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The Escaped Cock
by LAWRENCE, D H
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1929
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- Slipcase
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$6,900.00
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SIGNED by the author with "number thirty-nine" written by Lawrence entirely in longhand. "I am risen!" First edition, no. 39 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the author, with both the publisher s ORIGINAL glassine and ORIGINAL slipcase. Roberts A50b. Octavo. Color-printed frontispiece and 4 color-printed head- and tailpieces after Lawrence. Original printed wrappers, some toning to front… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Broom of the System
by WALLACE, David Foster
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
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- First
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- 1987
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- Custom clamshell box
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$4,900.00
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First edition. SIGNED by the author to the title page, his printed name smacked out. "The living is the telling, there's nothing going on with me that isn't either told or tellable, and if so, what's the difference, why live at all?" Octavo. 467, [1] blank] pages. Publisher's baby blue paper boards backed in black cloth, spine stamped in metallic… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,900.00
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Quiet Strength
by PARKS, Rosa
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 1994
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$1,100.00
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SIGNED and dated (3 26 95) by Rosa Parks, a glorious First Edition copy of her memoir Quiet Strength. Unread, still New tight that I was afraid to open it for the photo of her signature! Opened only by the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her signature. No other writing or marks of any kind in a beautiful,… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,100.00
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Signifying Rappers
by WALLACE, David Foster
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- Used - Fine
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- First
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- 1990
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- Soft cover
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$3,500.00
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SIGNED by David Foster Wallace on the Title Page. Original color pictorial wrappers. A long out-of-print First Edition copy, seldom encountered signed. Signed first edition of this early scholarly consideration of rap, and Wallace's book immediately preceding his epic Infinite Jest. Uncommon in the first edition (it was reissued in 2013, by Back Bay Books sans the original subtitle, following… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome
by ANGELOU, Maya
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 1997
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$195.00
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SIGNED and Boldly Inscribed by Maya Angelou, "Without a doubt, America's most visible black woman autobiographer," a magnificent First Edition/First Printing copy of her second book of essays, Even the Stars Look Lonesome. Octavo; original deep purple boards backed with black cloth, spine and front board lettered in bronze, gentle deckled edge. Dazzling dust jacket protected in mylar with small… Read more about this item Item Price
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Maya Angelou: The Poetry of Living
by [ANGELOU, Maya]; Courtney-Clarke, Margaret
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 1999
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$569.00
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SIGNED, Inscribed, and dated by Maya Angelou on the half-title. Released in December 1999, Courtney-Clarke's beloved tribute to her collaborator and friend, Maya Angelou: The Poetry of Living, offers a laudation through revealing portraits and interviews of the Poet Laureate and intimate who has influenced her life as well as the lives of millions around the world. Two small tickets… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER Limited Edition
by WALLACE, David Foster
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- New
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- First
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- 2014
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- Slipcase
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$1,295.00
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SEALED in publisher s original shrink wrap, a rare, pristine copy, one of only 250, of David Foster Wallace's oeuvre, a memoriam or epitaph of his greatest works published after he died a tragic suicidal death. THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER introduces his ever-growing readers to his remarkable humor, kindness, sweeping intellect, and versatility as a writer. Featuring selections of… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,295.00
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Catch-22: A Dramatization
by HELLER, Joseph
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- First
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- 1973
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- Soft cover
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$455.00
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SIGNED by Joseph Heller (1923–1999). Catch–22. [New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973]. 8vo. Illustrated from photographs of the first play directed by Larry Arrick at the John Drew Theatre. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. FIRST DELTA EDITION, SIGNED BY HELLER on half–title. Joseph Heller's full-length comedy, adapted from his iconic first novel. The story is set in World War II and… Read more about this item Item Price
$455.00
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by Williams, Tennessee
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good+
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- First
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- 1945
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$6,250.00
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SIGNED First Edition, one of only 5000 first printing copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama. With The Glass Menagerie, Williams set out to create a new kind of "Plastic Theatre," a highly expressionistic language of the stage to replace what he saw as the stale conventions of realism. In theatrical terms, Williams's approach has been called Brechtian:… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,250.00
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by WILLIAMS, Tenessee
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
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- First
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- 1947
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$4,888.00
