California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2023
The Fair features nearly 200 booksellers from over 20 countries, and runs over 3 days from Friday 10th February to Sunday 12th February.
Bernard and his trusted team look forward to seeing you at Stand 400.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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Across the River and Into the Trees.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price $161.00 - Original price $161.00Original price $0.00$161.00$161.00 - $161.00Current price $161.00The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...
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Flush: A Biography.
WOOLF, Virginia.Original price $577.00 - Original price $577.00Original price $0.00$577.00$577.00 - $577.00Current price $577.00Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price $417.00 - Original price $417.00Original price $0.00$417.00$417.00 - $417.00Current price $417.00Association copy. A lovely association copy, inscribed by Harold Pinter to the actor Jack MacGowran on the title page: 'To Jack from Harold, Enjoy ...
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An Expensive Place to Die.
DEIGHTON, Len.Original price $193.00 - Original price $193.00Original price $0.00$193.00$193.00 - $193.00Current price $193.00Fifth book featuring the involuntary agent known as Harry Palmer, portrayed by Michael Caine in his screen incarnations. Scarce with the docket.Fi...
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Marriage and Morals.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price $1,217.00 - Original price $1,217.00Original price $0.00$1,217.00$1,217.00 - $1,217.00Current price $1,217.00First edition. An excellent copy of the first edition of Russell's controversial attack on Edwardian Marriage and Morals, which won him the Nobel P...
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A Confederacy of Dunces.
TOOLE, John Kennedy.Original price $6,402.00 - Original price $6,402.00Original price $0.00$6,402.00$6,402.00 - $6,402.00Current price $6,402.00First edition in first issue dustjacket. An outstanding copy of this scarce title in the first issue dustjacket, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for F...
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The Great Gatsby.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price $5,442.00 - Original price $5,442.00Original price $0.00$5,442.00$5,442.00 - $5,442.00Current price $5,442.00First edition, first printing, first issue. A true masterpiece, and simply one of the best-loved and most-admired short novels in the English langu...
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A Farewell to Arms.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price $961.00 - Original price $961.00Original price $0.00$961.00$961.00 - $961.00Current price $961.00First UK edition, written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I.A profile of...
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Esthétique du Mal.
STEVENS, Wallace; WILLIAMS, Wightman (illustrator).Original price $1,921.00 - Original price $1,921.00Original price $0.00$1,921.00$1,921.00 - $1,921.00Current price $1,921.00One of 340 copies - signed by the illustrator and type designer. Number 65 of 300 copies printed from Centaur types on Italian Pace paper, from a t...
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