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"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE TREATISE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY": First edition of John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1936.
First American edition of the economist’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 145812
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"To a dear colleague and esteemed scholar": FIRST EDITION OF ALBERT EINSTEINS "ONE AND ONLY INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY"; Signed by Paul Schilpp
EINSTEIN, Albert.
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.
Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949.
First edition of Einstein's singular autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein by Yousuf Karsh. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To a dear colleague and esteemed scholar with the best wishes of Paul A. Schilpp. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and in this condition.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145894
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"This is Oliva. she is good at a lot of things": Ian Falconer's Olivia; Warmly Inscribed by Ian Falconer and With a Large Drawing
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia.
New York: Atheneum Books, 2000.
First edition, later printing of the author's first book. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Olivia opposite the title page, "For ROSALIE! Love OLIVIA and Ian Falconer." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144355
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"The bravest man I ever knew was my father": First edition of The Quality of Courage; Warmly Inscribed by Mickey Mantle
MANTLE, Mickey.
The Quality of Courage.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964.
First edition of this early work by baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Murph and Joyce My Best Wishes Your Old Friend Mickey Mantle." Near fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket photograph by Fred Kaplan. Jacket design by Stoney Butchkes. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145896
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First Edition of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House; Inscribed by Arthur Schlesinger
SCHLESINGER, Arthur M.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy In the White House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition of the historian's classic work on the Kennedy administration's first thousand days. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ben with regards Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144340
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First Edition of Berenice Abbott's Changing New York; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
ABBOTT, Berenice.
Changing New York.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.
First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott's landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display "the historical importance of the documentary mode… its power as a medium of personal expression" (Parr & Badger). Text by Elizabeth McCausland. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Susan Sherman With most cordial regards Berenice Abbott April 4, 1939." Some rubbing to the corners of the cloth, an excellent example in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Scarce and desirable,…
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 57048
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Inaugural Edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage; Inscribed by David Powers
KENNEDY, John F.
Profiles in Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1961.
Inaugural edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, bound in full flexible blue leather boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, Presidential seal stamped in gilt to the bottom corner of the front panel, beveled edges, gilt stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound-in, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Special Assistant and Assistant Appointments Secretary David Powers to the front free endpaper, "To: Bob + Winnie My very best wishes always. Dave Powers [followed by] Bob, it was a great pleasure to work with you in the promotion of 'Johnny, We…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145263
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Signed limited edition of Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated rendition of The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe; one of 750 numbered copies signed by Edmund Dulac
POE, Edgar Allan. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912].
Signed limited edition of Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated rendition of this selection of Poe's poems, including The Raven and Annabel Lee. Quarto, original publisher's full pictorial vellum elaborately stamped in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated with 28 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac with captioned tissue-guards and additional vignette illustrations. One of seven hundred and fifty numbered copies signed by Edmund Dulac, this is number 672. In near fine condition. A beautiful example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 149513
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"They were heroic women who came from every corner of the nation...": First Edition of On Silver Wings; signed by Marianne Verges and 19 members of the WASPS
VERGES, Marianne. Foreword by Senator Barry Goldwater.
On Silver Wings 1942-1944: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
First edition of Marianne Verges' romantic retelling of the history of the WWII WASP corps. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and additionally signed and inscribed by 14 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) on the front free endpaper including Scotty Bradley Gough, Lorraine Rodgers, Elaine Harmon, Ethel M. Finley, Dawn Y. Seymour, Ann Carl, Beth Black, and Gayle Ben's Reed. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James R. Harris. Jacket photograph: Pilot Libby Gardner. Rare and desirable.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145137
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"The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society into a laboring society": First edition of The Human Condition; signed by Hannah Arendt
ARENDT, Hannah.
The Human Condition.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958.
First edition of Arendt's penetrating examination of the human condition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Hannah Arendt April 1965." Very good in a good dust jacket with toning to the spine and chipping to the front panel and spine extremities. Books signed by Arendt are rare.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145631
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Finely Bound Set of Lewis and Clarke's History of The Expedition uniformly bound with four similar works of Americana including The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
LEWIS, Meriwether; William Clarke; Prepared for the press by Paul Allen; Revised and abridged by Archibald M'Vickar.
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858.
Revised and abridged edition of “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp), a cornerstone in Americana. Octodecimo, two volumes uniformly bound with four similar works of Americana each in two volumes for a total of ten volumes, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, folding map of Lewis and Clark's track across the Western portion of North America to Vol. I. Uniformly bound with Indian Traits Being Sketches…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 145258
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"With gratitude and appreciation for your prayers, your confidence and your support at those times when they were needed most": First Edition of A Time To Heal; Lengthily Inscribed by President Ford
FORD, Gerald R.
A Time To Heal.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of the 38th president of the United States' autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Marshall Hobbs, with gratitude and appreciation for your prayers, your confidence and your support at those times when they were needed most Warmest regards, Gerald R. Ford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Desirable signed by Ford and Stevens.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145505
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"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life": First Edition of Mary Oliver's West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
First edition of this collection of moving poems. Octavo, original blue half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Closed tear to the rear pastedown with a small red mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Anne Chalmers.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145156
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S. K. Uyenishi's Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
UYENISHI, S.K. [Raku]; Word Portrait of the author by Percy Longhurst.
The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan: Being a Simple Treatise on the Japanese Method of Self-Defence.
London: Athletic Publications Ltd, c. 1940.
Later edition of this comprehensive wrestling text-book. Octavo, original green cloth with black lettering and decoration, illustrated with several black-and-white plates. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145250
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“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have": First Edition of A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal; Inscribed by Anthony Bourdain
BOURDAIN, Anthony.
A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.
First edition of this written record of Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. Octavo, original boards. Boldly inscribed by Anthony Bourdain on the title page who has added a drawing of a skull in a chef hat with a large butcher knife in its mouth, "Cook Rule! To Erica, Anthony Bourdain." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by High Design.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145603
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"Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place the point over the heart, and the hammer in your right...": First American edition of Dracula; inscribed by Bram Stoker, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and dozens of additional icons of horror cinema
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899.
First American edition of Bram Stoker's masterpiece, the progenitor of the vampire genre which remains “arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth century” (Leatherdale, 11), signed by him and a host of other actors who portraed vampires. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Harry Powers from Bram Stoker 16 May 1900." Subsequently from the collection of George W. Fuller with his bookplate to the pastedown, then Forrest "Forry" J. Ackerman who dedicated his life to building what many consider to have been the…
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 145817
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Signed Limited Edition of the Duke of Windsor's A King's Story; With An Additional Signed Note by Him
WINDSOR, Duke of [Edward VIII].
A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.
Signed limited edition of the Duke of Windsor’s classic autobiography. Royal octavo, bound in the full publisher's morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, three gilt coats of arms as Prince of Wales, King of England, and Duke of Windsor with accompanying gilt signatures to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamped-in, watered-silk end leaves, top edge gilt, silk ribbon bound-in, frontispiece of the Duke of Windsor leaving Westminster after his first and last Opening of Parliament November 3, 1936, foldout map…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 145247
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"The best inside information is on the tape": First Edition of Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years; Lengthily Inscribed by Legendary Investor Richard Wyckoff and in the Rare Dust Jacket
WYCKOFF, Richard D.
Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.
First edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and former associate on Wall Street, New York E. Kilburn Scott this volume is inscribed, with kindest personal regards Richard D. Wyckoff London June 24/31." Very good in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Housed in a custom house morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145604
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"Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so": First Edition of Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Warmly Inscribed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane.
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Alan, Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so. Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145836
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926