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First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.
First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.
First edition of Thomas's collected letters to his friend and fellow Welsh poet.
First edition in book form of Thomas's collected radio scripts, with both autobiographical scripts ("Memories of Christmas," "A Visit to America") and talks on literature and criticism ("Wilfred Owen," "Welsh Poets" et al.).
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this posthumously published collection of Thomas's short works, selected by the author before his death.
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
First edition, publisher's file copy, of this unusual Cold War telepathy drama, a study of two men psychically linked by wartime experiments, reunited in the Middle East years later for a final struggle over geopolitical influence and occult corruption.
Signed first edition of Dahl's Edgar Award-winning collection, including his celebrated murder-by-leg-of-lamb story "Lamb to the Slaughter," along with seventeen horrifying others.
First US edition in book form of Thomas's unfinished novel and 20 additional stories, including "The School for Witches," "The Map of Love," "The Holy Six," and others.
First US edition of these collected short prose works, including "A Child's Christmas in Wales," enlarged from the UK edition with several stories and articles published in magazines as well as Thomas's radio broadcasts.
First edition in book form of Thomas's unfinished semi-autobiographical novel, introduced by poet Vernon Watkins.
Signed limited first edition of these three connected Golden Age science fiction novellas by the formative sf editor, originally appearing in AMAZING STORIES and edited for book publication by Lloyd Arthur Eschbach.
Scarce advance copy of the first separate edition of the great Christmas classic.
First US edition of Thomas's final completed work, a day of ghosts and villagers in a small Welsh coastal town, originally commissioned by the BBC as a radio drama and later adapted for theatre and film.
First UK edition of Styron's gruesome short novel on the wretchedness and degradation of Marine Corps training, originally published as a serial in 1952.
First edition of Bowles's first short story collection, published without "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" (both restored in the US edition) to save the fragile sensibilities of English printers and censors.
First edition of Bowles' fourth book and third novel, a political thriller set among the anti-colonial Moroccan independence movement of the 1950s.
Uncommon edition of this early 15th century poetic dialogue between Death and a widower, movingly illustrated by Masereel.
First UK edition of Toklas's memoir in cookbook form of her life with Gertrude Stein, written in Paris during the author's three-month convalescence to recall old dishes and days "hovering dream-like in invalid memory."
First US edition, trade hardcover issue, of this acclaimed and controversial novel by the trailblazing Nouveau Roman author.
First UK edition of Roth's novella, in unusually nice condition and with the scarce and striking dust jacket.
Signed first edition of Roth's first book, winner of the 1960 National Book Award for fiction.
Inscribed first edition of Bowles' first collection of short stories and second book, follow-up to his classic THE SHELTERING SKY — with an additional letter signed by Bowles.
First US edition, review copy, of Agee's semi-autobiographical first novel.
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
First UK edition of Baldwin's second novel, a story of love and and fear that first revealed Baldwin's full capacities as "the greatest American prose stylist of his generation" (Tóibín).