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Niekisch, Ernst :
        Autograph / signierter Brief an Ernst W. Geisenheyner, 25.6.1958
      Berlin, 1958.. 1 Blatt. 1 Blatt maschinenschriftlicher Brief des Nationalrevolutionärs Ernst Niekisch an den Verlagsagenten Ernst W. Geisenheyner in Sachen eines vergrifenen Buches und der Fälligkeit der aufgelaufenen Honorare, mit blauer Tinte signiert "Niekisch".- Autographen von Niekisch ("Widerstand") sind sehr selten im Handel.- Gelocht.- Oben Bleistiftnotiz von fremder Hand, briefmässig gefaltet // interner vermerk kxx '\m/'

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh
        Mani: Travels In The Southern Peloponnese
      London: John Murray, 1958. First editon of the author's travelogue about the rocky Mani, later complementing it with Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece. Octavo, original cloth. Full page inscription and drawing by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free endpaper, "To Mary Anna with love from Paddy." Leigh Fermor has also drawn the eye mimicking the dust jacket art by close friend and artist John Craxton. He also has written in Greek, translated as "where is Megalexandros p, 187." Also is a letter in Leigh Fermor's hand on his stationary to the recipient on the rear endpaper from 1971. The recipient was Mary Anna Marten (with her bookplate to the inside gutter), who was the daughter of the 3rd and last Lord Alington of Crichel and later trustee of The British Museum. An excellent near fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A unique copy of this classic work. His greatest book, Mani, was about a journey through that little-known and, at the time, archaic region….[He] traveled simply, staying with fishermen and farmers, which enabled him to capture the essence of the region….Almost every page has its own literary tour de force, often with intimidating displays of learning and research mixed with fantasy, imagination and acute descriptions of the scene itself" (Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Geographical). "Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century" (Financial Times).

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McCready, T. L., Jr.
        INCREASE RABBIT
      Ariel Books, New York 1958 - (Tudor, Tasha) INCREASE RABBIT by T. L. McCready, Jr. New York: Ariel Books, (1958). First edition. 8vo - 6-3/16" x 8-1/8". Yellow cloth covers with black stamped rabbit above title on front in fine condition. Color pictorial endpapers depict the four Warner/Tudor children with Increase Rabbit in a doll buggy has previous owner's name written neatly on the front free endpaper. Yellow dust wrapper with a full color picture of Increase Rabbit on the front panel and the correct first edition price of $2.75 on the front flap with minor soiling to the rear panel of a beautiful copy of the wrapper. [52]pp. including fly leafs. This book marks the fourth collaboration between the husband and wife team of McCready and Tudor. The book is illustrated throughout with both full color and black and white illustrations by Tasha Tudor. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is NEAR FINE. Very scarce. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers]

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Updike, John
        75 Aromatic Years of Leavitt and Peirce in the Recollection of 31 Harvard Men (First Edition, hardcover)
      Cambridge: Leavitt and Peirce, 1958. First Edition. First Edition, this being the uncommon hardcover variant. A series of recollections about Leavitt and Peirce, a tobacco shop and gathering place for Harvard men, published on the 75th anniversary of the shop. An early appearance by John Updike, who contributes his essay, "The Old Tobacconist." Fine but for a single chip to the inner front hinge, in a Near Fine tissue jacket with just a bit of chipping at the spine ends.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

