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Carey's Life in Paris with original wrappers bound in
CAREY, David; Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Life In Paris; Comprising The Rambles, Sprees, And Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, And his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O’Shuffleton; with the Whimsical Adventures of the Galibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis.
London: Marchant, 1887.
First edition of the author's account of an exciting experience in the French capital. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, frontispiece, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrapper's bound in. Illustrated with twenty-one colored plates by George Cruikshank and twenty-two wooden engravings drawn by George Cruikshank and executed by Mr. White. In very good condition. Ownership plates of Dalmeny and Lucius Wilmerding to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 149007
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"Good Appetite good cooking from an old friend": First Edition of James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BEARD, James.
James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
First edition of this classic work, which compiles 300 recipes by the dean of American cooking. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Karl W. Stueklen. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Good Appetite good cooking For Esther from an old friend James Beard." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139445
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First Edition of The Zoo Quest Expeditions; Signed by David Attenborough
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Zoo Quest Expeditions.
London: Lutterworth, 1980.
First edition of this volume that compiles Attenborough's acclaimed Quest Series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author "with best wishes David Attenborough" on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139566
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First Edition of Charles Webb's The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker; Signed by Him and Lead Actor in the Film Richard Benjamin and Executive Producer Larry Turman
WEBB, Charles [Richard Benjamin.
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 1971 film starring Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus, directed by Larry Turman. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "1/30/70 To Pat with love, Charles" and additionally signed by actor Richard Benjamin and by director and executive producer Larry Turman on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design and photograph by Milton Charles. A unique example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140423
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First Edition of David Sedaris's Naked; Inscribed by him and four times by jacket designer Chip Kidd with an original drawing
SEDARIS, David.
Naked.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Patrick I still care David Sedaris on the title page. Additionally signed four times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page, on the book front panel with an original drawing and again on the rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142148
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First Edition of Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management; Inscribed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Book, 1998.
First edition of this work by the father of modern management. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jim Black with best regards from Peter Drucker." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lance Hidy. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142028
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First Edition of Lawrence Klein's Economic Theory and Econometrics; Signed by Him
KLEIN, Lawrence.
Economic Theory and Econometrics.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Lawrence Klein on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Jaime Marquez.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 2922
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First Edition of The Visions of Peace; Inscribed by Nobel Laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Desmond Tutu
MAGUIRE, Mairead Corrigan; Preface by the Dalai Lama; Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland.
New York: Orbis, 1999.
First edition of this work by the Nobel laureate. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "To Adrienne, Peace to you. Love Mairead 2.8.2005." Also inscribed to the same recipient by Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu; who contributed the foreword. Also laid in is a pamphlet inscribed by Maguire, A Letter to My Son Luke. In fine condition. Uncommon especially signed by both these Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 831
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"I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court": First Edition of Out Of Order; Inscribed by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
O'CONNOR, Sandra Day.
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court.
New York: Random House, 2013.
First edition of this collection of stories from the history of the Supreme Court by the first female justice. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, paintings, and court drawings. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Michael Addy with good wishes- Sandra D O'Connor." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Bauer.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145146
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First Edition of Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; Warmly Inscribed by Tom Wolfe in the year of publication
WOLFE, Tom.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Dan, with thanks- for a pleasant mid-day in the bowels of the NBC Building! Tom Wolfe December 9, 1976." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed and inscribed in the year of publication.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131703
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The December 1912 edition of The English Review; containing the first appearance of Rowland Kenney's Women's Suffrage
HARRISON, Austin [Editor].
The English Review. December 1912.
London: R. Clay and Sons, Ltd, 1912.
The December 1912 edition of The English Review, containing the first appearance of Rowland Kenney's 'Women's Suffrage'. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135612
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First Edition of The Elements of Investing; Signed by Legendary Investor Burton Malkiel
MALKIEL, Burton G. and Charles D. Ellis.
The Elements of Investing.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2010.
First edition of this work on investing by two of the world's greatest financial thinkers. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the co-author on the front free endpaper, "With best wishes Burt Malkiel." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael J. Freeland.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 75065
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“THE COLDER THE WINTER, THE WARMER THE SPRING": FIRST EDITION OF WALT DISNEY’S BAMBI
[DISNEY, Walt].
Walt Disney’s Bambi: Adapted from the Novel by Felix Salten.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
First edition of this storybook version of Disney’s classic. Slim folio, original pictorial paper boards, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133151
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First edition of Lucy Barton's Historic Costume For The Stage; Finely Bound by Asprey
BARTON, Lucy.
Historic Costume for the Stage.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1957.
