J. M. Barrie was a Scottish novelist, playwright, and the creator of Peter Pan. Peter and Wendy, his most famous work, was first published in the form of a 1904 play and again as a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. An enduring children’s classic, rare and sought after.

Description: True 1st Edition with Scribner’s seal and “published October 1911” on copyright page. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Boards show wear. Missing upper 1/3 of the back-strip. Pages show some toning. Previous owner’s inscription on front free end paper, otherwise in very good condition. Rare!

Bookseller Inventory # 48604

Peter and Wendy
J. M. Barrie

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Jack Kerouac was a pioneer of the Beat Generation, and a counterculture icon. He is remembered for his method of spontaneous prose. His novel On the Road was groundbreaking, and captured the spirit of its time as few others had. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drugs. Key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) are represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. A rare and sought after modern classic!

Description: True 1st Edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Pages show some age toning. Boards show minor wear, otherwise in very good condition. Rare!

Bookseller Inventory # 48593

On The Road
Jack Kerouac

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Internationally recognized photographer Peter Beard first visited Africa in 1955. After graduating from Yale, he returned to Africa and worked at Kenya’s Tsavo Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and 5000 Black Rhinos. The work done there led to the publication of The End of the Game books.

“When I first went to Kenya in August 1955, I could never have guessed what was going to happen. Kenya’s population was roughly five million, with about 100 tribes scattered throughout the endless ‘wild—deer—ness’ – it was authentic, unspoiled, teeming with big game – so enormous it appeared inexhaustible. Everyone agreed it was too big to be destroyed. Now Kenya’s population of over 30 million drains the country’s limited and diminishing resources at an amazing rate: surrounding, isolating, and relentlessly pressuring the last pockets of wildlife in denatured Africa.” —Peter Beard

Description: Hard bound with Brown ‘leatherette’ covered boards and tipped-in plate on the front board, no dust jacket as issued. Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits, curated by Peter T. Tunney, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. 205 pages profusely illustrated. RARE & SOUGHT AFTER.

Bookseller Inventory # 48623

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits
Beard, Peter

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Publisher: Arena Editions
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Edition: First Edition

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Ernest Hemingway was the most influential writer of the last century. An American author and journalist, his distinctive style was characterized by economy and understatement. This from the foreword “Unlike many novels, none of the characters or incidents in this book is imaginary. Any one not finding sufficient love interest is at liberty, while reading it, to insert whatever love interest he or she may have at the time. The writer has attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month’s action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination”

Description:  1st Edition with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. Hard bound in dust jacket. Pages show toning. Dust jacket shows significant edge wear with chipping, otherwise in very good condition. Rare!

Bookseller Inventory # 47628

The Green Hills Of Africa
Ernest Hemingway

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Ed Ruscha has become know for his deadpan irreverence, and his Pop inspired art work. He holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Born in Omaha in 1937, He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1950’s where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. By the early sixties he had made a name for himself for his collage, painting and printmaking, and for his association with the Ferrus Gallery group. Later he achieved recognition for his painting incorporating words and phrases and for his many photographic books.

Description: Third Edition. Limited to 3000 copies. Paperback in original onion skin dust jacket. Dust jacket shows edge wear to top edge, otherwise in very good condition. Pages clean and bright. Binding sound.

Bookseller Inventory# 47059

Twenty Six Gasoline Stations
Ed Ruscha

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