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Where the Wild Things Are...
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition. A lovely copy of Sendak's most famous work. Book in Fine condition, bright, fresh and unmarked. In a Near Fine dust jacket..... (Item #1253)
Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published...
Printed for H. Herringman, E.Brewster and R.Bentley at the Anchor in the New Exchange... 1685. The Fourth Folio. [pi]2, A4, A-Y6, Z4, Bb-Zz6, *Aaa-*Ddd6, *Eee8, Aaa-Zzz6, Aaaa-Bbbb6, Cccc2. Folio (368x235mm)..... (Item #1288)
FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Modern Prometheus...
London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (6 13/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 174 x 106 mm.). xii [i.e. x], 181, [1..... (Item #533)
THE GIVING TREE
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. A Very Good+ copy of the book with a previous owner's gift inscription on two pages, otherwise clean and sharp. In a...... (Item #513)
An Inquiry into the Nature...
London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778. Second edition. 2 volumes, quarto (280 × 225 mm). Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, spines decorated gilt, gilt rule border to covers, marbled..... (Item #1535)
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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. First edition. A notoriously scarce title in dust jacket, let alone one in this condition. The story involves an Irish-American family in Brooklyn during..... (Item #576)
The Shepheards Calender Conteining twelve...
London: Printed by John Windet for John Harrison, 1591. Fourth edition. Small quarto (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 134 mm). [4], 52 leaves. Black letter. With twelve..... (Item #1555)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket shows just a hint of toning to the spine panel, else..... (Item #90)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life...
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition. A Fine set, each book with a small inscribed card laid in. The first book with very minor spotting to the..... (Item #1536)
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Archive, including 1919 and 1920...
Ithaca and New York: 1919-[1943]. First edition. A collection of key editions of William Strunk, Jr.’s famous text on American English language usage, The Elements of Style, including one of..... (Item #368)
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A Modest Proposal for preventing...
Dublin [London]: Weaver Bickerton, 1730. Third edition. A Fine copy of an exceptionally rare book. Bound in full calf with a Cambridge panel. An extremely pleasing modern binding. Internal contents..... (Item #1543)
The Magnificent Ambersons
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. First edition. Original reddish-brown cloth with titles to front and spine stamped in black, with the rare pictorial dust jacket. Book..... (Item #1339)
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[Beowulf] De Danorum Rebus Gestis...
Havniae [Copenhagen]: Typis Th. E. Rangel, 1815. First edition. A lovely copy of the first complete edition of Beowulf (in Old English) and the first translation into any language. In..... (Item #1836)
The Lord of the Rings...
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1954, 1955, 1955. First editions. A brilliant, uniform set of Tolkien's epic masterpiece. The first book Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Book two Fine..... (Item #1386)
WAR AND PEACE: A Historical...
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American edition. First complete edition in English (following the abridged London edition of the same year) with all title-pages dated 1886 and with..... (Item #1315)
Mary Poppins
London: Gerald Howe Ltd., 1934. First edition. A lovely copy of Travers' famous first book in the Mary Poppins series. Book Near Fine with a few small spots to the..... (Item #1387)
A Connecticut Yankee in King...
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Extraordinary copy with all three of the earliest issue points: "The S King" on p. 59, no damage to type..... (Item #1374)
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The Writings of Mark Twain...
Hartford, Ct. The American Publishing Company, 1899 - 1907. First edition. Set 13 of 512 copies. Signed by the author on the limitation page in the first volume, by Charles..... (Item #1531)
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. A Fine copy in the publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Contains the three first printing points..... (Item #1880)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition. First edition, preceding the American edition by six months. A Very Good copy in the publisher's original red cloth with gilt titling on..... (Item #1317)
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE...
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First American edition. Original rust-colored, gilt-decorated cloth with very bright, attractive examples of the spine and front board illustrations: Captain Nemo at the helm and..... (Item #350)
The Works of Virgil: Containing...
London: Jacob Tonson, 1697. First edition. Large Folio (17.5" x 11" or 444 x 280 mm). Complete with 103 full-page plates, including: the frontis, one plate in "The Life of..... (Item #557)
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Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das...
Mainz: B. Schott's Söhnen, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1874. First edition. 4 vols. in 1, first editions of Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards..... (Item #831)
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An American Dictionary of the...
New York: S. Converse, 1828. First edition. Printed by Hezekiah Howe in New Haven. Two quarto volumes (pages 274 x 222 mm), with double fly-leaves beginning and end of each..... (Item #1020)
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The Trumpet of the Swan...
New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First edition. Presentation copy: "Ann | with love (and in sorrow) | Andy White | N. Brooklin Aug. 1970." The recipient, Ann Day, was..... (Item #977)