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Betty: A Glad Awakening; Signed by Betty Ford
FORD, Betty.
Betty: A Glad Awakening.
New York : Doubleday, 1987.
First edition of the first lady's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Betty Ford on a page bound in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 76338
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First Edition of Golda Meir's A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
MEIR, Golda; Edited by Marie Syrkin.
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
First edition of this oral autobiography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146605
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First Edition of Aung San Suu Kyi's of Freedom from Fear
KYI, Aung San Suu .
Freedom From Fear and Other Writings.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of this collection of writings by the Nobel Prize winner. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Michael Aris.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 141439
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"What is necessary is to speak about a man as though painting him": Limited First Edition of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
HUFFINGTON, Arianna Stassinopoulos.
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of this ingenious biography of the prolific Cubist painter and hallmark of Surrealism, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, decorated gilt panels with designs by Martha Phillips inspired by Picasso's hand-decorated books, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece painting 'The Old Man and Time' by Francoise Gilot, Picasso's companion and the mother of their children Claude and Paloma, illustrated…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146871
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Eddie Rickenbacker's Seven Came Through
RICKENBACKER, Captain Edward V.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145973
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.
First edition of Hopkins' biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122049
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First Edition of Rockwell Kent's Salamina
KENT, Rockwell.
Salamina.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.
First edition of Kent's boldly illustrated account of his visit to Greenland. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with over eighty illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Very good in a good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 131241
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"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147135
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First edition of C. A. Bodelsen's Aspects of Kipling's Art
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Aspects of Kipling’s Art.
Manchester: University Press, 1964.
First edition of Bodelsen's homage to Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135881
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First Edition of T.H. White's England Have My Bones
WHITE, T.H.
England Have My Bones.
London: Collins, 1936.
First edition of the author's classic memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 8 full page woodcut illustrations by the author. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136017
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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First edition of R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner's Adam Smith
CAMPBELL, R.H. and A.S. Skinner.
Adam Smith.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
First edition of Campbell and Skinner's accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 126943
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First Edition of Laurence Irving's Henry Irving: The Actor and His World
IRVING, Laurence.
Henry Irving: The Actor and His World.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.
First edition of the author's major biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Henry Irving in color by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lettering by Charlotte Young. Small ownership inscription. Housed in the original slipcase which is in good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115678
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others": First Edition of Prisoner In The Garden
MANDELA, Nelson.
Prisoner In The Garden.
London: Viking, 2005.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela's archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 138566
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"The curse of all art is that the devotee or disciple is always more certain than the priest": First edition of Charles Carrington's Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work
CARRINGTON, Charles. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955.
First edition of Carrington's survey of Kipling's life and work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and a map, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121913
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First Edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Oak and the Calf
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr I; Translated by Harry Willetts.
The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.
First edition of the memoir of one of the great novelists of our time. Octavo, original orange cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Irving Bogen. Author photograph by Eric Bachmann.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145197
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First Edition of The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
FROST, Robert.
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
First edition of the collected correspondence between Frost and lifelong friend and fellow poet Louis Untermeyer. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Warren Rothschild.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137256
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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First edition of Alain Colas' Around the World Alone; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
COLAS, Alain. Translated by J. F. Bernard.
Around the World Alone.
New York: Barron's/Woodbury, 1978.
First edition of Colas' riveting account of his 1978 voyage around the world aboard his 70-foot trimaran the Manureva. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 20 color plates. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115225
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First Edition of Dick Vitale's Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love; Inscribed by Him
VITALE, Dick.
Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love.
Indianapolis, IN: Masters Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the legendary commentator. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Eric Awesome Baby Dick Vitale." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 140213