First edition of Barton's best-known work. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Asprey with gilt titles and raised gilt bands to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 76 pages of drawings by David Sarvis including tissue-guarded frontispiece in color. In fine condition. An excellent example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 101509
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Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and Welded; Signed by Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
All God’s Chillun Got Wings Desire under the Elms and Welded.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1927.
First edition, second printing of this collection of two of O'Neill's expressionist plays, including one of his most controversial. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Eugene O'Neill on the front free endpaper. With the publishers Now & Then advertisement postcard laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 108639
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Sarah Churchill's A Thread in the Tapestry; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
CHURCHILL, Sarah [Winston S. Churchill].
A Thread in the Tapestry.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's deeply moving eulogy of her father, Sir Winston Churchill. Octavo, 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. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139833
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"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you": First Edition of Five Finger Exercise; Signed by Peter Shaffer
SHAFFER, Peter.
Five Finger Exercise.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958.
First edition of Shaffer's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sir Peter Shaffer." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket photograph by Angus McBean. A very nice example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 114579
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First Edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafron's The Shadow of the Wind; Signed by Him
ZAFRON, Carlos Ruiz.
The Shadow of the Wind.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this "gorgeous read" (Stephen King). Octavo, original boards, patterned endpapers. Signed by Carlos Ruiz Zafon on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar. Translated by Lucia Graves.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143007
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"The sky behind, higher up, bleeding the last of the sunset, is bright with disillusion": First edition of Gregory Maguire's Lost; inscribed by him
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Lost.
New York: ReganBooks, 2001.
First edition of Maguire's haunting novel. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page with a quote from the novel, "The sky behind, higher up, bleeding the last of the sunset, is bright with disillustion. Gregory Maguire 22 Sept 07." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustrations by Douglas Smith. Author photograph by Andy Newman.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 126551
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"Author of this author, generous critic, and loyal helper, who reads my books more often than anyone else": First Edition of Portrait of A Romantic; Inscribed by Steven Millhauser to His Mother
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
Portrait of a Romantic.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his Mother on the front free endpaper, "For Mom, author of this author, generous critic, and loyal helper, who reads my books more often than anyone else Steven." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. An exceptional association.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146451
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First Edition of Jack Nicklaus's My Most Memorable Shots; Signed by Him
NICKLAUS, Jack.
My Most Memorable Shots In the Majors.
New York: Golf Digest Book, 1988.
First edition of this classic work by the Golden Bear. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jack Nicklaus on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written with Ken Bowden. Illustrations by Jim McQueen. Foreword by Barbara Nicklaus.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146898
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First Edition of Farewell to Manzanar; Signed by James D. Houston
HOUSTON, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.
First edition of this classic work, a powerful true story of life in a Japanese American incarceration camp. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by co-author, "James D. Houston Sacramento June 4, 1997" on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147036
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"Failure is not an option": Apollo 13 Photograph; Inscribed by Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot
KRANZ, Gene and Sy Liebergot.
Apollo 13 Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot Signed Photograph.
April 13, 1970.
Signed photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft. Satin-finish photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft, boldly signed in gold felt tip by NASA’s heroic mission controllers Eugene Kranz, "Eugene F. Kranz, 'Flight,'" and Seymour Liebergot, "'We may have had an instrumentation problem, Flight.' 4/13/70, Sy Liebergot, Apollo 13 EECOM." Ironically, the station anomaly was far greater than any instrumentation malfunction Liebergot could believe. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147225
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"When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins": The Edition du Centenaire of the complete illustrated works of Gustave Flaubert
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Gustave Flaubert.
Paris: Librairie de France, 1922-1924.
The Edition du Centenaire of the complete illustrated works of Gustave Flaubert. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in, illustrated by Andre Favory, Georges Dufrenoy, Bernard Naudin, and Pierre Girieud. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 137205
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First Edition of Schirra's Space; Inscribed by Captain Wally M. Schirra, Jr. and Jack Lousma; Signed by Mario Runco, Bill Shepherd, Bill Readdy, and Alan Shepard
SCHIRRA, Captain Walter M. Jr [Wally]; Richard N. Billings; Jack Lousma; Mario Runco; Bill Shepherd; Bill Readdy; Alan Shepard.
Schirra’s Space.
Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988.
First edition of this revealing autobiography of Captain Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wally Schirra and Jack Lousma on the front free endpaper and also signed by astronauts Mario Runco, Bill Shepherd, Bill Readdy, and Alan Shepard. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannus Design Associates and front jacket painting by Robert Peak.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147678
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Rare Antique Valentine Collection Album
Antique Valentine Collection Album.
