First Edition
Showing 5941–6000 of 7565 results
-
Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Geography
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
-
Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries; inscribed by Irving Caesar
CAESAR, Irving and Rudolph Sieczynski.
Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries Signed Musical Score.
New York: Harms Inc, 1937.
Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Irving Caesar on the front wrapper, "To Percy with friendship from Irving." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138548
-
First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Silent House; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Silent House.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
First edition of this "superb novel, which grips the reader and refuses to let go" (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dated in the year of publication by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, once on the title page, and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122479
-
First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Dinevosodey with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141359
-
First Edition of Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers
CHERN, Shiing-Shen.
Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978.
First edition of this work by the legendary mathematician. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Chern. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the front and rear endpapers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146057
-
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie, Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife, Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146757
-
"The Sun's not eternal, That's why there's the blues": Allen Ginsberg's White Shroud 1980-1985; Inscribed by Him with a large drawing
GINSBERG, Allen.
White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page, "for Lorraine & Gene Levy from cousin (first) Allen Ginsberg February 4, 1989 Pittsburgh." Additionally inscribed on the opposite with a large hand-drawn illustration of a Bhudda-like figure surrounded by stars, a sun with initials "AH" at the center, and a skull holding a flower at the bottom. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146471
-
First Edition of Ellen Raskin's Figgs and Phantoms; Warmly Inscribed by Her
RASKIN, Ellen.
Figgs and Phantoms.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of the author's Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Norine - My best booster & good friend, Thanks for everything - Ellen Raskin." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some small closed tears to the rear panel.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96261
-
First Edition of Jane Goodall's Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Signed by Her
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. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper and note to the title page where this was signed. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138182
-
“Time is counted, not by hours, but by heart-beats": The Poetical Works of Robert Browning; finely bound in full polished tree calf
BROWNING, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder. & Co, 1897.
Finely bound example of Browning's collected poetical works. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Browning to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138644
-
First edition of Susan Cheever's Treetops: A Family Memoir; inscribed by Susan Cheever to Erica Jong
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Treetops: A Family Memoir.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
First edition of the sequel to the author's prize-winning memoir, Home Before Dark. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Miami Fla. March 1991 For Erica and Ken with love Susan." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142353
-
First Edition of Budd Schulberg's The Harder They Fall; Inscribed by Him to Editor Herb Yellin
SCHULBERG, Budd.
The Harder They Fall.
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition of Schulberg's second book, basis for the 1956 film directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart's final film role. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Budd Schulberg on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Louis Glanzman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120678
-
First Edition of George Gilder's Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America; Inscribed by Him With A Full Page Inscription
GILDER, George.
Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of Gilder's seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59027
-
Paul Johnson's A History of Christianity; Warmly Inscribed by Him
JOHNSON, Paul.
A History of Christianity.
New York: Atheneum, 1979.
First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Christian with love from the author Paul Johnson August '94." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132639
-
First Edition of Linear Programming and Economic Analysis; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert M. Solow
SAMUELSON, Paul A.; Robert M. Solow; Robert Dorfman.
Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition of this classic text. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In very good condition with notes and marginalia.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133578
-
First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
-
"The Breath of an old-fashioned nosegay": First edition of the Crum Elbow Folks; lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt
BARNES, P.R. Foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt.
Crum Elbow Folks.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.
First edition of Barnes' classic tale of the small Quaker settlement of Crum Elbow with a foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 1938 For W. French Cyrus Paris - from Sara D. Roosevelt - This is a story of the 'Friends' who lived until lately in 'Crum Elbow' about a mile East from Hyde Park." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100315
-
First Edition of Jane Goodall's Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants; Signed by Her
GOODALL, Jane with Gail Hudson.
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this work by the renowned naturalist and scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny. Foreword by Michael Pollan.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138252
-
"There's no greater pleasure than to talk over the big things with a believer": First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination; With an Autographed Postcard from WIlder
WILDER, Thornton.
Heaven’s My Destination.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935.
First edition of this comedic novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. Octavo, original cloth. With an autographed postcard from Thornton Wilder laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Haberstock.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140196
-
"When the water's countenance blurs 'twixt glance and second glance... hear the Channel Fleet at sea, Libera nos domine!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.
First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120541
-
First Edition of Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue Scenario; Warmly inscribed by Him
FULLER, Buckminster.
Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue Scenario.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
First edition of this autobiographical work. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fuller on the front free endpaper, "To: Harriet Nichols In warmest friendship Bucky Buckminster Fuller." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kadi Tint. Documented and edited by Robert Snyder.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124719
-
"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
-
"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Peter Koomans from Peter Drucker." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147033
-
First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
-
"One moonlit evening, mainly to prove himself he could do it, Harold went for a walk on a tightrope": Scarce First Edition of Harold's Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
JOHNSON, Crockett.
Harold’s Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.
First edition of the fifth book in the author's beloved series. 16mo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 101254
-
First edition of The Magic of Kindness; Or, The Wondrous Story of the Good Huan; finely bound
BROTHERS MAYHEW,.
