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CANNERY ROW
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 7 3/8" x 4 3/4" First Issue (January, 1945) ADVANCE REVIEW COPY 208pp., (1)pp. list of Steinbeck's other works. Bound in blue paper wraps lettered in black; A very good to fine copy and scarce in nice condition.
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£528.71
IT'S A BATTLEFIELD
by Greene, Graham
New York: The Viking Pess, 1962. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Viking review copy with slip laid in. Forward by Greene, who explains why this book was eventually republished. He found after re-reading the first edition which was first published 28 years earlier in 1934, he didn't care much for parts he had written and made changes. 214pp., bound in light blue cloth, upper board stamped in blind, spine lettering lime green; fine in unclipped near fine dust jacket with a small...
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£56.94
BEAT THE DEVIL
by Helvick, James
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 and his cousin was the novelist Evelyn Waugh. The book was made into a 1953 film directed by John Huston, with the screenplay by Huston and...
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£406.70
The Animal Factory (First Edition, Review Copy)
by Edward Bunker
New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's review slip laid in. Basis for the 2000 film directed by Steve Buscemi, written by Edward Bunker, and starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, and Danny Trejo. Faint foxing on the top page edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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£122.01
DESCENT TO THE DEAD: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain
by Jeffers, Robinson
New York: Random House, 1931. First edition. ONE OF 50 SIGNED COPIES DESIGNATED FOR REVIEW, issued in addition to and, one would assume, prior to the 500 copies in the regular signed/limited issue (Broomfield A14[1]). Publisher's review slip laid in with projected publication date December 7, 1931. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on limitation page with "Review" written in black ink (in place of a number). Quarto cinnamon Tokugawa paper over flexible boards with vellum spine lettered in black. Broomfield doesn't call...
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£325.36
THROUGH THE IVORY GATE: A Novel
by Dove, Rita
New York: Pantheon Books, (1992). First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's first novel. Advance reading copy in glossy pictorial paperwraps SIGNED BY DOVE on the half-title page. Near fine.
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£36.60
COME BACK, DOCTOR CALIGARI (In Original Red Publisher's Box with Paper Label)
by Barthelme, Donald
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. Unbound Sheets. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Advance Preview Copy of the author's First Book. Comprising 37 unbound, quarto sheets laid-in the publisher's original red box, with printed white label. Text on rectos only. The first page is a publisher's letter from the publicity manager. Page 2 gives copyright and publication information. The remaining 35 pages are the text (reproduced from Barthelme's typescript) of two stories: "Me...
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£406.70
THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD Essays
by Gass, William H
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in dust jacket with one short closed tear and slight soiling.
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£36.60
White Fox
by Chen Jiatong
Uncorrected proof - trade paperback, published by Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020. The first in the White Fox series. A young white fox, named Dilah, returns home to find his mother gravely injured. Before she dies, she tells him about a treasure with the power to make animals human. 269 pages, translated by Jennifer Feeley. . There are no creases to the cover or spine. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. Would appear to be an unread...
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£3.25
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A Drink before the War [uncorrected page proof]
by Lehane, Dennis
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. ix, [1], 268 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with turquoise covers. Signed by the author on the half title page. A pair of private investigators in Boston who "fly in the face of institutionalized bigotry and corruption" and "question the definition of 'racially motivated incidents'" to solve the case. This was the first novel by Dennis Lehane, who wrote for the HBO series The Wire and went on to write novels that were...
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£188.71
Metals in America's Historic Buildings U.S. Department of Interior National Park
by Margit Gayle, John G. Waite
U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service Preservation Assistance Division, 1980. Paperback. Good. Good condition. Used copy with some notes and underlining. A couple notes on the first page. Wear to the exterior. Please see pictures for condition.
