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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Inscribed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, John.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee's classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Len Byrd all best John." Additionally signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 2133
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First Edition of The Fiscal System of Venezuela; Inscribed by Carl Shoup
SHOUP, Carl S.
The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, "To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup." Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Carl S. Shoup. Contributors include John F. Due, Lyle C. Fitch, Sir Donald McDougall, Oliver S. Oldman and Stanley S. Surrey.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 75023
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"The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of the reissue of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959.
First edition of the reissue of Nabokov's first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 89025
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"Nobody knows anything about what will work": William Goldman's Tinsel; Inscribed by Him
GOLDMAN, William.
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman's novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Huebner.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 81342
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First Edition of Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986; Signed by Cynthia Ozick, Robert Giroux, and Daniel Stern
MALAMUD, Bernard). Cynthia Ozick.
Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986.
New York: Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1986.
First edition, one of 150 unnumbered copies. 16 mo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Giroux, Daniel Stern, and Cynthia Ozick. In fine condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 47544
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First edition of Charles Osborne's The Unexpected Guest
OSBORNE, Charles [Agatha Christie].
The Unexpected Guest.
London: HarperCollins, 1999.
First edition of this classic mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Andrew Davidson.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 137528
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Rare First Edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad; volume III finely bound
JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna Brownell].
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected and a New Edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, headpieces, and tailpieces, all edges red. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 114061
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"as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear": First Edition of Alan Aldridge's The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics
ALDRIDGE, Alan.
The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics.
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1990.
First edition of the only major published collection of illustrated Beatles lyrics. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with lavish, full-color illustrations by a host of internationally renowned artists with specially commissioned photographs featured on almost every page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145102
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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Signed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, John.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee's classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145881
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Harriet Martineau's Feats on the Fiord; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MARTINEAU, Harriet. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Feats on the Fiord.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, n.d.
Early printing of Martineau's classic collection. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, color pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with eight lithographic plates in color. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 142418
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First Edition of Mortal Engines; Signed by Philip Reeve
REEVE, Philip.
Mortal Engines.
London: Scholastic Press, 2001.
First edition of the award-winning author's debut novel. Octavo, original red boards. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Frankland.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145188
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First Edition of Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth & Stanislav Menshikov.
Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence: From A Bitter Past To A Better Prospect.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a Vermont friend and publisher, "For Carol with love John G 1988." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 1601
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Ruth Plumly Thompson's Kabumpo in Oz
THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly; Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum.
Kabumpo in Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1922.
First edition, early printing of Thompson's second fantastical continuation of Frank Baum’s 'Oz' stories. Octavo, original cloth with colored pictorial paper onlay, illustrated plates by John R. Neill. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145101
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Julia Ellsworth Ford's Imagina; illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford
FORD, Julia Ellsworth.
Imagina.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923.
Second edition of Ford's melancholic children's tale. Quarto, original cloth, with illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which shows significant wear.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 142358
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Jacinto Benavente's Cartas de Mujeres
BENAVENTE, Jacinto.
Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, patterned endpapers, engraved headpieces throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145262
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"From my youth I had greatly desired to see the Holy land and tread, if ever so distantly, in the footsteps of my Lord and Master": First edition of Clara Huston Miller's High Places of Sacrifice
MILLER, Clara Huston.
High Places of Sacrifice.
Philadelphia: Self Published, 1922.
First edition of Clara Huston Miller's detailed memoir of her pilgrimages to the most important holy places of sacrifice throughout the world. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, illustrated throughout with photographs. In very good condition.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 89033
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First Edition of Christian Boltanski's El Caso
BOLTANSKI, Christian.
El Caso.
Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original stiff cardboard. In near fine condition. Introduction by Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon. Exhibition of the artist Christian Boltanski at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1988.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 15056
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First Edition of John Baxter's Locker Room Ballads; Inscribed by Him
BAXTER, John E.
Locker Room Ballads.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.
First edition of this collection of verses. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To C.D. Stimson with the compliments of the author, John E. Baxter 12/24/23." Near fine in a good dust jacket with a chip to the front panel. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 65472
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First Edition of Octavia Butler's Imago
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Imago.
New York: Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler's acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne Barlowe.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 144356
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 135674
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First Edition of Nadine Gordimer's Livingstone’s Companions; Signed by Her
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Livingstone’s Companions.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 2572
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Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde
MASON, Stuart.
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..
Later printing of Mason's renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 140208
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Comedians
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 115681
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"There are nights that have the length of centuries and this has been one of them": First signed limited subscriber's edition of Kathleen Coyle's There is a Door
COYLE, Kathleen.
There is a Door.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1931.
First signed limited subscriber's edition of Coyle's short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very good in the scarce original glassine which shows chipping and wear.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 96774
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“Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn": First Edition of Truman
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145614
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"You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you": First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award Winning Novel
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
New York: The Dial Press, 2001.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the author's classic Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146375
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"Here at the quiet limit of the world": First edition of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh's short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146931
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Volume 129 of Punch weekly; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.
