267
263
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SHUTE, NEVIL.
On the Beach.
8vo, publisher’s red cloth, spine gilt lettered,
boards clean and bright but for a few faint spots to front cover; dust jacket, mild shelfwear,
largely to rear panel, price clipped; top- and fore-edges and first blank with usual foxing.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
. About fine in like dust jacket. Basis for the 1959 Stanley Kramer
film of the same name. Melbourne, London and Toronto: Heinemann, (1957)
[200/300]
264
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SINCLAIR, UPTON.
Oil!
8vo, publisher’s yellow-stamped maroon cloth, minor
shelfwear to corners and spine tips; minor foxing to top- and fore-edges just into text mar-
gins, light impression from erased ownership signature on front free endpaper; discreet
bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
of the novel that inspired the 2007 film “There Will Be Blood,” loosely
based on the life of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny.
265
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SPENSER, EDMUND.
Spenser’s Faerie Queen: A Poem in Six Books
with the Fragment Mutabilitie.
6 volumes. Illustrated by Walter Crane with full-page
woodcuts and numerous headings and tailpieces by Walter Crane. 4to, burgundy buckram
with printed paper labels to spines, occasional scuffing and staining to covers, corners
bumped, labels somewhat faded with scattered chipping; fore- and lower edges uncut;
plates generally clean; Susan Thornton Henning bookplates with her ownership inscrip-
tions to each.
ONE OF
1000
SETS PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER
.
London: George Allen, 1897-1896
[600/900]
266
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STEIN, GERTRUDE.
The Making of Americans.
8vo, rebound in
1
/
4
brown
morocco, spine gilt-lettered, covers worn; original tan printed wrappers bound in, front
free endpaper detached; ex-libris bookplate of Shakespeare and Company, Paris, on front
pastedown.
FIRST EDITION
. One of 500 copies of Stein’s modernist epic.
Paris: Contact Editions/Three Mountains Press, (1925)
[500/750]