The Magic of Kindness; Or, The Wondrous Story of the Good Huan.
London: Darton and Co, c. 1849.
First edition of this classic tale with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and Kenny Meadows, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 115662
-
First edition of The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller; inscribed by Erica Jong to her husband Ken Burrows
JONG, Erica.
The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.
First edition of Jong's appreciation of the life and legacy of Henry Miller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to her fourth husband, "For Ken The only husband I still liked after 4 years! (What a confession!) I love you, too - Erica 29 March 1993." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142504
-
first edition of Ken Tate's New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses Volume One; with a rare portrait signed by him tipped in
TATE, Ken with Oscar Riera Ojeda.
New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses. Volume One.
Mulgrave: Images Publishing, 2003.
First and only edition of the first volume in Tate's monograph series. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. With a rare portrait of Tate signed by him tipped in to the pastedown of the accompanying custom clamshell box. Unopened in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127014
-
Signed Limited Edition of Michael Whyte's Great Comic Cats
WHYTE, Michael.
Great Comic Cats.
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001.
Signed limited edition of this work, one of 100 numbered and signed copies, this is number 10 signed by Michael Whyte. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127182
-
Photograph of Milton Friedman; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Milton Friedman Signed Photograph.
1980.
Black and white photograph of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. Inscribed and dated by Milton Friedman in 1980 on the lower right. In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 20008
-
“Motion is tranquillity": First Edition of Second Book of Motor Sport; Warmly Inscribed by Stirling Moss
MOSS, Stirling.
Stirling Moss’s Second Book of Motor Sport.
London: Cassell, 1958.
First edition of Moss' sequel to his first Book of Motor Sport. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Nick A friend, from a friend, Stirling Moss" Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Maxwell Boyd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146061
-
First Edition of The Warmth of Other Suns; Signed and dated by Isabel Wilkerson
WILKERSON, Isabel.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s First Great Migration.
New York: Random House, 2010.
First edition of this work which won National Book Critics Circle Award, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Isabel Wilkerson Feb. 1, 2011." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147077
-
First Edition of The Life & Times of Michael K; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Life & Times of Michael K.
South Africa: Ravan Press, 1983.
First edition of the author's first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Some bleedthrough on the bottom pages, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marcus Wilson- Smith. Photograph of the author by Geraldine Farley.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 100092
-
First Edition of The Children; Warmly Inscribed by David Halberstam in the Year of Publication
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Children.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition of this "unforgettable drama...in Mr. Halberstam's hands, the early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before in print" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Sandy and Virginia with love David Halberstam March 12, 1998." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144107
-
“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war": First Edition of William Faulkner's A Fable
FAULKNER, William.
A Fable.
New York: Random House, 1954.
First edition of the first novel to win both Pulitzer and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 70016
-
Finely Bound example of Thomas B. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada
MACAULAY, Thomas B.
Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1882.
Finely bound example of Macaulay's classic work. Octavo, bound in full polished calf for The Grammar Schools of Wallingford with a morocco spine label lettered in gilt, central gilt insignia to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges red, illustrated title page. In good condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139726
-
Ida M. Tarbell's He Knew Lincoln; signed by her and in the rare original dust jacket
TARBELL, Ida M.
He Knew Lincoln.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First Doubleday printing of Tarbell's collected Billy Brown stories, first published by McClure in 1907. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 132584
-
First Edition of Adonis' Selected Poems; Signed and dated by Him in the Year of Publication
ADONIS [ALI AHMED SAID]; TRANSLATED BY KHALED MATTAWA,.
Selected Poems.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
First edition of the first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by Adonis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Khaled Mattawa.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 138251
-
First Edition of Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi; Signed by Him
AL-AZZAWI, Fadhil.
Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi.
Rochester: Boa Editions, 2003.
First edition of this collection of poems by the award-winning author. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "with my Love Fadhil Al-Azzawi and again below in Arabic. In near fine condition. Translated and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 138262
-
"Less is a Bore""; Letter signed by Famed architect Robert Venturi with a drawing
VENTURI, Robert.
Robert Venturi Signed Sketch.
Philadelphia: The MIT Press, 2014.
Autograph signed letter by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi on his letterhead. The note reads, "Dear John Thanks for asking Bob 8-12-14 wishing you well (who has added a large drawing of Venturi's Mother's House)." In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140002
-
"In its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant houses side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit": First edition Rev. Charles Kingsley's Two Years Ago
KINGSLEY, Charles.
Two Years Ago.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1857.
First edition of the author's classic work, containing some of his most profound passages of descriptive imagery. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139736
-
First Edition of A Child's Calendar; Signed by Illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert
UPDIKE, John.
A Child’s Calendar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5035
-
“There is one English Poem, the title whereof is Hudibras" (Voltaire) Samuel Butler's Hudibras; with 16 engraved plates by J. Mynde after William Hogarth
BUTLER, Samuel.
Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written in the Time of The Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, L.L.D. Adorn’d with a new Set of Cuts.