Folio scrapbook containing a collection of Valentines printed in the early 1900s. Quarto, original boards with gilt central floral motif. From the collection of Marilyn Cox. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 116024
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"Best African Wishes": I Married Adventure; Inscribed by Osa Johnson
JOHNSON, Osa.
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.
First edition of Johnson's classic work. Octavo, original striped cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Esther Bates With my very best African wishes. Affectionately Osa Johnson." Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143893
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First Edition of All Things Bright and Beautiful; Inscribed by James Herriot
HERRIOT, James.
All Things Bright and Beautiful.
London`: Michael Joseph, 1976.
First edition of this classic, the sequel to All Creatures Great and Small. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bob and Nancy with best wishes and thanks James Herriot." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Camera Press.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144243
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“It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way": First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion; Signed by Him
FOSTER WALLACE, David.
Oblivion: Stories.
Boston: Little Brown & Company, 2004.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 121399
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"Being right was largely a matter of explanations": First Edition of Mr. Sammler’s Planet; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Mr. Sammler’s Planet.
New York: The Viking Press, 1970.
First edition of the author's third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 184
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First Edition of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives; Signed by Translator Natasha Wimmer
BOLANO, Roberto.
The Savage Detectives.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Jacket lettering by Jennifer van Dalsen. Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146485
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First edition of Landmark Papers in Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow and economist Peter Howitt
SOLOW, Robert M.
Landmark Papers in Economic Growth.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition of this collection of writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by economists Robert M. Solow and Peter Howitt on the title page. Howitt contributed an essay in this volume. In near fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 132181
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Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man; Signed by Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie & The First Man.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1930.
Early printing of this collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Eugene O'Neill on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed trade editions of this work are uncommon.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 101567
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First Edition of the 50th anniversary of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
First edition of the 50th anniversary of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Burt Malkiel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pete Garceau. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140797
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First edition, limited issue of RICHARD R. HOLMES' QUEEN VICTORIA; PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVED PORTRAITS FROM THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS
HOLMES, Richard R. [Queen Victoria].
Queen Victoria.
London: Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1897.
First edition, limited issue of this finely illustrated account of the life and reign of Queen Victoria compiled and edited by the librarian to the Queen, Richard Holmes, to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. Folio, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling and central royal Coat of Arms to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of the Queen and Prince of Wales, profusely illustrated with tissue guarded engravings after portraits from the Royal…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139233
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“I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals": First Edition of on & off the fairway a pictorial autobiography; Inscribed by Jack Nicklaus in the year of Publication
NICKLAUS, Jack.
On & Off the Fairway: A Pictorial Autobiography.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
First edition of this work by the golfing legend. Quarto, original half-cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Allen-Williams Best Wishes Jack Nicklaus 1978." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145390
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"One of the earliest feminist journals published": First edition of Volume XIV of The Englishwoman
The Englishwoman. Volume XIV. April-June 1912.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912.
First edition of of Volume XIV of the Englishwoman's Review, one of the first feminist journals published. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135267
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Robert Trivers' Parent-Offspring Conflict; inscribed by him
TRIVERS, Robert L.
Parent-Offspring Conflict.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Zoology, 1974.
First appearance of Trivers' extremely influential paper, building on his study of parental investment. Octavo, disbound from the original journal. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, "For Jeffrey w/ best wishes, as always. Bob. June 29, 1974." The recipient, Jeffrey A. Kurland, was a distinguished professor of biological anthropology and evolution at Penn State. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 136287
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's A Writer's Notebook; from the library of Raymond Chandler
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. [Raymond Chandler].
A Writer’s Notebook.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949.
First trade edition of Maugham’s semi-autobiographical confessional. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, top edge red, frontispiece portrait of Maugham by Sir Gerald Kelly. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpaper: Raymond Chandler 6005 Camino de la Costa La Jolla, California OCT 13 1949. Subsequently from the library of Chandler's personal secretary, fiancé, and muse Jean Vounder-Davis, with her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper beneath Chandler's library stamp, "Jean Vounder-Davis 1418 Torrey Pines Rd La Jolla California." Raymond Chandler was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature, renowned for his contributions to…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147738
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First Edition of Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
BROCKETT, L. P..
Woman’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience.
Philadelphia : Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867.
First edition of this major early history of Civil War women, published only two years after the war's end, with authoritative accounts of groundbreaking work by Clara Barton and over 80 field nurses. Thick octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 16 steel-engraved portraits and a contributing essay by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In near fine condition. A sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140052