"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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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF RAYNAL'S REVOLUTION OF AMERICA, 1781, THAT PROMPTED PAINE'S FAMOUS 1782 LETTER… TO ABBÉ RAYNAL
RAYNAL, Abbé [Guillaume Thomas François]. Revolution of America. London, 1781.
First edition in English, simultaneous with the first French edition, of Raynal's provocative work that dismissed the American Revolution as a "temporary upheaval," triggering Paine's fierce reply in his Letter… to Abbé Raynal, where he heralded the American cause as "the first war to be based on principle in the history of the world." $1400.
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“A CLASSIC WORK ABOUT PARAGUAY”
CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francis-Xavier de. History of Paraguay. London, 1769. Two volumes in one. First edition in English of this fascinating history of Paraguay and its colonization by the Jesuit missionaries, handsomely bound. $1200.
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