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Jean de Brunhoff's ABC of Babar; From the Library of Maurice Sendak
BRUNHOFF, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak].
ABC of Babar.
New York : Random House, 1936.
Early American edition of this pictorial letter book, from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Small octavo, original publisher's pictorial boards, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket, tape residue to the endpapers. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, is often hailed as "the Picasso of children's books." He has produced more than 85 books which have populated children's imaginations for years. For his contributions to children's literature, Sendak received the third biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1970, one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards in 2003, and the…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147127
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"For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written": First edition of A Will to Survive; warmly inscribed by John Philips to the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kolleck who contributed the book's afterword
PHILLIPS, John. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek.
A Will To Survive. Israel: The Faces of Terror 1948 The Faces of Hope Today.
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977.
First edition of the renowned photojournalist's remarkable portrait of the people of Israel. Quarto, original wrappers, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Teddy Kollek, who contributed the afterword, in the year of publication, "For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written. With sincere best wishes John Phillips Jerusalem April.21.77." The recipient, Teddy Kollek, was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993 and founded the Jerusalem Foundation…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119901
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First Edition of Robert McElroy's Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman
MCELROY, Robert [Grover Cleveland].
Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman: An Authorized Biography.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.
First edition of this informative view of Grover Cleveland's two terms in office. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Very good in very good dust jackets, some toning to the spines of the dust jackets with multiple small losses and closed tears. Rare and desirable.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147737
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“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not at all": First Edition of The Way to Cook; Signed by Julia Child
CHILD, Julia.
The Way To Cook.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition of this classic cookbook by Julia Child. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with photographs by Brian Leatart and Jim Scherer. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Bon Appetit Julia Child." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the front pastedown. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145916
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Signed Limited Edition of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts
HARDY, Thomas.
The Dynasts.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1927.
Signed limited edition, one of 525 examples. Quarto, bound in half vellum over boards. Signed by Thomas Hardy in volume I. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133285
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First Edition of The Cider House Rules; Warmly inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Cider House Rules.
New York: William Morrow , 1985.
First edition of Irving's sixth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rob with my appreciation John Irving." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145774
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying": The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick; finely bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf
HERRICK, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.
London: William Pickering, 1825.
Finely bound nineteenth century printing of Herrick's collected poems. Octavo, two volumes bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137228
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First Edition of A Course In Game Theory; Signed by Ariel Rubinstein
OSBORNE, Martin J. and Ariel Rubinstein.
A Course In Game Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994.
First edition of this classic work on game theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ariel Rubinstein on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 112551
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First Edition of The White Plague; Signed by Frank Herbert
HERBERT, Frank.
The White Plague.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982.
First edition of this classic novel which explores madness and revenge on a global scale. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Abe Echevarria. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126758
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"I remember, I remember... precious little, now it comes to the crunch": First edition of William Cooper's From Early Life; inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
COOPER, William.
From Early Life.
London: Macmillan, 1990.
First edition of Cooper's collection of early recollections. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to Sally Soames, "For Sally It's fun to be photographed by [the author has drawn an arrow pointing to Sally's name] - you may now call me Harry Hoff! Signed by the author William Cooper London 22 July 1990." 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…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119505
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First Edition of Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
JUNG, Carl [C.G.].
Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1963.
First edition of this classic biography by one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Jung. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Jacket design by Howard Morris. Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe. First editions are rare, especially in the original dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 148168
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Fine collection of rare Scottish banking first editions
VARIOUS AUTHORS,.
Scottish Banking History Collection.
Edinburgh and London: Various Publishers, 1875-1961.
Fine collection of rare Scottish banking first editions. Octavo, five volumes, the collection includes first editions of: Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Ltd. 1810-1946 [London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, nd], Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine [Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1875], A Review of the Edinburgh Savings Bank Century of Service 1836-1936 [Edinburgh: H. & J. Pillans & Wilson: 1936], Scotland's Record [Edinburgh: The Albyn Press: 1946], and The Scottish Bankers Magazine [Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Limited: February 1961]. Each volume in near fine to fine condition. Our Bank is in the rare original dust…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125321
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Joseph Heller’s Copy of The Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook
HELLER, Joseph.
