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London: Jonathan Cape. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A rather attractive and scarce first state of the first edition in very near fine condition, minor spotting to top edge, little bumping to tips in bright dust-jacket with minor chips to edges. Only a very limited number of first state… Read more

West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press. Fine. 1985. Leather. Hand-crafted and published by the Pennyroyal Press in an edition of 350 sets, this being #215, with the folio of 49 individual prints, originally unsigned, at the 100 year anniversary of the publication of the first edition. While uncalled for with this publication, in this set, Mr. Moser … Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. [1975]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684145618 . A lovely first edition / first printing in Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed bottom edges and corners of boards and head of spine in an alike clipped dust jacket with chipped bottom and top edges, and slightly… Read more

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [1967]. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A Book Club edition in Very Good+ condition with lightly rubbed board edges, dusty upper edge, in a Very Good dust jacket with scored front cover, chipping to upper and lower edges, especially on head and tail of… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First edition with first printing (10-5 and I-U) labeling in just about Fine condition with limited browning and soiling in Very Good-, lightly chipped first State dustjacket with the Harper & Brothers, Publishers statement on the bottom of the front… Read more

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1903. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A just about Fine first edition in the original red decorated cloth, gently rubbed and little fading to spine. In the elusive, nearly Fine dust-jacket with only a minor chip to the bottom of the spine. In custom… Read more

London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1898. 2nd UK Edition. Cloth. The second English edition following the Archibald Constable publication from a year earlier. Elaborate silver and gilt pictorial cloth binding. Little foxing, mainly to endpapers, rear endpapers of Volume II cracked, hinge a trifle weak, else Fine in alike custom cloth-slipcase; The Nobel Laureate's account… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine+. 1903. First Printing. Vellum. Unread Very Fine condition in Fine, original chemise with light tanning and small at rear joint in publisher's slipcase (panels separated). Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Bound in limp vellum with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover, cloth ties present. Top edges… Read more

London: Peter Owen Limited. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine first edition/first printing in turquoise boards with gilt spine in very Nearly Fine dustwrapper, slightly faded, mainly along spine with only limited chipping. An attractive copy; When Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, the… Read more

Toronto: Harpercollins Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0002005883 . A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in dustjacket with small area of abrasion, else Fine. The Canadian edition was issued three weeks prior to the US edition; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winning… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition in Fine condition with slightly toned endpapers and paste-downs. One of 31,050 books of the first printing (page x is blank and does not contain the legal disclaimer that did not arrive in time) in smooth… Read more

Paris: Gallimard. Near Fine. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. An attractive true first edition with "3 septembre 1963" statement on copyright page. Near Fine condition, clean copy with only slightly yellowed pages; The first novel of the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave [J.M.G.] Le Clézio, published at age 23. Le Procès-Verbal (The… Read more

London: Harpercollins Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0002258900 . A beautiful first edition in the first state dust-wrapper (with spelling error "Pearl Earing") in Fine condition with slightly yellowed paged, SIGNED by author Tracy Chevalier on the title page. Scarce; Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in… Read more

Berlin: Dr. A. Börsch & Dr. P. Simon. Near Fine. 1887. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A very handsome true first edition copy in Near Fine condition, title page little loose, small bumps to the marbled boards and spine ends, otherwise in Fine condition, nice contemporary bookplate and later name inscription on front board. Overall this scarce… Read more

New York: Pocket Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671027352 . A beautiful, very sharp first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust jacket, this one is SIGNED and inscribed by author Dan Brown directly on the half title page. The inscription is to radio show host John Walters of… Read more

London: Scholastic. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995-2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The complete series in first edition/first impression in Fine to Very Fine condition in alike dust-jackets. All titles have been directly signed by Philip Pullman and show all required first impression points. Northern Lights (1995) with in first state dust-jacket with 'POINT' on the… Read more