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Oscar Wilde and Myself

By: Douglas, Lord Alfred

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, John Long Ltd.: 1914

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 021579

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

320pp. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth with spine lettering stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated. Some facsimiles of handwritten letters. Some mottling to the cloth, with black stains near the heel of the spine. Three corners rubbed through at the tips. Uneven patches to the fore edge of the text block. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
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Siddhartha

By: Hesse, Herman

Price: $395.00

Publisher: NY, New Directions: 1951

Edition: First Edition, Second Issue.

Seller ID: 007018

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

153pp. Original pictorial mustard yellow paper over green cloth, spine lettering stamped in gilt, top edge stained green as issued. Second issue because of the photo credit listed on the copyright page (Roloff Beny). Printed at the Vail-Ballou Press in Binghamton, NY. This is the slipcased limited edition which preceded the first trade edition. The slipcase has the publication blurb on the back panel with the original price of $5.00 intact. This book was extremely influential on the 1960's counter culture. Gift inscription on the front pastedown. The back panel of the slipcase has some light s...
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MASH

By: Hooker, Richard

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NY, William Morrow: 1968

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 018016

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

219pp. Original brown cloth over white spine, spine lettering stamped in black and orangish yellow. No previous ownership inscriptions. Bottom corners very slightly bumped. The jacket is lightly and unevenly browned with only two quite tiny closed tears. The jacket is NOT price clipped (original price of $4.95 intact). This book was the inspiration behind the film starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall. It was also the inspiration for the hit TV show starring Alan Alda. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Jess Edwards Rides Again

By: Smith, Alice Ward

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, The Christopher House: 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 020529

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

145pp. 1st Edition. Original green cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in gilt. Smith was a journalist who ended up working with the Black section of the Louisiana Writer's Project. This is her first, and only, book. A slavery novel. "In a letter to the author, William Pickens says of this story: 'It will be a great triumph for you, and for more decency in Negro story-literature" (from the blurb on the back panel). Quite scarce in the original dust jacket. Spine lettering a bit dull with some scuffing toward the head of the spine. Top corners bumped. The jacket is soi...
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Brideshead Revisited

By: Waugh, Evelyn

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1945

Edition: First American Edition.

Seller ID: 009818

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fine

351pp. Original red cloth with lettering stamped in black. This one is unusual since it is a book club edition which was the true first American edition (preceding the first trade edition). The original December Book of the Month Club Newsletter is laid in. Back panel of the jacket tanned with a closed half inch tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. A gorgeous, bright copy of a book that is hard to find in this condition. This title is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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The Haircurl Papers & Other Searches for the Lost Individual

By: Zinsser, William K.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row: 1964

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 020572

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

180pp. 1st Edition. Original mauve paper over bluish gray cloth, spine lettering stamped in mauve. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper (dated 1964). Corners bumped, one corner rubbed through at the tip. The jacket is chipped at the head of the spine and has a three inch closed tear at the heel of the front joint of the same. Back panel of the jacket a bit scuffed. The jacket is price clipped.
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Keyword: Modern First Editions

Oscar Wilde and Myself

Siddhartha

MASH

Jess Edwards Rides Again

Brideshead Revisited

The Haircurl Papers & Other Searches for the Lost Individual