London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.
Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issues of July 5, August 30, September 6, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 15, and November 29. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and ownership stamp.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142537
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First Edition of McMurtry and Ossana's Pretty Boy Floyd; Signed by McMurtry
MCMURTRY, Larry and Diana Ossana.
Pretty Boy Floyd.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition of McMurtry and Ossana's first collaborative novel, a semi-fictional biography of American bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the second free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95120
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First edition of Frank Norris's Harper Prize-winning novel Tower in the West
NORRIS, Frank.
Tower in the West.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author's Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115647
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Photograph of Alec Baldwin; Signed by Him
BALDWIN, Alec.
Alec Baldwin Signed Photograph.
Photograph of American actor Alec Baldwin. Duodecimo, one page, black and white photograph of Alec Baldwin by Albert Sanchez, boldly signed by him in blue felt tip, "Health & Happiness! Alec Baldwin." In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146564
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First edition of Susan Cheever's The Cage; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
The Cage.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.
First edition of the author's third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows For Whom my affection will never be remaindered Love Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing,…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142682
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"We were then strung out in a six-mile line, thirty ships, all heading westwards": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Fleet in Being
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121444
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Later Printing of Philip Pullman's The Tiger in the Well; Inscribed by the author
PULLMAN, Philip.
The Tiger in the Well.
London: Scholastic, 1999.
Early printing of Philip Pullman's third book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Best Wishes to Eileen, Philip Pullman Sept. 99." In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 88118
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147182
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George Ward Nichols' The Story of the Great March
NICHOLS, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.
Early printing of Nichols' account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133029
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics
SONDHEIM, Stephen.
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146134
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First Edition of Lionel Robbins’ The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought
ROBBINS, Lionel.
The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought.
London: Macmillan, 1968.
First edition of Robbins' work on the history of economic theory. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher's complementary slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110422
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"My small feet could walk the sun up and down across the stony hill-crests where we worked": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Teem"- A Treasure-Hunter; in the scarce original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
First edition of Kipling's beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121883
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First edition of Fedor Sologub's The Kiss of the Unborn
SOLOGUB, Fedor.
The Kiss of the Unborn and Other Stories.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
First edition of the author's timeless short story collection. Octavo, original cloth. Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126497
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Signed by Michael Rosen
MCGOUGH, Roger and Michael Rosen; Illustrated by Sara Midda.
You Tell Me: Poems by Roger McGough and Michael Rosen.
London: Puffin Books, 1981.
First edition of this collection of poems for children. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper, "Michael Rosen 12/10/85." In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 89125
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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First edition of War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited
War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, 1952.
First edition of the Commercial Bank of Scotland's War Service Record 1939-1945. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124208
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First Edition of Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn
WALLACE, Henry A; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Russell Lord.
Democracy Reborn.
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd, 1945.
First English edition of this work on democratic politics. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with black and white plates. In very good condition with toning to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146243
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First edition of Thomas Wolfe's The Hills Beyond
WOLFE, Thomas.
The Hills Beyond.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
First edition of Wolfe's acclaimed posthumously published short story collection. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, embossed stamps.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 120308
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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First Edition of The Sea Lion; Signed by Ken Kesey
KESEY, Ken.
The Sea Lion: A Story of the Sea Cliff People.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of this beautiful piece of children's literature. Super octavo, original half cloth, lavender endpapers, fully illustrated by Neil Waldman. Boldly signed and dated by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, "Ken Kesey 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145361
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Charles Lever's Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
LEVER, Charles.
Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon.
London: James Nisbit & Co., Limited, 1899.
Later printing of this tale illustrated by Arthur Rackham very early in his career. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with frontispiece and 15 plates. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142691
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Willard Espy's Words at Play Finely Bound; Presentation copy with a Typed Letter Signed by the author laid in
ESPY, Willard R.
An Almanac of Words at Play.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1975.
Early printing of Espy's work on wit in wordplay. Quarto, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red spine labels, marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, from the library of Jonathan Goodman with his embossed library stamp to the front free endpaper. Enclosed is a typed letter signed by the author to the recipient date March 7, 1977 in the original envelope. The letter reads in part, "First time any correspondent has mentioned giving the Almanac the leather treatment. Next time I'm in London I must call to learn whether you really did it...Sincerely, Willard…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95845
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"Welcome to the fad-surfing age, complete with a seemingly endless supply of programs and mantras": First Edition of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom; Inscribed by Eileen C. Shapiro
SHAPIRO, Eileen C.
Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers.
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to strategy fads and effective management. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jay, with best wishes, Eileen Shapiro." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Also laid in is an inscribed business card tipped in, "This, written by our friend and former neighbor Dr. Albert Shapiro's daughter, Eileen Shapiro, should be a good read according to a very biased father! Bestis, Bud." Jacket design by Jean Seal. Jacket photograph by Jeff Divine. Author photograph by Mort Kaye Studios.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145205
