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A Clockwork Orange

BURGESS, ANTHONY.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of one of the classics of the 20th century. More

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Arrest memorable, du parlement de Tolose, Content une histoire prodigieuse, de nostre temps, avec cent belles, & doctes Annotations, de monsieur maistre Jean de Coras, Conseiller en ladite Cour, & rapporteur du process… [The Return of Martin Guerre]

DE CORAS, JEAN.

THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE — THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE JUDGE’S FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF A SENSATIONAL SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TRIAL FOR IDENTITY THEFT; THE BASIS OF NUMEROUS LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS. More

Price: $14,000 .

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Arrestum sive Placitum Parlamenti Tholosani, continens historiam (In casu matrimoniali) admodum memorabilem, adeoque prodigiosam; cum centum elegantissimis atque doctissimis annotationibus [The Return of Martin Guerre]

DE CORAS, JEAN.

THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE — THE VERY RARE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE JUDGE’S FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF A SENSATIONAL SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TRIAL FOR IDENTITY THEFT; THE BASIS OF NUMEROUS LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS. More

Price: $5,000 .

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Fielding, Henry.

Second edition (published in the same year as the first, with corrections) of Fielding's masterpiece. More

Price: $4,500 .

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Travels with my Aunt [AND] The Honorary Consul

GREENE, GRAHAM.

FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES FROM GREENE TO HIS GOOD FRIEND JOHN CARTER. Both books are inscribed: “For John with love from Graham”. More

Price: $6,500 .

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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY.

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES, OF HOPKINS'S FIRST BOOK. More

Price: $3,500 .

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Autograph Letter Signed

LEWIS, C.S. [CLIVE STAPLES].

ONE OF THE FINEST C.S. LEWIS LETTERS TO APPEAR ON THE MARKET, OFFERING INSIGHT INTO THE CREATION OF THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. WITH MENTION OF TOLKIEN’S “THE HOBBIT” AS A FAVORITE BOOK. More

Price: $46,000 .

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Danorum historiae libri XVI [Hamlet Source]

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. SAXO GRAMMATICUS.

THE SECOND EDITION (1534) OF SAXO’S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DENMARK, CONTAINING THE STORY THAT BECAME SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET. More

Price: $7,000 .

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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]; Typed Letter Signed [TLS]

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTERS BY TOLKIEN PROVIDING INSIGHT INTO HIS THOUGHTS AND MOTIVATIONS IN THE CREATION OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS. More

Price: $48,000 .

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Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION (comprising the second edition of the first volume, and the first edition, first issue of the second volume). The preferred edition, for the second edition of the first volume contains the first printing of Wordsworth's famous Preface, "the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets of the next..... More

Price: $14,000 .

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