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First Edition of War Diaries; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
War Diaries: Politics and War in The Mediterranean January 1943-May 1945
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1984.
First edition of the British politician's collected diaries from the Second World War. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with maps and photographs. Boldly signed by Harold Macmillan on the title page as "Stockton," his title in the House of Lords. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the foot of the jacket spine. Jacket photograph from the Macmillan Family Archives. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145158
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First Edition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek Cookery; Signed by Her
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
Cross Creek Cookery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
First edition of Rawlings’ heartwarming cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Boldly signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front free endpaper. In good condition. Illustrations by Robert Camp.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138178
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Das Gartenfest, Die Benachrichtigung's Signed by Vaclav Havel
HAVEL, Vaclav.
Das Gartenfest, Die Benachrichtigung.
Berlin: Rowohlt, 1989.
First edition of this work by the legendary Czech poet and politician. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Vaclav Havel on the title page with a drawing of a heart. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141284
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First Edition of Hugh Johnson's Wine
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145332
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First Edition of Daniel Boorstin's The Creators; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BOOSTIN, Daniel J.
The Creators.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ed Robertson from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 24, 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132614
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Rare First edition of Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923.
First edition of Veblen's last book. Octavo, original green cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135297
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First Edition of Theodore Pratt's That Was Palm Beach; signed by him
PRATT, Theodore.
That Was Palm Beach.
St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors, 1968.
First edition of Pratt's history of Flagler era of Palm Beach, Florida. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. Front cover photograph of "the great Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach, the grandest hotel of all time, the largest wooded building ever built in the history of the world."
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138405
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First Edition of The Films of Kirk Douglas; Signed by Him
THOMAS, Tony [Kirk Douglas].
The Films of Kirk Douglas.
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1972.
First edition of this work on the legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs. Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by Vincente Minnelli.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 110148
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Uncorrected Proof of The Soul of a New Machine; Inscribed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original wrappers. Inscribed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122
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"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142025
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First edition of Michael Rosen's Arabian Frights and other Gories; Signed by Michael Rosen
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Chris Fisher.
Arabian Frights and Other Gories.
London: Scholastic Children's Books, 1994.
First edition of Michael Rosen's children's classic. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Signed and dated by the author on the verso of the half-title page, "Aug 15 2004 Michael Rosen." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 88126
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First Edition of Corporate Culture and Performance; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John P. and James L. Heskett.
Corporate Culture and Performance.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by REM Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145992
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Rare first edition of Vernon Grant's Mr. Mixie Dough
GRANT, Vernon.
Mr. Mixie Dough.
Racine, Washington: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934.
First edition of Grant's children's classic. Quarto, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 full-page illustrations. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136341
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Rare Eighteenth Century Map Of the mouth of the Pearl River by renowned French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Des Isles Qui Sont a l’Embouchure de la Riviere de Canton. [Eighteenth Century Map Of The Islands Which Are At The Mouth Of The Canton River].
Paris: c. 1750.
Eighteenth century map of the isles of the Pearl River (formerly the Canton River) by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page, hand-colored, central fold. In very good condition. Later hand-coloring. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18.25 inches by 14 inches.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137244
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Gary Parr
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ilya Andrew Ross Sorkin" and signed by Gary Parr. Gary Parr was Deputy Chairman and on the board of directors of Lazard, LLC. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman, Head of Global Financial Institutions and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Label to the copyright page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102768
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Julia Child's The Way to Cook; Inscribed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
The Way To Cook.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Later printing of this classic cookbook by Julia Child. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with photographs by Brian Leatart and Jim Scherer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Lois Johnson Julia Child." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146643
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First edition of Janet and Isaac Asimov's Norby and The Queen's Necklace; signed by Isaac Asimov
ASIMOV, Janet and Isaac.
Norby and The Queen’s Necklace.
New York: Walker and Company, 1986.
First edition of the fifth book in the Asimovs' Norby series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Laurie McBarnette. Jacket illustration by Richard Rehbein.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142934
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Paule Marshall's Triangular Road; Signed by Her
MARSHALL, Paule.
Triangular Road: A Memoir.
