Rice, Anne

Interview with the Vampire [Collector's Custom Clamshell Case Only - Not a Book]

New York, Knopf, 1976. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Rice, Anne . INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Collector's Clamshell Case. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side. Velour finished interior. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. Photographs Upon Request. .

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Book number: 32859

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Robbins, Harold

The Dream Merchants [Inscribed]

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition of the author's second novel after his steamy first blockbuster, Never Love A Stranger. Inscribed by Robbins to his editor, William Koshland."To Bill - With heartfelt thanks and gratitude for the best break in my life. Harold 8-23-49. " The Dream Merchants was adapted into film with Robert Culp, Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard & Ray Milland. 8vo. 496 pp. blue cloth, gilt-stamped title & decoration to spine, blind-stamped device to upper board, top-edge stained purple. Laid-in is a smal l book inspection slip. The cloth is dampstained at the bottom edge of the boards, with a faint stain at the bottom fore-corner of the book block. There is a corresponding stain along the bottom edge of the George Salter dustwrapper, which is visible only on the reverse; [a few tiny chips]. Despite the dampstain, the book & jacket still maintains a bright appearance. In another book generation, who will represent to collector's, the literary & sociological history of America - could it be Harold Robbins - the 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's were his to describe - he started a trend that many would follow. .

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Book number: 32947

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Keywords: Harold Robbins, Inscribed, The Dream Merchants LITERATURE/FICTION/NOVEL/AMERICAN AUTHORS/FILM BOOKS Presentation & Inscribed Copies Association & Dedication Copies Electronic List TBCL

Russell, John

The Red Mark

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this Queen's Quorum [#62] title and the author's first collection of short stories inclusive of, The Fourth Man. A near fine copy in gray cloth, red titles in a bright, fresh better than very good dustwrapper, sunned to the spine with a chip at the heel and crown, two small chips and a closed tear to the front panel and tiny nicks at the bottom of the rear panel. 8vo. 397 pp. A handsome copy of what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called, 'the best book of short stories by any debutant since Kipling's, Plain Tales'. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 31818

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Keywords: GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS Electronic List TBCL ITSAMYSTERY

Salinger, J.D.

The Catcher in the Rye. Signed

Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Salinger, J.D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Signed. Boston: Little Brown, 1952. A fine SIGNED copy of the March, 1952 reprint of the first edition. [The first issue was July, 1951]. 8vo. 277pp. black cloth, gilt. Salinger's remarkable first book, neatly signed in black fountain pen at the top of the title page. An excellent example of Salinger's elusive signature - The binding is fine; the dustwrapper very good or better with the $3.00 price present & nine reviews on the back panel replacing Salinger's photo after the first few early printings at his insistence. Custom clamshell case in very fine condition. The probable High Spot in Modern American Lit collecting, "The Catcher In The Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence. Salinger's novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success" (Parker, 300). "This novel is a key-work of the nineteen-fifties in that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer. The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices-anger, contempt, self-pity-but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels , 53-4). /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 27243

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Sarton, May

The Single Hound. Signed

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of May Sarton's first novel Inscribed and dated by her in 1944, on the front free endpaper. A better than very good copy in oatmeal and red cloth in a better than very good pictorial dustwrapper with inevitable, although discreet chips to the top of the front panel, heel and crown of the spine and edges. 8vo. 241 pp. A very presentable copy.[22-27594]. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33276

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Keywords: FIRST EDITION SIGNED INSCRIBED BOOK . Presentation & Inscribed Copies Electronic List TBCL May Sarton

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The Words. The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre. Signed

New York, George Braziller, 1964. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. First American Edition Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the title-page in blue ballpoint: 'A John P. James, Jr. trés cordialement [signed] Sartre, 18 Oct. 69'. 8vo. 255 pp. A near fine copy in black cloth, white titles to the spine, rose topstain, (John P. James, Jr's neat bookplate on the front pastedown), in a bright, fresh, price-clipped dustwrapper. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. A brilliant autobiography that is often compared with, Rousseau's, Confessions. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. .

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Book number: 33005

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Keywords: FIRST EDITION SIGNED INSCRIBED JEAN-PAUL SARTRE . Presentation & Inscribed Copies Electronic List TBCL Sartre, Camus & De Beauvoir Philosophy, Exoteric & Esoteric

SENDAK, Maurice

Where the Wild Things Are

New York (1963) Book Date, Harper & Row. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Ellis,Bret Easton. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Collector's Clamshell Case. Harper& Row New York 1963 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. .

