American Literature

61 Items
  • 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
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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
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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...
  • 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
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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
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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...
  • A pair of magazines signed by Ray Bradbury. The Nation and the Science Fiction Year Book
    Ray Bradbury
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  • The Green Hills of Earth
    Robert Heinlein
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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...
  • A first edition of The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
    Richard Condon
    $375.00
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    New York: McGraw Hill, 1959 First edition, first printing. In the unclipped dust jacket with $4.50 on the front flap. A fine copy, in a...
  • The Martian Chronicles
    Ray Bradbury
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    New York: Doubleday, 1950 First edition. A remarkable early association copy,  inscribed on the first free endpaper:  “FOR / BEA - / WITH SPECIAL /...
  • The Moonshine War
    Elmore Leonard
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    New York: Doubleday, 1969  First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page: “For Richard Widmark, / hoping we’ll meet later on - / Elmore...
  • The Paper Chase
    John Jay Osborn, Jr.
    $400.00
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    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971 First edition. First printing. A near fine copy in a very good or better unclipped dust jacket, just with a...
  • The Paper Thunderbolt
    Michael Innes
    $370.00
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    New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951 The first American edition, published the same year in the U.K as Operation Pax. With a laid in...
  • A signed and inscribed first edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol
    $1,700.00
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    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 First edition. Inscribed on the half title page in felt tip: "To the / Masons / love / Andy W."...
  • The Road Ahead
    Bill Gates
    $3,200.00
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    New York: Viking Press, 1995 First edition. First printing, with the full number line on the copyright page. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on...
  • The Road Ahead
    Bill Gates
    $600.00
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    New York: Viking Press, 1995 First edition. Second printing. Signed by the author on the title page. The corners of the boards slightly bumped. A...