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Item #100118 Endgame. Samuel Beckett

Beckett, Samuel

Item 100118Endgame

First English edition of Beckett's great absurdist play, translated from the French by the author, including the short sketch "Act Without Words." Preceded by the 1957 first edition, Fin de partie, and the first American edition earlier in 1958. "No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.".....

Price: $450.00

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Item #100206 The Life of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell

Boswell, James

Item 100206The Life of Samuel Johnson

Single-volume edition of one of the greatest English biographies, printed in two columns. Boswell follows Dr. Johnson through the arduous production of his major works, including his massive Dictionary of the English Language and his critical editions of Shakespeare and the English poets, and documents his friendships with Joshua Reynolds.....

Price: $300.00

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Item #10058 The White Album. Joan Didion

Didion, Joan

Item 10058The White Album

First edition of Didion's classic collection of essays on the American 1970s, reflections on Jim Morrison, the Black Panthers, the women's movement, Nancy Reagan, Charles Manson, college activism, and the new role of the shopping center in American life. "I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew.....

Price: $125.00

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Item #100108 The George Eliot Letters. George Eliot, Gordon Haight, Graham Greene

Eliot, George; Haight, Gordon (editor); [Greene, Graham]

Item 100108The George Eliot Letters

Graham Greene's annotated copy of the first American edition of George Eliot's collected letters, in seven volumes, with his signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. Greene clearly read this comprehensive collection with care, neatly marking the text throughout, and drawing up a handwritten index to key passages.....

Price: $5,600.00

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Item #100140 The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot, Walker Evans

Eliot, T.S.; [Evans, Walker]

Item 100140The Waste Land

First edition, second impression, one of 1000 numbered copies of Eliot's most influential work, an echo chamber of ancient and modern voices overheard in London between the wars: "I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening.....

Price: $7,000.00

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Item #100205 A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing...

Gould, John (editor); [Walpole, Horace]; [Vertue, George]

Item 100205A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Most Celebrated Artists, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

A very handsome first edition of this traveler's guide to the art of Europe: "though this work is presented to the Public in the compact and portable size of a pocket volume, yet it will be found to contain a greater variety of matter, and more useful information, than is.....

Price: $250.00

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Item #10009 Washington Square. Henry James

James, Henry

Item 10009Washington Square

First edition of Henry James's moving tale of a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Ownership signature of J.H. Russell, partly obscured by bookplate of.....

Price: $2,000.00

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Item #10061 Dans la cage, suivi de L'eleve et de L'autel des morts. Henry James, M....

James, Henry; [Laurencin, Marie]; Lanoire, M. (translator); Clairoin, D. (translator)

Item 10061Dans la cage, suivi de L'eleve et de L'autel des morts

Limited French edition of three unsettling short works from Henry James's middle period: "In The Cage" (1898), "The Pupil" (1891), and "The Altar of the Dead" (1895). Translated by M. Lanoire and D. Clairoin, number 170 of 2700 copies printed. From the library of French modernist painter Marie Laurencin, with.....

Price: $550.00

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Item #10053 What Is American In American Art. Jean Lipman, Ben Shahn

Lipman, Jean (editor); [Shahn, Ben]

Item 10053What Is American In American Art

First edition of this illustrated collection of articles from the first fifty years of Art in America, chosen by longtime Art in America editor Jean Lipman, exploring "those distinctively American elements that, together, constitute our artistic and cultural heritage." Contributors include critics, scholars, museum directors, and artists, including Ben Shahn.....

Price: $175.00

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Item #10089 Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics. Marianne Moore

Moore, Marianne

Item 10089Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics

First edition of this collection of eighteen poems and four short essays, with a whimsical inscription in Moore's hand, signed and dated "April 1967": "One of my happiest meals was with / Brendan and Anne Gill encircled by zebras, / at Gino's / 'between 60 and 61st Street' / Brentano.....

Price: $425.00

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Item #100103 The Tale of Beowulf. William Morris, A. J Wyatt

Morris, William; Wyatt, A.J.

Item 100103The Tale of Beowulf

A unique presentation copy of the Kelmscott Beowulf, one of only 300 copies printed on Perch paper, inscribed by translator A.J. Wyatt to his wife Catherine. Type, woodcut borders, and decorative initials designed by Kelmscott founder William Morris; chapter headings and marginal notes printed in red. The only Anglo-Saxon epic.....

Price: $8,200.00

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Item #10092 Sleep It Off Lady. Jean Rhys

Rhys, Jean

Item 10092Sleep It Off Lady

First edition of the final collection of stories by Jean Rhys, following her restless heroines through the West Indies, London, and Paris. "She had been in London for the last five years but for one short holiday. There had been the big blitz, then the uneasy lull, then the little.....

Price: $350.00

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Item #100106 The Lonely Ones. William Steig

Steig, William

Item 100106The Lonely Ones

First edition of Steig's darkly comic portraits of eccentrics and loners, the second collection of what Steig called his "symbolic drawings," considered too personal for publication in the New Yorker. Each drawing is captioned with the subject's private obsession, from "Very Few Understand My Works" to "I Want Your Love.....

Price: $400.00

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Item #10008 The Making of Americans Being A History of a Family's Progress. Gertrude Stein

Stein, Gertrude

Item 10008The Making of Americans Being A History of a Family's Progress

First printing of the first section of the work Stein considered her masterpiece, "the Long Book," published by Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions: "vital singularity is as yet an unknown product with us, we who in our habits, dress-suit cases, clothes and hats and ways of thinking, walking, making money, talking.....

Price: $2,200.00

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Item #100149 The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea. J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, John Masefield

Synge, J.M.; [Yeats, W.B.]; [Masefield, John]

Item 100149The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea

Second edition, "third thousand," of J.M. Synge's lyrical dialect plays. Inspired by the insular folklife of the Aran Islands, Synge wrote both of these one-act plays in 1902, and saw them performed at Dublin's Molesworth Hall in 1903 and 1904. The Shadow of the Glen was on the bill when.....

Price: $5,500.00

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Item #10093 Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the...

[Vasari, Giorgio]; [Aglionby, William]

Item 10093Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the Art. Together with the Lives of The Most Eminent Painters, From Cimabue, to the Time of Raphael, and Michael Angelo, with an Explanation of the Difficult Terms

Three critical dialogues by Aglionby are accompanied here by the first appearance in English of eleven of Vasari's Lives: Cimabue, Giotto, Leonardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian, and Donato. Of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Vasari writes: "this Piece was finished at a Rate, to.....

Price: $2,800.00

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Item #10003 Poésies de Villon3. François Higglebottom III Villon

Villon, François Higglebottom III

Item 10003Poésies de Villon3

Beautiful fine press edition of the fifteenth-century French poet's works, one of 2550 copies. Printed in red and black, and illustrated throughout, with text in French. An unsentimental poet of great clarity and force, Villon held a special place for English readers, translated by Rossetti and Swinburne, and later championed.....

Price: $175.00

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Item #10071 I Wanted To Write A Poem. William Carlos Williams, Edith Heal

Williams, William Carlos; Heal, Edith (editor)

Item 10071I Wanted To Write A Poem

First edition of this "autobiography of the works of a poet," signed by William Carlos Williams in his erratic post-stroke hand, additionally inscribed by editor Edith Heal to critic and scholar William York Tindall at Columbia University: "For W.Y. Tindall, from a student who appreciated and has used what he.....

Price: $1,350.00

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