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By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Grabhorn Press: 1954
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k180331b
10”x14”, letterpress; 4 pp. The two poems are printed in parallel columns. 75 copies printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco”. Fine. View more info
![Image for The American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]; By the Most Eminent Artists of Great Britain. Vol. 4 only, Plates 76-100.](/assets/images/product/k181231b_1)
By: Boydell, John. (Shakespeare, William)
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: New York: Shearjashub Spooner: 1852
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k181231b
[New York: Shearjashub Spooner, 1852]. Elephant folio, 23”x28”, in plain brown library binding. The first American edition, printed from Boydells' original plates purchased and restored by the American publisher. This oversized edition has finely detailed impressions, the engravings having been brightened by re-cutting worn areas. Background: John Boydell was a London bookseller and print-seller. In 1786, he and a group of associates commissioned paintings of scenes... View more info
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Tarzana, Burroughs Publishing: 1933
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: f18112401
1st ed. publisher's original blue pebbled cloth with orange titling. "This is the first book to come from ERB, Inc. to have the copyright page clearly marked First Edition, reflecting the author's growing recognition of the value of his books to collectors. (Zeuschner, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, 2016. A near fine copy in good dust jacket. A bright, tight, and square copy with just a hint of shelf wear to edges. The only flaw is the page of advertising [... View more info
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By: Joseph Conrad
Price: $375.00
Publisher: London, Walbrook & Co: 1904
Seller ID: cr0219061
Publisher: London : Walbrook & Co..First thus. 4to, publisher's green cloth, gilt titles. The first appearance of Conrad's most acclaimed novel, ranked 47th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. Serialized in volumes 3 and 4 of T.P.'s Weekly between 29 January and 7 October 1904, prior to its publication in book form by Harper & Brothers on 14 October 1904. The novel was only half complete when the serial began and was signific... View more info
By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $8,500.00
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: cr180315q
A comprehensive collection of nearly 160 volumes - first English, American, and variant editions with important bibliographic works, most in very good to fine condition; many in dustjacket. The personal collection of Sacramento bookseller Edward H. Crussell (1875-1944). a charter member of The Kipling Society (UK) and one of the founders of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. The collection has been kept virtually intact since his death in 1944; Included is a 3x5 card... View more info
Price: $4,500.00
Publisher: 1972
Seller ID: s180622m
Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers: 1954
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622a
The author's first novel, published just after he returned from Paris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Very Good-near fine in VG d/w. The book itself is clean, bright and tight; the only interior flaw is a prior owner’s inked signature at top of FFEP. No rubbing or chipping to covers, as often bound, but a thin fade line at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket is not price-clipped but spine is lightly rubbed at top and bottom with some age-toning. View more info
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Price: $425.00
Publisher: NY: Viking: 1955
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622b
Partisans [Advance Review Copy]. NY: Viking, 1955. 1st ed.,12mo, blue/beige cloth. His second novel, set in Paris. Featuring communism, street people, and an idealistic American journalist. The novel explores the need for political commitment in the face of poverty and injustice. Advance review copy with publisher’s review slip and author’s photograph laid in. A fine, pristine copy in fine d/w with some very minor edgewear at bottom. Signed by Matthiessen on title ... View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: NY: Viking Press: 1961
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622c
1st ed., 12mo, blue boards, ¼ cloth. Matthiessen’s third novel, a tale of the sea in which a rich young man enlists in the navy and befriends a vicious opportunist. A fine copy; Pristine appearance overall with just a hint of surface wear to boards but a 1” partial separation of front FFEP at top of hinge. Dustjacket has a tiny bit of surface wear on bottom edge. Despite these minor flaws, this book is notoriously prone to wear and this is one of the best copies we ... View more info
Price: $2,800.00
Publisher: Sagaponack NY, 1972
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622t
First draft, original typescript for an unpublished and unproduced screenplay about migrant farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. A fictional treatment exploring some of the labor issues Matthiessen explored in his sojourns with Cesar Chavez and his 1969 nonfiction book Sal Si Puedes. 86 typescript pages, with a duplicate final page containing two holographic corrections by Matthiessen and handwritten delivery instructions to his Hollywood agent. Toget... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: NY: Doubleday: 1972
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622u
1st ed., 8vo, illustrated cloth. Matthiessen's first and only children's book, with an ecological theme. Jacket and illustrations by William Pene du Bois. This copy is with the special reinforced library binding, as originally issued. A pristine copy in near fine d/w. The book itself is flawless; the jacket is lightly soiled at edges and is price-clipped. View more info
Price: $575.00
Publisher: University of Nevada: 1980
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: s180622z
11"x14", 4 pp. A brief reminiscence and lament about an observation of whales. One of 25 copies printed on an 1837 Columbina handpress by Jean Tarascio. A Fine, pristine copy, signed by Matthiessen. Accompanied by a copy of the Westigan Review of poetry [sic], Issue 12, 1978, where the prose piece first appeared. A near fine copy with just a bit of surface wear at corners and edges. Probably the scarcest item in the PM canon. View more info
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Price: $350.00
Publisher: Berkeley [CA]: Black Oak Books: 1992
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: s180624a
7"x22" letterpress broadside containing an excerpt from In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Published in connection with a speaking engagement to support the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund. Designed and printed in an edition of 150 copies at Okeanos Press. A Fine. pristine copy signed by Matthiessen at bottom. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: & Ampresand Press/Roger Williams College: 1984
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed.
