Le Solitaire: Roman
by Eugène Ionesco
[Paris]: Mercure de France, 1973. Near Fine/Near Fine. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers in white dust jacket; 190pp. Light wear and toning to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. The French playwright's only novel, published in English as "The Hermit" in 1975.
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![Rosemary's Baby [Signed by Levin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/033/435/1684435033.0.m.jpg)
Rosemary's Baby [Signed by Levin]
by Ira Levin; James Gunn [intro.]
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2000. Near Fine. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2000. Publisher's Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by Ira Levin at limitation page. Octavo. 245pp. Bound in full red leather; decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers; silk ribbon. Publisher's Certificate of Authenticity laid in. A few scuffs and spots to boards. Binding sound and... Read More
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Adventures of the Infallible Godahl
by Frederick Irving Anderson
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers, 1914. Very Good. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. 241 pp. Black and white illustrations. Black and blue boards lettered in orange. No dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn with some general scuffing and rear corners very slightly bumped. Rubbing to spine. Binding sound. Bookseller... Read More
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![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/436/566/1390566436.0.m.jpg)
The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by John Irving
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first published in the U.K. and incorporated into Trying to Save Piggy Sneed... Read More
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Setting Free the Bears
by John Irving
New York: Random House, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1968. Second Printing (stated). Octavo. 335 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Red boards with spine stamped in gilt; red topstain. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with dampstaining along top edge. Boards with mild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Glue remnants to front free endpaper,... Read More
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![The Winds of God: A Tale of the North Country [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/835/985/1573985835.0.m.jpg)
The Winds of God: A Tale of the North Country [Signed]
by Irving Bacheller; John Rae [illus.]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1941]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50), map endpapers; xiv,318pp.; illus. Jacket margins a bit chipped, light dust-soil to lighter portions, corners bumped, cloth margins very lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author... Read More
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Irving Penn: Centennial
by [Irving Penn] Maria Morris Hambourg; Jeff L. Rosenheim et al.
New York: The Met / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: The Met / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition. Quarto. 372 pp. 365 color, tritone, and quadtone illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Slate boards stamped in silver.... Read More
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The Water-Method Man
by John Irving
New York: Random House, 1972. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 365 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$6.95" price present. Navy and yellow boards stamped in blue and orange. Jacket rubbed along edges with one short closed tears along top edge of front panel; thin band of smudging to rear. Boards... Read More
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The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving
New York: Random House, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition number line ending in "2" in keeping with publisher's identification methods at the time. Octavo. 245 pp. Printed dust jacket with "$5.95" price present. Blue and green boards stamped in copper and green. Dust jacket with chip to top of front... Read More
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![Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk [Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed by Ungar]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/021/587/1496587021.0.m.jpg)
Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk [Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed by Ungar]
by Irvin Ungar; Arthur Szyk [illus.]
Chicago: Spertus Museum / Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 1998. Very Good. Chicago: Spertus Museum / Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 1998. Deluxe Limited Edition, numbered 83 of 400 copies on colophon. Signed by Unger without dedication on title page, with inscription "Szyk's message and legacy is eternal. Irving Ungar, 7 April 1999. Quarto (11.25" x... Read More
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![The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [WITH] Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/423/576/1565576423.0.m.jpg)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [WITH] Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent
by [Washington Irving]
New-York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1819. Very Good. New-York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1819-20. First Edition, Mixed Printings (see below). Seven parts in two volumes (bound without original wrappers, otherwise complete); octavos (21cm.); contemporary calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt spine labels. Margins a bit scuffed, foxing to textblocks as well as some soil and damp spotting to textblock... Read More
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Plato's Moral Theory: The Early and Middle Dialogues
by [Plato] Terence Irwin
Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1977. Near Fine/Very Good. Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped navy blue dust jacket lettered in white; xvii,[1],376pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, else Very Good and sound.
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![The Expert Dreamers [Signed by Pohl]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/136/724/1490724136.0.m.jpg)
The Expert Dreamers [Signed by Pohl]
by [Isaac Asimov et al, contrs.] Frederik Pohl [ed.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, [1963]. Later Printing with E4 gutter code [January 1963] on page 248. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by Sigrid Spaeth retaining original price ($3.95); xiv,248pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, corners and spine ends tapped, else a Very Good... Read More
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![The Works of Isaac Disraeli [Six Volume Set Comprised of: The Literary Character / The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors / Amenities of Literature / Curiosities of Literature Vols. I - III]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/161/847/1577847161.0.m.jpg)
The Works of Isaac Disraeli [Six Volume Set Comprised of: The Literary Character / The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors / Amenities of Literature / Curiosities of Literature Vols. I - III]
by Isaac Disraeli; Benjamin Disraeli [ed.]
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1868. Very Good. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1868-1869. Six Volumes. Octavos (19cm.); contemporary forest green calf over marbled boards, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in six compartments, each with two red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; steel-engraved frontispieces at the head of four volumes. Moderate scuffing to extremities, spines... Read More
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![Our New Puppy [Signed by Moser]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/220/171/1588171220.0.m.jpg)
Our New Puppy [Signed by Moser]
by Isabelle Harper; Barry Moser [illus.]
New York: Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc., [1996]. First Edition with full number line. Slim square quarto; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (14.95); [32]pp.; color illus. throughout. Very light dust-soil and wrinkling to dust jacket margins, else a Near... Read More
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Obras Poeticas de la Senora Dona Isabel Prieto de Landazuri: Collectionadas y Precedidas de un Estudio Biografico y Literario
by Isabel Prieto de Landazuri; Ireneo Paz and Jose Maria Vigil [eds.]
