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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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Parisian arts journal aimed at ex-pat Americans
The Quartier Latin July 1896 – February 1897 [7 Issues]
$334.50 *
* estimated currency conversionThe first seven issues of this remarkable Parisian arts journal aimed at ex-pat Americans, bound in one volume. Most attractively produced, not least in its advertising, with each issue sporting a series of Belle Epoque red and black printed advertisements, each credited to a different named artist. Bar a couple of minor spots, in VG+, clean and bright order throughout. Smartly bound in brown half leather with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine, over pale brown cloth. Light edgewear only. Highly recommended for its insight into (and output from) the American arts community in Paris at the turn of the century. 8vo. 233pp + advertising matter
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Signed & Dated Five Days Prior to Publication
Half of a Yellow Sun
$400.00Fourth Estate, London, 2006. First U.K. edition and true first. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and named the “Best of the Best” of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize and Baileys Women’s Prize) in 2020, recognizing it as the best book to have won the prize in its 25-year history. Signed by the author and dated five days prior to the official publication date. Fine in fine dust wrapper, lightly crinkled at the spine tips.
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SCARCE SIGNED COPY OF LA AUTHOR'S 3RD BOOK
SEX AND RAGE: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
$995.00The third book by a 1970s Los Angeles “it girl”, an autobiographical novel in which Jacaranda revels in the pleasures of being a sexy beach bum in Los Angeles until  after too many nights of “14 white ladies” she wakes up and takes an opposite path, moving to New York and a world of focus and work.  This novel has been described as one which solidified “her place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature—haunting, alluring, and alive.” SIGNED on title page and scarce thus. 227 pp.  Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket  (minor wear at the head of the dj spine)
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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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