Seller ID: s180624b
8vo, softbound gray wrappers.A collection of seven short shories, all previously published. A Fine copy with practically no surface wear. Signed on title page. View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: (n.p.): Rock Foundation: 1986
Edition: 1st ed., limited special edition.
Seller ID: s180624c
A two-volume deluxe folio-sized edition in matching slipcase. The first volume containing all of the text by Matthiessen. The second volume contains all of the photographs. An identical two-volume edition, but in a clamshell case and an original print of one of the photographs was given out free to attendees of a $500-a-plate benefit dinner for the historical society attempting to preserve the record and legacy of the fishermen's lives. There were 500 numbered copies sta... View more info
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Price: $100.00
Publisher: Livingston [Montana]: Clark City Press: 1993
Edition: 1st
Inscription: Signed.
Seller ID: s180624f
5"x9" stapled wrappers, 34 pp.. Publishers announcement containing selections from forthcoming works, including an excerpt from Matthiessen's anticipated book Red and Blue Days/Writings on the American West. The book was never published, leaving this excerpt as the only published survivor. Fine. View more info
By: Schulberg, Budd
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Random House, New York : 1953
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k190114e
1st ed., 8vo, yellow and black cloth. Inscribed on the verso of the half-title page in March 1954 to Hollywood producer/director/screenwriter Jerry Wald. This is a remarkable association copy because Schulberg acknowledged late in his career that Wald was one of his inspirations for the composite character Sammy Glick in his 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run. Schulberg adapted his novel, The Harder They Fall for the 1956 Humphrey Bogart classic, co-written with screenwrit... View more info
By: Stevenson, Robert Louis [illus. Ralph Steadman]
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, Harrap: 1985
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k180315j
1st thus. 4to, black cloth. Steadman’s take on the pirate classic; profusely illustrated with marvelous color drawings. An as-new copy, boldly signed by Steadman across the front end papers. View more info
By: [Cruikshank, George] Pailthorpe, Frederick W; Thackeray, William Makepeace.
Price: $2,850.00
Publisher: London, F. W. Pailthorpe: 1900
Seller ID: k180430b
Two 4to volumes: n.p., n.d. [London; 1900] Signed Zaehnsdorf bindings in full-morocco with raised bands and compartments and gold tooling. An exceptional compendium of original art, hand-colored broadsides, and b/w illustrations from the first 25-years of Cruikshank’s prolific career. These are the first two of what were originally four volumes of Cruikshank art collected and collated by English painter and book illustrator F.W.Pailthorpe (Oliver Twist/Great Expectati... View more info
![Image for A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole [woodcut title] ... Mr. George Robins is honoured ... to sell by public competition the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill ... fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842 and twenty-three following days…and within will be found a repast for the Lovers of Literature and the Fine aArts, of which bycone days furnish no previous example, and it would be in vain to comtemplate it in times to come.”](/assets/images/product/k190114j_1)
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London: Smith and Robins Printers: 1842
Seller ID: k190114j
Lithographic portrait, woodcut title. xxiv, [1]-230, [1] A complete copy of the extensive sale catalogue of Horace Walpole's library and effects. As many as seven editions of the catalog are known; we believe this to be Hazen's edition 'V' with the listings of lots to be sold for the full twenty-four days but with the Waldegrave manuscripts (6th day, lots 161-187) omitted and the books of prints in the Round Tower, making up days 7 and 8, still present. #####Horace Wa... View more info
