Historic Manuscripts & Rare Books Online
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Fourteen Mostly First Editions, Travel Literature and Biographies. Abbey, Edward, Desert Solitaire, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968, stated first edition; Abbey, Edward, Hayduke Lives!, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990, stated first edition; Agee, James, A Death in the Family, New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957; Brown, Christy, My Left Foot, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955, stated first printing; Capote, Truman, Other Voices Other Rooms, New York: Random House, 1948, stated first printing; Fallaci, Oriana, A Man, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980, first edition; Genet, Jean, Miracle of the Rose, New York: Grove Press, 1966, stated first printing; Genet, Jean, Our Lady of the Flowers, New York: Grove Press, 1963, stated first printing; Naipaul, Vidiadhar S., A Turn in the South, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, stated first trade edition; Rechy, John, City of Night, New York: Grove Press, 1963, stated first printing; Salzman, Mark, Iron & Silk, New York: Random House, 1986; McPhee, John, Looking for a Ship, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990, first edition; Least Heat Moon, William, Blue Highways: A Journey into America, Boston: Little, Brown Company, 1982, stated first edition; Wolfe, Thomas, You Can't Go Home Again, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940, stated first edition, (all works with dust jackets in predominantly good condition, many with book jacket covers).
Estimate $600-800
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Thomas QuinnJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
The Fine Books & Manuscripts department delivers scholarship, expertise, and attention to detail in appraisals, evaluations, and auctions of rare books and historically important material ranging from medieval manuscripts to presidential documents.