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An extraordinarily rare "original" copy of Martin Luther King's Doctoral Dissertation, of which very few copies are known to exist---- as best we can determine, only one other copy is held in private hands. (It is our understanding that "original" copies also exist at Stanford University, and the original Dissertation is, of course, at Boston University where Dr. King received his degree in 1955.) Martin Luther King, Jr. submitted this controversial document "in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy". A historically significant document, the Dissertation's serious authorship issues were not raised until 1989, long after Dr. King's untimely death. Consequently, accusations that Dr. King plagiarized major portions of his Dissertation were not generally known to the public, but did garner the attention of scholars. Boston University, the institution that awarded Dr. King his degree, conducted an investigation and determined that he did, indeed, plagiarize major portions of his Dissertation. Upon doing so, the University attached a letter to Dr. King's Dissertation in the University Library noting that numerous passages were included without the provision of appropriate quotations and citations of sources (studiously avoiding any use of the term "plagiary"). This "original" copy was made using an early fusion system photocopier and is on white paper with a flower petal design on the back. As this copy is from the Estate of Dr. King's literary agent, Joan Daves, we speculate that this copy has one of two possible sources: either it was part of Dr. King's original dissertation submission in 1955 and created at Boston University or the copy was made by Joan Daves. (Joan Daves was a literary agent of great note, and was much respected in the trade, serving as agent for a number of important authors including Willie Morris, Kathryn Porter, and others, and was the only person to accompany Dr. King on his trip to receive his Nobel Prize in 1964--when he became the youngest person ever to receive the Prize.) We speculate that Dr. King provided his Dissertation to Joan Daves with a view to its possible publication, and that she then discovered the Dissertation's discrepancies and decided against publication. We can imagine no reason for her to have a copy other than with a view to its publication, and no other reason for her not to publish such a surefire seller. Consequently, this copy sat quietly through the years in the great agent's files. (An annotated version of the Dissertation has since been published.) Though the pages are age toned and have a few minor nicks and expected tiny corner folds, together with some inoffensive markings and other minor evidence of paper clips once used to hold the pages in place, the document is in nice condition. This offering presents a rare opportunity for the collector to obtain an extremely early copy (likely the earliest copy obtainable) of the Dissertation that put "Doctor" in the name of, (and, at least for the balance of his life, and likely thereafter, enhanced the credibility of) one of the World's most important persons, one whose efforts changed the course of History. A rare opportunity, indeed.
A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman [an Association Copy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Doctoral Dissertation---Rare]
King, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther
Boston: King, Dr. Martin Luther, 1955.
Price: $9,500.00
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PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 35%. WAS $585. A Near Fine copy (fading to spine and adjacent areas, otherwise Fine with a tiny bump at lower right corner of the front wrapper and a touch of surface wrinkling to rear wrapper), with the Crane Duplicating Services Inc. stamp to the recto of the rear wrapper. Mark Helprin's debut book, a collection of short stories. Helprin has authored a number of books including three collections of short stories, three children's books, each illustrated by Chris van Allsburg ("Swan Lake", 1989; "The Veil of Snows", 1993; and "A City in Winter", 1996), and five novels. His "Winter's Tale" was among 22 books to receive multiple votes in a 1996 "The New York Times Book Review" survey of approximately 200 prominent authors, editors, critics, and other "literary sages" asking them to name "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years". The first edition of this book is not terribly common, and this, the uncorrected proof, is exceedingly uncommon. An about Fine copy of the difficult to find, but here easy to obtain, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF MARK HELPRIN'S FIRST BOOK.
