, Prayers. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.

First edition of this work by powerful work by Mother Teresa. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “God bless you Mother Teresa MC.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Kathryn Spink. Rare and desirable signed, we have never encountered another one.

Brautigan, Richard

Trout Fishing in America.

New York : A Delta Book/ Dell Publishing, 1967.

First edition of this work “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Erik Weber. In near fine condition.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Pale Fire.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.

Gibson, William

Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive.

London : Victor Gollancz, 1984-1988.

First British editions and true firsts of each of the novels that comprise Gibson’s The Sprawl Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes. Each signed on the title page by William Gibson. Neuromancer is a review copy, with a slip laid into it. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Rare and desirable signed and in this condition.

Fleming, Ian

Goldfinger.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1959.

First edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming.” The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary TruebloodContinue reading "Goldfinger."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

London : H. G. Bohn, 1852.

Early English printing of Stowe’s enormously influential work, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by Leech, Gilbert, etc. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase.

Tolstoy, Leo

Sochinenia Grafa L.N. Tolstogo [Childhood, Boyhood, Youth].

Moscow : Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1893.

Early Russian printing of Tolstoy’s trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Quarto, original half leather. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his doctor, “To Dmitry Vasil’evich Nikitin. Leo Tolstoy. 28 March 1903.” With an original photograph of Tolstoy with Dmitry Nikitin opposite the title page. The recipient, Dmitry Nikitin was Tolstoy’s familyContinue reading "Sochinenia Grafa L.N. Tolstogo [Childhood, Boyhood, Youth]."

Gypsy.

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First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name. An exceptional example.

Oliver, Mary

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.

Boston : Beacon Press, 2008.

First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.

Lewis, C.S

The Silver Chair.

London : Geoffrey Bles, 1953.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary name to the half-title page. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. An exceptional example, as this is the most difficult volume in the series to find in collectible condition.

Oliver, Mary

The Night Traveler.

: A Bits Chapbook, 1978.

First edition of this early collection by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed twice by Mary Oliver, once on the front free endpaper and on the title page. In fine condition. Rare.

[Alcott, Louisa May; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II.

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Rare collection of albumen silver print portraits of eminent 19th century poets and American authors. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial covers, bound with the original ribbons. Including the portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In very goodContinue reading "Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II."

Kerouac, Jack

The Town and the City.

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by Kerouac on the front free endpaper and with the ownership name of his close childhood friend and neighbor in Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Dudevoir. With a note of provenance signed by Charles Dudevoir’s granddaughter which reads in part, “Phil – my mother lived inContinue reading "The Town and the City."

Moore, Roger

Roger Moore As James Bond: Roger Moore’s Own Account of Filming Live and Let Die.

London : Pan Books, 1973.

First British edition of Moore’s diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Roger Moore on the title page. In near fine condition. Photographs by Luisa Moore.

Moore, Roger

Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary.

: Fawcett Publications, 1973.

First edition of Moore’s diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To John from Roger Moore.” In near fine condition. A very sharp example.

Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London : Bradbury Evans, 1853.

First edition of this Dickens’ classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fine condition. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne.

Lewis, C.S. [Anthony Colin Spearing]

C.S. Lewis and Anthony Spearing Autograph Correspondence Collection.

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Rare collection of correspondence between C.S. Lewis and his PhD student Anthony Colin Spearing including an autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of C.S. Lewis. Folio, the collection includes the original composition of Spearing’s 1957 English Tripos essay: “The Translation of English Verse (An Essay with some Specimen Translations)” which he sentContinue reading "C.S. Lewis and Anthony Spearing Autograph Correspondence Collection."

Walcott, Derek [V.S. Naipaul]

Omeros.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul with his name to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Sigrid Nama. A wonderful connectionContinue reading "Omeros."

Faulkner, William

Light In August.

New York : Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932.

First edition, first issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and “Jefferson” for “Mottstown” on page 340, line 1; first-issue binding, lettered in blue and orange. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Petersen A13a; Howard A13.1a; Massey 103. A sharp example.

Coetzee, J.M

Waiting for the Barbarians.

Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1981.

First South African edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his first wife on the title page, “Philippa love from John.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered the graduateContinue reading "Waiting for the Barbarians."

Waller, Robert James

A Thousand Country Roads.

Alpine & Houston : John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.

First edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Duodecimo, original boards. Boldly signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leisha Israel. Author photograph by Linda Solomon.