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book STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.

First edition of the author’s first book. Signed by him on the half-title. $450
book TOLSTOY, Leo. Tolstoy on Shakespeare. Christchurch: The Free Age Press, [1906].

First English language edition. This work contains articles critical of Shakespeare by Tolstoy, Crosby, and Shaw. $115
book TRAVEN, B. The Death Ship. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

First American edition of Traven’s first novel (first published in German as Das Totenschiff in 1926). This edition was preceded by the British edition by a few months, but that translation was by someone else; this version is Traven’s own English translation, and is considered to be superior (a similar circumstance occurred with his most famous novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1935). $1,500
book UPDIKE, John. Bech is Back. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

Signed limited first edition. One of only 500 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, signed by the author, and numbered. $100
book UPDIKE, John. The Witches of Eastwick. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.

Signed limited first edition, privately printed for members of The Signed First Edition Society. $150
book VONNEGUT, Kurt. Deadeye Dick. [New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1982.

Signed limited first edition. Number 66 of only 350 copies signed by the author. $400
book WELLS, H. G. The Croquet Player. New York: The Viking Press, 1937.

First American edition. $100
book WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis. Berlin: Verlag S. Fischer, 1905.

First German edition in book form. This copy inscribed by the editor, Max Meyerfield, in Italian to Fedor Mamroth, the theatre critic for the Frankfurter Zeitung. Meyerfield was the person responsible for spearheading the publication of this book. $450
book WILLIAMSON, Henry. The Wet Flanders Plain. [London]: [The Beaumont Press], [1929].

First edition of the twenty-fourth book produced by the Beaumont Press. One of 400 numbered copies (this being copy number 280). Cover and title-page designed by Randolph Schwabe. $300
book WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.

First edition. $19,000
book WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929.

First trade edition (preceded by the signed limited edition by only three days). $4,500

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