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This is the special limited edition, 1/100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page. This special edition was not sold but given away by the author to help celebrate his involvment with publishing which debuted with this book. A very scarce item. The book won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1998, and was also the basis for the Clint Eastwood directed film that starred Eastwood, Angelica Huston and Jeff Daniels.

BLOOD WORK
Connelly, Michael
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. This is the special limited edition, 1/100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page... more
Price: $1,850.00

Small 8vo. Rare hardcover edition, being one of only 506 copies. This copy is inscribed by Tennessee Williams on the front endpaper: " Hard Cover! / What Radical Chic! / Tennessee Williams / Key West, 1971." 114pp. With four photographic plates inserted throughout. When this play first premiered in New York in 1945, actor Montgomery Clift played the role of Hadrian (directed by Gurthrie McClintic)

YOU TOUCHED ME! A Romantic Comedy In Three Acts. Suggested by a Short Story of the Same Name by D. H. Lawrence.
Williams, Tennessee and Donald Windham
New York: Samuel French, (1947). Small 8vo. Rare hardcover edition, being one of only 506 copies. This copy is inscribed by Tennessee Williams on the.. more
Price: $2,000.00

Small folio. This copy bears Leibovitz's presentation inscription on the front endpaper: "For Lena / with great admiration / Annie Leibovitz / New York 1999." From the estate of Lena Horne. A one-of-a-kind copy.

WOMEN by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag.
(Horne, Lena)
New York: Random House, 1999. Small folio. This copy bears Leibovitz's presentation inscription on the front endpaper: "For Lena / with great admiration / Annie.. more
Price: $2,250.00

4to. One of 75 copies signed by the author and artist. A beautiful, and appropriate presentation, of the author's eloquent essay on childhood, man, and nature, written in 1981. The book was printed in the spring of 1992 by Sandy Tilcock (Lone Goose Press), with assistance from Kathleen Wigley. Both the text, handset in Perpetua, and the relief images were printed on a Vandercook 219 proofing press. The text and cover papers were made by Margaret Prentice from the plant fiber abaca with patterns created in the paper's body by colored pulp. Housed in the original publisher's cloth clamshell box (with spine label).

CHILDREN IN THE WOODS. With Relief Prints By Margaret Prentice.
Lopez, Barry
Eugene: Lone Goose Press, (1992). 4to. One of 75 copies signed by the author and artist. A beautiful, and appropriate presentation, of the author's eloquent.. more
Price: $500.00

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