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First edition of George Shearing's Lullaby of Birdland; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
SHEARING, George with Alyn Shipton [William Safire].
Lullaby of Birdland.
New York: Continuum, 2004.
First edition of British jazz pianist George Shearing's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Helene and Bill - Not it's my turn! Affectionately, George Shearing." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135249
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First Edition of Lucinda Gosling's Drawing From History
GOSLING, Lucinda; Foreword by James Gurney; Illustrated by Fortunino Matania.
Drawing From History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania.
Book Palace Books, 2016.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133742
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Lion Man
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Lion Man.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1934.
First edition, early printing of the seventeenth book in Burroughs' popular Tarzan series. Octavo, original gray cloth, frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136075
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First edition of Frank Kingdon Ward's The Romance of Plant Hunting
KINGDON WARD, Frank.
The Romance of Plant Hunting.
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924.
First edition of Kingdon-Ward's work on the love of flowers and plant hunting. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 139818
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Rare first edition of Christian Martyrdom in Russia
TOLSTOY, Leo. Vladimir Tchertkoff.
Christian Martyrdom in Russia: Persecution of the Spirit-Wrestlers (or Doukhobortsi) in the Caucus.
London: The Brotherhood Publishing Co, 1897.
First edition of Tchertkoff's work on the persecution of the Doukhobors. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135138
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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.
New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
First American edition of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studios.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 110161
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First Edition of The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast; finely bound in full polished calf
HALL, Mr. and Mrs. S. C.
The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast.
London: Arthur Hall, 1861.
First edition of Hall's description of a tour through South Wales which originally appeared in the Art Journal. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt 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, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 138426
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Limited Edition Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Signed by Illustrator Thomas Hart Benton
PARKMAN, Francis. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Oregon Trail.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.
Signed limited edition of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with numerous plates by Thomas Hart Benton. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the crown of the spine and a faint stain to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146546
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First Edition of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River; Signed by Him and Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
LEHANE, Dennis.
Mystic River.
New York : William Morrow and Company, 2001.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Dennis Lehane and three times by the dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the rear jacket flap and once below Lehane's signature. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Chip Kidd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 121479
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First Edition of Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress; Signed by Him
MOSLEY, Walter.
Devil In A Blue Dress.
First edition of this defining novel in Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, which was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Walter Mosley on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hugh O'Neill. Jacket illustration by John Jinks. Author photograph by Joyce Ravid.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 141535
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First Edition of Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest; Inscribed by Him
FERGUSON, Niall.
Civilization: The West and the Rest.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2011.
First edition of this work by the famed historian. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John with best wishes Niall Ferguson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132746
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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day
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, Etc.
Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, recased in the original publisher's dark green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with eighteen steel portraits, frontispiece portrait of Stowe. Second State with Frederick Douglass's name spelled correctly on the title page. BAL 19449. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142763
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Winston Churchill's Acclaimed autobiography A Roving Commission: My Early Life
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A Roving Commission: My Early Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
New American edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography, recounting the first 25 years of his life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Introduction by Dorothy Thompson. Good in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine and extremities. Full-page gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145062
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First Edition of James Watson's Girls, Genes, and Gamow; Signed by Him
WATSON, James D.
Girls, Genes, and Gamow.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
First edition of the "essential coda to The Double Helix” (The Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Watson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 122699
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Uncorrected Proof 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.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's first book, a well-received collection of stories. Octavo, original orange wrappers. Signed by Andre Dubus III on the title page. Review slip laid in. In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 447
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First Edition of Falling to Earth; Signed by Al Worden and Francis French
WORDEN, Al with Francis French.
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Books, 2011.
First edition of this unprecedented and exhilarating account of Al Worden's experience with NASA. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by the authors on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Dick Gordon. Epilogue by Tom Stafford. Jacket design by Brian Barth.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147208
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First Edition of Christmas in Plains; Signed by Jimmy Carter
CARTER, Jimmy.
Christmas In Plains.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of this Christmas story by the 39th President of the United States. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated by Amy Carter. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Fenton J Carter." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Amy Carter.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147913
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First edition of Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman's Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy
GROSSMAN, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman.
Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
First edition of the economists' groundbreaking work on trade theory. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Purnima Sahgal.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128384
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First edition of Jack Valenti's Protect and Defend; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
VALENTI, Jack. [William Safire].
Protect and Defend.
New York: Doubleday, 1992.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fly-leaf, "To Helen and Bill dear, dear loving friends. Read - enjoy! Jack Valenti." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter and a close friend of the then Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Safire joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133043
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First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook; inscribed by her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook.
1964: William Morrow & Company, New York.
First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter, an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient, Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley’s. They often exchanged letters, books, and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 96083
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First Edition of Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was A Number Runner
MERIWETHER, Louise; Foreword by James Baldwin.
