"A TALENT EQUAL TO WILLIAM FAULKNER"
MCCARTHY, Cormac. Child of God. New York, 1973.
First edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner McCarthy's third novel, his powerful "statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity." $3500.
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"A LEADER IN THE BRITISH ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT": FIRST EDITION OF ALEXANDER'S PIVOTAL WORK, LETTERS ON THE SLAVE-TRADE (1842)
ALEXANDER, G[eorge]. W[illiam]. Letters on the Slave-Trade. London, 1842.
First edition of a signal work by leading British abolitionist Alexander, whose lifelong efforts "to rid the world of the scourge of slavery" won praise by Frederick Douglass, cited in W.E.B. Du Bois' Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost entirely uncut and unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth. $2900.
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"ABOUT ONE TOWN WHERE IT'S AT"
MCMURTRY, Larry. Somebody's Darling. New York, 1978.
First edition of Larry McMurtry’s Hollywood novel, inscribed on the title page, "For Roswitha. About one town where it's at. Larry McMurtry." $475.
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