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£24.40
Casa Guatemalteca: Architecture, Landscape, Interior Design Katia Niesiolowska
by Niesiolowska, Katia; Villegas Jimenez, Benjamin; Bourda, Ange A.; Lujan Munoz, Jorge
Villegas Editores, 2000. hardcover. Very Good. 9x1x11. Very good condition. Clean text without highlighting or underlining. Tight spine. Wear to the exterior. Foxing to the top edge of the text block.
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£48.80
Caveat Emptor: A Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series)
by Downie, Ruth
N.Y.: Bloomsbury, 2010. First Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy of the Advance Reading Copy with publishers letter laid in. In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to life the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, as it closes in on her winsome leading man, Gaius Petreius Ruso. Ruso and Tilla, now newlyweds, have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso's old friend and colleague Valens has promised to help him find work. But it isn't the kind of...
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£5.86
Thoughts in the Wilderness (Review Copy)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. A review copy, with publisher's slip laid in, showing publication date of April 2, 1958, in America. Bound in original gray cloth, spine lettering dark blue. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with price of $4.00 on front flap.
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£81.34
OPENING CHAPTERS OF WHITE JAZZ. A Novel
by Ellroy, James (SGNED)
New York: Knopf, 1992. Original Wraps. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY JAMES ELLROY ON TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE without personalization. Avance Excerpts. Fine in original wrappers. 26 pp.
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£24.40
ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right
by Apple, Max
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person ever to mention my work in a magazine--not the kind of thing anyone forgets..." Fine in fine dust jacket.
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£81.34
JIM DANDY Fat Man in a Famine, a Play
by Saroyan, William
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Small Octavo. 128pp. Stamped "Review Copy" with publication date Sept. 11, 1947. Bound in red cloth lettered and ruled in black, near fine without foxing in unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine.
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£81.34
MR. SOUTH BURNED HIS MOUTH: A Mystery Story
by Nyland, Gentry
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. First edition. Advance copy fashioned from gathered signatures with a trimmed-down dust jacket pasted at spine acting as the covers. Publication date "Jan - 2 1941" stamped on second front free endpaper. Very good or better in pictorial paperwraps with rubbing, light soiling and dampstain on back panel. Scarce early state.
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£122.01
THE ARCTIC OX
by Moore, Marianne
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1964. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. 52pp., bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, a fine copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket.
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£89.47
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
by Mitchard, Jacquelyn
(New York): Viking, (1996). First edition. Advance reading copy in glossy, pictorial paperwraps with "Advance Uncorrected Proofs - Not for Sale" banner at top front cover. SIGNED by Mitchard on title page and dated "5-20-98." Fine.
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£32.54
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
by Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Advance Reading Copy. 309pp. Bound in blue and black pictorial dust jacket over wrappers, with edge wear. A story of the West in 1885, which was later made into the classic film starring Henry Fonda. A very good copy.
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£325.36
THE HORSE WHISPERER
by Evans, Nicholas
London: Bantam Press, (1995). First UK edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Basis for the Robert Redford movie. Advance reading copy (though labeled "uncorrected proof"). SIGNED BY EVANS on the title page, which is unusual as most copies we've seen were signed on a numbered bookplate. Fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps.
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£61.00
THE WILD PALMS
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Advance reading copy, First printing. 339pp. Bound in original wraps designed like the first trade edition dust jacket, separation to flaps at folds but not detached and with old dried tape residue, edges and spine rubbed showing some wear to corners with light chipping to head and foot, rear panel darkened around the edges. A very good copy of a scarce and most often fragile title.
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£325.36
THE BLACK BOOK: (Advance review copy)
by Durrell, Lawrence
New York: Dutton, 1960. First U.S. edition. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936 when he was just 24. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Comprised of the unbound signatures (i.e., groups of pages) from the book laid into the trade dust jacket Fine in nice, bright jacket with just minor rubbing on corners and spine ends.
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£101.68
The Collected Stories of William Goyen (First Edition, review copy)
by William Goyen
Garden City: Doubleday, 1975. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Collects twenty-six stories by the author of the MacMurray Award-winning novel, "The House of Breath" (1950). Foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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£36.60