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BUTTERWORTH, Peter] VOSBURGH, Dick and ASHTON, Brad
        For Pete's Sake
      Np [Associated-Rediffusion], London 1958 - 16 mimeographed pp., secured with staple to top left. A little edgeworn and dusty, pencilled notes to some pages. Last pages beginning to detach from staple. First edition. CO-WRITER DICK VOSBURGH'S CAMERA COPY, WITH HIS PENCILLED ANNOTATIONS. An interesting example of the 1950s phenomenon of Ad-Mags. With the arrival of commercial television in the UK in 1955, regulations were put in place to keep any advertising content separate from the programmes themselves. An exception was made for so-called 'shopping guides', US-style promotional shows where, instead of being advertised in commercial breaks, products were integrated into the fabric of a show where their benefits, availability and price were discussed by the cast. An extreme form of product placement, they usually ran for fifteen minutes, and gave the audience the feeling they were flipping through a mail-order catalogue. The most popular Ad-Mag show was Jim's Inn, starring Jimmy Hanley as the landlord of a village pub, who would serve up pints while a regular cast discussed a wide variety of household gadgets over a packet of pork scratchings. (Counter-intuitively, this is probably a much more realistic slice-of-pub-life than, say, the one served up in Eastenders or Coronation Street, where the locals never discuss soap operas). The Pilkington Report on British Broadcasting, published in 1962, condemned Ad-Mags for blurring the distinction between television characters and TV personalities when looking to sell goods to their audience, and television companies began dropping the shows even before they were outlawed by Parliament. For Pete's Sake ran for 15 episodes in 1957-8, and starred husband-and-wife team Peter Butterworth and Janet Brown. Each fortnight they would parody a well-known film, cramming puff pieces for a variety of products into the action. This episode, transmitted on 28 January 1958, presented a courtroom drama while singing the glories of, among others, the Fridor Stitchmaster, Christie's Liquid Lanoline, and Player's Cigarettes ('I always say 'please' to Player's'). No recordings of For Pete's Sake have survived. An extremely scarce relic from a long-dead TV format.

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John F Kennedy
        Colorful Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting/Dinner Program with photographic proof of JFK signing this very item
      "Program Signed ?John Kennedy? on the cover, 8 pages, 6? x 9?. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, [May 12, 1958]. In actuality this is a signed photograph, as JFK signed next to his photograph, which shows through the oval cutout on the cover. Stray pen marks on verso. Minor flaws. Fine condition. Accompanied by a Typed Letter Signed ?Louise Lukanuski,? 1 page, 7.25? x 8.25?. No place, October 25, 2008. In part, ?On May 12, 1958, Senator John F. Kennedy was the guest speaker at the 74th annual dinner of the Wilkes-Barre, PA Chamber of Commerce held at Wilkes College. U.S. Representative Daniel J. Flood, Democrat of the Eleventh Congressional District, also spoke ... When the program ended, I approached the Speakers? Table and asked Senator Kennedy to autograph my copy of the program ... The small photo is that of Senator Kennedy signing my program. Congressman Flood also appears in the photo. The larger photo is of Senator Kennedy and his admirers after the event. I am wearing a suit with my back to the camera.? Includes the original black and white photograph, 2.5? x 3.5?, serrated upper and lower edges, of Senator John F. Kennedy signing this program, and a black and white photograph, 10? x 8? of Senator Kennedy in a crowd of thirteen people, including the recipient Louise, signing an autograph. Magnification shows her holding this program."

      [Bookseller: University Archives]

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Nabokov, Vladimir
        Lolita
      New York: Putnam's. 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1958. First American edition, and second in English following the original Paris edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. A few shallow tears and chips along the edges of the jacket; a single 2-inch snag on the rear panel; light, general discoloration. First issue dust jacket with price intact. Digital images available upon request.

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Fleming, Ian
        Dr No
      Cape 1958 - A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1958. A near fine book (with the dancing lady to the front board). In a very good+ (or better) wrapper with one professional repair to the head of the spine. Some light wear to the tail of the spine and to the corners. A very nice copy indeed. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA]

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Seuss, Dr.
        The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
      Beginner Books, Random House 1958 - First Edition, First Printing. This copy is SIGNED by Seuss on a laid in signature. A beautiful copy. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with light wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collectors condition. We buy SIGNED Seuss First Editions. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Quintessential Rare Books, LLC]

