Catch-22
by Heller, Joseph
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961 First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Heller to family in blue ink on front free endpaper, one week after publication: "To Aunt Gert and Uncle Lew - With sincere affection, and with many fond memories of your warmth and generosity. Joe Heller / October 16, 1961 / New York." Publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in white to spine, top edge stained red; in a supplied original red, white, and blue... Read More
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My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events 1888 - 1914
by [Hemingway, Ernest]. Scawen Blunt, Wilfrid
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 Two volumes. Foreword by Lady Gregory. Later American edition ("Third and Popular Edition"). Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin, Ruth White Lowry, on front free endpapers of both volumes. Volume I: "Dear Ruth: - These good, solid books are to throw after the American Poetry book at the head of [strikeout] any one [sic] who criticizes the management -- Ernest."; Volume II: "Dear Ruth - This is the second solid volume to... Read More
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A Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket with Catherine Barkley's name misspelled as "Katharine Barclay" to front flap. Publisher's black cloth with gold paper labels lettered in black to front board and spine; in the original pictorial dust jacket with a drawing by Cleon. Near fine book, with a light smudge to top of spine label, gold labels very bright and unchipped, a touch of foxing to front joint, light rubbing to bottom... Read More
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Poems
by [Hemingway, Ernest]. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 Second American edition (first edition published in 1920). Presentation copy, signed by Hemingway on front free endpaper, with "Hemingway" in Hemingway's hand; the first part of the inscription "7/28 - 1928" / From Ernest" is in another hand, likely the recipient, Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry, whose ownership inscription tops the same page. Blue cloth-backed patterned cream boards printed in blue and green; lacking the original dust jacket. About very good, with light rubbing... Read More
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Telegrams from Hemingway to close friends A. E. Hotchner and Bill Davis
by Hemingway, Ernest
1959 - 1960 Six telegrams written by Hemingway to friends Hotchner and Davis, from Málaga and Havana. Near fine, with light creasing and toning, and some minor notes in pencil. Overall, a wonderful, kaleidoscopic archive that captures the final years of Hemingway. Housed in a custom maroon clamshell box, with spine lettered in gilt. In this small archive of telegrams, Ernest Hemingway writes to his rich American expatriate friend, Nathan William (“Bill”) Davis, and friend and editor A.... Read More
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Men Without Women
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927 First edition, first printing, with correct weight of 15.5 ounces. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on front free endpaper: "From E. M. Hemingway."; with Ruth Lowry's ownership signature in pencil to front free endpaper ("R. W. Lowry") with a flourish that overlaps with Hemingway's signature. One of 7,650 first printing copies. Publisher's smooth black cloth with gold paper labels stamped in black, orange topstain, fore edge... Read More
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Three Telegrams from Hemingway to his wife, Mary
by Hemingway, Ernest
1957 - 1959, 1926 Three telegrams from Ernest Hemingway to his fourth wife, Mary, and one telegram from Mary to Ernest. Very good, with some small creases and tears, light soiling, markings in pen and pencil, and old tape to paper strips on Sept. 26, 1959 telegram. Overall, an excellent little trove of Hemingway’s telegrams. Housed in a custom navy clamshell box, with spine lettered in gilt, and a navy folder. These telegrams were written by Hemingway to his... Read More
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1940 First edition, first printing, in the first state dust jacket lacking photographer's credit to rear panel. Publisher's beige cloth, stamped to front board in black with author's facsimile signature, stamped in red and black to spine; in the original black, red, white, and blue dust jacket with a photograph of the author taken by Lloyd Arnold to rear panel. Very good or better, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to red spine labels,... Read More
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To Have and Have Not
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937 First edition, first printing. One of 10,130 copies. Publisher's smooth black cloth, with the author's signature stamped in gilt to front board, spine lettered in gilt, and beige top stain; in the original gold dust jacket designed by Neely, lettered in white and black. Near fine book, with a light tidemark to bottom right corner of front board, very light toning to board edges, else fresh and bright; very good unclipped dust jacket, with... Read More
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In einem andern Land (A Farewell to Arms)
by Hemingway, Ernest
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1931 Translated into German by Annemarie Horschitz. Signed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "Ernest Hemingway". Later German edition (first published in Germany in 1930). Publisher's light gray cloth, with WWI helmet illustration in blue to front board, spine ruled in blue and lettered in red, blue topstain. Near fine, with light toning to spine, upper corners slightly bent, and minor crack between front flyleaf and title page, otherwise sturdy binding. Overall, a crisp and... Read More
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Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, A Correspondence
by [Hemingway, Ernest]. St. John, Christopher [Editor]; [Shaw, George Bernard]; [Terry, Ellen]
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931 Preface by George Bernard Shaw. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on the front free endpaper, with reference to the previous owner, Hemingway bibliographer Captain Louis Henry Cohn: "Dear Ruth: - This is really a 2nd hand book because it was the gift of Captain Louis Henry Cohn the great bibliographer - Pauline didn't like it but Shaw and Terry and Capt. Cohn and... Read More
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Men Without Women
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928 First edition, second printing, in the second issue dust jacket with quotes printed on orange lines on front panel. Publisher's smooth black cloth with gold paper labels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore edge untrimmed, yellow endpapers printed with silhouette of a bull in a circle; in its original dust jacket with bull silhouette and three bands across front panel, lettered in black. Very good book, with light foxing to spine ends... Read More
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The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags
by [Hemingway, Ernest]. Hamill, John
New York: William Faro, Inc., 1931 Illustrated with thirteen plates including a frontispiece. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on front free endpaper: "To Ruth. - This little monograph on Mr. Hoover's part in the Nurse Cavell scandal - with sidelights on his "relief" of Belgium - His connection with the sinking of the Lusitania and the abduction of Charley Ross are not made clear. … - E. H." Publisher's... Read More
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Mamba's Daughters
by Heyward, Dorothy and DuBose
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939 First edition. Fine in a fine jacket. A superb copy of this play, adapted from Heyward's novel.. Hard Cover. Fine.
