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White Mars, or, The Mind Set Free
$550.00
Aldiss, Brian and Roger Penrose
London: Little, Brown & Co., 1999. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by Aldiss and signed by Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Penrose’s is an uncommon signature.
Fine in like dust wrapper.
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A Checklist of the Publications of Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland Maine: MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCXXIII
$275.00Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1966. Limited edition, one of 500 Copies, printed on Fabriano Paper in Monotype Van Dijck. Illustrated with 19 Mounted Letter Press Facsimiles of Title pages in Red and Black on Paper closely Simulating those used by Mosher. This is the printer’s copy, inscribed by Baskin and presented to Stanley Clifford “with the affection of” Leonard Baskin, dated 1967.  Clifford started as a hand leather bookbinder at Bennett Book Studio in Manhattan. He came to be respected as one of the finest craftsmen practicing this trade, a reputation that allowed work to follow him to Deer Isle, ME where he and fellow islander Leonard Baskin became close friends, attracted by a mutual interest in the book arts. Ironically, an unbound copy in 20 signatures. Some staining to rear page and signature spines.
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Classic Analysis of U.S. History, Signed by Author
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
$900.00New York: Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Inscribed to Bill Smith and signed by Hofstadter.  While not definitively established, the recipient could be fellow historian William E(rnest) Smith, whose work The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics is cited by Hostadter as a source and influence on his interpretations on anti-bank views (pages 355-56). Some pencil annotations sprinkled sporadically throughout the book.  A very good copy married to later printing dust wrapper.
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Signed by First Southern Pulitzer Winning Novelist
Black April
$800.00Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with ‘ducks quacked’ on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  “An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation” signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was “accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro” (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear. Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, “Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration. Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic. In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain. Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about ‘beautiful white men and women, not n-words.’  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, ‘No beautiful white people live in my head.'” (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).
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Signed Booker Prize Winner with Extras
The Remains of the Day
$3,500.00Faber & Faber: London, 1989.  First Edition. Lovely copy of this Booker Prize winning novel, the third from future Nobel Prize for Literature winner, basis for movie of same name starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Boldly signed by the author to title page.  Accompanied by a bookmark promoting upcoming Booker Prize announcement, also signed by Ishiguro.  Author’s signature has changed over time, and this example as well as the bookmark appear to be contemporaneous with the novel’s publication.  Very scarce and desirable thus. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Â
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