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Pardee, Jacob, Monod
        Sur l'expression et le role des alleles "inductible". . . (The PaJaMo experiment)
      1958. The PaJaMo Experiment Pardee, Arthur B. (1921- ), Jacob, Francois (1920- ), and Monod, Jacques (1910-76). Sur l'expression et le rule des alleles "inductible" et "constitutif" dans la synthese de la b-galactosidase chez des zygotes d' "Escherichia coli." Offprint from Comptes rendus des seances de l'Academie des Sciences 246 (28 May 1958). 4to. 4pp. 269 x 215 mm. Original printed wrappers, faded at edges. Very good copy. First Separate Edition. The first report of the famous "PaJaMo" experiment, which provided the insights that led to the negative control mechanism of enzyme induction and to the concept of messenger RNA (an expanded English-language version of the paper was published the following year). "The PaJaMo experiment was unexpectedly powerful. It forced the solution of two problems. At home, it turned upside down the logic of regulation of enzyme synthesis that Monod had been investigating, and led to a general theory of the repressor and of groups of genes controlled together, to be termed the 'operon.' Afield, when accepted, the PaJaMo experiment broke the impasse in Crick and Brenner's comprehension of how information in the sequence of bases in DNA came to be expressed as a sequence of amino acids in protein, and thus led to the theory of the messenger and the solution of the coding problem" (Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation [1996], p. 390; see also pp. 391-402). Brock, The Emergence of Bacterial Genetics, section 10.9 (especially pp. 295-96). Jacob and Monod received shares in the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their "seminal discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis, which were a landmark in producing molecular biology" (Magill, The Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or Medicine, p. 921)

      [Bookseller: Jeremy Norman's Historyofscience.com]

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Matisse, Henri. -
        Dernieres oeuvres de Matisse 1950-1954. Verve Nos. 35 et 36.
      Paris. Editions de la Revue Verve. 1958.. 36,5x27 cm. 186 S. Mit farbigen Lithographien und s/w. Reproduktionen. Illustrierter Originalpappband.. "Verve. Revue artistique et litteraire. Vol. IX, Nos. 35 et 36." - Originalausgabe. - Mit je einem Text von Pierre Reverdy und Georges Duthuit. - Die eindrücklichen letzten Arbeiten von Matisse sind als Decoupagen entstanden und von Mourlot lithographiert. - Die farbigste Nummer aller Verve-Bände. - Rückenkanten leicht berieben.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Daniel Thierstein]

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Internationale Situationiste - G.E. DEBORD, A. KHATIB, H. PLATSCHEK, W. KORUN, G. PINOT-GALLIZIO, A. JORN
        La Société sans Classes à trouvé ses Artistes
      1958 Paris I.S. (Internationale Situationniste) 1958 - (Adresse de l'Internationale Situationniste à l'assemblée générale de l'Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art reunie le 14 avril 1958 dans l'Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles) - 31,3 x 22,8 cm - 1 page imprimée en noir recto verso - en très bon état, antérieurement plié en deux - rare - photos sur demande

      [Bookseller: A. Van Zaelen antiquariaat]

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J.R.R. Tolkien
        The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 1958 10th Impression with Dustjacket
      Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. 2nd Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. J.R.R. Tolkien. 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. A Near Fine copy of an extremely scarce early Hobbit. The 1958 printing, of the 2nd Edition (1951), or the 10th printing overall (1937). This copy is a stated 10th impression from the dustjacket, published by Houghton Mifflin from sheets imported from Great Britain. Stated 10th impression on front flap, not price clipped, noted as printed in Great Britain. One of probably only 1000 imported from Allen & Unwin, lacking the printing history on title verso, to help them circumvent the import restrictions and US copyright laws. The book features the original dustjacket with the Mountains and Dragon design by the author. The boards show no soiling or marking, no shelfwear to note. The text block is clean, without foxing. No bumped corners, virtually without fault. The dustjacket is not price clipped, and has no markings. It shows only the most minor of rubbing, with a very small amount of loss, to the top of the spine area. The front has a tiny bit of rubbing and minor loss to the tips of the folds. One small closed tear on the lower edge of the back panel. A beautiful, bright, clean copy, one of the copies with the dark light green boards stamped in blue, that are very hard to find. Contains the full color frontispiece "The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water", as well as the original line drawings by Tolkien. The maps are in excellent condition, with the red and black ink still showing clear and bright against the endpapers. Both maps have no foxing, no marks, or previous owners names. A highly collectable copy, hard to find in this Near Fine condition. Digital photo's available, inquire if interested. Other Tolkien books available, include both the UK and US editions, original cloth bindings, custom fine bindings, and Signed/Numbered/Limited Editions. Near Fine / Near Fine.

