The last list of the year, a round-up of two dozen new arrivals.
![Item No: #75038 Peter and Wendy [Peter Pan]. J. M. Barrie](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/75038.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643435)
First US edition. The novel based on the beloved characters in J. M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan, which instantly installed Never-Never Land, Captain Cook, and Tinkerbell into the English-speaking consciousness. The novel builds on the play and extends the narrative. It ends with one of the truest lines about children.....
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![Item No: #364813 Hazards [Publisher's Presentation Copy]. Aleck Bauer](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364813.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643360)
First Thus. One of 24 numbered presentation copies of this reprint of a golf classic, originally published in 1913. This version is signed on the limitation page by the modern-day contributors and includes a reproduction of a drawing by the British illustrator Ionicus (Joshua Charles Armitage) that has been handcolored.....
Price: $600
![Item No: #364394 The Dead Don't Die [Revised Final Shooting Script]. Robert Bloch](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364394.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643312)
First Edition. An original studio screenplay for a made-for-TV horror movie based on the Haitian folklore about zombies, the living dead. Bloch, best known for Psycho, based the movie on his own story of the same title, which first appeared in Fantastic Adventures in July 1951. The movie premiered on.....
Price: $400
A pencil drawing by Bok dated 2-3-39. Image area roughly 7-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches on an 8-1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper. Near fine, with a few short edge tears. Not signed but unmistakable.
Price: $500
![Item No: #364821 The Martian Chronicles [Signed, Easton Press]. Ray Bradbury](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364821.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643399)
In the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. Bound in full leather, decorated in gilt, with gold edges, and a silk bookmarker. Introduction by Damon Knight; illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Easton Press issued several versions of this book. This copy is copyrighted 2000, but the Certificate of Authenticity is dated.....
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One of 948 signed and numbered copies of this popular modern zombie novel. 372 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Numbered 777 (!) of 948.
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First Edition. One of 400 signed, numbered copies of this Hugo Award-winning novella that explores ideas about increasingly sentient programmed beings. Illustrated by Christian Pearce. 150 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in buff-colored cloth-covered boards. No jacket, as issued. This is number 8 of 400 signed by.....
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![Item No: #364816 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate [Signed, Numbered]. Ted...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364816.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643376)
First Edition. One of 200 copies of the first publication of this Hugo- and Nebula-award winning short novel. Unlike most Subterranean Press titles, which are reprints of previously published material, this edition, published in July 2007, preceded even its appearance in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in September.....
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First Edition. A collection of seventeen previously unpublished "posthumous" poems; the cycle Diván del Tamarit, which was published in the Revista Hispánica Moderna in 1940 (the present edition is their first appearance in a book); and the Canciones Musicales, which may be first published here. Lorca let the Mexican diplomat.....
Price: $150
First Edition. The co-founder of Microsoft offers his views on the future of computers in our lives. The book was published at the beginning of the Internet era, before online access was readily available to the general public. Gates predicted that the Internet was "unlikely to be available in homes.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A collection of essays on food, one of Harrison's great passions. The first edition was a relatively small 17,881 copies according to Orr and Torrey's bibliography (A39.b). 271 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed.....
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First Edition. One of Lewis's later novels, and one of his better works, still in print today. On the front of the dust jacket it asks the question, posed when the authoritarian America First movement seemed to be gaining steam, "What will happen when America has a dictator?" The book.....
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First Edition. A set assembled by a collector including the numbered issue of the book, the advance reading copy (ARC/Proof), and the promotional chapbook, The Funeral, all housed in a custom clamshell box. Bloodlines reprints several screenplays and film treatments by Matheson, with the full text of the novel I......
Price: $500
![Item No: #364826 Wildwood [Signed, Numbered]. Colin Meloy](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364826.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643420)
First Edition. The first volume of the Wildwood Chronicles, issued in an edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Meloy and the illustrator Carson Ellis. Meloy is the lead singer of the Decemberists. Carson, an artist, is his wife. 541 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near.....
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![Item No: #364115 Urban Horrors [Proof, Trade, Limited]. William F. Nolan, Martin...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643299)
First Edition. A set of various versions of this book, assembled by a collector and housed in a custom clamshell box. This set includes the trade first edition (signed by Ray Bradbury and Joe Lansdale); the signed, numbered edition (one of 500); and a large-format comb-bound proof, signed by Bradbury.....
Price: $400
First Edition. The novel that inspired the acclaimed film of the same name. Jennifer Lawrence won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work on this film. The movie also starred Bradley Cooper. The novel is the story of a man in a neural health facility who believes that.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #364820 Interview with the Vampire [Signed]. Anne Rice](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364820.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643395)
The twentieth anniversary edition, issued in a slipcase and signed on a tipped-in page. The classic modern vampire novel. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has a few small dents and a bit of edge wear from the slipcase, which is very snug. Signed by Rice.....
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First Edition. The first of the crime novels written by the author of the Harry Potter books and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. According to the Errington bibliography of J. K. Rowling (A17.a), the print run was just 1750 copies. Next to the hardcover copy of Harry Potter and.....
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First Edition. The second Cormoran Strike novel, a crime fiction series written by the author of the Harry Potter books under a pseudonym. 456 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a very near fine.....
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Second Edition. An inscribed copy of the second edition of the great 20th century Mexican novel, a story unmoored from time and reality that inspired the development of magical realism. For many years, the novel was a book admired by writers but with comparatively few readers. This second edition of.....
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![Item No: #300200 The Thirteenth Tale [Signed, Numbered]. Diane Setterfield](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300200.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643294)
First Edition. One of 250 signed and numbered copies of the author's debut novel, an instant bestseller. This limited edition may have been published by Goldsboro Books. First edition (states "First published..." on the copyright page, with no indications of later printings). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase.....
Price: $200
![Item No: #364819 The Diamond Age [Signed, Numbered]. Neal Stephenson](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364819.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734643390)
First Edition. A novel, subtitled, "Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer." This is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Stephenson. 505 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a near fine slipcase that is slightly scuffed on the bottom. There is some offsetting to the top.....
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First Edition. A long collection of travel sketches and social commentary. Twain began to travel in the mid-1890s because he needed the money, having lost a good part of his fortune through bad investments. While abroad he lectured in front of large audiences and wrote about his experiences, collected here.....
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First Edition. Wolfe looks at American architecture. First edition (first printing stated). Top edge spotted, else near fine in a fine dust jacket, without the fading sometimes afflicting the spine. This copy is inscribed by Wolfe on the front free endpaper, "To Martha Ragland, Tom Wolfe." This copy was acquired.....
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