Book Gallery - Featured Items
 
 
Featured items that Book Gallery plans to bring to RMBPF 2014.
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Book Gallery
Mike Riley
3643 E. Indian School Rd. Phoenix AZ 85018
602-508-0280
bookgallery@qwestoffice.net
Fine books in all categories
Booth Number: 9 and 10

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The Long Valley. John Steinbeck. New York / Viking / 1938.

Description: FIRST EDITION. His first book for Viking, this short story collection includes "The Chrysanthemums" as well as the Red Pony Stories. 303 pages. Cover art by Elmer Hader. Only 8000 copies were printed of the First Edition. In Extraordinarily Fine condition and featured along with many other equally Fine Steinbeck First Editions, Inquiries welcome.

Genre: Literature

Price $2500.00

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New varieties of gold and silver coins counterfeit coins, and bullion: with mint values. Jacob Eckfeldt & William Du Bois. Philadelphia / 1850.

Description: Contemporary survey of Gold Rush coinage, with samples of actual gold inside the book, and including information on Californian and Mormon Coins of the Gold Rush. Exceptional Condition In Original Binding.

Genre: Western History / Numismatics

Price $7500.00

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Oeuvres des Maitre. Francois Rabelais. Amsterdam / Bernard / 1741.

Description: 3 volumes. Nouvelle Edition. Exceptionally clean contemporary binding, illustrations by Bernard Picart throughout. Includes Biography of Rabelais as well as the first critical interpretation, by Jacob Le Duchat.

Genre: Literature

Price $14,000.00

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The Romances Alexandre Dumas. 1902.

Description: Lavish 60 volume set produced by Becourt binder in full onlaid leather, expressly for noted 20th Century collector Hal T. Goodwin, at a cost of more than $150,000. Only set ever produced of a planned limitation of 10. Each volume contains an original watercolor frontispiece, and each front leather doublure has an original pyrographic drawing. Autograph letter of Dumas tipped into volume one. In Pristine Original Condition.

Genre: Literature / Fine Binding

Price $65,000.00

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A Voyage Round the World in the years 1740-1744. George Anson. London / 1794.

Description: Exceptionally clean copy, complete as issued w/ World Map. Two other editions available as well as similar titles, from an Exploration Library.

Price $3450.00