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Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by [Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.]
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- First edition, first issue
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- 1840
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$8,500.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition, first issue. 12mo, 483 pp. Original printed muslin, in the first state, with 105 titles listed in the Harper's Family Library series advertisement on the back cover. The presumed first printing, with the dotted "i" in the copyright notice and unbroken type in the running head on page 9. An exceptionally… Read more about this item Item Price
$8,500.00
Artemis to Actaeon and other Verse
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1909
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$1,750.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1909. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, a fine copy in dust jacket. The jacket lacks a one-inch chip at the base of the spine, and shows breaks on the folds, otherwise it is in very good condition. First edition of Wharton's first collection of poetry (after the juvenilia of Verses). Garrison A 17.a.1.
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$1,750.00
The Greater Inclination
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition, first printing with Merrymount Press slug on p. 2
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- 1899
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$50.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1899. First edition, first printing with Merrymount Press slug on p. 257. 8vo, 260 pp. Olive-green boards, gilt. Hinges cracked, front pastedown endpaper marred from removed paper. Garrison A 3.1.a.
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$50.00
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1904
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$75.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1904. First edition. 8vo, red cloth. Spine slightly faded, else fine. Signature on pastedown endpaper. Garrison
A9.1.a.
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$75.00
The Touchstone
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1900
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$150.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1900. First edition. Updike, D.B.. Original grey-green paper boards, gilt. Fine copy. First edition of Wharton's first novel. Garrison A4.1.a. .
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$150.00
Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1926
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$7,500.00
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London: The Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Original blue-grey paper boards, cloth spine, extremities slightly worn, a very good copy. Bookplates of Robert and Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks. Garrison A40. First edition, copy number 10 of 130 copies (100 for sale), printed on handmade paper. Most of the edition had a facsimile signature stamp on page [ii] below the… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
Madame de Treymes
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1907
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$50.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1907. First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. Fine copy.
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$50.00
A Gift from the Grave
by Wharton, Edith
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- First English edition, retitled
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- 1900
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$400.00
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London: John Murray, 1900. First English edition, retitled. Original blue cloth, blocked in green, gilt lettering, ribbon marker. Slight rubbing; very good, Garrison A 4.2.a.
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$400.00
A Son At the Front
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1923
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1923. First edition. Red cloth, lightly marked, a very good copy.
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$30.00
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- First edition
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- 1940
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$350.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1940. First edition. 8vo. Light gray cloth. Bookplate. A very good copy. Dust jacket faded on the spine, and with light edge wear. First state jacket, omitting the photographer's name.
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$350.00
Crucial Instances
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1901
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$125.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1901. First edition. Updike, D.B.. 8vo. Original grey-green paper boards, gilt. Foxing to endpapers, very good, bright copy. Garrison A 5.1.a. First edition, binding "a"
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$125.00
Tales of Men and Ghosts
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1910
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$200.00
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New York: Scribners', 1910. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth. Garrison A18.1.a.
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$200.00
Certain People
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1930
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$225.00
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New York: Appleton, 1930. First edition. 8vo, dark blue cloth. Spine lettering perished, else a very good copy, in near fine dust jacket. This collection of short stories includes the supernatural tales "A Bottle of Perrier" and "Mr. Jones." Garrison A44, binding "a"
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$225.00
The World Over
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1936
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$350.00
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New York: Appleton, 1936. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt, fine. Dust jacket with small areas of restoration.
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$350.00
Ethan Frome
by Wharton, Edith
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- First edition
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- 1911
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$500.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1911. First edition. 8vo, red cloth gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate (Helen C. and Harrison J. Holt), owner's signature, and small ink spot on front endpapers; a very good, bright copy.
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$500.00
The Old Man and the Sea
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- First edition
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$3,500.00
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New York: Scribner's, 1952. First edition. 8vo, light blue boards. A fine copy, in first printing dust jacket, with the flaps printed in brown and no mention of the Nobel or Pulitzer prize. Tiny chip from jacket crown, else fine.
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$3,500.00
Olivia
by [Bussy, Dorothy] Olivia (pseud.)
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- First edition
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- 1949
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$300.00
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London: Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition. Original mauve cloth, gilt. Slight lean, else a fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket designed by Duncan Grant. The only novel by the sister of James and Lytton Strachey, based on her experience while a student at the Marie Souvestre girls' school, as well as viewing of the film "Mädchen in Uniform"… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
The Hairy Ape. With nine illustrations by Alexander King
by O'Neill, Eugene
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- First separate and first illustrated edition
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- 1929
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$400.00
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New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First separate and first illustrated edition. King, Alexander. Quarto, cloth backed batik paper boards, a fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket and defective slipcase. One of 775 copies signed by O'Neill.
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$400.00
Junky -- Originally published as Junkie....; With an Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
by Burroughs, William S.
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- First complete and unexpurgated edition
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- 1977
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$400.00
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New York: Penguin Books, 1977. First complete and unexpurgated edition. Wrappers, slight fading to the spine (still orange), some browning to inside covers due to paper quality, else fine. Inscribed and signed by Burroughs.
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$400.00
Visions of Cody. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
by Kerouac, Jack
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- First edition
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- 1972
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CHESTER, Connecticut, USA
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$500.00
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New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. First edition. Maroon cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. r.
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$500.00