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First edition of Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek; bound in a unique full blue morocco decorative binding
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
Frenchman’s Creek.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1941.
First edition of du Maurier's third novel. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco to mimic a gentleman's coat with four titanium skull-shaped buttons. In fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129408
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"Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle cats come one come all: the jellicle moon is shining bright- jellicles come to the jellicle ball": First edition of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
ELIOT, T.S.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939.
First American edition of Eliot's beloved collection of whimsical feline poems which served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 megamusical phenomenon Cats. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by T.S. Eliot.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143002
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First Edition of Story Lines; Inscribed by Photographer Robert Frank
FRANK, Robert.
Storylines.
Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2004.
First edition of this volume, which commemorates the first major exhibit of Frank’s work in Britain. Oblong quarto, original flexible photographic wrappers Inscribed and dated in 2007 by Robert Frank on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 7357
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Rare 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover Signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.
Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.
Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a portrait of Hillary wearing a winter jacket. Signed by Hillary in black felt tip on the front panel, "Ed Hillary." In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146008
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First Edition of Crazy Heart; Inscribed by Thomas Cobb in the Year of Publication
COBB, Thomas.
Crazy Heart.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First edition of this work which "might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none" (Houston Post), basis for the 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Sally With thanks for so much Love Tom Houston, 87." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137411
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FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS PYNCHON'S SECOND NOVEL THE CRYING OF LOT 49
PYNCHON, Thomas.
The Crying of Lot 49.
New York: J.B Lippincott, 1966.
First edition of Pynchon’s classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 112711
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"Once upon a time there were three Billy Goats and their name was Gruff. There was Little Billy Goat Gruff, Big Billy Goat Gruff, and Biggest Billy Goat Gruff": First edition of Frank Dobias' The Three Billy Goats
DOBIAS, Frank.
The Three Billy Goats.
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1927.
First edition of Dobias' charming retelling of the classic Norwegian fairy tale. Small octavo, original illustrated boards, patterned endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 115582
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First Edition of Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life; Signed by Her
KLEIN, Gerda Weissman.
All But My Life.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1957.
First edition of the author's "moving personal testament to courage" memoir. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed by Gerda Weissman Klein on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and rubbing. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124539
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First Edition of The Music of Life; Inscribed by Denis Noble; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
NOBLE, Denis.
The Music of Life.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
First edition of this work by the award-winning physiologist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Colin Hall with the compliments of the author, and in celebration of OE friendship June 2006 Denis Noble." Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brill. Jacket illustration by Hideharu Naito.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142042
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First Edition of The Question of National Defense; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of Game Theory Oskar Morgenstern
MORGENSTERN, Oskar.
The Question of National Defense.
New York: Random House, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, "Hon. Frank Pace Jr. with high esteem O. Morgenstern Oct. 1959." The recipient, Frank Pace, Jr. was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army under Harry Truman and a business executive, who in 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller to launch the International Executive Service Corps, which was established to help bring about prosperity and stability in developing nations through the growth of private enterprise. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Books signed by Morgenstern are rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 15044
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“Freedom is often the first casualty of war": First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in His Labyrinth
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
The General in His Labyrinth.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Signed limited first edition of this "fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, bound in full leather. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One of 350 copies, this is number 44. Fine in a fine slipcase. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130969
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First edition of You, Emperors, and Others; inscribed by Robert Penn Warren
WARREN, Robert Penn.
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960.
New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of the collected poems of Robert Penn warren written in the years 1957 to 1960. Quarto, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to poet and editor William Claire on the front free endpaper, "To William Claire in friendship Robert Penn Warren." Very good in a good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143956
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First Edition of Richard Wright's Le Transfuge; Inscribed by Him
WRIGHT, Richard.
Le Transfuge.
Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
First edition of this work by the author of Native Son. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. With the rare wrap-around band laid in to the front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jack with all my best wishes Richard Wright Feb. 7, 1956 Paris." In near fine condition, with the recipient's name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 50003
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"We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is": First Edition of Masters 1985; Boldly signed by Champion Bernhard Langer
LANGER, Bernhard.
Masters 1985.
Augusta National Club, 1985.
First edition of the Augusta publication of the 1985 Masters. Quarto, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Bernhard Langer on the half-title page. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135231
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"THE STORY OF MISES IN HIS ROLE AS ECONOMIST": FIRST EDITION OF ISRAEL M. KIRZNER'S LUDWIG VON MISES: A MAN AND HIS ECONOMICS; SIGNED BY ISRAEL KIRZNER
KIRZNER, Israel M.
Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics.
Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001.
First edition of Kirzner's authoritative biography of Ludwig von Mises. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144496
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they took photographs": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133621
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin Postcard Signed to Stuttgart publishers Levy & Müller
ZEPPELIN, Ferdinand von.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin Autograph Postcard Signed.
Friedrichshafen: November 2, 1908.
Autograph postcard signed, in German, by Ferdinand von Zeppelin to Stuttgart publishers Levy & Müller thanking them for sending 6 copies of his book, 'Zeppelins Kampf und Sieg,' first published by them in 1908. Small duodecimo, original stamped envelope, illustrated with a photograph of the LZ 4 airship by Eduard Schwarz. In near fine condition with some toning to the postcard and envelope. Accompanied by an autograph postcard from publisher Eric Levy signed, in German, to Gertie Levy hoping to find her healthy, mentioning his having rested in Zürich. Small duodecimo, post stamped with a cancelled 20-centime 'Helvetia' featuring Wilhelm Tell,…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145305
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"You can twist perception. Reality won't budge": Rare Presto CD; Signed By Rush lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee
LEE, Geddy.
Geddy Lee Signed Presto CD.
Toronto: Anthem Records Inc, 1989.
