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If you don't find anything you need here, then consider selling your library.  We're always very interested in purchasing excellent books, first editions, maps, original photographs, documents and Western Americana.

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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." from The Great Gatsby, 1925, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

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WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO PURCHASE SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DUST-JACKETED FIRST EDITIONS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S WORKS.

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We are MT. GOTHIC TOMES AND RELIQUARY, Rare Books, Western Americana, First Edition Literature.  We have been in the business of "re-discovering" scarce Western Americana and First Edition Literature for over twenty-six years.  During that time, we have taken pride in helping public institutions and private collectors alike improve and expand their specialized archives.  We can do the same for you.

Brian Levine, P.O. Box 3048, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224-3048  USA

Email Us or call (970) 349-7079

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"In an age when information is everything, don't expect facts to be free."

 

Albert Einstein joked,"Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity,I myself no longer understand it."

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JOHN GARDNER

(John Champlin Gardner, Jr., July 21, 1933 Ц September 14, 1982, was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor.)

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THE RESURRECTION

First novel

Inscribed by John Gardner on the front endpaper.

The New American Library, first edition, 1966

Stated first printing. Book in near condition; original endpapers; 241 pages

Dust jacket very good plus to near fine.  $4.95 price still present.

Gold-lettering on spine bright; book tight and pages with only the slightest of toning.

 

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THE WRECKAGE OF AGATHON

First edition of Gardner's second novel

Harper & Row, Publishers: New York, Evanston, and London, 1970

Stated first printing

Signed by John Gardner on the front endpaper

 

Book in near fine condition as is dust jacket; original $6.95 price present

243 pages

 

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GRENDEL

Alfred A Knopf: New York, 1971

Stated First Edition

Signed by John Gardner on second front end paper

Illustrated by Emil Antonucci

Dust jacket almost fine with the slightest of fading to spine; price-clipped

Book in fine condition; 174 pages

Gardner's third novel.

 

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THE SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES

Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1972

Stated First Edition

Signed on second front endpaper

The above front endpaper is in another first edition of this book, signed with a drawing by the book's illustrator, John Napper

Both books are in near fine condition in near fine condition with original $8.95 price tag present; 674 pages

 

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"... But never again as during that all too short period when he and I were one person, when the fulfilled future and the wistful past were mingled in a single gorgeous moment -- when life was literally a dream...."  F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Early Success,' The Crack Up, October 1937

 

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