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A Handful of Dust
$200.00
Evelyn Waugh
New York; Farrar & Rinehart, [1934]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH LOGO ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. 8vo. Very good. Hardcover. Lacks dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Inscription to previous owner on front free end paper. Light foxing and browning to end pages. Binding is tight. 308 pages.
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$425.00New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”.  Winner of 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a play about Finland’s invasion by the Soviet Union. A signed presentation copy inscribed “from Madeline’s husband” to Gwendola Hurlock, sister of the book’s dedicatee and Sherwood’s wife, Madeline Hurlock, a silent film actress.  Dated December, 1940. Spine leaning, tanning to front and rear gutters, brief marks to the rear board — a solid very good or better copy in a very good rubbed dust wrapper with a few small, shallow chips.
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A "stopper" for Denis Johnson completists
Inner Weather
$1,250.00Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, (1976). First Edition. Limited edition, #9 of only 20 copies, signed by Johnson. The very scarce hardbound edition, simultaneously issued with 600 unsigned copies in wrappers. Johnson’s second book of poetry, published seven years before his first novel. An early publication from the author of Jesus’ Son and the National Book Award winning Tree of Smoke. Nearly fine with slight softening to corners without dust wrapper as issued.
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Complete run of scarce literary and arts journal
THE BUTTERFLY A Humourous And Artistic Monthly [Complete Run 1893-1894, 1899-1900]
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* estimated currency conversionA complete run of The Butterfly in both its incarnations, the ten issues from May 1893 to February 1894 published by Walter Haddon, and the second twelve from March 1899 to February 1900 published from the offices of The Idler (Grant Richards). Bound in four volumes. Much of literary and artistic interest throughout with a roll-call of late Victorian contributors including Laurence Housman, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Pennell, H G Wells (anonymously) and Baron Corvo. First run is bound in two volumes in VG+, clean and bright internal order. Marbling to all edges of block. Paper covers and title pages for each issue bound to rear. Uniform red cloth with half red leather this well worn, with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine. End of volume two includes the best “we are ceasing publication” notice ever written. Second run bound in two non-matching volumes. Vol. one (iii) in VG+ clean and bright order bar some toning to endpapers. Single cover bound to rear. Smart pale brown cloth with bright gilt titling to spine. Vol. two (iv) more handsomely presented with attractive gilt decoration to front and spine of cream cloth, this lightly bumped and a little dulled. Again, all in VG+ internal order. A rare opportunity to obtain a complete run of this most interesting and engaging periodical. All 8vo, though i and ii narrower. i. 384pp + covers and titles; ii. 250pp + covers and titles; iii.278pp [2]; iv. 294ppÂ
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Signed by Winner of 2015 Nobel Prize
Second-Hand Time. The Last of the Soviets
$800.00London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016.  First UK edition.  A paperbound original. Signed to the title page by the author, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, and dated in the latinate style as is her wont.  Not to be confused with the 2024 Fitzcarraldo edition, limited to 1000 copies signed on a bookplate. Few small finger smudges, else fine in wrappers.
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