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KEATS, JOHN. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems

FIRST EDITION of one of the monuments of English poetry. A beautiful copy in contemporary boards with a very distinguished provenance.
$16,500.00    (photos & details)
 
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA. One Hundred Years of Solitude

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GARCIA MARQUEZ ON THE TITLE PAGE. First printing in the first issue dust jacket (with exclamation point on front flap).
$7,000.00    (photos & details)
 
JOHNSON, SAMUEL. A Dictionary of the English Language

FIRST EDITION of Johnson's landmark Dictionary; A BEAUTIFUL COPY in elegant contemporary tree calf.
$28,000.00    (photos & details)
 
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. in our time

FIRST EDITION, one of only 170 numbered copies, printed on Rives hand-made paper, of Hemingway's second book. With woodcut portrait frontispiece after Henry Strater.
$36,500.00    (photos & details)
 
JOYCE, JAMES. MATISSE, HENRI. Ulysses

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ULYSSES, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH JAMES JOYCE AND HENRI MATISSE; one of the most celebrated books of the twentieth century.
$30,000.00    (photos & details)
 
CALDER, ALEXANDER. AESOP, . Fables of Aesop, according to Sir Roger L'Estrange

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES with an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING by CALDER.
$18,000.00    (photos & details)
 
ELIOT, T.S. Poems

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Eliot's second book of poetry, hand-printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press and issued in an extremely limited run of only 250 copies (of both issues combined).
$18,000.00    (photos & details)
 
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Lolita

FIRST EDITION of one of the most important novels of the twentieth-century.
$7,600.00    (photos & details)
 
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. All the Sad Young Men

FIRST EDITION of Fitzgerald's most celebrated collection of stories.
$9,000.00    (photos & details)
 
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Fitzgerald's classic. A fine copy.
$6,800.00    (photos & details)
 
FROST, ROBERT. A Boy's Will

FIRST EDITION, in the extremely rare first-issue binding ("binding A"), of Robert Frost's first book of poetry.
$12,000.00    (photos & details)
 
O'CONNOR, FLANNERY. The Violent Bear It Away

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY O'CONNOR on the title page in the year of publication: "Flannery O'Connor / March 18, 1960 / Atlanta".
$8,500.00    (photos & details)
 
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