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West Kingston, RI & Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2008, 2008, 2003, 2004, 2004, 2012. [Publisher's Copies]. A signed limited deluxe edition set of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, all matching and uniformly marked Publisher's Copy (PC). All signed by the author and each.....

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London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an.....

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London: Printed [by Samuel Simons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [...] Robert Boulter [...] and Matthias Walker, 1667. First edition, first issue, Amory's state 1(b) of the title page (the traditional first state), dated 1667 and with Milton's name spelled in full and in larger type than.....

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New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a......

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Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, 1493. First edition, first printing. Imperial folio, 326 leaves: [20], 266, [6], 267-299, [1]. Text in Latin in two columns, rotunda typface. Illustrated with approximately 1809 woodcuts printed from 645 blocks (Sydney Carlyle Cockerell’s count). Imperial folio, rebound circa 1900 in.....

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London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt.....

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid.....

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition, first printing of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf and inscribed to the Arizona bookseller Billy Greer Hobson: "Keep a notebook and pencil — the story of the other fellows' crime pays. Dashiell Hammett." Hobson's bookplate on.....

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American edition, first printing with a handwritten inscription by Alice B. Toklas of her legendary "Haschich Fudge" recipe written across one and a quarter blank pages at the rear of the book. Pretty rad indeed. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards over.....

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First edition, first printing of the seminal dystopian novel. xiv, [2], 286 pp. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very light wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to spine gilt; binding square and firm.....

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[Various places]: [No Publisher], 1937-1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters, postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible, spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to.....

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first printing with "seep" for the word "sleep" at p. 209. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine blocked in red and blue and blue mask motif to upper board. Near Fine with toning to boards in an unusually Fine unclipped dust.....

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