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Item #100121 Fairy Tales and Legends. Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen, Hans Christian

Item 100121Fairy Tales and Legends

"New Edition" of 1959, first published in this format in 1935. A beautiful collection of forty-eight of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, including "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Constant Tin-Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Little Mermaid." Inscribed on the front pastedown by illustrator Rex Whistler's younger brother Laurence Whistler.....

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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 #100161 Collected Stories. Paul Bowles

Bowles, Paul

Item 100161Collected Stories

Signed limited edition, with an introduction by Gore Vidal, number 111 of 300 copies signed and numbered by American writer and composer Bowles, an expatriate legend in Tangier for half a century. This collection brings together the spare, unsettling stories first published in The Delicate Prey (1950), The Time of.....

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Item #100162 The Spider's House. Paul Bowles

Bowles, Paul

Item 100162The Spider's House

Signed limited edition of this novel of unrest in the ancient Moroccan city of Fez, number 217 of 350 copies signed and numbered by Bowles, with a preface by the author. "The only way the French could preserve even the illusion of privacy was simply to pretend the natives did.....

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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 #100134 The Gentleman From San Francisco and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by...

Bunin, I.A.; Lawrence, D.H. (translator); Woolf, Leonard (translator); Koteliansky, S.S. (translator)

Item 100134The Gentleman From San Francisco and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

Early English translation of four of Russian Nobel laureate Bunin's short stories: "The Gentleman From San Francisco," "Gentle Breathing," "Kasimir Stanislavovitch," and "Son." One of approximately one thousand copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. "What were the feelings, what were the thoughts of the Gentleman from San Francisco on.....

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Item #10084 The Woman in White. Wilkie Collins

Collins, Wilkie

Item 10084The Woman in White

Early one-volume edition of the hugely popular novel of suspense, "the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve," best remembered for the flamboyant villain Count Fosco, a brilliant, obese figure crawling with pet mice. A very good copy of a Victorian classic.....

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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 #100122 The Tale of Despereaux. Kate DiCamillo

DiCamillo, Kate

Item 100122The Tale of Despereaux

First edition of DiCamillo's fantastic tale of a mouse in love with a princess, winner of the Newbery Medal for 2004. "Happily ever after. Despereaux was certain that he had read exactly those words time and time again." Fine condition.

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Item #10085 The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens

Dickens, Charles

Item 10085The Pickwick Papers

"Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in vich case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant." A fine copy of the work whose runaway success made Dickens Dickens, in a splendid prize binding by Bickers, accompanied by the original.....

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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 #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.....

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Item #10077 The Works of H. Fielding. Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry

Item 10077The Works of H. Fielding

Charming nineteenth-century set of Fielding's works, illustrated by Herbert Railton and E.J. Wheeler, bound with an unusual bird motif on the spines. This collection includes Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild, Amelia, and Fielding's most influential novel, Tom Jones: "Man is the highest subject (unless on very extraordinary occasions indeed) which presents.....

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Item #100120 The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame

Grahame, Kenneth

Item 100120The Wind in the Willows

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." A beautiful reading copy of a childhood classic, with the iconic Ernest Shepard illustrations.

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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.....

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Item #10021 The Wings of the Dove. Henry James

James, Henry

Item 10021The Wings of the Dove

Century Library Number Six. Introduction by Herbert Read. A striking mid-century reading copy of James's late novel of love and betrayal. "Since I've lived all these years as if I were dead, I shall die, no doubt, as if I were alive." Near-fine 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 #10027 Hi, Cat! Ezra Jack Keats

Keats, Ezra Jack

Item 10027Hi, Cat!

First edition of this tale of a mischievous alley cat by Caldecott-winner Keats, who revisits the characters of his earlier picture books here. "'You're well rid of a cat like that,' said his mother. Archie thought for a while. 'You know what, Ma?" he said. 'I think that cat just.....

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Item #100102 The Russia House. John Le Carr&eacute

Le Carré, John

Item 100102The Russia House

First edition, third impression of John le Carré's Cold War thriller: "How does a man who's drunk himself silly beat all comers at chess then, Harry -- straight games -- if he isn't a trained spy?" Inscribed by John le Carré, who has written underneath the printed dedication to his.....

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Item #100123 The Book of Sir Galahad and the Achievement of the Adventure of the Sancgreal....

Malory, Thomas

Item 100123The Book of Sir Galahad and the Achievement of the Adventure of the Sancgreal

Part of the Oakleaf Series. Fine press edition of Malory's tale of the quest for the Holy Grail, excerpted from Le Morte d'Arthur. "And these four angels bare him up in a chair, and set him down before the table of silver, whereupon the Sancgreal was." Printed in red and.....

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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 #18082746 1984 The Graphic Novel. Fido Nesti, George Orwell

Nesti, Fido; Orwell, George

Item 180827461984 The Graphic Novel

One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is.....

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