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Book number: 32835

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Keywords: COLLECTOR'S CLAMSHELL CASES Art & Illustrated Books Children's Bookshelf Children's Books

Shaw, George Bernard

Misalliance. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children. Inscribed

London, Constable and Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Shaw, George Bernard. MISALLIANCE. The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets And Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children. Inscribed. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1914. "It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings". First Edition. Small 8vo. 234 pp. + 2 pp. of ads. A near fine or better copy in light moss green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, t.e.g. in a bright, near fine slightly spine darkened example of the rather uncommon dustwrapper. A significant presentation copy inscribed in black fountain pen on the half-title: "To Robert Loraine, who created Hotchkiss (among / other good turns), from Bernard Shaw. / 17th May 1914". Loraine [1876-1935] was a man of action: actor-manager, soldier, aviator, Fabian & of course, a close friend to Shaw - perhaps best known as an actor he's seen most commonly on holiday with the Shaws & Harley Granville-Barker or at Fabian events. Loraine & Shaw shared political affiliations & a passion for theatre: it was Loraine who premiered as the lead in Man & Superman on Broadway, the production was massively successful & launched Shaw as a force to be reckoned with in the United States. "The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs". - Hotchkiss in GETTING MARRIED first performed in 1908 & published in THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, 1911. Excellent example. Custom TBCL embossed cloth slipcase in fine condition. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 32213

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Keywords: FIRST EDITION IRISH BRITISH DRAMATISTS PLAYS THEATRE PYGMALION NOBEL Presentation & Inscribed Copies Association & Dedication Copies Electronic List TBCL Shaw, George Bernard

Dame Ethel Smyth

The Wreckers (Opera) in Three Acts, Composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a Libretto in French by Henry Brewster

Vienna, Universal Edition, 1909. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Dame Ethel Smyth. The Wreckers (opera) program pp.42, 5 3/8" x 8 1.2" The Wreckers was first performed in English at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1909. This libretto has a label glued inside the program for The Royal Opera, Covent Gardens dated September 24th, 1931, which is associated with the production that year conducted by John Barbirolli. In 1922 Smyth was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her accomplishments as a composer. She was the first woman composer to be awarded Damehood. At age 71, she fell in love with writer Virginia Woolf who was also very involved in the women's suffrage movement and they both used their writings to express their political views. Woolf encouraged Smyth to write music and her own autobiography. According to critics, Smyth most famous composition, "The Wreckers," in 1906. praised it as one of the most important English operas. Political activist Dame Ethel Smyth officially became a Grammy winner in 2021, 76 years after her death. Her 1930 2-part symphony THE PRISON took home the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category at the 2021 awards ceremony performed by soloist Sarah Brailey. The Anthem "The March of Women," a battle song for England's women's movement was composed by Dame Ethel Smyth in 1911. This rare and important program signed by Dames Ethel Smyth are hard to come by. .

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Book number: 33145

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Keywords: Suffragette, Women's movement, Feminist studies, LGBT, Women's liberation, Virginia Woolf, Opera, Grammy. Music Electronic List TBCL Music Maestro Please Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Virginia Woolf & Hogarth Press

Nancy Cunard [Ezra Pound] [Pablo Neruda] [W H Auden] [Stephen Spender] and more

Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War - Rare Pamphlet

London, Left Review by Furnell and Sons Ltd, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. RARE pamphlet AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON THE SPANISH WAR 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" pp.28 plus cover printed on cream colour paper inside with black ink and red ink, recto verso on the thicker cover stock. Slight wear on the outside right cover as per photos otherwise in fine shape. The editors of AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON THE SPANISH WAR, which was published in London by the Left Review in 1937, posed two questions to a list of influential poets and writers of the 1930's: "Are you for, or against, the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco and Fascism?" This historical and important document consists of 148 contributors and 10,000 words on their stand on fascism and democracy. Among the contributors were: Leonard Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Aliester Crowley (with his name misspelled) T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, W H Auden, T.S. Eliot, C. Day Lewis, Rebecca West, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, George Bernard Shaw to name but a few influencers! Some responses were long and some such as with Samuel Beckett were quite short! '¡UPTHEREPUBLIC!' This significant pamphlet is very rare and a handful can only be found in library archives.

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Book number: 33174

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Keywords: FIRST EDITION, HISTORY, HOGARTH PRESS, Leonard Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Aliester Crowley, T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, W H Auden, T.S. Eliot, C. Day Lewis, Rebecca West, George Bernard Shaw. Electronic List TBCL Speculative & Farthest Out Fictions A Poetry