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CHAYEFSKY, Paddy
        [Playscript]: The Dybbuk from Woodhaven (aka: The Tenth Man)
      New York: Saint Subber and Arthur Cantor. (no date - probably 1958). First. Mimeographed sheets screwbound into Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Chipping to the front wrapper, small tear on the title page, else very good. An early version, when produced the title was changed to The Tenth Man. The play, directed by Tyrone Guthrie with a cast that included Jack Gilford and Lou Jacobi, ran for 623 performances starting in late 1959. This script Inscribed by the author to New York critic Leonard Lyons and his wife Sylvia: "To Leonard who will be read long after I will (my good luck) and Sylvia as noted on p. 2-1-19. Paddy Chayefsky." Chayefsky has circled the passage "my wife Sylvia" in the script at the appropriate page. Lyons was a syndicated columnist for the New York Post, whose influential column on Broadway was "The Lyon's Den." Rare, and with a nice association. .

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

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Frasconi, Antonio; (Sean O'Casey)
        The Green Crow
      1958 - Woodcut illustration, entitled: "The Green Crow - Sean O'Casey," measuring 12 x 16 inches, portraying O'Casey with the playwright's face attached to the hand-colored body of a crow. One of 20 hand-numbered copies, signed by Frasconi. Additionally inscribed by Frasconi to fellow artist William Morrison. A stunning production. Shipping extra [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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Kerouac, Jack
        The Dharma Bums
      New York: Viking Press, 1958: First Edition, First Printing. Matching dates of 1958 on copyright and title page, copyright page states "Published in 1958 by the Viking Press" with no mention of subsequent printings. In Near Fine condition, in original dust jacket with price of $3.95 intact. Light ding to spine cloth and on jacket, correspondingly. Tiny, faint stain to top of last few pages. Light rubbing and light wear to the dust jacket. A very handsome copy, in a lovely original dust jacket.

      [Bookseller: Burnside Rare Books]

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Capote, Truman
        Breakfast at Tiffany's - SIGNED
      Random House, New York, 1958, Hardcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, A First Edition, First Printing, Signed By AuthorNear fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front end paper: "For Martha Robertson, With Love, Truman Capote".Jacket spine faded as is usual (with the book title just barely discernible), rear panel very slightly soiled, a couple small closed tears here and there around the jacket perimeter. Front flap with a very small crease. In a custom half leather box, gilt and raised bands on spine, very handsome. (Laid in is a business card of C.A. "Tony" Wimpheimer, Vice President -Secretary of Random House, and step-son of Donald S. Klopfer, co-founder of Random House.), Book

      [Bookseller: James Graham, Bookseller]

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Truman Capote
        Breakfast at Tiffany's
      Random House 1958 - Random House, New York 1958. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Printing, no additional printings. Yellow cloth boards. First issue jacket priced at $3.50. Signed by Truman Capote on a tipped in page after the front endpaper. The Signature is Guaranteed Authentic. Book Condition: Very Good+, tight spine, clean pages, spots on the boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, shelf wear, light spots at the rear panel. Short tear. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Perelman, S.J
        THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN. (Introduction by Dorothy Parker)
      New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958 INSCRIBED COPY OF THIS SPLENDID COMPILATION FROM THE GREAT HUMORIST. Important Presentation Copy. First edition. White cloth over red boards stamped in red, gold & blue. 8vo., 651pp. A near fine copy [a few tiny rust stains in the gutter of the front cover] in dustwrapper showing a hint of fade to the more delicate ink colours on the spine panel. A very nice example inscribed by the author to the uncredited editor of this collection: "To Julie Colmore, / in Lieu of Emeralds / S. J. Perelman / 15 September / 1958". The Perelman inscription is his take on the lowly pay scale at the time for this unsung Simon & Schuster editor. A very nice association copy indeed.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.

