20th Century Literature

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  • Stuart Little
    E.B. White
    $650.00
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    New York, Harper & Brothers, 1945 First edition. First printing, with “10-5,” and “I-U” on the copyright page. A near fine copy just with a...
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
    Richard Feynman
    $4,200.00
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    New York: W.W Norton & Company, 1985 First edition. First printing. In the unclipped first issue dust jacket with two reviews on the rear panel....
  • The Affluent Society
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    $2,300.00
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    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958 First edition. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper: “For C … L. Pawlowski / with...
  • A first edition book signed by members of the Beach Boys
    John Tobler
    $2,200.00
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    London:  Phoebus, 1978 9 x 12. First edition, later printing. A fine copy in the bright dust jacket. Signed by Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al...
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    Tom Wolfe
    $400.00
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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987 First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy in a...
  • The Bourne Identity
    Robert Ludlum
    $850.00
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    New York: Richard Marek, 1980 First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy, in a near fine,...
  • The Cat’s Pajamas
    Ray Bradbury
    $150.00
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    New York: Harper Collins, 2004 First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 
  • The Da Vinci Code
    Dan Brown
    $50.00
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    New York: Doubleday, 2003 First edition, first printing. A very good + copy. Very slight wear to the boards with a faint ring mark at...
  • The Devil Finds Work
    James Baldwin
    $200.00
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    New York: Dial Press, 1976 First edition. First printing. A little toning only to the dust jacket verso, otherwise a fine copy. An examination of...
  • Larry McMurtry's first edition of The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming
    Ian Fleming
    $600.00
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    New York: Macmillan, 1958 First printing of the first American edition. Larry McMurtry’s ownership signature in pencil on the first free endpaper; therefore, an association...
  • A first edition of The Double Helix together with a photograph signed by James Watson
    James D. Watson
    $1,500.00
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    New York: Antheneum, 1968 First edition, first printing. Together with a photograph of Watson in his laboratory, signed by him in black felt tip. A...
  • The Enemy Within
    Robert F. Kennedy
    $2,000.00
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    New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960 First edition. First printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the first free endpaper: “To Senator Saltonstall / with the best...
  • The Evil Eye
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    $3,000.00
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    Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915 First edition. Fitzgerald’s second work for the Princeton University Triangle Club. A bit of foxing and creasing to the...
  • The Green Hills of Earth
    Robert Heinlein
    $500.00
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    Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951 First edition. A near fine copy, but for a few tiny pinholes at the corners of the front board, as well...
  • The Handmaid's Tale
    Margaret Atwood
    $2,500.00
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    London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Mike - best wishes - Margaret Atwood." A...
  • The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul
    Douglas Adams
    $300.00
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    London: William Heinemann, 1988 First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Michael / Douglas Adams." A very small remainder...