Rare 'Presto' album CD, signed by lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee. Duodecimo, original CD case and illustrated lyrics booklet. Boldly signed by Lee in blue felt tip on the front panel of the lyrics booklet. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146558
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"The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around": First edition of Groucho and Me; inscribed by Groucho Marx
MARX, Groucho.
Groucho and Me. The Autobiography of Groucho Marx by (of all people!) Groucho Marx.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1959.
First edition of the autobiography of Groucho Marx. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Glenn from Groucho." Very good in the uncommon original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Lacking the front free endpaper and half-title page. Jacket design by Bevans, Marks & Barrow, Inc.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138618
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"To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas": First Edition of Robert M. Parker's Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
First edition of Robert M. Parker's first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Don To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas Robert M. Parker." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147055
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Rare 1919 United States Military Citation signed by General John J. Pershing
PERSHING, General John J.
General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.
1919.
Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for "exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous services as Colonel Officer of the Base Hospital A09 France". Dated April 19, 1919 and signed by General John J. Pershing.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120411
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First edition of Robert M. Solow's Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level
SOLOW, Robert Merton.
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Solow in the University of Manchester. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126488
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First British Edition of STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1958.
First British edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Trevor Huddleston.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 127636
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"When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever": A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MILNE, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.
Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, decorations by Ernest Shepard. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129436
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First edition of Frederick Freeman's The History of Cape Cod
FREEMAN, Frederick.
The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.
Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.
First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130559
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FIRST EDITION OF J.M. KEYNES' FIRST MAJOR WORK ON ECONOMICS INDIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
Indian Currency and Finance.
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.
First edition of Keynes' first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136408
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Rare autograph equation Signed and entirely in the hand of Kenneth J. Arrow
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Kenneth J. Arrow Autograph Equation Signed.
Rare three-page equation inscribed and entirely in the hand of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth J. Arrow. Three pages, the equation bears the title "The Shadow Price of Technological Change" and is signed by the author on the first page, "With best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow." In addition to his work on social choice theory analysis, Arrow made significant contributions to the general equilibrium theory and, with fellow economist Gérard Debreu, presented the first rigorous proofs of the existence of a market clearing equilibrium. Strongly influenced by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Arrow's work on general equilibrium theory extended the model…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 114565
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Rare First Edition of Merer Baba's God to Man An Man To God
BABA, Meher.
God to Man And Man To God.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955.
First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117989
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First Edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel .
The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. BAL 7621.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 119422
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First Edition of The Farewell Party; Inscribed by Milan Kundera
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Farewell Party.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
First edition of Kundera's third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Milan Kundera in the year of publication on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, clipping from Kundera's novel on the rear pastedown. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket illustration by Charles Shields. Translated from the the Czech by Peter Kussi.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120543
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": First authorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Abaft the Funnel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author's note noting Dodge's previously unauthorized edition "issued without my knowledge or sanction". Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 122341
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Rare first edition of Josiah Tucker's A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely
[TUCKER, Josiah].
A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely: Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the Subject of American Affairs.
London: Printed by R. Raikes and Sold by T. Cadell, 1776.
First and only edition of this important Revolutionary tract in which Tucker advocates granting the colonies independence. Octavo, bound in paper wrappers. Sabin 97360. In very good condition with restoration to the extremities of the first few leaves.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 127150
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First edition of Here's To You, Rachel Robinson; inscribed by Judy Blume in the year of publication
BLUME, Judy.
Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson.
New York: Orchard Books, 1993.
First edition of the author's sequel to her best-selling young adult novel 'Just as Long as We're Together.' Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Joanne Thanks! Love, Judy Blume Aug. 1993." Very good in a fine dust jacket. Closed tear and creasing to the rear endpaper. Jacket design by Jim DeLapine. Author photograph by George Cooper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145014
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"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest": Rare First Edition of James Lovelock's Gaia
LOVELOCK, James E.
Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Cover illustration by Henri Rousseau.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137809
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Rare Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection; including first appearances of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection: The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion.
Boston: The Youth's Companion, 1898.
Rare collection of Kipling first appearances including the first appearance of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion. Quarto. Housed in a custom folder. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 123595
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Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems inscribed to fellow poet Gladys Schmidt
FROST, Robert.
Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems.
Chicago: The National Council of Teachers of English, c.1949.
Original LP of Robert Frost reading his poetry. Inscribed by the author on the front panel Frost to Gladys Schmidt dated Jan. 18 1952. The recipient Gladys Schmidt was a professor of English at Carnegie Tech and had already written a number of bestselling novels and was also a published poet. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120198
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First Edition of Milnor and Stasheef's Characteristic classes; Signed by John Milnor
MILNOR, John W. and James D. Stasheef.
Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 57021
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First Edition of Samuel L. Clemens' The Curious Republic of Gondour
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
First edition of Twain's collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 64043
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“I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise": First Edition of Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
Trout Fishing in America.
New York: A Delta Book/ Dell Publishing, 1967.
First edition of this work “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Erik Weber. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133793
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"But the main thing in view all along has been to vindicate the moral character of the Deity from the injurious representations, either of designing, or well-meaning but mistaken men" First edition of James Dana's Second response to Jonathan Edwards' The Freedom of the Will
DANA, James (Jonathan Edwards).
The “Examination of the Late Rev’d President Edwards’s Enquiry on Freedom of Will,” Continued.
New Haven: Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green, 1773.
First edition of American Protestant clergyman James Dana's second published response to Jonathan Edwards' Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will, preceded by Dana's prior examination of the same subject published anonymously in 1770. Octavo, original three-quarter period calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels, raised bands. A rare and desirable example illustrating the tensions that shaped the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth century America.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 82405