A Dove of the East [Rare uncorrected Proof]
Helprin, Mark
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
Price: $380.25
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A very nice collection of materials from the 1957 production of the Film "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" with the Screenplay by Ben Hecht and based, of course, on Ernest Hemingway's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, and further based, in part, on Lawrence Stalling's 1930 Play adapted from the novel. The Film was produced by the famed David O. Selznick after a 9-year self-imposed retirement, was the last film he produced, and was released on December 14, 1957. The collection consists of 6 items closely connected with the Film as follows: (i) Numbered copy 55 of the Screenplay for Selznick's film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's great novel "A FAREWELL TO ARMS". Printed by ALERT (with their stamp to the otherwise blank verso of the final page). The Screenplay was produced for The SELZNICK Company Inc. and is dated October 22, 1956. Containing 191 numbered pages, the Screenplay is housed in its original printed yellow wrappers, and bound with three pins. There is expected edge bumping and mild soiling to the wrappers. The pages are in Fine condition . The Screenplay was prepared for the movie's production under the direction of John Huston who quit the project on or about March 21, 1957. (Selznick's contract with 20th Century Fox required that the film be produced at a certain maximum cost and imposed financial penalties if it were not. Selznick informed Huston of the financial requirements applicable to the Film's production, after which Huston began to make changes to the Script and to spend a great deal of time on the Film's preproduction preparations. After Selznick advised Huston of the problems caused by Huston's uncooperative approach, Huston quit the Film.); TOGETHER WITH (ii) a second Screenplay (containing 173 numbered pages), bound by two pins. This printing of the Screenplay was for Director CHARLES VIDOR who replaced John Huston as Director of the Film. The rear wrapper bears some pink marks and some edge bumping. The pages are in Fine condition; TOGETHER WITH (iii) The Dialogue Continuity for the Film dated January 7, 1958, containing 76 numbered pages and housed in the original printed red wrappers, bound by two pins. The wrappers have expected bumping, and the pages are in nice condition, with some staining to the front page and marginal staining (not invasive of the text) to the earlier and later pages. (A Dialogue Continuity is a script which provides a film's complete action and scenes both in detail and in the order in which they appear on the screen, and also provides relevant information such as the actors' emotions, the scene's sound effects and the like. The Dialogue Continuity is provided to the DCMP (the "Described and Captioned Media Program, originally known as "Captioned Films for the Deaf"), a nonprofit organization funded by the US Department of Education. The DCMP uses the Dialogue Continuity to accurately caption a Film. The organization was privately founded in 1950 and became a part of Federal Law in 1958.); TOGETHER WITH (iv) The Film's Publicity Memo (dated October 23, 1957 and containing 46 pages) from the Film's Director of Publicity, Marvin Hauser. The Publicity Memo provides information about the Film, the Story line, the Producer, the Director, the Film's Production, technical credits the book from which the Film was adapted ; biographies of David O. Selznick, Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio de Sica, Mario Nascimbene (who composed the music for the Film), Albert Sordi, Kurt Klazner, Victor Francen, Elaine Stritch, Mercedes McCambridge, Oscar Homolka, and Leopold Trieste. The document is in Very Good or better condition with some edge bumping, a tiny marginal tear to the front page, and a crease line to the lower left quadrant of the last page; AND TOGETHER WITH (v) the Sheet Music for the "Love Theme from A Farewell to Arms", with the music by Mario Nascimbene and the lyric by Paul Francis Webster. The Sheet Music is printed on a single large sheet folded in the center to make to leaves. The exterior thereby produced contains illustrations and information and the interior contains the music and lyrics. The item is in very nice condition. TOGETHER WITH (vi) a souvenir book for the Film containing 16 pages in their original pictorial wraps containing cast and star information. The souvenir book is in excellent condition, with a bit of surface rubbing to the rear. (The Screenplays, the Dialogue Continuity, and the Souvenir Book, are each marked on the first page "Tx60" in light pencil.) An excellent and, in our experience, quite uncommon, collection of items from the production of David O. Selznick's final film, based on one of Ernest Hemingway's great novels.
