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New York : William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Laid in is a notecard signed by Beverly Cleary on her Ramona postcard. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Covici Friede, 1937.
First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Heil Anthony, from Larry Durrell, ‘old hat new look’ 1973.” In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
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New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
First edition of this collection of poems by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mary Oliver and illustrator John Burgoyne on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, inscription to the half-title page. Jacket design by Darren Haggar. Illustrations by John Burgoyne.
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London : Chapman and Hall, 1911.
New edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and 7 plates by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition.
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London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1946.
First edition of this classic country-house mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon. A sharp example.
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985.
Signed limited first edition of the final volume in the magnificent Dune Chronicles—the bestselling science fiction adventure of all-time. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert. Fine in a fine slipcase. Frontispiece by John Schoenherr.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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New York : The Modern Library, 2001.
First Modern Library edition of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marion Ettlinger. Introduction by Harold Bloom. Uncommon signed.
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London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1989.
First edition, first printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Sam McConnell. Author photograph by Nigel Parry.
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London : Cassell and Company, 1913.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon with his red leather and gilt bookplate to the pastedown.
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New York : Delacorte Press, 1969.
First edition of Vonnegut’s masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the second endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
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New York : Random House, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Limited Editions Club, 1990.
First Limited Editions Club limited edition of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, signed by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Oblong quarto, bound in one quarter morocco over cloth-covered boards, illustrated with five photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt printed from the original negatives by Eisenstaedt in 1952 for the Life Magazine featuring the iconic image of Hemingway on the cover.Continue reading "The Old Man and the Sea."
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London : Collins Crime Club, 1976.
First edition of this Christie classic. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.
First edition of London’s beloved novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. With usual cancel title page. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are allContinue reading "White Fang."
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London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1945.
First edition of this classic mystery novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.
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London : Odhams Press Limited, 1933.
First edition of this collection of short stories, which includes the classic Witness for the Prosecution which was adapted to the 1957 film starring Marlene Dietrich. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.
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London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1952.
First edition of this classic Miss Marple mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chipping to the spine of the dust jacket, and the top right corner of the front free endpaper clipped. From the library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon with his red leather andContinue reading "They Do It With Mirrors."
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London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1965.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.
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London : Collins Crime Club, 1967.
First edition of Christie’s masterful murder mystery; one of her personal favorites. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon. A very sharp example.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, boards. Boldly signed by Jonathan Franzen on the title page and additionally signed by jacket designer Charlotte Strick on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charlotte Strick.
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New York : The Dial Press, 1964.
First edition of Berger’s acclaimed award-winning novel that was adapted to the screen in the 1970 film starring Dustin Hoffman. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by Thomas Berger on the half-title page and additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman below Berger’s inscription. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable.
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986.
First edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Sally Field. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rearContinue reading "Forrest Gump."
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986.
First edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Sally Field. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rearContinue reading "Forrest Gump."
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