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"THE KEY FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF HIS THOUGHT": FIRST EDITION OF THE SENSORY ORDER
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Sensory Order. An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952.
First edition of Hayek's foundational study of cognitive behavior—"an exercise in profound thinking." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Heinrich Kluver.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143046
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Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
Mr. Scarborough’s Family and An Old Man’s Love.
London: Chatto & Windus; Edinburgh and William Blackwood and Sons, 1883-1884.
Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love. Octavo, five volumes uniformly bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 110623
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First Edition of Broken Trail; Signed by Alan Geoffrion, Robert Duvall, Scott Cooper and Olivia Cheng
GEOFFRION, Alan [Robert Duvall.
Broken Trail.
Golden, Colorodo: Fulcrum, .
First edition of the paperback original. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alan Geoffrion on the title page, additionally signed by Scott Cooper and Olivia Cheng above and Robert Duvall opposite the title page. Duvall, Cooper, and Cheng acted in the 2006 miniseries adaptation, directed by Walter Hill and went on to win four Emmy awards, including outstanding miniseries and outstanding lead actor for Duvall. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 117349
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"SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, IT IS A GRAND SPORT": FIRST EDITION OF S. KIP FARRINGTON, JR.'S ATLANTIC GAME FISHING; INSCRIBED BY HIM to the editor of Field & Stream
FARRINGTON, S. Kip. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway.
Atlantic Game Fishing.
New York: Kennedy Bros., Inc., Publishers of Yachting, 1937.
First trade edition of Farrington’s classic work on Atlantic game fishing, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs and color illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt including frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Ray Holland one of the best editors in the game, and as good a sportsman as there is in the world, and the last goes also for Dan who will soon rank with the old man on the first. With my very best wishes to you both. S. Kip Farrington…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 126491
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First Edition of James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War. How Americans Felt and Acted During the War for the Union; Inscribed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
The Negro’s Civil War. How Americans Felt and Acted During the War for the Union.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author regarding the perspective of African Americans during The Civil War; how they felt, and how they played an important role, military and political, in helping the North win the war. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Wendell Morris Regards by James McPherson." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137542
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First edition of George A. Henty's A Woman of the Commune: A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris
HENTY, George Alfred.
A Woman of the Commune: A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris.
London: F. V. White & Co, 1895.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 122360
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Rare first edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian; from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature
RUSSO, Joseph Louis. [John Steinbeck; Elaine Steinbeck].
Present Day Italian.
Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1947.
First edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian, from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature and marginal notes throughout. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 114534
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First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Get Home Free; Inscribed by Him
CLELLON HOLMES, John .
Get Home Free.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1964.
First edition of Clellon Holmes' third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Phyllis- all good wishes- John Clellon Holmes." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 10022
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First edition of Anthony Powell's The Valley of Bones
POWELL, Anthony.
The Valley of Bones.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1964.
First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144231
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First Edition of Anthony Powell's The Soldier's Art
POWELL, Anthony.
The Soldier’s Art.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1966.
First edition of the eighth novel in the 'A Dance to the Music of Time' series and second volume in the 'War' trilogy. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities of the cloth and jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morroco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145148
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First Edition of Carl Snyder's Capitalism the Creator in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SNYDER, Carl.
Capitalism the Creator: Economic Foundations of Modern Industrial Society.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.
First edition of this exposition on capitalism. Octavo, original cloth, with 44 original charts. Original promotional material laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4506
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"Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived": First Editon of Seeing; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Seeing.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's sequel to Blindness. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140
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First Edition of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HESCHEL, Abraham Joshua.
Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.
First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 78342
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First Edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Steep Ascent; Inscribed by Her
The Steep Ascent.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1944.
First edition of this work which chronicles Lindbergh's travels to the Alps, with the engaging philosophical observations which made her Listen, the Wind! so popular. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Esther and Norman Biltz Anne Morrow Lindbergh December 1948." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 120837
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First edition of R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics 2: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking; lengthily inscribed by him
FULLER, R. Buckminster. In collaboration with E. J. Applewhite.
Synergetics 2: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.
First edition of the second volume in Fuller's landmark work, Synergetics. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To: Jim Chaturckthy, On the occasion of our meeting at Oakland University which gave me the opportunity to make a drawing for your daughter Jennifer who is of the generation which he hope will make our planet Earth work for everyone. Buckminster Fuller Jan 31 1980." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Author photograph by Fred Blocher.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 124382
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"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Carole John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 129198
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Facsimile Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby Manuscript Facsimile.
Washington, D.C: Microcard Editions Books, 1973.
The facsimile manuscript edition of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by Matthew Bruccoli.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140683
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First edition of Andy Warhol's a: A Novel
WARHOL, Andy.
a: A novel by Andy Warhol.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1968.
First edition of Warhol's first novel, an experimental collection of four word-for-word transcriptions of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine between 1965 and 1967. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137201
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First Edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's Seven Came Through; Inscribed by Him
RICKENBACKER, Captain Edward V. Introduction by W.L. White.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition of Rickenbacker's account of 24 days adrift in a life raft. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my every best wish to Gertrude Moellering Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker." Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143617
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First edition of Carlos Thompson's The Assassination of Winston Churchill; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
THOMPSON, Carlos. [Sir Winston Churchill].
The Assassination of Winston Churchill.
Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1969.