A Farewell to Arms: A Collection of items from the 1957 Film produced by David O. Selznick [Selznick's Final Film]
Hemingway, Ernest [Selznick, David; Hecht, Ben; Vidor, Charles; Huston, John; Nascimbene, Mario; Webster, Francis]
Price: $775.00
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A Very Good + or better copy of the first American edition (mild wear to spine extremities and to board bottoms), in a Very Good + dust jacket (two short closed tears to top of rear panel, one near the spine panel and repaired with tape to the dust jacket's verso / interior, mild soil to white rear panel, short crease mark and small push at top of front flap, very minor wear), SIGNED BY PABLO NERUDA on the title page -- in his usual green ink symbolizing Hope; a full decade of Neruda's Poetry. Declared by Gabriel García Márquez to be "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language", Neruda won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature for "a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams". Signed copies of Neruda's works are rather uncommon, signed copies of his trade editions quite so, and signed copies of his trade editions in English translation are great scarcities. A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY PABLO NERUDA.
A New Decade Poems 1958-1967 [Signed]
Neruda, Pablo
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969.
Price: $3,500.00
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A rather Near Fine copy of Ted Lewis' rare debut book (some mild offsetting to free endpapers from dust jacket flaps, modest foxing to free endpapers and a light touch of foxing to the half-title, touch of soiling to page block edges, gentle yawn to the boards) in a Very Good dust jacket (neatly repaired closed tear to front panel, two fold lines to lower left of front panel, some crease lines to flaps, front flap's lower corner clipped ---- but not price clipped ---- light edge wear, nevertheless, a rather bright and attractive dust jacket). Lewis later authored "Jack's Return Home" (a/k/a "Get Carter"), "The Rabbit", "Plender", and a number of other novels. A nice copy of a very hard book to find.
All the way home and all the night through [1st Book by Author of Jack's Return Home a/k/a Get Carter]
Lewis, Ted
London: New Authors Limited [Hutchinson Group], 1965.
Price: $1,525.00
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Harper & Brothers, New York, 1883. Wrappers. Book Condition: Very Good + to Near Fine. First edition. An extremely rare (of the "utmost rarity" per Smith) copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Trollope's "An Autobiography", published by Harper & Brothers in their newspaper format Franklin Square Library. (This edition was published simultaneously with Blackwood's first English edition. The Preface by Trollope's son, Henry, was not published in this, the First American, issue of the work.) This is a Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, bound in 3 / 4 leather with cloth boards (edge wear and spotting to the boards, some damage to the bottom right corner of the front board, tiny closed marginal tear to bottom margin of the first leaf, expected age toning to the pages). Unlike almost all (i.e. the few) extant issues in the series, the RARE OUTER WRAPPER IS PRESENT. This copy is in remarkable condition given the ephemeral nature of the publication. The Franklin Square Library series was published by Harper to meet the large demand for literature at a low price. Usually selling for 10 or 15 cents a copy, the series eventually replaced Harper's Library of Select Novels Series and its Half-Hour Series. Trollope's "Is He Popenjoy" was the first issue in the Series and all of the remaining Trollope works published by Harper (except for some of his nonfiction works) were published in this Series. (Munro published the first American editions of Trollope's "Cousin Henry", "Two Heroines of Plumplington" and "The Landleaguers" in his newspaper format Seaside Library series.) (See Smith's Bibliography of Trollope's US publications.) Smith states: "This new series and its advertising logic sounded the death knell for collectors. First editions in this series are no longer books, but newspapers. Their fragility, format, and ephemeral makeup discouraged most buyers from keeping them. Few have survived." According to Smith, these issues are "rarely seen for sale and are usually found only in private collections and in certain research libraries." An extraordinary opportunity for the Trollope collector. As with Trollope's first novels, the chance to own one is unlikely to arise often, if at all, for almost all collectors. In fact, most Trollope collectors will never see this issue, much less own one. ( This RARE copy of Trollope's Autobiography is bound with four other novels in the Franklin Square Library Series: "All in a Garden Fair" by Walter Besant; "A Noble Wife" by John Saunders; "Under the Red Flag" by M. E. Braddon; and "Maid of Athens" by Justin McCarthy.) AN EXTREMELY RARE ISSUE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TROLLOPE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A collection distinguishing copy. Avoid the collectors' "death knell" and purchase it.
