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Catch-22
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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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  • Hardcover
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  • first
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Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Edition, Second Printing
Binding
Hardcover
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Catch-22, Joseph Heller. First Edition, SECOND PRINTING, signed and inscribed by Heller to Olive Plunkett on front flyleaf. In original dust jacket.
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Anne of Green Gables
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Anne of Green Gables

by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good-
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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£8,431.50
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First edition, first impression (stated), dated April, 1908 on the copyright page, with 8 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Pinkish tan variant binding, exhibiting light wear, with very minor scuffs and spotting. Lightly rubbed at edges, minor spotting on spine, ex libris "Borrowed from the private library of Wm. B. Straube," remnant of a bookstore sticker which did cause a shadow stain on the opposing laid paper. Gold gilt letters along spine have only light scattered dulling but the cover letters remain nice. There are rubs to pictorial label and scratching but certainly legible.
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First American Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Written by Anne Frank. Hardcover Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. The true first edition was printed in Amsterdam in 1947. Original First Issue dust jacket exhibits light wear to the spine and edges with a scratch on cover and tiny paper lift at eye. Slight angled trims to the top and bottom of front and rear flaps, to slide into a protective sleeve, with original $3.00 price intact. Black cloth boards and printing in crisp silver. Pages are clean with only slight toning, the binding square and firm with a previous owner's signature on end paper above photos of the office building she lived in from 1942-1944.
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Definitive Edition
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Definitive Edition: The Writings of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good+
Edition
Definitive
Binding
Hardcover
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£7,628.50
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The most complete of all the collected editions of Twain's works, in 37 volumes, containing the writings of Mark Twain, biography by Paine, letters and autobiography. This definitive edition consists of one-thousand twenty-four sets, the first volume of each bearing the original autograph signature of Mark Twain. Limitation 272 of 1,024. Handwritten S L Clemens and Mark Twain signatures inside the first volume were done in 1906 in anticipation of this set being published in 1922. Limitation leaf is signed by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Books contain rare photos of Mark Twain. Rare complete signed set. Three-quarter leather, with blue cloth, titles in gilt and decorative spine, top edges gilt. With the exception of some minor chipping at top of the spine on very few volumes, in very good to fine condition.
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The Nonesuch Dickens
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The Nonesuch Dickens: Collected Works

by Dickens, Charles

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good+
Edition
Limited
Binding
Hardcover
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£11,242.00
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Charles Dickens. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1937 - 1939, 23 volumes and a book-form case (titled "Plate"), containing a woodcut plate entitled "Leaving the Old Curiosity Shop," drawn by George Cattermole for Chapman & Hall, Ltd., a print of the woodcut, and letter from Chapman & Hall guaranteeing the plate's authenticity. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. Limited to 877 copies, a limitation based on the number of illustrations in the first editions of Dickens, where each set received one of the 877 illustration wood or steel blocks. Each volume with the Ex Libris bookplate of Carlotta and Eugene O'Neill. Carlotta's fourth marriage was to O'Neill; his third marriage. O'Neill had instructed his publisher to wait 25 years after his death before publishing Long Day's Journey Into Night, however, Carlotta took the play to another publisher, whereupon it was published less than 18 months after O'Neill died. The play was produced in 1956 on Broadway and won a Pulitzer… Read More
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First edition, first printing
Binding
Hardcover
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£30,514.00
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First edition, first issue in the original first-issue dust jacket. Issue points present including title page matching the 1926 on the copyright page; Scribner's seal on the copyright page; bottom of front panel of jacket with "In Our Times", which was corrected in later issues to "In Our Time"; stopped misspelled as "stoppped" at p. 181, line 26; "Book Three" at p. 235 spelled out instead of roman numeral "III"; and down-stairs misspelled as "down-staris" at last line on p. 169. Pages intact without tears, creases, or markings, some light foxing. Unclipped dust jacket with original price present ($2.00), with 2 tape repairs, split at joint of jacket spine visible from reverse, chipping at edges, less than centimeter loss at head and tail, tanned. Hemingway's first novel. When it was published in 1926, The New York Times described it as, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more… Read More
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