First edition, signed limited issue of the author's in-depth investigation into the allegations put forth in Rolf Hochhuth's 'Soldiers, An obituary for Geneva' (1967). 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. One of a limited number of copies signed by the author on the dedication page. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 139267
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The Language of Post-Modern Architecture; Signed by Charles Jencks
JENCKS, Charles.
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.
New York: Rizzoli, 1991.
Sixth edition of this seminal work in the field of architecture. Folio, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Charles Jencks on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2263
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First edition of George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds' The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730
DOW, George Francis and John Henry Edmonds. Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost.
The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1923.
First edition of the second book published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts. Large octavo, bound in three quarter morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, cartographic endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 130594
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"The most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written": Complete first edition set of The Story of the Panama Pacific Exposition
TODD, Frank Morton.
The Story of the Exposition; Being the Official History of the International Celebration Held at San Francisco in 1915 to Commemorate the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the Construction of the Panama Canal
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1921.
Complete first edition set of the most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written. Quartos, five volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers. With 600 illustrations from photographs, including 61 color plates. Near fine in the scarce original paper jackets which are in good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 98504
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"Always remember the #1 rule of tasting- Always smell it first": First Edition of Robert M. Parker's Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
First edition of Robert M. Parker's first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "11/26/85 To Mike Cullen, All the best in wine and life Robert M. Parker." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 118933
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inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Saul bellow to friend and fellow high school classmate
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate, "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake (Tuley gym!) Saul." In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2038
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First Edition of Children of Ceaucescu; Signed by Kent Klich and Herta Muller
KLICH, Kent; Essay by Herta Muller.
Children of Ceaucescu.
New York: Umbrage, 2001.
First edition of the photographer's powerful collection of images taken after the reign of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu. The aftermath is sobering, the pictures telling. Essay by Nobel Prize-winning author, Herta Muller. Signed and dated by the photographer, Kent Klich and also signed by Herta Muller. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 1590
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First edition of The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures; inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry M.; William F. Sharpe; Merton H. Miller.
The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures.
Charlottesville: The Research Foundation of The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 1991.
First edition of this collection of the Nobel lectures of Harry M. Markowitz, William F. Sharpe, and Merton H. Miller. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz on the title page, "Dear William: Best wishes, Harry Markowitz." In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115906
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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven pages in a folding album, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145936
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“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade": First Edition of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles; Signed three times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of Murakami's heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original boards. Signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 125609
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First Edition of Amos Oz's Scarce First Book My Michael; Inscribed by Him
OZ, Amos.
My Michael.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1972.
First English edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Gania, with my best wishes and warmest shalom, Amos Oz." Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears and wear to the spine. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5723
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1966 Georgetown University Yearbook containing a photograph of Bill Clinton as a college sophomore
[CLINTON, Bill].
Bill Clinton 1966 Georgetown University Yearbook.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1966.
1966 Georgetown University Yearbook containing a photograph of Bill Clinton as a college sophomore. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Clinton's photograph is on page 278. In near fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 139242
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First Edition of Vernon Smith's Bargaining and Market Behavior; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Bargaining and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
First edition of this collection of important essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Vernon L. Smith on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James F. Brisson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 116991
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First Edition of Daniel Keyes' The Minds of Billy Milligan; Signed by Him
KEYES, Daniel.
The Minds of Billy Milligan.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of "this fascinating work" (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Daniel Keyes on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate. Jacket painting and interior painting by Billy Milligan. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Uncommon signed.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140602
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First Edition of Wall Street and the Wilds; Lengthily Inscribed by A.W. Dimock
DIMOCK, Anthony W.
Wall Street and the Wilds.
New York: Outing Company, 1915.
First edition of Dimock's autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some mention of fishing for tarpon, trout and salmon. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Melville A. Clark Dear Melville; If one must choose between the wilds of Wall Street and the gentleness of the wilds the wise man will take the woods. A.W. Dimock The Happy Valley Oct. 18,1917." In near fine condition, with some offsetting to the…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4562
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Autograph Letter Signed By English Author John Creasey to American Novelist John Ball
CREASEY, John [John Ball].
John Creasey Autograph Letter Signed.
Bodenham: August 9, 1967.
Autograph letter signed by English author John Creasey to American novelist John Ball with a review of the film based on Ball's first 'Virgil Tibbs' novel. One page on Cunard Line R. M. S. Queen Mary letterhead, duodecimo, the autograph letter reads, "Dear John, Last night in New York, I saw 'In the Heat of the Night.' It was quite remarkable, and I hope you agree that any changes from the book did no harm at all. It is, in fact, a tremendous piece of film making and a social document which will surely be of great value and urgently…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145578
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First Edition of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Basic Christianity; Inscribed by John Stott
STOTT, John R.W.
Basic Christianity.
Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008.
First edition of the 50th Anniversary edition of Stott's classic work, originally published in 1958. Octavo, original black boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For ____ with best wishes from John Stott." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2246
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First Edition of Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player; signed by Yogi Berra
BERRA, Yogi and Ed Fitzgerald.
Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
First edition of the autobiography of one of America's all-time baseball greats. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Yogi Berra on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket kodachrome by Hy Peksin. A very sharp example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 147168
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"Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones": First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Lengthily Inscribed by The Author and signed three times Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
WEINER, Jonathan.
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Betsy and Joe with best wishes Jonathan Weiner May 1994." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the half-title page and the jacket rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Drawings by K. Thalia Grant. A unique example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137989
