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Selected Books from Michael Hurley's Library

1623 William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. The Second Folio edition.
1791 James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Two volumes. First edition.
1813 Percy Blythe Shelley. Queen Mab. First edition. One of only 250 copies printed.
1819 George Gordon Byron. Don Juan. All six volumes (1819-24). First editions.
1820 John Keats. Lamia. First edition in the original boards.
1836 Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First edition, original 20 parts in wrappers.
1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne. Twice Told Tales. First edition.
1846 Herman Melville. Typee. First edition, binding variant A. Melville's first book.
1886 Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures Underground. First edition. The facsimile printing of Carroll's original manuscript book that provided the basis for ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1865). Presentation copy, inscribed by Carroll in December 1886 to his sister.
1894 Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. First edition, "a magnificent copy."
1897 Bram Stoker. Dracula. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "Henry Williams, from his old friend, Bram Stoker, July 1897."
1913 Robert Frost. A Boy's Will. First edition, second issue. The poet's first book.
1922 T.S. Eliot. The Wasteland. First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies.
1922 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. First edition, in a "sparkling dust wrapper."
1925 Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon. First edition. A fine copy in dust jacket.
1926 A. A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh. First edition. One of 20 copies bound in vellum and signed by both Milne and the illustrator Ernest H. Shephard.. "A splendid copy."
1935 Willa Cather. Lucy Grayheart. First edition. One of 749 copies signed by Cather.
1938 Ernest Hemingway. The Spanish Earth. First edition, first issue. One of 1,000 numbered copies.
1939 Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. First edition. One of 250 copies signed by Faulkner.
1943 Lovecraft, H. P. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. First edition. Limited to 1,217 copies. Fine in dust wrapper.

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