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First Edition of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Signed by Andre Dubus III
DUBUS III, Andre.
The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed twice by Dubus with the words added "Stay true and be you." Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual fading to the orange spine panel. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 451
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“We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have": No Ordinary Time; Warmly Inscribed by Doris Kearns Goodwin
KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition, early printing of the historian's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bonnie, With best my best wishes, Doris Kearns Goodwin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 143772
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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day; in the original publisher's cloth
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanoton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.
Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Harriet Beecher Stowe to the front panel, illustrated with 18 tissue-guarded steel portraits including frontispiece portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Second state with the title page corrected to "Douglass." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 146452
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale; Signed by Edith Grossman
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel; Edith Grossman.
Living To Tell the Tale.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's memoir. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated by Edith Grossman.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133748
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Signed Limited Edition of Eudora Welty's Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
WELTY, Eudora.
Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
New York: Random House, 1977.
Signed limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by Eudora Welty. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 115699
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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 classic collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137388
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First Edition of Nabokov's Notes on Prosody: from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Notes on Prosody.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.
First edition of Nabokov's analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 88174
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First edition of Hokum: A Play in Three Acts; one of 73 copies hors-commerce
MCNEIL, Morris [Morris S. Musselman] and apparently Ernest Hemingway.
Hokum: A Play in Three Acts.
Wellesley Hills: The Sans Souci Press, 1978.
First edition, first printing of what is rumored to be Hemingway's first book, from the original typescript dated 1921 (which precedes the publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1923) and published for the first time in 1978. Octavo, original off-white buckram, antique green endpapers, title page in green and black. One of 73 copies hors-commerce numbered 1-73, this is number 24. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in the original antique green slipcase which is in fine condition. A superior example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120983
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First Edition of Allan Nevins' The Emergence of Lincoln; Signed by Him
NEVINS, Allan.
The Emergence of Lincoln: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 1857-1859 and Volume II The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-61.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
First editions of the author's classic work on Lincoln. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Allan Nevins on the title page of volume one. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 125494
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First Edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Existentialism.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947.
First edition of the philosopher's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. An exceptional example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144092
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Finely Bound example of Hallam's View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages
HALLAM, Henry.
View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1880.
Finely bound volume of Hallam's history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, gilt emblem to the front panel. From the library of I.H. Echalaz with a period gift inscription to him to the front free endpaper dated 1902. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 90436
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"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own": The Chosen; Inscribed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
The Chosen.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's first book set in the mid-twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Gidens, Best Wishes Chaim Potok 10-3-72.". Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120971
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“EVERYTHING WE ARE IS AT EVERY MOMENT ALIVE IN US”: FIRST EDITION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD; SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER
MILLER, Arthur.
The Creation of the World and Other Business.
New York: Viking Press, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 2010
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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's Trilogy; Each volume signed by Him
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The Year of the French, Tenants of Time and The End of the Hunt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/ E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979-1994.
First edition of the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed and inscribed by Thomas Flanagan, with The Tenants of Time inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Ellen in the year of publication. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 107361
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance": John F. Kennedy's First Edition Copy of The Strategy of Peace
KENNEDY, John F.
The Strategy of Peace.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144218
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“Now I am a man; World have changed a lot. Some things nearly so, Others nearly not.”: P.B. Socci sketch of Yul Brynner; Signed by Yul Brynner
SOCCI, P.B. (Yul Brynner).
Yul Brynner Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Russian-born film and stage actor Yul Brynner. Boldly signed by Yul Brynner. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. In fine condition. The drawing measures 10 inches by 8 inches. A striking example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 89137
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Little Mexican & Other Stories
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Little Mexican & Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924.
First edition of Huxley's third collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140252
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First Hungarian Edition of Imre Kertesz's Felszamolas; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
Felszamolas [Liquidation].
Budapest: Magveto, 2003.
First Hungarian edition, preceding the English edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 698
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First Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.
First edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to the spine.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 74009
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First edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Le Mur
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Le Mur. [The Wall].
Paris: Gallimard, 1939.
Limited edition of Sartre's 1939 short story collection, containing one of his greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall. Octavo, original boards. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 910. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137275
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First Edition of Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Anna J. Schwarz.
Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970.
First edition of this monumental work on history of monetary statistics in the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110121
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First edition of Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach
STONE, Robert.
Outerbridge Reach.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1992.
