The Gift of the Magi by Henry, O. [Porter, William Sydney]; Zwerger, Lisbeth (illustrator) - 1982

New York: Knopf, 1993 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book SHABANU: DAUGHTER OF THE WIND. Shabanu has given in to an arranged marriage to an older man & now suffers at the hands of his family & other wives..

Oxford Univ Press, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. Fine/No dust jacket, as Issued. First Edition. 32 pages, pictorial boards. Young Adam & the local townspeople rally to save Paradise Island from being bulldozed for a motorway. This is Keeping's last book for Oxford as he died in 1988. What a loss for children's books..

Garden City Doubleday 1952. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fine in a near fine dj. Illustrated by Paul Galdone..

London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book (or by a person) unless there is already something present, latent or in embryo, ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors (Richardson, Stendhal, Austen, Tolstoy) to contemporaries (Anna Kavan, Nirad Chaudhuri, Christabel Bielenberg, Niccolò Tucci). A fine copy, signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.".

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition of Thackeray's comic masterpiece, illustrated by the author. "A novel without a hero," Vanity Fair follows the entangled adventures of two school friends, the gentle, trusting Amelia Sedley and the calculating Becky Sharp, as they come of age during the Napoleonic Wars. "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell-square party, and be off to the Gardens." First issue, with the heading on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of the debauched Marquis of Steyne on 336 (suppressed in later issues, as based too obviously on the late Lord Hertford), and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on 453. A fine copy, splendidly bound by Riviere & Son. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels,… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1993 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book SHABANU: DAUGHTER OF THE WIND. Shabanu has given in to an arranged marriage to an older man & now suffers at the hands of his family & other wives..

Oxford Univ Press, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. Fine/No dust jacket, as Issued. First Edition. 32 pages, pictorial boards. Young Adam & the local townspeople rally to save Paradise Island from being bulldozed for a motorway. This is Keeping's last book for Oxford as he died in 1988. What a loss for children's books..

Garden City Doubleday 1952. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fine in a near fine dj. Illustrated by Paul Galdone..

London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book (or by a person) unless there is already something present, latent or in embryo, ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors (Richardson, Stendhal, Austen, Tolstoy) to contemporaries (Anna Kavan, Nirad Chaudhuri, Christabel Bielenberg, Niccolò Tucci). A fine copy, signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.".

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition of Thackeray's comic masterpiece, illustrated by the author. "A novel without a hero," Vanity Fair follows the entangled adventures of two school friends, the gentle, trusting Amelia Sedley and the calculating Becky Sharp, as they come of age during the Napoleonic Wars. "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell-square party, and be off to the Gardens." First issue, with the heading on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of the debauched Marquis of Steyne on 336 (suppressed in later issues, as based too obviously on the late Lord Hertford), and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on 453. A fine copy, splendidly bound by Riviere & Son. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels,… Read More