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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote - 1966
by Truman Capote
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A Christmas Memory
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HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a FIRST EDITION copy of the famous TRUMAN CAPOTE story, A CHRISTMAS MEMORY. This book has the ORIGINAL SLIPCASE (red with large pasted-on portrait of child Truman with older cousin), VERY COLLECTIBLE. Book = AS NEW, appears unread, no marks. Cover is cream/tan with dark turquoise around spine, gold gilt vertical design on front, gold gilt particulars on spine. The endpapers are tinted deep red. ORIGINAL SLIPCASE is Very Good Plus, having a few scratches, bit of rubbing, evidence of owner's label having been removed without any tearing. The title page has no date, while the copyright page states 1956, 6 1/4" x 9 3/8", 45 pages, Noted appraiser James Beattie has assigned a value of $345 to this book. WHAT A GIFT IDEA!
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- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1966
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First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.
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The second edition with additions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London. [1805] G. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster Row to verso of half title. Octavo. Half title, Title, xv, 300, (21), (bl.), (1), (1)pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments, leather label, gilt lettering, rules and embellishment. Minor corner chips to half-title. Short closed fold tear to Plate I. Toned with some light offsetting of plates, foxing/browning to index.This edition has an additional plate to the 1790 edition, plus additional material. The plates are each dated September 1, 1805. Significant to the library of the vine. A handsome volume.
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.
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Asia: Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel: Northern and Eastern Asia (Vol. I) and Southern and Western Asia (Vol. II). A. H. Keane. London: Edward Stanford; 1896. In two volumes: 15 fold-out color maps (lithographs) and 189 illustrationsVolume I: Northern Asia (Caucasia, Russian Turkestan, Siberia) AND Eastern Asia (Chinese Empire, Japan) Volume II: Southern Asia (Afghanistan, India, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula AND Western Asia (Muhammadan States of Turkey in Asia, Arabia and Persia)Condition: This two-volume set is an original with 15 fold out maps in excellent condition as well as 179 illustrations in the combined volumes. Bindings are secure and cover and spine gold stamping is bright as shown. Note that the foldouts required the insertion of guards within the signatures which appear throughout the books as published. This was done to accommodate the large number of fold outs. All pages, maps and illustrations are present and accounted for! We carefully photograph our items so that you…
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[New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929. Edition limited to 1000 copies, small, square 4to, pp. [32]; partially unopened; 10 woodcuts (8 full-page), initials illuminated in gilt; small ding at the top of the front board, else fine in original blue cloth-backed boards elaborately stamped in gilt on the upper cover; in a new blue cloth clamshell box.
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[Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, 1984. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Craig (this, no. 274), 8vo, pp. [12], x, [54]; title page printed in red and black, 50 wood engravings, one folding plate; pictorial endpapers; original full linen boards, spine and front cover paper labels, fine. Contact card for the press laid in.
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A Christmas Memory (Tale Blazers: American Literature)
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A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
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