American Literature
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[A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding (or 'blad') with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The key to this rare curiosity is the hand-written letter with the salutation to 'George' and signed by a A. R. Warnock or Warwick, dated 5th Feb'...
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This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; The Last Tycoon.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Superb set of five first editions. A superb set of first editions by one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, uniformly bound in an att...
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The Bells And Other Poems.
DULAC, Edmund (illustrator); POE, Edgar Allan.Original price £1,900.00 - Original price £1,900.00Original price £0.00£1,900.00£1,900.00 - £1,900.00Current price £1,900.00First Dulac edition, number 239 of 750 copies, signed and numbered by Dulac; 4to (317 x 260 mm); Poe's portrait on title-page, 28 tipped in colour...
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This Side of Paradise.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The sixth printing of the author's landmark debut novel, which examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz ...
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
ELIOT, T.S.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Eliot's poetry book for children about cats, which would become the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. The book became hugely popular, s...
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In Our Time.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Hemingway's first publication in England. Uncommon in such nice condition. First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, title...
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Absalom, Absalom.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £6,250.00 - Original price £6,250.00Original price £0.00£6,250.00£6,250.00 - £6,250.00Current price £6,250.00Many of Faulkner's books were produced in signed and limited issues within the first printing. The present title has always been one of the more s...
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
POE, Edgar Allan; RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Signed by Rackham. Limited edition, number 299 of 460 copies, signed by the artist; 4to (270 x 210 mm); 12 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, printed...
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A Book of Princeton Verse II.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (contributor) et al.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Publisher's presentation copy to one of the contributors. A contributor's copy with the holograph presentation inscription to the front free endpap...
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Absalom, Absalom.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A superbly bound copy of the scarce English issue of one of the author's undisputed masterpieces.First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; finely b...
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Poetry and Drama.
ELIOT, T.S.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00With the dustjacket. An very good first edition of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama, a publication of his address delivered at Harvard University in N...
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Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa
FITZGERALD, William.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00The author spent two years exploring and mapping the coastline. As well as the detailed study of his findings, the book also contains accounts of ...
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After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy.
ELIOT, T.S.Original price £425.00 - Original price £425.00Original price £0.00£425.00£425.00 - £425.00Current price £425.00Review copy. A review copy with Faber's slip laid in annotated by the reviewer for his article.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's bl...
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Poems 1911-1940.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00An attractive first edition of this compilation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's poetry written over the span of his career. This review copy comes with t...
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Light In August.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00A superb copy of a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality; featuring some of Faulkner's most memora...
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Lyonnesse.
PLATH, Sylvia.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00One of only ten copies. '...the poems in this volume are hitherto uncollected. A few of them will be included in Winter Trees, a collection of Poem...
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Music for Chameleons:
CAPOTE, Truman.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00One of 50 special copies for presentation. Inscribed by the author: 'This is one of fifty copies designed and printed for friends of the author. No...
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Typescript with annotations - JFK's report on his Congressional trip to Israel.
[KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00John F. Kennedy's interest in Jewish Affairs in the U.S. and abroad started with a private visit to the Holy Land in 1939.In October 1951, John F....
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