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People Who Knock on the Door
by Highsmith, Patricia
New York: Penzler Books, 1985 First American edition, uncorrected proof, first printing, second issue with corrected title ("on" not "at") on front wrapper title. Signed and dated by Highsmith on title page: "Patricia Highsmith / 7 Oct. 1992" Publisher's green wrappers, printed in black. Very good, with light toning to spine, a bit of soiling to wrappers, small tear to bottom left corner of rear wrapper, two-inch split along lower part of front spine joint, a couple of edits made... Read More
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Catherine Herself
by Hilton, James
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1920 First edition, first printing of the author's first novel. Signed and inscribed by Hilton: "'a first of the first' / from / James Hilton / New Year 1935". Original publisher's cloth. A good copy with light wear, fading and a few small stains to the spine. A scarce title, and seldom found signed. James Hilton wrote and published Catherine Herself at the age of 20 while attending Christ's College in Cambridge as an undergraduate.... Read More
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Nutcracker
by Hoffman, E. T. A.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1984 Pictures by Maurice Sendak, including nine 2-page color spreads. Translated by Ralph Manheim. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Sendak on the half-title page. Publisher's dark purple cloth, with front board and spine lettered in silver foil, front board decorated in blind, and pictorial endpapers; in its original dark blue dust jacket, with nutcracker illustration by Sendak to front panel, mouse illustration to rear panel, lettered in black, red, and white. About fine book,... Read More
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Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893 Illustrated by Howard Pyle. First edition, first state, with "flashed" to p. 50. Publisher's decorative gray cloth stamped in metallic silver with a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, green-coated endpapers, top edge silver. A near fine copy with some light wear to extremities, signature of author and editor Francis G. Walett to front free endpaper. Overall, a fresh copy in a beautiful binding. This collection of poetry includes three previously... Read More
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Dorothy Q, Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893 Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Limited first edition, first state, with "flashed" to p. 50. One of 250 numbered copies, this being number 113. Inscribed by Holmes on front free endpaper with lines from "Dorothy Q": "Soft is the breath of a maiden's yes - / Not the light gossamer stirs with less; / But never a cable that holds so fast / Through all the battles of wave and blast, / and never an echo of... Read More
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The New York Yankees: An Illustrated History
by Honig, Donald
New York: Crown Publishers, 1987 Illustrated with more than 500 black and white photos. First revised edition, first printing. Signed by 71 Yankees throughout the book, including HOFers Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, Whitey Ford, Johnny Mize, Rickey Henderson, Catfish Hunter, Phil Rizzuto, and Enos Slaughter. Publisher's red cloth spine with blue textured paper-covered boards, and spine lettered in silver; in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket designed by Robert Aulicino, with matching front and rear panels, lettered in red and... Read More
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Of Aucassin and Nicolette: A Translation in Prose and Verse of the Old French, Together with Amabel and Amoris
by Housman, Laurence
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925 Illustrated with engravings by Clemence Housman after drawings by Paul Woodroffe. First edition, first printing. Finely bound in full light brown polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with five raised bands to the spine, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, green marbled endpapers, pale gold ribbon bookmark; housed in a matching green marbled slipcase. Near fine, with some light rubbing to the extremities, minor... Read More
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Pitching Course
by Howe, Irwin M. [Editor]
Chicago: Baseball Correspondence League of America, 1914 First edition, first printing. Publisher's pale red wrappers with pitcher photo to front wrapper, lettered in black. Very good, with some color fading and very light dampstaining to front wrapper, sticker residue to top of front wrapper, small closed tear to fore edge of front wrapper, and tiny crease to lower corner of rear wrapper. Overall, an excellent example. In this pamphlet, six legends of baseball - Christy Mathewson, Ed Walsh,... Read More
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The Kingslayer
by Hubbard, L. Ron
Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949 First edition, first printing. One of 1,200 copies. Publisher's black cloth, with spine lettered in green; in its original yellow, red, black, and white pictorial dust jacket designed by William Benulis, with illustration of a man in space to front panel, lettered in black. Fine book; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to spine, gentle wear to head of spine, a tiny chip and a few small closed tears to front... Read More
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1937 Type 1 Photograph of Carl Hubbell Holding Ball After Winning Pennant-Clinching Game
by [Hubbell, Carl (HOF); Melton, Cliff; Bartell, Dick]
1937 9" x 7" Type 1 black and white photo. Photo of New York Giants (L to R) Carl Hubbell, Cliff Melton, and Dick Bartell, in the dugout after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies to secure the pennant. Fine photo. Overall, a beautiful photo, capturing a significant moment in Hubbell's career. In 1937, the New York Giants won the National League pennant, but would go on to lose in the World Series against the New York Yankees in five... Read More
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1933 New York Giants National League Champions Type 1 Photograph
by [Hubbell, Carl (HOF); Ott, Mel (HOF); Terry, Bill (HOF); Jackson, Travis (HOF)]
1933 Original 9" x 7" Type 1 black and white photo. Photo of the 1933 New York Giants team after capturing the NL pennant, featuring future Hall of Famers Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Travis Jackson, and Bill Terry. Fine photo. Overall, a beautiful vintage team photo. After winning the NL pennant, the 1933 New York Giants went on to defeat the Washington Senators in the World Series in five games. The team's success was due in no small... Read More
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