An Autobiography [bound together with four other novels in the Franklin Square Library Series: "All in a Garden Fair" by Walter Besant; "A Noble Wife" by John Saunders; "Under the Red Flag" by M. E. Braddon; and "Maid of Athens" by Justin McCarthy.
Trollope, Anthony; Besant, Walters; Saunders, John; Braddon, M. E.; McCarthy, Justin
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.
Price: $850.00
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An extremely rare (of the "utmost rarity" per Smith) copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Trollope's "An Autobiography", published by Harper & Brothers in their newspaper format Franklin Square Library. (This edition was published simultaneously with Blackwood's first English edition. The Preface by Trollope's son, Henry, was not published in this, the First American, issue of the work.) This is a Very Good + copy of the TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. There is minor marginal chipping and ruffling, as one would expect, a small, light, marginal water stain on the first several pages (not invasive of the text), and some light pencil notations in the upper margin of the front wrapper. Unlike almost all extant issues in the series, the RARE OUTER WRAPPER IS PRESENT. What we believe may be the original mailing wrapper is also present. The spine staples are virtually unrusted and there is virtually no soiling or foxing. While the pages are age-toned, this copy is in remarkable condition given the ephemeral nature of the publication. The Franklin Square Library series was published by Harper to meet the large demand for literature at a low price. Usually selling for 10 or 15 cents a copy, the series eventually replaced Harper's Library of Select Novels Series and its Half-Hour Series. Trollope's "Is He Popenjoy" was the first issue in the Series and all of the remaining Trollope works published by Harper (except for some of his nonfiction works) were published in this Series. (Munro published the first American editions of Trollope's "Cousin Henry", "Two Heroines of Plumplington" and "The Landleaguers" in his newspaper format Seaside Library series.) (See Smith's Bibliography of Trollope's US publications.) Smith states: "This new series and its advertising logic sounded the death knell for collectors. First editions in this series are no longer books, but newspapers. Their fragility, format, and ephemeral makeup discouraged most buyers from keeping them.....few have survived." According to Smith, these issues are "rarely seen for sale and are usually found only in private collections and in certain research libraries." An extraordinary opportunity for the Trollope collector. Most Trollope collectors will never see this issue, much less own one. As with Trollope's first novels, the chance to own one is unlikely to arise often, if at all, for almost all collectors. AN EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE ISSUE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TROLLOPE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A collection distinguishing copy.
An Autobiography [TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION-a rare complete copy]
Trollope, Anthony
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.
Price: $1,950.00
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A bright, Near Fine copy (tiny spots of wear but virtually unworn) of Joseph Conrad's second book bound in the Publisher's original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, black, and red. Conrad was inspired to write the novel by his experiences while serving on a steamer named "The Vigar". (Over a period of 16 years Conrad served in the merchant marine, taking work on a number of ships, and much of his writing is thus nautical in nature. It was during his service that Conrad, born in Poland, learned English. In 1886, he became an English Citizen and took the name "Joseph Conrad".) In the tale, Peter Willems, a man of low morals and considerable disrepute, who flees the consequences of a scandal in which he was involved, finds refuge in a native village where he then develops a great lust for the Chief's daughter. The book provided the basis for the 1952 Carol Reed film starring Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, and Wendy Hiller. A considerably better copy than usually found of this rather scarce Conrad title, and certainly the nicest copy we ever have handled. An uncommon opportunity for the Conrad collector.
