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Modern First Editions
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WOOLF, Virginia
A Room Of One's Own
New York, London: Fountain Press, Hogarth Press, 1929
8vo, pp. 159. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Edges uncut. No dustwrapper, as... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GRAVES, Robert
To Juan At The Winter Solstice
N.p. Privately Printed, 1944
178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[ed. RIDING, Laura; GRAVES, Robert; and others]
Focus
Deya: Privately Printed: N.d. [1935]
Four volumes, 12mos, pp. 12, 23, 40, and 64. Rebound in a green three-quarter cloth binding, with original wrappers bound... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WOOLF, Virginia
Orlando
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928
8vo, pp. 333. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Publisher's device in gold to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and bottom edge ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. and BOLTON, Guy
Bring On The Girls!
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953
8vo, pp. 278. Original black three-quarter boards, lettered in red and green on blue to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION: 'Lewis Pierson with best wishes from the authors, [sgd.] P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. October 31st.' (Inscription written by Guy Bolton).
Hugely enjoyable, highly unreliable account of Wodehouse and Bolton's involvement as lyricists and book-writers in the early twentieth century Broadway musical, alongside Jerome Kern, Florenz Ziegfeld, and George and Ira Gershwin, among many, many others. Hardly a historical document -- if there is a choice to be made between a fact and a great story, it's the great story that gets the nod -- but a wonderfully vivid evocation of the early days of Broadway, and how much fun it was to be there.
Copies signed by one or other of the authors surface from time to time; copies signed by both are very scarce.
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BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
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WOOLF, Virginia
Monday Or Tuesday
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921
Small 8vo, pp. 96. White paper boards, brown cloth spine.
First edition. One of 1000 copies.
Eight ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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NORTON, Mary
The Borrowers
London: J.M. Dent, 1952
Small 8vo, pp. 159. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine, and with a line illustration in red running from front panel to spine. Illustrated ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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JOHNSON, B.S.
House Mother Normal
London: Trigram Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 204. Original threequarter grey boards, lettered in silver on cream spine. Yellow endpapers.
First limited edition of 126... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BOWEN, Elizabeth
Encounters
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923
8vo, pp. 204, 3 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original blue boards, geometric pattern to front panel in gilt, title in gilt to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[pseud. DESCLOS, Anne Cécile] RÉAGE, Pauline
Histoire d'O
Sceaux: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954
8vo, pp. 245. Original printed yellow wrappers. Later protective slipcase.
First edition, one of 600 numbered copies of which... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[ed. GREENE, Graham]
The Old School
London: Cape, 1934
8vo, pp. 256. Original black boards, lettered in pale blue to front panel and spine. Bottom edge uncut.
First edition.
A collection... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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McEWAN, Ian
First Love, Last Rites
London: Cape, 1975
8vo, pp. 165. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition of the author's first book, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT THE TIME OF... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems
London: Constable, 1964
Small 8vo, pp. 53. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TONY AND JUNE TILLINGHAST:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STEINBECK, John
Nothing So Monstrous
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936
8vo, pp. 31. Original marbled boards, lettered in black on tan cloth spine. Glassine jacket. Unopened.
First separate edition. One... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BARRIE, J. M.
Quality Street
London: Hodder & Stoughton, N.d. [1913]
Large 4to, pp. 198. Original vellum binding, lavishly illustrated and lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge gilt, others ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SHARPE, Tom
Riotous Assembly
London: Secker and Warburg, 1971
8vo, pp. 249. Original printed orange wrappers.
Uncorrected advance proof copy. EDITOR JOHN BLACKWELL'S COPY WITH HIS INITIALS TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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DONLEAVY, J.P.
The Ginger Man
Paris: Olympia Press, 1955
8vo, pp. 353. Original green stiff card wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine.
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