Welcome to the home of Evening Star Books. We offer fine and rare books in many fields, but specialize in literature of all periods, modern first editions, and works of historical significance. We regularly buy and sell fine and collectible books in these areas.
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Tarantula
Dylan, Bob (Robert Zimmerman)New York: The Macmillan Company [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 137 pp. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dylan's first book, a work of poetry organized in a prose format. A nice copy of the first trade edition. Published during one of Dylan's creative peaks...
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Cities of the Plain
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 292 pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials in gold on the front board. Price of $24.00 on front flap of dust jacket. One of a thousand signed...
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The Town
Faulkner, WilliamNew York: Random House (1957), 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 371 pp. Bound in red cloth, top edge grey, grey patterned endpapers. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. First issue (jacket flap has 5/57 date code, printing error on page 327). An attractive copy of the second book in the...
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Old Deadwood Days
Bennett, EstellineNew York: J.H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 300 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Bound in orange cloth with a stagecoach embossed in black on the front board. Adams Six-Guns 199, Adams Burs 31. A firsthand account of Deadwood during the South Dakota...
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Collected Works Volume I; Collected Works Volume II; Collected Works Volume III; Publications 1929-1936; Publications 1938-1974; Unpublished Essays and Lectures
Gödel, KurtNew York: Oxford University Press, 1986; 1990; 1995. First printing. Hardcover. 474 pp.; 407 pp.; 532 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the spines. Edited by Solomon Feferman, John W. Dawson, Jr., Stephen C. Klene, Gregory H. Moore, Robert M. Solovay, Warren Goldfarb, Charles Parsons, and Jean...
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The Ogowe Band; A Narrative of African Travel
Reading, John H.Philadelphia: Reading & Company, Publishers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, 278 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates (steel engravings and photographs) and two maps, including a chromolithograph of French colonial currency used in turn-of-the-century Western Africa. The illustrations include portraits of native peoples, Mrs. Reading, several different churches in...
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Planet of the Apes
Boulle, PierreNew York: The Vanguard Press, Inc. [1963], 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. 246 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. First printing of the first edition in English. Basis for the popular 1968 film and for its numerous sequels...
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U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition
Catton, BruceBoston: Little, Brown and Company [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 201 pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine in a teal dust jacket. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The Library of America Biography. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Inscribed by...
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Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the...
Greely, Adolphus W.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 428 pp.; 444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines. With nearly one-hundred illustrations made from...
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The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
King, StephenWest Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1987. Dave McKean. First edition. Hardcover. 399 pp. Bound in black cloth with bronze metallic lettering on the spine, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. 10 color plates. Price of $35.00 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated...
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The Shipping News
Proulx, E. AnnieNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 337 pp. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket.
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J R
Gaddis, WilliamNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 726 pp. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. The author's second novel, winner of the National Book Award. The hardcover first (the book was simultaneously issued in paperback) is uncommon; there may have been as few as 2000 copies...
