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SIGNED without personalizarion, Slezkine pens a story of the Moscow House of Government, "where Communist true believers lived before their destruction." A superlative, unread First Edition copy in a Very Fine jacket. Book #2123. $88.*******We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED First Edition copy of Roth's Pen/Faulkner award winning novel: "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark." ROTH, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. First edition of Roth s Pen/Faulkner award-winning novel, boldly signed by him on the title page. "In terms of sheer productivity, brilliance, distinctly American diction, philosophical rage, comic irritability, dramatic representations of solitude, uniqueness of voice and unwavering repugnance toward heterosexual convention, it is difficult to think of a contemporary artist with whom Philip Roth might even be compared"(New York Times). Basis for the 2003 film directed by Robert Benton,… Leer más

SIGNED Truman Capote, the first page of In Cold Blood, with title at header in capitals, 40 lines of text ending in ("Holcomb, like all the rest of Kansas, is dry. ) Very minor handling. Presumed to be a fair copy, i.e., a copy intended for the printer, with no marginalia or emendations, conforming to the published version of the text. A rare signed Capote piece. Book #Pv2115. $2675. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED/Inscribed by Grafton on Title Page. First British Edition of Grafton's A. Fine in a fine jacket. You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to." Book #P3386. $498. We specialize in Rare, Signed, and Manuscript Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Walt Whitman in commemoration of his 70th birthday. Intended for Whitman's private distribution and Banned by American bookshops and libraries for its explicit sexual imagery. One of only 300 copies of Whitman's 70 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman s literary masterpiece, "America's second Declaration of Independence" (PMM, 342). With six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. Whitman s explanatory note is printed on the title page: "Today, after finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special complete, final utterance, in one handy volume of L. of G. with their Annex, and Backward Glance-and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more a Person than a book. And for testimony to all (and good measure) I here with pen and ink append my name." Text and… Leer más

Annotated in Margaret Mitchell's hand, Gone With The Wind Stapled promotional pamphlet in soft wraps, 5" x 7.25" with 22 paginated pages. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936 "created as a compilation in response to a flood of requests from readers all over the country for information about the author and her book." With two areas blacked out by Mitchell and the words "(sprained ankle)" scripted in Mitchell's pen. Vertical fold to pamphlet, faint handling marks to outer wraps. Interior very clean. A neat, succinct pamphlet. A unique piece of Gone with the Wind history. nCome3s with a Centificate of Authenticity. Book #Pv2203. $1950. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

SIGNED, Inscribed, and dated by Maya Angelou on the half-title. Released in December 1999, Courtney-Clarke's beloved tribute to her collaborator and friend, Maya Angelou: The Poetry of Living, offers a laudation through revealing portraits and interviews of the Poet Laureate and intimate who has influenced her life as well as the lives of millions around the world. Two small tickets attached to the mylar protection, not affecting dust jacket or book at all. Book is in glorious condition, opened only by Maya for her signature. Book #v5b168. $569. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED Copy #2 First Edition of 300 signed/numbered copies. Full leather gilt-stamped spine. Notebooks signed by Elmore Leonard contains the author's Notes for his novel Bandits. Book #P5a120. $68. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED on a laid in paper bearing only Dickens' clear signature, First Edition of his immortal Oliver Twist, the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. First published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book on November 9, 1838 before the serialization ended. 3 vols. Volume one with the plate list inserted after title (not found in all copies); Bound in later 19th century 1/2 calf over marbled boards, with marbled page ends. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, meeting all points as per Eckel and Smith, including the later canceled "Fireside" plate in volume 3. Smith 1, 4; Eckel 59. Ownership inscription of Grace Pfeifer to front endpapers. In 2008, Christie's sold a signed first of Oliver Twist, inscribed directly to the book for $229,000. Book #Cv2105. $10,000. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED without personalization, an Unread copy of the 40th Anniversary Edition of Spillane's "One Lonely Night." No writings or markings of any kind. Opened only by Spillane to sign. Book #v2251. $120. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Unread, complete 6 issues of Oxford American's ORIGINAL publication of John Grisham's A Painted House. Precedes the First Edition in book form in 2001. "There isn't a single lawyer in the whole book," Grisham quipped pre-publication. Includes Rare Issue # 34, Southern Music Issue and Unopened, SEALED CD. Perfect condition with tracks by Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Dean Martin, Kelly Willis. A magnificent gift for your Grisham collector, rare in a complete set and in sumptuous Library Quality Condition. Book #Cv2411. $225. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