Harbrace Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Joseph Heller’s copies of The Handbook of English, with his signature. Octavo, 2 volumes, original boards. From the library of Joseph Heller.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3735
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First Edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Scherz, List und Rache [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge]
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Scherz, List und Rache. [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge].
Leipzig: Bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790.
First edition of this libretto in the original German. Octodecimo, in wrappers. In near fine condition with very light toning. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half cloth case. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145573
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First Edition of My Years With General Motors; Signed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
SLOAN JR., Alfred P.
My Years With General Motors.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.
First edition of Sloan's influential work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. on an bookplate to the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Edited by John McDonald with Catherine Stevens. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136414
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"This is not another gospel, but the same ancient gospel rediscovered for today!": Hans Kung's On Being a Christian; Inscribed by Him
KUNG, Hans.
On Being A Christian.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1976.
First edition, early printing of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To my friend Matthew: confidence and courage! Hans Kung." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Translated by Edward Quinn.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104732
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138597
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June 1967 Time Magazine Cover Signed by Israeli military commander Moshe Dayan
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Chicago: Time Magazine, June 16. 1967.
Original cover from the June 16, 1967 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of Moshe Dayan, signed by him, "M. Dayan." In near fine condition. Accompanied by a letter signed by Dayan's secretary on his Officer of the Minister of Defence letterheard dated August 14, 1967 returning the signed cover to collector Karl Peterson. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138437
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First Edition of Isabel Allende's Classic First Novel The House of Spirits; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
ALLENDE, Isabel.
The House of the Spirits: A Novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Presenation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Sharon with the compliments of the extravagant spirits of this story Isabel." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michel Guire Vaka. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147059
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“Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself": First edition of John Hersey's The Wall; Warmly inscribed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The Wall.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Edgar Potts -with best wishes John Hersey From Barbara Johns, after her visit with Mitch en route to Williamsburg- Feb, 1950." With an original Saturday Review article laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of Dr. Potts to the front pastedown some offsetting to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by George Salter. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139270
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First Edition of Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move; Signed by Judith Viorst
VIORST, Judith; Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.
Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move.
New York: Atheneum, 1995.
First edition of this work in the author's classic Alexander series. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "From Alexander's mom- Judith Viorst." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 5688
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First Edition of Uncommon Places; Inscribed by Stephen Shore
SHORE, Stephen.
Uncommon Places.
New York: Aperture, 1982.
First edition of Shore’s remarkable photobook of the American landscape, in which “the nondescript emerges as an opportunity for awakened perception." Oblong quarto, original cloth, with 49 color plates. Inscribed by the photographer Stephen Shore on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1060
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Finely bound collection of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine; featuring Arthur Rackham's first printed colour plate
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.
Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur "Rackham's 1st printed colour plate" (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the frontispiece. Quarto, Vol. II, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with numerous full page and in-text illustrations including 6 coloured plates. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142843
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First edition of James T. Farrell's Gas-House McGinty; inscribed by him to fellow great American author John Dos Passos
FARRELL, James T. [John Dos Passos].
Gas-House McGinty.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1933.
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John Dos Passos Cordially Jim Farrell." The recipient, American novelist John Dos Passos, is best known for his 1925 novel Manhattan Transfer as well as his notable U.S.A. Trilogy which consists of The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) and was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Beyond his writing, Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. Following his…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125330
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First Edition of Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture; Inscribed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].
Lisbon: Caminho, 1999.
First edition of the author's Nobel Prize speech given in 1998. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed and dated by the author in Portuguese. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1503
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Both First and Second Editions of the Golfer's Rubáiyát
BOYNTON, Henry Walcott.
Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.
Chicago/ New York: Herbert S. Stone/ Duffield, 1901, 1907.
Both the first and second editions of the Golfer's Rubaiyat. Octavo, original cloth, two volumes, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 75645
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Lord Balfour's Speech In The House of Commons on Women's Suffrage
BALFOUR, Arthur James.
Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.
London: Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892].
Rare printing of Lord Balfour's speech supporting the Women's Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 135551
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Original Blue Prints for Coal Mines
1910 Unique Study of the Engineering and Design of Coal Mines, 19 pp. Blue Prints, Five Original Photographs.
1910.