Daddy Was A Number Runner.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this modern classic “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145875
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First edition of Bertram D. Wolfe's Strange Communists I Have Known; inscribed by him to historian Arnold Krammer
WOLFE, Bertram D.
Strange Communists I Have Known.
New York: Stein and Day, 1965.
First edition of the author's collection of vignettes relaying the stories of ten personal friends involved in the communist movement. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Arnold Krammer inscribed with the regards of the author Bertram Wolfe." The recipient, Dr. Arnold Krammer, was an American historian who specialized in German and United States history. He was a professor at Texas A&M University and twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 1992-1993 and 2002-2003. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115624
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First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's On Style and Conversation
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862.
First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145230
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Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2006.
First edition of The New York Times Review of Books edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. In fine condition. Introduction by Patricia Storace.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 54
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"We know that the war is over... but the story of the great conflict will never diminish in interest": Sparks From the Camp Fire, Tales of the Old Veterans
MORTON, Joseph W..
Sparks From the Camp Fire, Tales of the Old Veterans.
Philadelphia: Keystone Publishing Co., 1895.
New and revised edition of this collection of Civil War memoirs. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From the library of Michael Ellsworth Shoemaker, son of William Shoemaker wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3rd 1864 with his ownership inscription. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132339
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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ'S NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
No One Writes to the Colonel.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
First English edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora. Translated by J.S. Bernstein.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136357
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"A wickedly gay and irrepressible book about a bishop, young love and a nudist colony": Thorne Smith's The Bishop's Jaegers
SMITH, Thorne.
The Bishop’s Jaegers.
Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1932.
First Sun Dial Press edition of Smith's wildly hilarious comic romp, preceded by the first edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in the same year. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by Roese. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 109968
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First Edition of The Ink Truck; Signed by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author William Kennedy
KENNEDY, William.
The Ink Truck.
New York: The Dial Press, 1969.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 2622
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First English edition of Leo Tolstoy's The Great Iniquity
TOLSTOY, Leo. Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I. F. Mayo.
A Great Iniquity.
London: The Free Age Press, n.d.
First English edition of Tolstoy's work on peasant welfare in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135472
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First Edition of I am Charlotte Simmons; Signed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
I Am Charlotte Simmons.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.
First edition of this "hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel" (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Laid in is the original program for the book signing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147194
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"A distinctive portfolio of distinctive wallpapers": Rare 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co. "Economy Group" wallpaper sample portfolio
Sears Roebuck and Co. “Economy Group” Standard Quality Wallpaper Catalog.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1940.
Rare 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co. wallpaper sample catalog; the "Economy Group", featuring standard quality papers printed with fadeproof colors in a variety of patterns. Octavo, includes 14 wallpaper samples. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 125883
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"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!" First Edition of Henry James' The Lesson of the Master
JAMES, Henry.
The Lesson of the Master.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1892.
First edition of this novella, which tells the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who meets Henry St. George, a famous novelist Overt admires. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the title page. A very sharp example with the spine gilt fresh.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 78023
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First Edition of Apocalypse Watch; Inscribed by Robert Ludlum
LUDLUM, Robert.
Apocalypse Watch.
New York: Bantam, 1995.
First edition of this work by the author of The Bourne Identity. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "For Peter Happy Birthday, Peter And my best Robert Ludlum 6.19.95." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 822
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"When Wanda packed her bag and left, I stood in my garden and knew my chances were ruined": First edition of Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems; inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dillard
ZIMMER, Paul [Annie Dillard].
With Wanda: Town and Country Poems.
Washington, D.C. & San Francisco: Dryad Press, 1980.
First edition of American poet Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed to poet Annie Dillard on the title page, "August 1980 For Annie and Gary, With admiration and affection. Paul." With Annie Dillard's bookplate to the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Susan Foster. Book design by Merrill Leffler. A nice association.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88097
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FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT GALBRAITH'S CAREER OF EVIL
GALBRAITH, Robert. [J.K. Rowling].
Career of Evil.
London: Sphere, 2015.
First edition of the third novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nico Taylor.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136054
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First edition of St. John Lucas' The Oxford Book of French Verse
LUCAS, St. John.
The Oxford Book of French Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
First edition of Lucas' compilation of the verse from the greatest French poets of the 13th and 14th centuries. Octavo, bound in half vellum for Christ's Hospital boarding school with their armorial crest to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction in English, text in French. From the library of British economist David Graham Hutton with his ownership signature and presentation bookplate. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 114537
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"one of the most influential books of the 20th Century" The Lonely Crowd
RIESMAN, David with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer.
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.
