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New York: Random House, [1991].. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket with tiny edge tear. ... more information

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New York: Random House, [1991].. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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[New York]: U.S. Camera, [1950].. Quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Some hand-smudges to front endsheet otherwise a very good copy, in somewhat nicked, chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. First edition. From the library of novelist/photographer Carl Van Vechten, with his pictorial bookplate. A distinguished year including Duncan's and Smith's photographs of the Korean conflict. ... more information

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Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press, [1980].. Plain wrappers. First edition. About fine in pictorial dust jacket. ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown, [1943].. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed (first name only) by the author to "Lefty" (i.e. Wilmarth S. Lewis). Author's compliments card pasted to front pastedown and offset opposite, Lewis's small bookplate (with tiny deaccession stamp), a couple ring marks to upper board, otherwise a good copy in chipped and worn dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1940.. Square. octavo. Cloth. Photographs. Drawings and decorations. Foreword by Leland P. Lovette. First trade edition, designed and illustrated by the author, and printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Very good in good dust jacket (several small chips and closed tears at edges). ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944.. xii,235,[1]pp. Cloth. First edition. Author's compliments plate to front pastedown, small bookplate (with tiny release stamp) of Wilmarth S. Lewis, else fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with 1" tear to lower fore corner of upper panel and moderate shelf wear. ... more information

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Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1784-5.. xlii,394,[13];xl,520,[14];xviii,518,[6];xxxii,500,18pp. Four volumes. Small octavo. Contemporary pastepaper boards, manuscript spine labels. Engraved title vignettes. Some browning, boards rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities, early ownership signatures, but a good set. First ordinary edition of the author's most widely popular work. In translation, as SOLITUDE, it was reprinted an extraordinary number of times of England and in the U.S. in the following... more information

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Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, Decembre 1968.. Oblong small quarto. Photographs. First edition. Wrappers a trifle rubbed, else very good. ... more information

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[München & Wien]: Carl Hanser Verlag, [1991].. Cloth. Portrait. Illustrated with color photographs by Peter-Andreas Hassiepen. First edition in German of "Fundamenta degli Incurabili," translated by Jörg Trobitius, and the first edition with the photographs. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: Norton, [1958].. Cloth. First edition. Tiny hemisphere clipped from edge of front jacket flap about an inch below the price, otherwise an unusually fine copy in jacket of a dreadfully common book when in lesser condition. ... more information

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Edinburgh: Allan Donaldson, 1962.. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue. Glossy wrappers rubbed, some heavy pencil marginalia, but a good copy. ... more information

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New York: Issued for Subscribers Only by Boni & Liveright, 1926.. Large octavo. Vegetable parchment and boards. Engraved plate by Stephen Gooden. First U.S. edition. One of 1250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket and lightly rubbed half morocco slipcase. ... more information

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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.. Polished buckram. Engraving. First edition. One of of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Cloth slightly darkened and smudged, otherwise a very good copy. GILCHER A51a. ... more information

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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.. Polished buckram. Engraving. Cloth darkened, spotted and marked, a bit of toning to the edges of the text block, but a good, sound copy. First edition. One of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. This copy bears Moore's inscription: "To Virginia Crawford from her old friend George Moore July 8th 1926." The recipient was indeed an old friend, ... more information

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[Hamden, CT]: The Appledore Private Press, 1895.. [8]pp. 12mo. Unprinted stiff wrappers. Trace of foxing, else near fine. First separate edition of this poem, printed by Linton at his handpress in an unspecified but small number of copies. Not in Ransom. NCBEL III:533. ... more information

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Mexico City, DF: Ultramar Films, 1952.. [1],95 leaves. Small folio (legal format). Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, stapled in left margin. Some marginal tanning, lacking wrappers, creased marginal tear to several leaves around one staple (with no loss), otherwise a very good copy of a fragile script. An unspecified, but pre-production, draft of this film adaptation of Defoe's novel, cowritten by master director Buñuel, and Hugo Butler, then working in self-imposed exile in Mexico... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, [1933].. Blue cloth, lettered in white. Cloth a trace darkened at extremities, a few foxmarks to edges, only a modicum of the usual wear to the white lettering, hence a very good, sound copy, without dust jacket. First edition of the author's uncommon first book, printed in an edition of fifteen hundred copies. WOOLMER A1a. ... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, [1933].. Gathered signatures bound into drab gray paper wrappers. Some foxing early and late, tanning at edges, short closed tear at top edge of front wrapper and title, wraps a bit creased and darkened, but a good copy. Custom folding cloth case. Sheets of the first edition of the author's uncommon first book (printed in an edition of fifteen hundred copies), denoted a "File Copy" via a small stamp on the title leaf. Sold as a "Proof Copy" -- which it is not -... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1923.. Cloth and boards, paper label. Near fine, in lightly chipped, spine darkened dust jacket. First edition of this pseudonymous work, Bacon's first substantial book from a trade publisher. A four line quotation in manuscript, signed by Bacon, is attached to the verso of the title-leaf. ... more information

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