Recent Arrivals from Christopher's Rare Books

A very good copy of John Irving's third novel, the first printing of which is reputed to have been issued in a very small print run of 2,560 copies.The ironic tone and erotic ambiguities of this tale of sexual experimentation in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp. Book has small ding and faint foxing… Read more about this item

Dogs in English Porcelain, by Dennis G. Rice. Woodbridge, UK: Antique Collector's Club, 2002. First Printing. A well-illustrated history of the Porcelain Dog as produced in England in the 1800's. The book looks at different breeds, the factories making the ceramics and the history and development of the designs. The book includes a full factory by factory list of all… Read more about this item

In this celebrated book, a companion to the author's earlier 'Mani', Leigh Fermor explores the minority communities of Northern Greece and observes the conflict between post-war Greece and the classical Greek world. Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell, dustwrapper by John Craxton. Darkening and minor loss to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely copy.

A fully revised version of Fowles's 1965 novel, his third, which he returned to with stylistic and tonal variations. A young English schoolteacher, Nicolas Urfe, accepts a teaching assignment in Greece to escape his relationship with his girlfriend and to add a novel element to his life. Through a fantastic series of games, hallucinations, parables, theatrical masques, riddles, and mock trials, Nicholas… Read more about this item

One of Bryson's funniest, early travel books, in which he begins his life-long affair with the British and their history. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition, with slight browning to paper edges. Hardcover.

The Blood of a Poet and The Testament of Orpheus, by Jean Cocteau.The screenplays of two of Cocteau's most famous projects, with photographs from the original film productions. Slight yellowing to jacket spine, otherwise in perfect condition.

First printing, first state, with dark gray topstain. Unclipped jacket has $3.00 price and M. McKnight Kauffer instead of E. McKnight Kauffer as the designer. Choctaw is misspelled as Chocktaw on page 21. This play, adapted to the stage by Ruth Ford, opened at the John Golden Theatre on January 30, 1959. The production was staged by Tony Richardson and starred… Read more about this item

First printing, signed with a dedication. "Hospitality under the Influence" is how Amy Sedaris describes her guide to gracious living. With tongue in cheek advice on how to wing it in the kitchen or any other baffling place you may find yourself entertaining. A retro-chic classic. 304 pages.

This is a true first printing, with pages 430 and 431 transposed, and with the rare erratum slip, flamboyantly signed on the title page. Jonathan Franzen's closest shot at a masterpiece, so far. A wonderful dissection of one family's problems, from the puritanical parents' drug dependence to the three childrens' very different lifestyles, all wheeling out of control. A great… Read more about this item

The epic account of Brooke Astor's court room battles to control her second husband's immense charitable foundation has become a New York legend. Her success enabled her to become the leading lady of Manhattan society and one of the most generous, although the family feuds are far from over.

Antonia Fraser The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth Century England London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984 First printing Signed with a dedication on the title page. With her characteristically rigorous and compassionate scholarship, Fraser examines the roles of women in England, in the century following the death of Elizabeth 1. Book and jacket are in fine condition.

Signed with a dedication, on the title page. Ten short stories, dealing with life, love and disappointment. Book and jacket are in very good condition, with slight pushing to corners.

Signed by the author, without inscription, on the title page. Bellow's last novel, after the author had received three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1976, the Nobel Prize in Literature. Book is fine. Jacket is clipped and has a Harvard Book Store Signed sticker to front cover.

Boldly signed with 'Good Wishes' on the half-title page. A collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Book is in very good condition, with slight wear to unclipped jacket.

Boldly signed on the title page, this is Dick Francis's 24th thriller, set in the world of horse racing.Book has small owner signature to first end page and general age-darkening to page edges.

First French edition. This huge 341 page tribute to Rauschenberg's combine paintings is the catalog of an exhibition at MoCA and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The minimal text is in French, but the titles are in English and the reproductions of hundeds of Rauschenberg's most influential paintings from the 50s and 60s are phenomenal.

First softcover printing. 318 pages. An enormous tribute to the groundbreaking photography of Walker Evans, from images of the Great Depression onwards. His vision has shaped a modern perception of American life and profoundly influenced more contemporary photographers, such as Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe or Diane Arbus.

A very good collection, with some wear to the jacket, of Price's cartoons, mostly reprinted from The New Yorker. Price's meticulous style and his ear for the absurdities of the American language show a comic compassion for ordinary folk, who are just trying to get by. His outlook provides a link between the freaks of Charles Addams and the crazy people of… Read more about this item

The rare, true first printing, with "first edition" on copyright page, correct code I-B, denoting September 1952. Book good, with aging to boards, and owner name to first end page. Unclipped jacket ($2.50) has some wear, with two chips to spine edge. With 4 blurbs to back and publisher is just 'Harper and Brothers'. A lovely, collectible copy of one… Read more about this item

Eighth printing. A very good copy of Bond's 11th adventure, in a clipped copy of the famous jacket designed by Richard Chopping, showing slight wear to edges and back. Book has 'ski track' motif embossed to front board. Fading to dust jacket spine.