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Mess. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, et al, 1744.
18th century large annotated edition of Butler's acclaimed mock romance, the "best edition" according to Lowndes. Octavo, two volumes bound in full calf with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins illustrated with 16 engraved plates by J. Mynde after William Hogarth including frontispiece portrait of Butler to Vol. I., errata, index, and list of subscribers. In very good condition. Rebacked. Bookplates and ownership inscriptions. Exceptionally clean internally.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 130125
-
"That those who live in California may Appreciate Their State More": First edition of California Addresses by President Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
California Addresses by President Roosevelt.
San Francisco: The California Promotion Committee, 1903.
First edition of this collection of speeches delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt throughout California. Octavo, original half cloth with paper title label to the front panel, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt. In excellent condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 104590
-
"It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud": First Edition of Curzio Malaparte's The Skin
MALAPARTE, Curzio.
The Skin.
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1952.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian, La Pelle, by David Moore. Very good in the rare original dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 116391
-
First Edition of Thomas Buergenthal's A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy; Inscribed by Him
BUERGENTHAL, Thomas.
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
First edition of this "incredible tale" (The Free Lance-Star). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marle Cohen appreciation and best regards Thomas Buergenthal." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keith Hayes. Foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 142462
-
First Edition of Richard Price's The Color of Money; Sea of Love and Night and the City; Signed by Him
PRICE, Richard.
Three Screenplays: The Color of Money; Sea of Love and Night and the City.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this compilation of three classic screenplays. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Richard Price on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mark Caleb.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 137983
-
FARRINGTON, S. Kip.
Fishing the Atlantic: Offshore and On.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1949.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Dr. Bledsoe, a great afternoon, ___ ___ and shot, who knows the game offshore and on. America's With best wishes, S. Kip Farrington Dec 8th 49 From Tony Holman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 123827
-
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world": First edition of Gandhi's Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
GANDHI, Mahatma [Mohandas K.].
Gandhi’s Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
Washington, D.C: Public Affairs Press, 1948.
First edition of Gandhi's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144680
-
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings": Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying; Signed by Her
KUBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth.
On Death and Dying.
New York: Collier Books, 1993.
First Collier Books edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Love Elisabeth K. Ross." In fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 131359
-
Finely bound Spanish printings of Bartolomé de las Casas' histories of Peru and Chile
[DE LAS CASAS, Bartolomé].
Colleccion de Libros Espanoles: Varias Relaciones del Peru y Chile; De Las Antiguas Gentes del Peru.
Madrid: Miguel Ginesta/Manuel G. Hernandez, 1879-1892.
Finely bound Spanish printings of Bartolomé de las Casas' histories of Peru and Chile. Octavo, two volumes bound in one half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges untrimmed, original wrappers bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139017
-
"I like you and I know why... I like you because you and are good person to like": Sandol Stoddard Warburg's I Like You
WARBURG, Sandol Stoddard. Illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast.
I Like You.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition of Warburg's children's classic. 16mo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 124540
-
Return to the Moon; inscribed by Harrison Schmitt
SCHMITT, Harrison. Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space.
New York: Copernicus Books in Association with Praxis Publishing, 2006.
First edition, early printing of the author's visionary plan for humankind's future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Louise and the future! Harrison H. Schmitt Apollo 17." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jordan Rosenbum.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147253
-
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions": First Edition of In Search of Memory; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Scientist Eric Kandel
KANDEL, Eric R.
In Search Of Memory.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of the scientist's autobiography which deals with the groundbreaking work on the biological process of memory, which earned him the Nobel Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mayshan with best wishes Eric Kandel." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 39334
-
First Edition of J.F. Powers' The Presence of Grace; Signed by Him
POWERS, J.F.
The Presence of Grace.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956.
First edition of this classic collection of stories by the National Book Award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For John Lehmann from a proud old contributor to New Writing and the London Magazine - J.F. Powers." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design from a rug by Jean Lurcat, The Museum of Modern Art.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 138075
-
“Hit ‘em first, and hit ‘em hard": First Edition of Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake LA Motta; Inscribed by Him
LA MOTTA, Jake; Chris Anderson and Sharon McGehee.
Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake La Motta.
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1986.
First edition of the sequel to Raging Bull. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harvey Jake La Motta Raging Bull." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 134250
-
First Edition of Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews; Signed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the author of The Chosen. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Fred and Lothe Marcus Best Wishes Chaim Potok 10 Dec. 78." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147749
-
First edition of The Poetical Works of John Scott; finely bound in full mottled calf
SCOTT, John.
The Poetical Works of John Scott Esq.
London: Printed for J. Buckland, 1782.
First edition of John Scott's collected poems. Octavo, bound in full mottled calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with 14 engravings including 2 by William Blake, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title page, rebacked. In very good condition. Small bookplate.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 137227
-
First Edition of Philip Stern's The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
STERN, Philip M.
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this early biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Arnoldo Luigi With abundant fondness from one who treasures their friendship Phil S. November, 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 143503