An Outcast of the Islands
Conrad, Joseph
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
Price: $845.00
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A Very Good copy of the first UK edition, first printing (some white spotting where it appears that the dye was not absorbed by the cloth, minor edge wear and some corner bumping), in a Near Fine dust jacket (light wear at the outer corners, age toning to the white flaps), SIGNED BY HARRY MARTINSON on the title page; an epic poetic cycle about a spaceship, the "Aniara", that escapes from an Earth polluted by the nuclear explosions of a great and ongoing war and heads to Mars with 8,000 colonists. The Aniara (a name derived from the ancient Greek work for "sad or "despairing") is unexpectedly diverted from its destination, and then heads irretrievably into the void. In the Poem, Martinson examines humanity through the cults and sects that develop among the passengers and the ways in which the travelers, with no destination and surrounded by the vast emptiness of Space, deal with their isolation. Martinson won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature for "writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". "Aniara", perhaps, Martinson's most famous work, was quite well received. Prominent Science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (who famously stated that ninety percent of all Science Fiction is "crud") proclaimed respecting Aniara that: "Martinson's achievement here is an inexpressible, immeasurable sadness. [It] transcends panic and terror and even despair [and] leaves you in the quiet immensities, with the feeling that you have spent time, and have been permanently tinted, by and with an impersonal larger-than-God force." (The 1974 prize was divided equally between Martinson and his co-winner Eyvind Johnson and evoked controversy as both men were then members of the Swedish Academy. Furthermore, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, and Vladimir Nabokov were the other candidates that year and many expected that one of them would win the Prize.) Only a few of Martinson's works have been translated to English. Signed copies of his works in any language other than his native tongue are quite scarce, and signed copies of them translated into English are hen's teeth. All in all, a Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY HARRY MARTINSON. RARE.
Aniara [Signed]: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Martinson, Harry
London: Hutchinson, 1963.
Price: $675.00
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A Very Good or better copy (lower board corners gently bumped), in a Very Good dust jacket (a couple short closed tears to the front panel and some light rubbing), SIGNED BY ALDOUS HUXLEY on the title page. Huxley's satirical and cautionary novel presenting an imaginary film script found in a Hollywood dust bin predicting the state of California after the Third World War, a dystopian work similar to "Brave New World". This copy is COMPLETE WITH THE RARE PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT sheet loosely laid in and advertising Huxley's "Brave New World" ("Have you read another great book by Aldous / Huxley on the shape of things to come?") on the Recto and the Publisher's Collected Edition of Huxley's works on the verso. Signed copies are quite uncommon, especially when in a condition this nice. A Very Good + copy, complete with the RARE PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT and SIGNED BY ALDOUS HUXLEY.
Ape and Essence [Signed with Rare Publisher's Advertisement]
Huxley, Aldous
London: Chatto and Windus, 1949.
Price: $735.00
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A Fine, Superior, copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JOHN MCPHEE on the title page; one of 5 McPhee books researched and written over a 20-year period (being 4 works previously published: "Basin and Range" (1981), "In Suspect Terrain" (1983), "Rising from the Plains" (1986), and "Assembling California" (1993), plus a 5th book not separately published, "Crossing the Craton" (1999)) republished together as "Annals of the Former World", winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Signed copies of this book, especially when in a condition this nice, are quite scarce. A Fine, Superior, copy, SIGNED BY JOHN MCPHEE.
Assembling California [Signed]
McPhee, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.
Price: $175.00
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A Very Near Fine copy of the first American edition (short soil mark at bottom -shelf edge- of front board, otherwise Fine and in considerably better condition than usually found), in a Fine dust jacket, a scarce ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with the Publisher's information slip, and a photographic representation of the drawing that appears on the dust jacket's rear panel, each in Fine condition, loosely laid in ; the first installment of Solzhenitsyn's "The Red Wheel" cycle of novels ("August 1914", "November 1916", "March 1917", and "April 1917") which retell the demise of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Soviet Union. "A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope." (Gary Kern, The New York Times). "August 1914" begins the cycle with Imperial Russia's disastrous opening of World War I with its defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. Conceived in 1939 and finished in 1970, "August 1914" was rejected by the Soviet publishers and was published by the YMCA Press in Paris (1971) without Solzhenitsyn's permission, though he embraced it when he acquired knowledge of it. The first English translations (US and UK) were published in 1972, and a revised edition was published in 1984. Solzhenitsyn won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Copies in a condition as nice as this one are hard to find, as are ADVANCE REVIEW COPIES. A Fine copy. SCARCE.
