[Rarebooks] FS: Several Modern First Editions, one signed, all with reduced prices

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Fri Jul 1 09:57:57 EDT 2011


Price reduced:    Was $200   Now  $135:

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Princeton: Limited Editions 
Club, 1942. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed boards. 
Introduction by Sinclair Lewis. Printed at the Princeton University 
Press by Elmer Adler. Copy #380 of 1500 illustrated with lithographs 
drawn on the stone by Lynd Ward and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon 
page. Sunning to the spine with slight loss of gilt. Near Fine, lacking 
the slipcase.         $135.00

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Price reduced:    Was $200   Now  $100:

KENNEDY, William. BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME. New York: The Viking 
Press, (1978). First Edition. Author's third book and the second book in 
the Albany Cycle. Foxing to top bulked edge of the text, otherwise Fine 
in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots.         $100.00
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Price reduced:    Was $125   Now  $85:

SALTER, James. DUSK. San Francisco: North Point, 1988. First Edition. 
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author. 
Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by the author to the recipient 
mentioning the reprinting of A SPORT AND A PASTIME. Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper.         $85.00
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Price reduced:    Was $350   Now  $200:

WILLIAMS, Tennessee. SUMMER AND SMOKE. (New York): New Directions, 
(1948). First Edition. Crandell A7.I.a. Illustrated with photographs. 
Bookseller's ticket at the bottom of the front free endpaper. Small 
brown stain to the rear panel of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near 
Fine first issue dustwrapper.         $200.00

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