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Fante, John. THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. First edition. Small 4to. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition was issued unsigned. Fante died in 1983 and, according to the publisher, there were actually fewer than 26 signed colophon sheets to draw from, the exact number being unkonwn. Fante composed "The Road To Los Angeles" prior to his first published novel, "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," but the unpublished manuscript languished in a desk drawer for a half-century until, at Charles Bukowski's behest, Black Sparrow published this first of the four Arturo Bandini books. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket as issued.
$1,250.00
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Fante, John. WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI. New York: Stackpole Sons, [1938]. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. This copy is signed by Fante. Laid in is a 1971 color photograph of him with his two dogs. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket that is ever-so-slightly used at the top of the back panel.
$8,500.00
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Faulkner, William. A Two-Page Legal Agreement. Dated March 23, 1959. Signed by Faulkner, this document reassigns the rights to "Turn About" and the rights to the story's characters to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation. The original assignment was dated October 22, 1932. At that time Faulkner adapted his story for the 1932 Howard Hawks movie, "Today We Live," a character-driven drama of World War I aviators. With light professional restoration of several tears. About fine.
$9,500.00
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Faulkner, William. GO DOWN, MOSES And Other Stories. New York: Random House, [1942]. First edition. 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This book constitutes the lowest limitation of any Faulkner signed, limited edition. The author considered "Go Down, Moses" a novel, though the stories were individually published, and he revised these thematically related works of fiction for book publication. Hardcover. Fine (without dust jacket as issued) and housed in a quarter-leather cloth clamshell box.
$35,000.00
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Faulkner, William. SANCTUARY. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Spine a touch foxed, else fine in a bright dust jacket that has been restored at the spine by a master conservator.
$6,500.00
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Faulkner, William. SOLDIERS' PAY. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition of the author's second book and first novel. 8vo. The Carl Petersen copy. Hardcover. Fine in an unfaded dust jacket that has been minimally restored by a master conservator. Rare in any kind of jacket. In a custom-made cloth chemise and slipcase.
$85,000.00
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Faulkner, William. THE WILD PALMS. New York: Random House, [1939]. First trade edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$3,500.00
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Ford, Ford Madox. (Pseudonym of Ford Madox Hueffer). NEW YORK ESSAYS. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. 8vo. One of 750 copies signed by the author. Ford has additionally inscribed this copy on the half-title in the year of publication. This title was not published in England. Hardcover. Fine in a fine example of the dust jacket.
$1,500.00
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Fitzgerald, F[rancis] Scott. THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED. New York: Scribners, 1922. First edition, second state, with the title printed in black on the front panel. 8vo. Hardcover. Fine in an unusually fine example of the dust jacket.
$25,000.00
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Flanner, Janet. THE CUBICAL CITY. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition of the author's first book, a novel. 8vo. Flanner was for fifty years the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, writing under the pseudonym "Genet," and with Djuna Barnes and Natalie Barney a leading lesbian light in expatriate Paris circles. Rare these days in any kind of jacket. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$5,000.00
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Fowles, John. THE EBONY TOWER. London: Cape, [1974]. First edition. 8vo. This copy is inscribed: "With best wishes, Allan tells me, to a bookseller extra-ordinaire! John Fowles." Laid into this copy is a color photograph of Fowles and the recipient, taken in the garden of his Dorset home. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$1,500.00
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Fowles, John. INTRODUCTION: REMEMBERING CRUIKSHANK. Princeton: Princeton University Library Chronicle, [1974]. First edition. 4to. One of 50 copies issued as an offprint (the entire edition) -- Roberts A8. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author. Printed wrappers. Fine.
$500.00
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Fowles, John. MY RECOLLECTIONS OF KAFKA. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, [ 1970]. First edition. Small 4to. Issued as an offprint from Mosaic: Volume III, Number 4. This copy is inscribed by the author to noted Canadian collector Allan D. McGuire: "Allan / One of a very limited number -- twenty-five if I remember / John Fowles." The author's recollection of a 25-copy edition is confirmed by the entry in the Roberts bibliography (A6). Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$1,000.00
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Fowles, John. OF MEMOIRS & MAGPIES. Austin: Taylor, 1983. First edition. 8vo. One of 26 Roman-numeraled, hardbound copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition, 174 copies, was sewn into wrappers and issued unsigned. A droll, self-deprecating essay in which Fowles dissects his taste in as well as a predilection for the esoteric in literature. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket as issued.
$1,500.00
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Fuchs, Daniel. SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG. New York: Vanguard Press, [1934]. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Fuchs to the noted philanthropist and book collector, Charles Feinberg, whose Walt Whitman collection reposes in the Library of Congress. Along with Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep" which was also published in 1934, a classic of Jewish-American life in the Great Depression -- and every bit as scarce to locate in collector's condition. After publishing two similarly thematic novels, Fuchs departed for Hollywood, where he would write many screenplays, including "Love Or Leave Me," for which he received an Academy Award. Hardcover. Fine in a near-fine example of the rare dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
$7,500.00
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