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Item #100112 Emma. Jane Austen

Austen, Jane

Item 100112Emma

Oxford World's Classics 129. Introduction by E.V. Lucas, dust jacket design by Lynton Lamb. "It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her." A delightful reading copy of.....

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Item #10080 Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen

Austen, Jane

Item 10080Pride and Prejudice

Lovely nineteenth-century printing of Austen's most influential novel, featuring the equally matched Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, whose rocky courtship sets the tone for the next two centuries of romantic comedy. "After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your.....

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Item #10067 The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne...

Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Anne

Item 10067The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte

Illustrated six-volume edition of the works of the Bronte sisters, with full-page color plates by Edmund Dulac in each volume. The set includes Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette (1853).....

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Item #10087 The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand 5). Lydia Davis

Davis, Lydia

Item 10087The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand 5)

First edition of the first collection by Davis, number 158 of 500 copies. In these unsettling short stories, Davis introduces the deadpan voice and formal ingenuity that would become her trademark in the decades to follow: "A man in our town is both a dog and its master." This copy.....

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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.....

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Item #100110 Middlemarch. George Eliot

Eliot, George

Item 100110Middlemarch

Oxford World's Classics 497. Introduction by R.M. Hewitt, dust jacket design by Robin Jacques. "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on.....

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Item #100113 The Mill on the Floss. George Eliot

Eliot, George

Item 100113The Mill on the Floss

Collins Pocket Classic 13. "Prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth." Attractive mid-century reading copy of Eliot's second novel, in very good condition.

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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.....

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Item #10025 Smartypants (Pete in School). Maira Kalman

Kalman, Maira

Item 10025Smartypants (Pete in School)

First edition of artist Maira Kalman's kaleidoscopic portrait of elementary school life, as Pete the dog joins the classroom for one day only. "Obviously you do not expect me to be a sentient being, but empirically speaking, you cannot deny that I am speaking. . . . I ate the.....

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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.....

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Item #10098 Saul Steinberg Masquerade. Inge Morath

Morath, Inge

Item 10098Saul Steinberg Masquerade

After Saul Steinberg's death in 1999, photographer Inge Morath published this document of their friendship: an arresting series of photographs, taken by Morath between 1959 and 1963, of friends and acquaintances wearing cardboard masks designed by Steinberg. Some of the images feature Steinberg himself: "naturally, Saul was a superb impersonator.".....

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Item #10060 Beloved. Toni Morrison

Morrison, Toni

Item 10060Beloved

First edition of Morrison's tour-de-force, inspired by the true story of a runaway slave who killed her daughter rather than see her recaptured, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. "Simple: she was squatting in the garden and when she saw them coming and recognized schoolteacher's hat, she.....

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Item #10010 The Locusts Have No King. Dawn Powell

Powell, Dawn

Item 10010The Locusts Have No King

First edition of Dawn Powell's satirical tale of literary rivalry, gold-digging, and lost love in Greenwich Village, edited by Maxwell Perkins, with the Scribner's A and seal on copyright page. "Sometimes it is necessary to consult the bartender for accurate data on Last Night." A very good copy in notoriously.....

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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.....

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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.....

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Item #100132 The Waves. Virginia Woolf

Woolf, Virginia

Item 100132The Waves

Review copy of the first edition, with Hogarth Press slip laid in, noting the date of publication as "8.10.31." Although The Waves is usually grouped with her novels, Woolf herself called this experimental work a "play-poem," an almost musical arrangement of six alternating streams of consciousness, tracing the thoughts of.....

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Item #18082743 The Waves 2. Virginia Woolf

Woolf, Virginia

Item 18082743The Waves 2

Review copy of the first edition, with Hogarth Press slip laid in, noting the date of publication as "8.10.31." Although The Waves is usually grouped with her novels, Woolf herself called this experimental work a "play-poem," an almost musical arrangement of six alternating streams of consciousness, tracing the thoughts of.....

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