Early printing of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 141481
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First edition of Evolving Concepts of Prudence: The Changing Responsibilities of the Investment Fiduciary in the Age of ERISA
BLIXT, Robert E.; William J. Chadwick; Richard A. Posner; Robert D. Milne; Seymour Smidt et al.
Evolving Concepts of Prudence: The Changing Responsibilities of the Investment Fiduciary in the Age of ERISA.
Charlottesville: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1976.
First edition of this volume on the evolving concepts of prudence in investment strategy. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 117638
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Johann Gottfried Herder's Ausgewahlte Dichtungen
HERDER, Johann Gottfried .
Herder’s Ausgewahlte Dichtungen.
Stuttgart: J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder's selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128406
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"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them": First Edition of Trying To Save Piggy Sneed; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeffrey Fisher. Author photographs by Mary Ellen Mark and Isolde Ohlbaum.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 138144
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"Good Golfing": Byron Nelson's Winning Golf; Inscribed by Him
NELSON, Byron.
Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.
Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1988.
First edition of the re-issue of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Buck Ray Good Golfing Byron Nelson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146821
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"The night surrounds me in a dark, grey fog. I feel its chill even under my futon": First Wesleyan University Press edition of Garrett Kaoru Hongo's Yellow Light; Inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dilllard
HONGO, Garrett Kaoru.
Yellow Light.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo's first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, "for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May '84." From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. Cover illustration by Wakako Yamauchi.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88098
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First Edition of Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes; Inscribed by Karl Shell
FISHER, Franklin M. and Karl Shell.
Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
First edition of the first study to discuss output and input price indexes. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Karl Shell on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 75768
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First edition of Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding R. N. 2 September 1903.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, 1943.
First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter, written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son, John. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies, this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 122437
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THE SCHOOL BUDGET; CONTAINING A LETTER FROM RUDYARD KIPLING AND CARICATURE OF HIM
KIPLING, Rudyard and Max Beerbohm.
The Budget: A Reprint of the Issues of May 14th and May 28th, 1898, Containing Contributions.
New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123533
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First edition of building the getty; Signed by Architect Richard Meier
MEIER, Richard.
Building the Getty.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original cloth. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "with best wishes Richard Meier." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 1911
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First Edition of In Our Time; Inscribed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
In Our Time.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1980.
First edition of this unique collection of collection Wolfe's drawings from his two decades as a graphic artist; a visual commentary on the changing mores and social landscape of the 1980s. Quarto, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Al Rusch peerless tennis star Tom Wolfe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Wolfe. Jacket design by Sheila Wolfe.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144713
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First Edition of John Updike's Terrorist; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
UPDIKE, John.
Terrorist.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
First edition of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123402
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First Edition of All For Love; Inscribed by Tasha Tudor
TUDOR, Tasha.
All For Love.
New York: Philomel Books, 1984.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elaine! Tasha Tudor 1986." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146497
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First Edition of Learning from ‘Learning by Doing’: Lessons for Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
SOLOW, Robert.
Learning from ‘Learning by Doing’: Lessons for Economic Growth (Kenneth J. Arrow Lectures).
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 32004
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First Edition of The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook.
New York: St. Albans, 1924.
First edition of this article with this title. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. Appearing on pp. 17-18 is a first appearance article by Rudyard Kipling titled Empire Building. It appeared in 1909 with no title and in 1913 with the title Give the Second Eleven a Chance. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Stewart 722
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132448
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"The world has lost one of the very few with the imagination, courage, and leadership needed to restore civilization and build a firm economic base for peace and happiness": The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States
HARROD, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson.
The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. June 1946. [The Balance of Payments of the United States].
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1946.
The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ink notation to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135307
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“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective": First Edition of Peter F. Drucker's The Effective Executive
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The Effective Executive.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of Drucker's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144241
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"It is frankly devoted to man's crazy, triumphant return to the mud from which he came": First Edition of Charles Addams' Addams and Evil
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams]; Wolcott Gibbs.
Addams and Evil.
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Wolcott Gibbs.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147270
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First edition of Alison Lurie's The Truth About Lorin Jones; inscribed by her to photographer Sally Soames
LURIE, Alison.
The Truth About Lorin Jones.
London: Michael Joseph, 1988.
First edition of the author's artistic detective story. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to photographer Sally Soames, "For Sally Soames Alison Lurie 21 June '88." 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…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 119500
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"There are always many people who say that golf cannot be learned from a book": First edition of P. A. Vaile's The New Golf
VAILE, P. A.
The New Golf.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916.
First edition of P. A. Vaile's authoritative manual of the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece engraving of Jerome D. Travers with tissue guard, illustrated with forty engravings from photographs. In near fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88077
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYOR, Sonia.
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2018.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Bianchini and Larsson McSwain.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123929
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"He has plucked the sting from our bad dreams": First Edition of Charles Addams' Black Maria
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 147271
