Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs, Merrill, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 292pp. First Edition. First US Edition [The first book by Vladimir Nabokov to be printed in the United States]. First This Title. Published in England by John Long as: CAMERA OBSCURA, [The original title of the 1932 Russian edition].
A fine copy in the second state orange cloth in a bright dust wrapper showing light rubbing and nicks, housed in a protected mylar.
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov First Edition
$1,875.00
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1st Edition Uncorrected Proof of ROOTS, personal copy of Alex Haley’s literary agent Paul R. Reynolds
$2,200.00Uncorrected Proof of Alex Haley’s Roots, featuring handwritten edits from his literary agent. A pivotal work in 20th-century black literature, it inspired the Pulitzer-winning TV miniseries that reshaped American cultural history.
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1st Edition of A LOS TOROS AVEC PICASSO printed by Mourlot Frères
$4,500.00A Los Toros Avec Picasso (1961) – First edition featuring four original lithographs, including a 24-color piece, and exquisite bullfighting-themed illustrations. A pristine collector’s gem for Picasso enthusiasts.
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Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein, Signed 1st Edition
$11,750.001st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. “A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war”. First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dust wrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller’s sticker at the top of the inside flap].
Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: “To John James who says Ma”am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46″. Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy.
An extremely good example. In “Wars I Have Seen” (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did – the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived – and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin’s kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne (“quite quietly to some one who came to see me”) and no longer needed money. “And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that.”