First edition of Stone's fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Sally recalling a lovely, morning in London - wishing all the best. Bob Stone London May 19, 1992." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123971
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First Edition of Burton Richter's Beyond Smoke and Mirrors; Inscribed by Him
RICHTER, Burton.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
First edition of this insightful overview of climate change science by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Burton Richter. Octavo, original glossy boards. Inscribed by Burton Richter on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition, without the dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 34014
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sis' Nancy Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 118572
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First edition of Umberto Eco's Baudolino; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Kenneth David Burrows
ECO, Umberto [Erica Jong].
Baudolino.
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2002.
First American edition of the author's international bestseller. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Erica & Ken with all my friendship Umberto." 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 American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 142833
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First Edition of The Journey Back; Inscribed by Johanna Reiss
REISS, Johanna.
The Journey Back.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To ___ _____ Love and peace Johanna Reiss October '76 Nice to see you again." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 5522
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First Edition of Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher Pissarides
MORTENSEN, Dale T. and Christopher A. Pissarides.
Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the front free endpaper, "To John Rogers with best wishes C Pissarides." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110971
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"No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds will hide the nation's footpath to its site": First edition of Nabokov's Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
New York: New Directions Books, 1944.
First edition this collection of Nabokov's translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original boards. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 118147
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Ring Lardner's The Ecstasy of Owen Muir; Inscribed by him to novelist Vera Caspary
LARDNER JR., Ring.
The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.
Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1966.
Paperback edition of Ring Lardner Jr.'s witty Candide-like satire. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. The recipient, Vera Caspary was a novelist, most well known for Laura, which was scripted by Lardner for the film, which starred Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. In good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 125577
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First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch; one of 100 numbered copies
NORTON, Charles Eliot. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123761
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Rare First edition of Holcombe and Adams' An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek
HOLCOMBE, R.I. and Thomas W. Adams.
An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, or Oak Hills, Fought Between the Union Troops, Commanded by Gen. N. Lyon. and the Southern, or Confederate Troops, Under Command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, August 10, 1861, in Green County, Missouri.
Springfield, Missouri: Dow & Adams, Publishers, 1883.
First edition of Holcombe and Adams' account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Octavo, original publisher's binding decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133053
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First edition of Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; from the library of American writer and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen
BROWN, Stephen [Editor]. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. Introduction by David Allen Sibley [Peter Matthiessen].
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2006.
First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 135489
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"Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can": First Edition of Until I Find You; Warmly Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Until I Find You.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dana and Cheryl with my admiration and affection John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Jane Sobel Klonsky. Tattoo art by Henk Schiffmacher.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 136964
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First Edition of Doubling the Point; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this collection of essays and interviews by the Nobel Prize winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1497
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First Edition of THE GOD PARTICLE; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEDERMAN, Leon with Dick Teresi.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144353
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First Edition of Giving Kids A Fair Chance; Inscribed by James J. Heckman
HECKMAN, James J.
Giving Kids A Fair Chance.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Rogers with respect James Heckman 9/18/15." In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144400
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Anne Morrow Linbergh's Gift From the Sea
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.
New York: Pantheon, 1955.
First edition, early printing of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by George W. Thompson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 138202
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First Edition of Charles Tazewell's The Littlest Angel
TAZEWELL, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans.
The Littlest Angel.
Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.
First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133161
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Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell's My Mystery Ships; from the library of Prime Minister Clement Attlee
CAMPBELL, Gordon [Clement Atlee].
My Mystery Ships.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Early printing of Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell's My Mystery Ships; from the library of United Kingdom Prime Minster Clement Attlee with his bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 134587
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Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad; inscribed by Fagles to fellow writer and translator Charles Tomlinson
FAGLES, Robert.
The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.
Grand Street Publications, Inc, .
Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front panel of Book XVIII, "Charles and Brenda - Wonderful to have you back in Princeton with us - Love, Bob." The recipient, Charles Tomlinson, was a prolific English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator who taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University, where he became Emeritus Professor. Tomlinson was an authoritative translator of poetry from the Russian, Spanish and Italian, including work by Antonio Machado, Fyodor…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137120
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First Edition of George Shultz's Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future; Signed by Him
SHULTZ, George P. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger.
Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future.
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2013.
First edition of this work by the former Secretary of State and Treasury. Octavo, original boards. Signed by George P. Shultz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. Cover design by Jennifer Navarrette.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121830
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"The facts are always less than what really happened": First Edition of July’s People; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
July’s People.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.