August 1914 [August chetyrnadtsatogo]
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr (Alexander) []
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
Price: $275.00
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A very nice 3 1/2 Page Autograph Letter Signed from Henry M. Trollope, Anthony and Rose Trollope's son, to Frederic Harrison, an English historian, literary critic, and jurist who provided the introduction to Bell and Son's republication of Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels, as well as an introduction to a republication of Trollope's Palliser novels (with Henry Trollope referring to the latter as the "Finn Series"). In the letter, dated from Greylands (the Trollope family's house in Minchinhampton, Stroud), Henry Trollope thanks Harrison for his work ["They are both certainly very appreciative and they give a reader an idea of what he may expect from the novels themselves."], and, referring to Rose Trollope, states that "My mother is still alive and well, and was much gratified to see how you maintained that my father never took the characterization of any one person for reproduction in his novels". Henry Trollope then recounts how he once was discussing Trollope's great novel "The Way We Live Now" with his father when he (Henry) asked " 'Isn't Lady Carbury very like Mrs. [?] ___________' ", at which question his father "... started up from his chair and answered emphatically 'She is, she is, but I wasn't thinking of her' " after which Henry Trollope discusses his view of such matters. The letter is in excellent condition with some quite minor staining, residue on the back from a prior mounting of the letter ---not affecting the text, and two fold lines (one horizontal and one vertical) for mailing. In our experience, such letters from Henry Trollope discussing such matters as are contained in this letter are not common to the market. A most excellent letter and one which conveys something of Anthony Trollope's character and principles.
Autograph Letter Signed from Henry Trollope to Frederic Harrison re: Anthony Trollope, also mentioning Rose Trollope [The Warden; Barchester Towers; Can You Forgive Her?; Phineas Finn; The Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; The Prime Minister; The Duke's
Trollope, Henry [Trollope, Anthony]
Greylands, Minchinhampton, Str: Henry M. Trollope, 1911.
Price: $2,450.00
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An Autograph note dated "Dec.22.1916.", entirely in Charmian London's hand, together with the note's original mailing envelope addressed by Charmian London. An excellent original letter, written on two sides of a small note card (approximately 4 1/4" x 2 3/4"), by Charmian London to Captain Samuel W. Noyes, and sent by Charmian London from Glen Ellen in reply to a letter of condolence she received after her husband's death. (London died on November 22, 1916.) Opening "Dear People: -", Charmian London expresses her "heart's best thanks" for their "letter of the 7th" and states, in part, "I have been swamped with letters, blessed letters all of them. Expressing love & appreciation of our dear, great Jack, and could not reply sooner." She ends, in part, by writing: "It's a bad thing Jack was badly poisoned some way." (London's Death Certificate names uremia - i.e. uremic poisoning - as the cause of his death.) Both the letter and the envelope are in rather nice condition. The envelope is neatly opened at the top, retains the flap, and has only minor soiling and wear. The enclosed card has minor soil and a bit of creasing to the upper right corner. An excellent autograph letter from Jack London's widow, Charmian London, shortly after Jack London's death, together with the original mailing envelope, all in her hand. SCARCE.
Autograph Letter Signed [The Log of the Snark; Our Hawaii; The Book of Jack London; Dutch Courage and Other Stories; White Fang; The Call of the Wild; The Cruise of the Dazzler; Before Adam; Martin Eden; The Scarlet Plague; A Son of the Son; The Star Rove
London, Charmian [London, Jack]
Glen Ellen, CA: Charmian London, 1916.
Price: $765.00
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A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some fading about the spine); a collection of 15 Poems published together and in book for for the first time. A Fine copy of scarce early book in Fred Chappell's oeuvre.
Awakening to Music
Chappell, Fred
Davidson, North Carolina: Briarpatch Press, 1979.