First Edition of the collected, highly celebrated prefaces to his plays by George Bernard Shaw, from Major Barbara and Mrs. Warren's Profession to Saint Joan and Pygmalion. These prefaces, Shaw writes, are "quite journalistic in character, and cover a period of nearly thirty years." Shaw continues: "You may well ask me why I took the trouble to write them. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it: I had to: that is all." A solidly pleasing copy in the original dust jacket with some edgewear and a few chips. Book #Cv2231. $75. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED First hardcover edition. First printing with code "43 L" on page 179. Presentation copy with signed inscription on Title Page by van Vogt to legendary book detective Gyngr Shon of the Old London Bookshop. "May your quest for the future be successful -- A E Van Vogt" Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club as the first hardcover printing. A fine copy in mildly soiled jacket with a few scuff marks. Scarce signed. Book #Pv5b106. $75. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED and dated (3 26 95) by Rosa Parks, a glorious First Edition copy of her memoir Quiet Strength. Unread, still New tight that I was afraid to open it for the photo of her signature! Opened only by the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her signature. No other writing or marks of any kind in a beautiful, mylar-protected UNclipped jacket. You'll never find a finer first edition copy. Book # v5b170. $1100. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED "Sincerely" without personal inscription by Van Vogt and wife Lydia, Rogue Ship is a novel "fixed" together from segments of three short stories (Centaurus II, Rogue Ship, and The Expendables) which originally appeared between 1947 and 1963. First published in the US in 1965, this is the first British edition SIGNED. Some light soiling and handling to jacket is evident. The Book itself is Very Near Fine. Book #Pv5b107. $100.

SIGNED by David Foster Wallace on the Title Page. Original color pictorial wrappers. A long out-of-print First Edition copy, seldom encountered signed. Signed first edition of this early scholarly consideration of rap, and Wallace's book immediately preceding his epic Infinite Jest. Uncommon in the first edition (it was reissued in 2013, by Back Bay Books sans the original subtitle, following Wallace's death), it is scarce signed. And while the rear cover erroneously proclaims the book "the first serious consideration of rap" (both Steven Hager and David Topp beat them to that distinction), it remains an early, if largely academic, interrogation of hip-hop. Book #Cv2354. $3500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Tenessee Williams (no personalization) on the front flyleaf, a highly collectible first edition copy, one of only 5080 copies, of his Pulitzer Prize winning drama of faded, promiscuous Blanche DuBois vs her brutally sexy brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, still celebrated 75 years after its Broadway opening as one of the finest achievements in the American theatre. A highspot of theatre and cinema, Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s. Of his Broadway performance in Streetcar, Brando remarked: "What I remember most about a Streetcar Named Desire was the emotional grind of acting in it six nights and two afternoons a week. Try to imagine what it was like walking on stage at 8:30 every night having to yell, scream, cry, break dishes,… Leer más

SIGNED and boldly Inscribed by Harper Lee to Barbara Lee, striking provenance: To Kill a Mockingbird. Plus, Barbara's letter to Harper Lee, with Harper Lee's Autograph letter in response to Barbara SIGNED by Harper Lee! HarperCollins, [1995]. First printing Thirty-fifth anniversary edition. Autograph note signed by Lee on verso of original fan letter. Octavo. [x], 323, [3, blank] pages. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black paper covered boards, spine lettered in bronze, dust jacket. Very Fine. First Printing of the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Lee's timeless To Kill a Mockingbird, in positively UNread, utterly Flawless condition inscribed to "Barbara Lee." Accompanying this Library Quality copy is Harper Lee's handwritten response to a letter from Barbara asking Harper for her signature in the book. Harper asks where Barbara obtained the book and if she (Barbara) paid the published price of $19.00 [sic] for it. Harper Lee's letter is dated September 28, 1997 and includes her Monroeville… Leer más

SIGNED/Inscribed by Shaw, affirming this "the first edition in book form." Very rare First Edition Association Copy of Shaw's novel, An Unsocial Socialist. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887. Octavo, original scarlet cloth. Housed in custom cloth slipcase by Brentano, famed NYC Fifth Ave bookstore with Brentano's original description laid in..Shaw began his literary career by ghosting music criticism and writing unsuccessful novels, of which this is the fifth written and the first published. "During his first nine years in London Shaw calculated that he earned less than 10 pounds by his pen" (Drabble, 892). An Unsocial Socialist was serialized in To-Day ("Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism"), with no payment to Shaw, between March and December, 1884. First state, with "Cashel Byron's Profession etc etc" printed on title page. This copy inscribed by Shaw to his first bibliographer, Maurice Holmes. Inscription in full reads: "4 Whitehall Court, London, SWI 23rd November 1928. Dear… Leer más

SIGNED on title page by the author, an As New First Edition copy of Hosseini's third bestseller in a beautiful As New jacket. A father's decision to sell his three-year-old daughter to a childless couple in Kabul ties the various narratives of the novel together. You won't find a better signed copy! Book #Pv3352. $58. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.