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Heinlein, Robert A[nson].
        METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN.
      Hicksville, N.Y.: Gnome Press, [1958] - Octavo, boards. First edition. First binding of black boards with spine panel lettered in red. The scarcest volume in Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645- 54. Text block age-darkened (less than usual), a fine copy in fine first state dust jacket (with the publisher's address "80 East 11th St., New York 3" at bottom of rear panel) with some light foxing to spine panel and along rear flap fold. A nice copy. (#106899) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB]

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Heinlein, Robert A.
        Methuselah's Children
      Gnome Press, Hicksville, NY 1958 - Black boards with red lettering on spine. Pages age toned as is common with Gnome Press titles, dustjacket shows light edge wear and has a short tear along upper edge of front panel. Currey binding A in first state dustjacket with the publisher's address that reads "80 East 11th St. , New York 3" at bottom of rear panel. A near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. An extremely appealing copy of this vintage Heinlein. ; Octavo; 188 pages. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Parigi Books, ABAA/ILAB]

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Thompson, Kay
        Eloise At Christmastime - 1st Edition/1st Printing
      New York: Random House. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This beautiful First Edition/First Printing copy is in Fine condition. The price-clipped dust jacket shows slight wear and has two small tears and a crease on the front; Eloise, the six-year-old girl who lives in the penthouse at the top of the Plaza Hotel in New York City is turning the place upside down during Christmastime. Basis for the movie starring Julie Andrews as Nanny and Sofia Vassilieva as Eloise .

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Gubler, Max. - Jedlicka, Gotthard.
        Auf einer Landstrasse. Mit Originallithographien von Max Gubler.
      . Zürich, Wolfsbergdrucke 1958. Gr.folio. 36 S., 2 Bl. Mit 11 einfarbige Orig.-Lithographien im Text und 3 farbige ganzseitige Orig.-Lithographien. Lose in OLn.-Mappe. In OLn.-Schuber. Nr. 104 von 250 Exemplaren. Von G. Jedlicka und Max Gubler im Druckvermerk signiert. Sehr gutes Exemplar. -CHF 500.00.

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan |
        Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels
      London: John Murray, 1958. - A Fine Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels DOYLE, Arthur Conan. [Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels]. London: John Murray, [1958-1964].Uniform Edition. Fifteen (of eighteen) octavo volumes (7 1/16 x 4 11/16 inches; 179 x 119 mm.).Comprising the following Sherlock Holmes titles: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Return of Sherlock Holmes ([1962]); His Last Bow ([1960]); The Hound of the Baskervilles ([1964]); The Sign of Four ([1963]); and The Valley of Fear ([1959]); as well as Sir Nigel ([1959]); The White Company ([1962]); The Refugees. A Tale of Two Continents ([1960]); Rodney Stone ([1963]); Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire ([1959]); The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard ([1961]); The Lost World. Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenger ([1960]); and The Tragedy of the Korosko ([1958]). Without The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, and Adventures of Gerard.Uniformly bound (probably by Morrell) for Henry Sotheran (stamp-signed on the front free endpaper) in three-quarter red polished calf over red cloth boards. Spines ruled in blind with five raised bands and blue morocco gilt lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Mildest uniform fading to spines. Otherwise a fine set.

      [Bookseller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.]

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Eco, Umberto [Writing As Dedalus]
        Filosofi In Libertà - 1st Edition/1st Printing
      Torino: Taylor editorale. Very Good+. 1958. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Original Cloth. First Edition/First Printing with "Prima Edizione" statement, Contursi A002a. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this one being #370. Brightly gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth, half-title perished, terse former owner's inscription dated 1959, else Very Nearly Fine. Signed by author Umberto Eco on the title page. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi. Rare; Written under the pseudonym Dedalus, Filosofi In Libertà is Eco's second book, a collection of cartoons and poems portraying philosophers such as Aristotle, Kant, and Marx. With 15 cartoons by Umberto Eco. In the original Italian language .

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KEROUAC, Jack.
        The Subterraneans
      New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1958 - Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed boards, white paper to sides, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Bookseller's ticket of Witkowers (Hartford, Connecticut), to rear pastedown. A fine copy. First edition, first printing. One of a limited edition of 100 specially bound copies, of which this is copy number 95. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

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