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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 Lane the Bodley Head, 1936. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England, limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies (from a total edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered) printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum.....

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, American issue. (No ads at rear. As per Garrison later US printings had ads at rear.) [vi], 533 pp. with frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to.....

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New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt.....

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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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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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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873 [but actually 1872]. Extremely scarce first American trade edition, previously published by Osgood via subscription only, published in late 1872 with the title page dated to the coming year. viii, 303 pp., printed on speckled wove paper and profusely illustrated with wood engravings.....

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[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....

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Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, 1927. H. P. Lovecraft's own copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Lovecraft has penned the title of his contribution, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and the page number, and signed his name on the upper.....

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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: 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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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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