Mexico: Imprenta y Litografia de I. Paz, 1883. Very Good. Mexico: Imprenta y Litografia de I. Paz, 1883. First Edition. Octavo. 448pp., though incomplete, lacking pp. 339-340; iv pp. indice. Red leather spine over marbled paper-covered boards. Wear to edges; binding sound; female ownership inscription (Laura Seager) dated 1888 to preliminaries; else unmarked and Very Good. ... Read More
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935. Very Good. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 280 pages. Green cloth stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Isherwood's fictionalized account of life in Weimar Berlin is frequently combined with his later novel, Goodbye to Berlin in the single... Read More
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![Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/559/425/1429425559.0.m.0.jpg)
Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 [Signed]
by Christopher Isherwood
London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977 (copyrighted by Isherwood in 1976). First Edition. Signed by Isherwood without inscription on full title. Octavo (24x16x2cm); 252pp. Jacket with young Isherwood photographed by Humphrey Spender on the front; older Isherwood drawn by his lover Don Bachardy on the back. Brownish-plum boards with gilt spine stamping. Mustard... Read More
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![The Unconsoled [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/691/1721691125.0.m.jpg)
The Unconsoled [Signed]
by Kazuo Ishiguro
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Thick octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [6],535pp. Moderate edge wear to jacket and board margins, brief but dark foxing at top edge of jacket crown panel, spine a bit cocked and textblock margins lightly soiled; overall... Read More
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![[Broadside on cloth] State of Rhode Island / Fish When and How Not To Be Taken](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/370/937/1663937370.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside on cloth] State of Rhode Island / Fish When and How Not To Be Taken
by [Hunting and Fishing] State of Rhode Island
Rhode Island: s.i., 1900. Very Good. Rhode Island: s.i., ca. 1900. First Edition. Large broadside printed on linen (29.5x45.5cm.). Light uneven toning, some fraying to margins as can be expected, else a Very Good or better, fresh example. Possibly unrecorded display broadside listing fishing infractions and their accompanying fines. Sea bass and lobster are the most carefully... Read More
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![Spring Flowers, Spring Frost [Signed by Kadare]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/590/436/1656436590.0.m.jpg)
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost [Signed by Kadare]
by Ismail Kadare; Jusuf Vrioni and David Bellos [trans.]
London: Harvill Press, 2002. Near Fine. London: Harvill Press, [2002]. First U.K. Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],182pp. A hint of shelf wear, textblock lightly toned, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. The late Albanian author's novel of 1990s post-Communist Albania, translated by David Bellos from the... Read More
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Poesie Italiane di Vari Autori
by [Bindings - Italian]
Firenze [Florence]: Tipografia Magheri, 1831. Very Good. Firenze [Florence]: Tipografia Magheri, 1831. First Edition. 32mo (11.5cm); full contemporary teal gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine in four compartments, all edges speckled red, lavender endpapers; [4],284pp. Light wear to margins, sadly lacking spine label, contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, else a Very Good copy in a lovely contemporary binding. ... Read More
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Confessions of Zeno
by Italo Svevo; Beryl de Zoete [trans.]
London & New York: Putnam, 1930. Very Good. London & New York: Putnam, 1930. First English Language Edition. Octavo. 412 pp. Marbled cloth boards stamped in dark green; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Spine rubbed; bottom corners bumped; a touch of wear to crown. Binding sound. Toning to endpapers, else interior unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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![Judge on Trial [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/146/510/1673510146.0.m.jpg)
Judge on Trial [Signed]
by Ivan Klima; A.G. Brain [trans.]
London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. Very Good/Very Good+. London: Chatto & Windus, [1991]. First U.K. Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's boards, yellow topstain, in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [4],547pp. Light wear to jacket and board margins, front hinge very slightly starting, else a Very Good copy in Near Fine jacket. Signed by the author on title... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Atlas Trinadtsati Chastei S. Peterburga s podrobnym izobrazheniem naberezhnykh, ulits, pereulkov, kazennykh i obyvatel'nykh domov [WITH] Alfabitnyi ukazatel' k Atlasu 13-ti chastei S. Peterburga [An Atlas of the Thirteen Parts of St. Petersburg with a detailed image of its embankments, streets, alleyways, and town houses [WITH] An Alphabetical Index] [Inscribed and Signed to Dmitry Yegorovich Benardaki]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/792/043/1511043792.0.m.0.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Atlas Trinadtsati Chastei S. Peterburga s podrobnym izobrazheniem naberezhnykh, ulits, pereulkov, kazennykh i obyvatel'nykh domov [WITH] Alfabitnyi ukazatel' k Atlasu 13-ti chastei S. Peterburga [An Atlas of the Thirteen Parts of St. Petersburg with a detailed image of its embankments, streets, alleyways, and town houses [WITH] An Alphabetical Index] [Inscribed and Signed to Dmitry Yegorovich Benardaki]
by Nikolai Ivanovich Tsylov
St. Petersburg: s.i., 1849. Very Good. St. Petersburg: 1849. Two volumes; small quartos (26.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's blind-ruled purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines; atlas volume: 392 numbered street plans as well as one hand-colored map of the city and 13 hand-colored district maps (collated and complete); index volume: [6],279,[1],39pp. Cloth extremities rather faded, spines uniformly sunned to tan,... Read More
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