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New York : The Viking Press, 1948.
First American edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Edgard Cirlin.
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Wien : Boomerang Cards, .
Austrian postcard signed by great spy novelist John le Carre. Featuring a black and white photograph of Le Carre, the postcard measures 5.75 by 4 inches. In near fine condition.
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London : C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.
First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s ads. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
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London : The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Charles from Graham Greene.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touchContinue reading "The Comedians."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1957.
First edition, first state of the fifth James Bond novel and what Fleming considered one of his best books and listed in Life magazine as one of US President John F. Kennedy’s top ten favorite books. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt rose and gun emblem to the front panel. PresentationContinue reading "From Russia, With Love."
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Rare large format black and white photograph signed by Harrison Ford and lengthily inscribed by Paul Blake, “Going somewhere Solo? You should have paid him when you had the chance. Jabba’s put a price on your head, so large that every bounty hunter in the galaxy will be looking for you. I’m lucky I foundContinue reading "Harrison Ford Signed Star Wars Photograph."
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London : William Heinemann, 1940.
First edition of Greene’s masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
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New York : The Viking Press, 1948.
Limited edition, one of 750 examples given to friends of the publisher of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
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London : The Bodley Head, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic first book in his acclaimed Space Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceptionally are and desirable in the original dust jacket.
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New York : Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1875.
First American edition of the second installment in Verne’s Mysterious Island trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
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New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875.
First American edition, first English language edition in book form, and first authorized edition of the first part of the crossover sequel to Verne’s famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and In Search of the Castaways. Slim octavo, original green cloth decorated in gilt, with forty-eight illustrations. Scribner Armstrong published this slim, double-column volumeContinue reading "The Mysterious Island: Wrecked in the Air."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1984.
First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket art by Trevor Scobie.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1985.
First edition of John Gardner’s License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping.
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New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
First edition of the fourth volume in the author’s Song of Ice and Fire series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication, “George R.R. Martin 11/21/05.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Stephen Youll. Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll.
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Garden City : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979.
First edition of Butler’s bestselling novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with loss to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Larry Schwinger. Jacket typography by Elizabeth Levine. First editions of this classic Butler novel are difficult to find.
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New York : Bantam, 2011.
First edition of the fifth novel in the author’s classic series. Octavo, original half boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by the George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Stevenson. Jacket illustration by Larry Rostant.
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London : Penguin Centenary, 2008.
First editions of the Penguin Centenary edition of each volume in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original boards. With an original illustration by artist Michael Gillette in Casino Royale, signed “with love Michael Gillette.” Each dust jacket is signed twice by artist Michael Gillette, once on the front panel and again onContinue reading "Complete Set of 14 First Edition James Bond Novels: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only [Short Stories Including A View to a Kill and Quantum of Solace], Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights."
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: ITC Entertainment, Inc., 1976.
Rare original shooting script from from the 1978 science fiction thriller Capricorn One. Quarto, original leatherette wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the writer/director on the title page, “To ____ Many thanks. Peter Hyams. P.S. Where did you find this?” In very good condition.
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New York : Harper & Brothers, 1957.
First edition of the author’s classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Very best wishes, Pat Highsmith.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Polly Cameron. Rare and desirable signed.
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New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
First edition, early printing of this classic post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from the award-winning author which “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by StarkContinue reading "Parable of the Sower."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Early printing of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. From the personal collection of a close female friend of Fleming’s who visited him in Jamaica frequently. Fine in a near fineContinue reading "Moonraker."
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London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.
Rare first edition of the most popular book in Charteris’ Saint series and the basis for the first Saint film, released in 1938. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in near fine condition with some expert restoration. An exceptional example.
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Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952.
First edition of this classic account of The Korean War. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To my buddy, Alfred Wagg (ed Twagga) A little mouse under the Presidents’ chair? I looked Twagg was there! Pat Frank.” Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-27.
One of 20 sets for presentation from an overall edition of 620, this is letter e and Wells has written (Little e), signed by H.G. Wells in volume one, and additionally inscribed by Wells in volume one to his lover Elizabeth von Arnim, “To Little e H.G.” With her bookplate to all but two volumes.Continue reading "The Works of H.G. Wells Including [The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Etc]."
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