Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - 1957

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996. Uncorrected Proof Copy. His first novel, filmed and now a cult classic. Tiny bumps at spine tips, else a Fine copy. SCARCE, the Proofs are much scarcer than the 1st trade hardcover. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

London, N.D. (1859): Charles H. Clarke No date, (1859). Illustrations throughout by Miss M.E. Dear. An uncommon early British edition of Hawthorne's classic American novel, Note in ink front end page states "rebound July 28, 1898", a fine late 19th c. binding of half red crushed morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands with polshed red labels, gilt lettering, rules, and decorations, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Near Fine, small rubs at spine and corners and light shelf rubs, an early seller's catalog listing pasted in front end page showing date of publication as 1859, pencil dates of 1859 and 1866 title page and frontis. A quite lovely copy of this illustrated edition, appropriately bound in red. . Later British Edition . Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1907 Bronte Sisters Novel Jane Eyre Agnes Grey Wuthering Heights Illustrated 12v

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."
― Charlotte Brontë

The Brontë Sisters produced some of the most famous and popular novels of the 19th-century including Jane Eyre, by Charlotte. This 1907 edition contains novels by all three sisters, with their most famous novels including Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and more!
This 1907 edition includes gravure frontispieces and is bound in a green cloth stamped in gilt with art nouveau flower decoration.
Item number: #13667
Price: $950
BRONTË, Charlotte (Pseud. Currer Bell); BRONTË, Anne; BRONTË, Emily
Novels of the sisters Brontë
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 12 volumes
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v. 1 Agnes Grey, by Anne.
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v.2-3 The tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne.
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v.4-5 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte.
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v.6 The professor, by Charlotte.
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v.7-8 Shirley, by Charlotte.
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v.9-10… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928. First Edition stated. Near Fine, slight toning at gutters white end pages, in a Very Good Art Deco dust jacket, 2" tear at top edge rear spine fold with horizontal 1" tear across spine, small chips at spine ends, old internal tape mends. Basis for the 1947 film of the same name starring Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young, and the 1996 Penny Marshall film The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Gregory Hines. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1972. Presentation Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"Dear Sandra, Don't let the Hill get you down. Stand with him while he's right, and part with him when he's wrong. David". A great political Association Copy, Sandra obviously being a Congressional staffer known to the author given his use of first names only. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known work, his chronicle of what went wrong in Vietnam, Very Good, boards ligtly soiled, in a Very Good dust jacket, light war at edges, front flap vertical creases. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy.

Riverhead Books. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2003. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page in both Farsi and English. Authors first book. Basis for the movie with the same name. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

1945, 1st edition year, 4th edition . Tight bright red boards. Original (chipped) DJ in protective foil. Original owner inscription dated 1946.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1st edition [only printing], 1940. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations by Mary Shepard printed in red.. LIMITED TO 1000 copies privately printed for the friends of the Author and her publishers as a New Year's Greeting. Octavo black cloth-spined red boards with silver stars and red printed title label to cover and silver titled to spine (edges rubbed/corners worn/1.7cm of sunning to front board) 29pp. Printed in black with red initial letter to each chapter and title on titlepage. All illustrations except for one on the title are printed in red. No inscriptions, pencil marks, creases or loose pages. Crisp and bright inside with endpapers matching the boards with silver stars. Page fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed as issued. *A Mary Poppins story where the Banks children have adventures with fairy tale characters. No copies for sale since the Bauman Rare Books copy was sold. This book is illustrated by Mary Shepard, the daughter of the Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator, E. H.… Read More

The first edition PAN X434 was published in the UK in 1965 with a cover by Raymond Hawkey and "Not for sale in the in the UK", 250,000 copies were printed in July 1965.
The second edition of PAN X434 were printed in 1966 and shipped with a movie tie-in cover replacing the Hawkey scorpion and pearl cover. PAN Books had remaining stock of the first printing of 1965 with the Hawkey cover and applied a wrap of the movie tie-in edition to the remaining 1965 copies.
There is no record as to how many of these variants were shipped by PAN, the majority of the authentic variants discovered over the years have been found in Australia.
This a good unread copy, has tanned pages and foxing. The foxing is on the inside of the cover and first page, first page has a vertical tanning section where the wrap faces, this tanning supports the authenticity of this being the actual book shipped with the wrapper and not swapped out for another copy, there is a remains clipping to the front cover. The back cover has foxing… Read More

1836 1st ed Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo French Literature Illustrated 3v

"Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket."
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The best-known and oft-considered greatest French writer is unarguably Victor Hugo. His romance novels and stories have withstood the test of language and time. One of Hugo's most popular stories is 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'; a tale of a gypsy who catches the hearts of men including a hunchback named Quasimodo. This work has been transformed into dozens of stage, film, and television adaptations.

This 1836 three-volume, first illustrated edition includes 12 steel engravings and is considered to be 'more readable' than the one-volume edition of the same year.

Item number: #22510
Price: $950

HUGO, Victor

Notre-Dame de Paris

Paris: Eugene Renduel, 1836. First illustrated edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o Vol. 1 – 380
o Vol. 2 – 428
o Vol. 3 – 352
o 12… Read More