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SIGNED by Tenessee Williams (no personalization) on the front flyleaf, a highly collectible first edition copy, one of only 5080 copies, of his Pulitzer Prize winning drama of faded, promiscuous Blanche DuBois vs her brutally sexy brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, still celebrated 75 years after its Broadway opening as one of the finest achievements in the American theatre. A highspot of… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,888.00
Autograph manuscript: A Teenage Eunuch Named Sporus Becomes Empress Of Rome Under Nero’s Rule
by DUMAS, Alexandre
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$4,500.00
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Unpublished Manuscript by Alexandre Dumas pere, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, often called the greatest French Romantic novelist.. "He had great gifts of narrative and dialogue, a powerful imagination… [and] a genius for seizing the situations and characters that would best render historical atmosphere. He wrote with unflagging gusto and an instinctive conviction… that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Prefaces by Bernard Shaw
by SHAW, George Bernard
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- Very Good
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- First
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- 1934
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$75.00
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First Edition of the collected, highly celebrated prefaces to his plays by George Bernard Shaw, from Major Barbara and Mrs. Warren's Profession to Saint Joan and Pygmalion. These prefaces, Shaw writes, are "quite journalistic in character, and cover a period of nearly thirty years." Shaw continues: "You may well ask me why I took the trouble to write them. I… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by FOER, JONATHAN Safron
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- Used - Fine
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- First
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- 2005
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- SLIPCASE
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$228.00
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SIGNED by Foer on the Limitation Page. #489 of 1000 copies. Fine in a lightly bumped slipcase. "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." Basis for the 2011 film starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow. Book#Cv2117. $228. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. Item Price
$228.00
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Oliver Twist
by DICKENS, Charles [BOZ]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1838
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$10,000.00
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SIGNED on a laid in paper bearing only Dickens' clear signature, First Edition of his immortal Oliver Twist, the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. First published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book on November 9, 1838 before the serialization ended. 3 vols. Volume one with the plate list inserted after title… Read more about this item Item Price
$10,000.00
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Leaves of Grass
by WHITMAN, Walt
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1889
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$18,500.00
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SIGNED by Walt Whitman in commemoration of his 70th birthday. Intended for Whitman's private distribution and Banned by American bookshops and libraries for its explicit sexual imagery. One of only 300 copies of Whitman's 70 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman s literary masterpiece, "America's second Declaration of Independence" (PMM, 342). With six portraits of Whitman, including the famous… Read more about this item Item Price
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And the Mountains Roared
by HOSSEINI, Khaled
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2013
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$58.00
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SIGNED on title page by the author, an As New First Edition copy of Hosseini's third bestseller in a beautiful As New jacket. A father's decision to sell his three-year-old daughter to a childless couple in Kabul ties the various narratives of the novel together. You won't find a better signed copy! Book #Pv3352. $58. We specialize in Rare Ayn… Read more about this item Item Price
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
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- New
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- First
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$395.00
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Still Sealed in Shrink Wrap! EXTREMELY SCARCE in New Condition. An exact facsimile copy of the first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1940 with an approximate print run of 75,000. Both book and jacket are precise copies of the original. The only indicator that this is a facsimile is a small block… Read more about this item Item Price
$395.00
The Big Kill Signed First Page
by SPILLANE, Mickey
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$298.00
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"I ain't a lady either so buy me a drink." The first page of Spillane's novel, SIGNED by Spillane. Presumed to be a fair copy, i.e., a copy intended for the printer, with no marginalia or emendations, conforming to the published version of the text. Fine. Book #Pv2202. $298. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. Item Price
$298.00
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Goodbye Columbus
by ROTH, Phillip
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1958
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- SOFT COVER
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Pine Plains, New York, USA
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$4,000.00
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Twice-SIGNED by author Phillip Roth, on the cover and on the page where the story appears. Also signed by National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen, co-founder and editor of the Paris Review. First Appearance in print of Roth's Goodbye Columbus in The Paris Review, Autumn-Winter 1958-59. "How can I describe loving Brenda? It was so sweet, as though I d… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,000.00
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Breeder
by CLEGG, Douglas
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- New
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- New
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- First
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- 2002
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$225.00
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SIGNED in publisher's Original Slipcase (often missing). Perfect Clegg Collectible. First Edition of Breeder, one of 26 Lettered copies, in original publisher's protective SLIPCASE, both in flawless, Library Quality condition. SIGNED by Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee and Canigli on a special page. Additionally, this copy is signed by publisher Larry Roberts, founder of Bloodletting Press. A perfect copy of Library-quality.… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00