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London: Griffith and Farran, 1882. First Edition in English of A Doll’s House. Presentation copy; inscribed by the translator, “Mrs. Blanchard in appreciation of her good work for women from the translator, Frances Lord, Sep. 12 1884.” Bound in contemporary or early 20th century 3/4 calf by Zaehnsdorf (for Scribner’s); front wrapper bound in; spine faded; very good. Lord also supplied a 21 page biography of the playwright.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912. First American Edition. Very good in a chipped dust jacket.

London: Gollancz, 1931. First Edition. Original wrappers; browned; owner’s signature; some tape mending of the spine; fair to good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First American Edition (issued from the British sheets) of the basis for The Twelve Chairs. Very good in a dust jacket with minor tears, chips and soiling. Very uncommon.

London: Methuen, 1930. First English Edition; first edition in English (the American edition was issued from these sheets); basis for Mel Brooks’ The Twelve Chairs. Ownership signature; about fine in a dust jacket with some very small chips and tears at the edges.

New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “To Alan and his eventual fulfillment. Bill Inge.

New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Lightly foxed; about fine in dust jacket.

New York: Magico Magazine, 1980. First Edition. One of 100 bound and numbered copies signed by Fish. Fine; additionally inscribed by Fish in 1980 to a noted Sherlockian.

Pen and ink and crayon; approximately 11” x 15”. A springtime theme, with a horse and a bird, and Pan piping a song in the foreground. Matted and framed.

Pen and ink and crayon; approximately 11” x 15”. A springtime theme, with a horse and a bird, and Pan piping a song in the foreground. Matted and framed.

New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author.

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Signed by the author. Publisher’s full leather; shrink wrapped with their promotional sheet for this book’s publication in the Signed First Edition Library.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First One Volume Edition (originally published in 1835 in two volumes). Owner’s inscription; bookplate; some dampstaining and wear; good to very good. The frontispiece is a Colton’s map of Florida in 1851 issued for this edition, showing De Soto’s route.

London: John Lane, 1900. First Edition; English issue, printed and bound in America. Publisher’s boards (the front illustrated by Parrish) and cloth; a much better than usual copy; bookplate; aside from a bit of spine rubbing, very good or better.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855. First American Edition. BAL 10188; first printing. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Miss Charlotte I. [Irving] Grinnell/ from her affectionate uncle/ Washington Irving/ Sunnyside March 26th 1855.” Front hinge mended, but fragile; very good. There are four binding variants described by the B.A.L.; no sequence is suggested or assumed, but the present copy conforms to none of these. Perhaps this binding, in green cloth with a gilt vignette illustration on the front board, was provided on copies for the author’s use; this one was inscribed a few weeks after its publication in February. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. While ms. pages, clipped signatures, and letters of Irving turn up regularly, inscribed copies of his works are rare.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. First Edition. Horses and the social set on the “Gatsby” coast of Long Island. Bookplate; very good in a dust jacket with a tear at the bottom of the spine. Inscribed by the author.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket; inscribed by the author, “For Lesser, gratefully from Chris. November 1945.”

New York: privately printed (Academy Phot 0Offset), 1954. First Edition. The text and captions are in English and (presumably) in Yiddish. Apparently inscribed by the artist in 1954 on the back free endpaper (the front from the Yiddish or Hebrew collation). About fine in a good jacket with chips and tears.