First edition of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 543
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"I FIRST MET HIM IN PIRAEUS": KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK; Lengthily signed by the work's translator Peter Bien
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos. Translated by Peter A. Bien.
Zorba The Greek.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Early printing of of this new translation of Kazantzakis' masterpiece and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by translator Peter Bien with the opening line of the novel on the front free endpaper, "I first met him in Piraeus Peter Bien 3-27-23." Peter Bien translated a number of Kazantzakis' works, most notably this translation of Zorba the Greek. This edition translated, directly from Kazantzakis’s Greek original, is a more faithful rendition of his original language, ideas, and story, and presents Zorba as the author meant him to be. In fine condition. Cover design by Marilyn Dantes.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141461
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Gore Vidal's Kalki; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Kalki.
New York: Random House, 1978.
First book club edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Hall. An exceptional association.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 126712
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First edition of A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932; Signed by John Richardson
RICHARDSON, John; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully [Pablo Picasso].
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
First edition of the third volume in Richardson's four-volume biography of the famous artist. Small quarto, original black boards, frontispiece portrait of Picasso in Saint-Raphael 1919, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and a several color images of Picasso's paintings. Boldly signed by John Richardson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Valentine Hugo.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 145267
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"Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and of all cities of the world it is the easiest to visit without going there": First edition of Henry James' Portraits of Places
JAMES, Henry.
Portraits of Places.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.
First edition of James' later collection of travel accounts throughout Europe and the United States. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 81257
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First Edition of The Double; Inscribed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Double.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140684
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First Edition of A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln; Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
FONER, Eric and Olivia Mahoney.
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
New York: 1990, CHS/ W.W. Norton & Company.
First edition of this early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Steinbrenner.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 119339
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George H. Morris' Hunter Seat Equitation in the original dust jacket
MORRIS, George H.
Hunter Seat Equitation.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
First edition, early printing of the definitive work on the art of teaching and riding the hunter seat. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword A. Eugene Cunningham. Line Drawings by Jan Conant. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 142013
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"The more I practice, the luckier I get": First Edition of To Be the Best: Reflections of a Champion; Inscribed by Golfing Legend Gary Player
PLAYER, Gary; Foreword by Arnold Palmer.
Gary Player: To Be the Best. Reflections of A Champion.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1991.
First British edition of this work by the golfing legend. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best regards to Raymond Metcalf, my Champions Golf Club friend Gary Player 1996." Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 5668
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"Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman": Raymond Briggs' Fee Fi Fo Fum; Signed and dated by him
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Fee Fi Fo Fum.
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1971.
Early printing of Briggs' collection of nursery rhymes. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Raymond Briggs 1981 April 21." In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 117431
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From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters; Signed by Ralph Guldahl
SARAZEN, Gene.
From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters.
Chicago: Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 1937.
First edition of this work by various golfers, including Gene Sarazen. Small octavo, original pebbled cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette. Signed by Ralph Guldahl on the half-title page. Sarazen was the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open (1922, 1932), PGA Championship (1922, 1923, 1933), The Open Championship (1932), and Masters Tournament (1935). Guldhal was the winner of the 1937 and 1938 U.S. Open and the…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 79787
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First Edition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven; Signed by Him
KRAKAUER, Jon.
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.
New York: Doubleday, 2003.
First edition of this work "right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song" (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Jon Krakauer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133280
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First edition of Albert Cook Church's Whaleships and Whaling
CHURCH, Albert Cook.
Whale Ships and Whaling.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.
First edition of Church's work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 130850
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First Edition of A Life of Magic Chemistry; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist George Olah
OLAH, George A.
Life of Magic Chemistry: Autobiographical Reflections of A Nobel Prize Winner.
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by George Olah on the front free endpaper. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 15069
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Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories
ALCOTT, Louisa May.
Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Later printing of this compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 132793
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"Whisper there was not, nor word, shadow nor showing. Still the light stirred on the deep, glowing and growing": First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
First American edition of this collection of Kipling’s poetry, published October 30, 1896, the same day as the English edition. Octavo, original publisher's elaborately decorated cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121694
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First Edition of Ernest Seton-Thompson's The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; inscribed by him
SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
First edition of Seton-Thompson's illustrated work on the Sandhill wilderness. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panel, gilt ruled, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with 60 drawings by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "To S. D. Green with well best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 96113