Spengler, Oswald

Der Untergang Des Abendlandes. Signed

München [Munich], Oskar Beck, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Spengler, Oswald. DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES. Umrisse Einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. München [Munich]: Oskar Beck, 1922, 1923. Two octavo Volumes: pp 559, 637. [Translated into English as THE DECLINE OF THE WEST]. The Rare limited edition of 150 numbered copies; this set numbered 33 on the limitation page of each volume and SIGNED by Spengler on the limitation page in volume I. Both volumes are uniformly bound in the publisher's gilt-ruled dark blue morocco, the spine with 5 raised bands, red morocco gilt-lettered label, elegant hand-made marbled endpapers, top-edge gilt. A near fine superb example of this rare issue, [small archival repair to the head of volume I & corners] the text block free of blemish. [1922 forward by Spengler]. Volume II is the 1st edition published in 1922. Volume I is an early printing but the first in this binding by Beck who acquiring the copyright from Braunmuller, the Viennese academic house that published the original 1st edition in 1918. Beck also published an unsigned trade edition uniformly bound in cream coloured paper covered boards printed with black titles & graphics. "During the period after the First World War, is a politico-sociological phenomenon that has nothing to do with the intrinsic merits or demerits of this 'new outlook on history and the philosophy of destiny', as the author himself described the aim of his book. it was the major prophet, Toynbee, who took up the mantle that fell from the minor prophet, Spengler". - PMM, PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN # 410. A rare set. Surviving original cardboard slipcase neatly restored. Custom collectors gilt bordered blue leather outer slipcase in very fine condition. .

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Book number: 30922

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Stewart, Mary

A Splendid Archive of a Dozen Fine Signed Letters [11 Tls +1 Ans][the Merlin Chronicles]

Edinburgh, 5 October 1964 to 22 May 1970, 1964. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. Stewart, Mary (b. Florence Elinor Rainbow, 1916- ). Scottish fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer best known for her Arthurian "Crystal Cave" series now referred to as The Merlin Chronicles which brilliantly blended historical fiction and fantasy. 79 Morningside Park, Edinburgh. 5 October 1964 to 22 May 1970 to James Keddie of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts (Scottish born American editor & publisher, 1907- 1983, known as "Cheetah" by The Speckled Band Of Boston, the Sherlockian society of which he was a lifetime member). FINE COLLECTION OF ELEVEN LETTERS AND ONE INSCRIBED EASTER GREETINGS CARD (12 TLS, 1 TNS], most of which are aerogrammes). The friendship between fellow Scots Stewart and Keddie is revealed in this warm and enthusiastic correspondence (variously signed "Yours Ever" at first, then "Love" and "Affectionately") later on, with letters that contain a good mix of literary content and personal revelation, some discussions of Stewart's emotional states as publication dates approach, her books, her domestic challenges, their shared colleagues, writers she admires. Among her works discussed is WILDFIRE AT MIDNIGHT (1956), MADAM WILL YOU TALK? (1954, her first book), AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND (1965), THE GABRIEL HOUNDS (1967), ending with her plans to meet him as she's just about to embark on her American book tour to promote her 1970 masterpiece THE CRYSTAL CAVE ("And thanks for your good wishes for THE CRYSTAL CAVE. I hope you love it."). Other excerpts include: "This is publication day over here, and I combat my sinking, nervous feeling which gets worse instead of better each time I place my bet with the public and put myself at its mercy." "The reviewers are sharpening their claws for anything that breathes of success and popularity as this MUST mean, they think, that it's BAD." She discusses Rex Stout's "writing, style, and plot," and shares her grief "I was very sorry indeed about Margery Allingham." And she is particularly teasing as she discusses THE CRYSTAL CAVE as a work-in-progress: "This is a historical novel which I have been wanting to do for a very long time [and I'll] tell you a bit more about [it] but at the moment I feel it would kill it to talk about it." The letters have a few minor blemishes, light folds and their like, but generally are in NEAR FINE condition. Substantial content, an excellent archive. .

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Book number: 32088

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Keywords: ARTHURIAN LEGACY, KING ARTHUR, MERLIN Autograph Gallery Electronic List TBCL Speculative & Farthest Out Fictions

Stoker, Bram

Dracula [Collector's Custom Clamshell Case Only - Not a Book]

London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Bram Stoker, DRACULA Collector's Clamshell Case. Archibald Constable and Company 1897 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is "Red Hot Stamped" on all 3 sides to reflect the original fonts used on the book. The case is finished in Rich Mustard Yellow Leather with Yellow Cloth sides. Finished in Rich Black or Red velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. Book definitely NOT included. .

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Book number: 32918

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Keywords: FEATURE CLAMSHELL, DRACULA, BRAM STOKER, MYSTERY, FANTASY, HORROR COLLECTOR'S CLAMSHELL CASES Electronic List TBCL ITSAMYSTERY

J.R.R. Tolkien

Adventures of Tom Bombadil

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] 'TOM BOMBADIL' sea voyage' design, raised and sculpted with GILT stamping inspired by the first edition outstanding graphic cover & is finished inside & out in elegant Navy Blue Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather and red cloth paper sides. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over a hundred cornerstone generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. .

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Book number: 32857

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J.R.R. Tolkien

Farmer Giles of Ham

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1949. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] FARMER GILES OF HAM 'Dragon' design, sculpted and raised with GILT stamping inspired by the first edition & is finished inside & out in elegant BROWN Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather and black Nuba sides. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over a hundred cornerstone generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. Not a Book .

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Book number: 32856

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Keywords: FEATURECLAMSHELL, JRRTolkein, Farmergilesofham COLLECTOR'S CLAMSHELL CASES Electronic List TBCL Children's Books