Price: $135.00
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A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (spine ends gently pushed, light rubbing at spine ends, some whitish coloring to black portions around spine), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY T. C. BOYLE on the title page; a Review Copy of T. C. Boyle's third book (and second novel) with the Publisher's Review Copy notice loosely laid in. The book itself is surprisingly uncommon, signed copies are more so, and signed Review Copies are scarce. A Near Fine REVIEW COPY, SIGNED BY T. C. BOYLE. SCARCE.
Budding Prospects [Scarce Signed Review Copy]
Boyle, T. C.
New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
Price: $45.00
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A Very Good copy of the first UK edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original black cloth with the spine lettered in green; George Orwell's debut novel, inspired by his early days as a policeman in Burma. [His essays "A Hanging" (1931) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) also were based on his Burmese days. Interestingly he also acquired in Burma a small circular tattoo on each knuckle, believed by the Burmese believed to protect against bullets and snake bites.] This is a Very Good copy of this important work, with the volume quite mildly askew, some general edge wear and corner rubbing, a quite small split to the spine's left edge as well as to the leading edge of the front board, and rubbing to the boards as is common for this title. The hinges are solid, and a prior seller's small sticker is present at the lower inside corner of the front pastedown. The novel reveals the British Empire's local corruption and its bigoted view that the Burmese were a people inferior to the British. The work thus was a disappointment to his fellow British who lived, or had lived, in Burma, and a number of the character names were changed for British publication in order to avoid libel suits from the individuals who inspired some of the novel's characters. The book is quite scarce and copies in the Publisher's original cloth are not easy to find. A Very Good copy. SCARCE.
Burmese Days
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur]
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Price: $1,650.00
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A Fine copy (spine ends very gently pushed), in a Fine dust jacket (light crinkling at spine ends, tiny corner rubs, one small mark to rear panel), SIGNED BY DONALD BARTHELME on the half-title. The book is in excellent condition and the topstain is bright and vivid. Donald Barthelme's third collection of short stories (his fourth book). The book is uncommon in a condition this nice, quite scarce signed in any condition, and, when both in a condition this nice and signed, very scarce indeed. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY DONALD BARTHELME.
City Life [Signed]
Barthelme, Donald
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.
Price: $275.00
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A Near Fine (light edge wear, light marking and tiny corner pushes to rear wrapper), unread, copy of the UK UNCORRECTED PROOF, SIGNED BY NEIL GAIMAN, and WITH A DRAWING -- OF THE UPPER HALF OF A STANDING MOUSE -- BY NEIL GAIMAN, on the title page; a very well-received horror/fantasy novella, the book won the 2003 Hugo Award (for Best Novella), the 2003 Nebula Award (for Best Novella), and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award (for Best Work for Young Readers). The book also provided the basis for the 2009 Henry Selik movie of the same name which was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Animated Feature). Copies of the Uncorrected Proof are rather scarce, signed copies are more so, and signed copies with an original drawing by Neil Gaiman (as offered here) are exceedingly scarce. A Near Fine copy, of the UK UNCORRECTED PROOF, SIGNED BY NEIL GAIMAN, and WITH A DRAWING (OF THE UPPER HALF OF A STANDING MOUSE) BY NEIL GAIMAN. SCARCE.
Coraline [Signed UK Uncorrected Proof with Drawing]
Gaiman, Neil
London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Price: $265.00
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A Very Near Fine copy (light fading at right edge of front board, tiny surface tear at bottom inside corner of ffep where once apparently unopened), in an essentially Fine dust jacket (with very minor edge wear), SIGNED BY LOUISE GLUCK. The fourth collection of poetry from this accomplished former Poet Laureate, Volume 20 in the American Poetry Series. The book is quite scarce when signed, and especially so when also in this condition. An excellent copy, SIGNED BY LOUISE GLUCK.
Descending Figure
Gluck, Louise
New York: Ecco Press, 1980.
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