On 13 x 8.5 inch blueprint sheets, riveted together at top, 19 blue print sheets and 5 mounted and captioned photos. The sheets are surveys of different collieries and mines, with examples from existing places: Pittston, PA, Georges Creek, MA, long wall mining at the Eileen Mine in Grundy County, IL, conveyor arrangements at Vintondale, PA, longwall at Grande Combe, France, square work at Staffordshire, engineering innovations at Serampore Colliery in Bengal India, longwall at Northumberland, "new method" of longwall mining using a Mickley conveyor (which was first introduced in 1908), Pewabic Mine at Iron Mountain, MI, the Baltic Mine…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 100759
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"Statesman, Warrior, Writer, and Painter, his genius had few parallels ever": First Edition of Elizabeth Longford's Winston Churchill; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
LONGFORD, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill].
Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.
First edition of Elizabeth Longford's photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe , gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs. Foreword by Anthony Eden. Afterword by Winston S. Churchill, M.P. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139533
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by the 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson to Governor of Texas John B. Connally
JOHNSON, Lyndon B. [John Connally].
Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed to Governor John B. Connally.
Washington, D.C: 1964.
Rare typed letter signed by the 36th President of the United States to the Governor of Texas. Quarto, one page on The White House letterhead, dated July 29 1964, the letter reads, 'Dear Governor Connally: Today I have wired the Presidents of leading state universities of the nation as follows: 'A number of state universities are engaged in important studies of the development of their states and regions over the next twenty years or so. I am deeply interested in these studies and to further them in any way I can, I am inviting the Presidents of leading state universities…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146945
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"To Robertson Davies with warm regards from one of your devoted fans": Truman; Inscribed by David McCullough to fellow writer Robertson Davies
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Early printing of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Robertson Davies, "To Robertson Davies with warm regards from one of your devoted fans David McCullough (by way of David Ken, who started me on the path with Fifth Business Martha's Vineyard 1993." Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket and…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 117749
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First Edition of Helen Adam's Turn Again To Me and Other Poems; Signed by Her
ADAM, Helen.
Turn Again To Me and Other Poems.
New York: Kulchar Foundation, 1977.
First edition of the first book by Adam. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "All good wishes Helen Adam." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 127711
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“Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended": First Edition of the Religions of Man; Inscribed by Huston Smith
SMITH, Huston.
The Religions of Man.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.
First edition of the author's masterpiece and one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Huston Smith on the half title page. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare and desirable signed by Huston Smith.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1350
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First edition of Hamilton Basso's Sun in Capricorn; inscribed by him to fellow writer Norman Maclean
BASSO, Hamilton [Norman Maclean].
Sun in Capricorn.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
First edition of Basso's classic Southern novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Norman MaClean - Who can probably find in some of the details - with best wishes of Hamilton Basso Oct. 25, 1942." The recipient, fellow American author Norman Maclean is best known for his classic 1976 novel A River Runs Through It. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare; scarce signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132988
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First Edition of The Mafia Conspiracy; Inscribed by John Scarne in the year of publication
SCARNE, John.
The Mafia Conspiracy.
North Bergen, NJ: Scarne Enterprises, 1976.
First edition of this interesting overview of the Mafia. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Walter and Litzka Gibson Best Wishes John Scarne 5/4/76." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145645
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Signed Photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
THE DALAI LAMA,.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.
Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, boldly signed by him. The photograph measures 5 inches by 3.5 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140093
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Signed Limited Edition of Arthur A. Merrill’s Classic Work Behavior of Prices on Wall Street
MERRILL, Arthur A.
Behavior of Prices on Wall Street:
Chappaqua, New York: Analysis Press, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Limited to six hundred numbered signed copies. In fine condition. The signed limited edition is rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 4476
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"ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF MODERN FICTION": FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos [Kazantzaki].
Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].
Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1947.
First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Kazantzakis traveled to Paris frequently throughout his life and spoke French fluently. From 1902 Kazantzakis studied law at the University of Athens, then went to Paris in 1907 to study philosophy. Here he fell under the influence of Henri Bergson. His 1909 dissertation was titled "Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State." In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 4634