New York: Basic Civitas Book, 2008.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the famed author's insightful memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paule Marshall on the the title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129301
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"How Brave are you, little Annemarie?": First Edition 25th Anniversary Edition of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Number The Stars.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
First 25th Anniversary edition of Lowry's first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Smallwood. With an introduction by the author.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142577
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First Edition of The Education of A Tennis Player; Inscribed by Tennis Great Rod Laver
LAVER, Rod with Bud Collins.
The Education of a Tennis Player.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
First edition of the tennis great's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Rod Laver on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 70031
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First Edition of "this gripping masterly work" First Edition of I Married A Communist; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
I Married A Communist.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132747
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First edition of La Voluntad y La Fortuna; inscribed by Carlos Fuentes
FUENTES, Carlos.
La Voluntad y La Fortuna. [Destiny and Desire].
Ciudad de México: Santillana Ediciones Generales (Alfaguara), 2008.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to his close friend Sergio Munoz. Fuentes met Munoz in Mexico in the 1960’s when he was dating the daughter of Fuentes’ first wife, actress Rita Macedo. Carlos and Sergio bonded one night as they discussed the merits of one of Balzac’s novels. From there, they continued to be very close friends over the years, seeing films together, discussing literature, politics, art, and music, and enjoying food, wine, and life. Sergio Muñoz Bata writes a weekly syndicated column published…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133440
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First edition of Francis Marion Crawford's Our Silver
CRAWFORD, Francis Marion.
Our Silver: A Letter Addressed to George S. Coe, Esq. Chairman of Executive Council of the American Bankers’ Association.
New York: Douglas Taylor, 1881.
Rare first edition of Francis Marion Crawford's treatise on the supply and demand for the silver dollar in the United States. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 95874
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First Edition of Emily Eden's The Semi-Attached Couple; Signed by Anthony Eden
EDEN, Emily; Introduction by Anthony Eden.
The Semi-Attached Couple.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.
First edition of the Honorable Emily Eden's brilliant comedy of manners. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth with central botanical flourish, illustrated by Suzanne Suba. Association copy, signed and dated by the Right Honorable Anthony Eden, who contributed the introduction, on the verso of the half-title page, "Anthony Eden Paris March 1948." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown and gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Susanne Suba. Drawing of the author by George Richmond, R.A. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145160
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First Edition of Richard S. West Jr.'s The Second Admiral; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
WEST JR, Richard S. [William T. Sherman].
The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter 1813-1891.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1937.
First edition of this biography of one of the most distinguished admirals in the history of the U. S. Navy; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Admiral David Nixon Porter, illustrated with photographs, maps, and engravings. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145739
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First Edition of Amarya Sen's The Argumentative Indian; Inscribed by Him
SEN, Amartya.
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
First edition of this collection of writings on Indian culture compiled by Amartya Sen; the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Cris, Best wishes Amartya Sen." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Bauer. Jacket art by Kailash Raj. Author photograph by Jon Chase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137438
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The author's autograph edition of Richard Byrd's Little America; one of one thousand numbered copies signed by him
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Byrd’s account of his first expedition to the South Pole. Octavo, original publisher's half parchment over blue boards, with 74 illustrations and maps. Author's Autograph Edition, one of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author and publisher on the limitation leaf, this is number 139. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140404
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King
WILDE, Oscar.
For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923.
First edition of the infamous fifteenth volume of Metheun's Collected Works of Oscar Wilde which caused a legal dispute between Wilde's bibliographer, Christopher Millard and the publisher. Octavo, original publisher's white linen cloth. One of 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's "Presentation Copy" stamp to the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139527
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"Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?" Rare first edition of Oscar Wilde's Ave Imperatrix!
WILDE, Oscar.
Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire by Oscar Wilde.
Washington: Snohomish, 1902.
First edition of Wilde's classic Hellenic poem. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with engravings and hand painted initials embellished in gilt, frontispiece by John Dennis Clancy. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140214
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the former Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gordon Sorensen with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120723
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First Edition of Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music; Warmly Inscribed by Him
LETHEM, Jonathan.
Gun, with Occasional Music.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1994.
First edition of the author's first novel which won The Locus Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sin- Bookseller to Bookseller- "Artist?" to "Artist?" Jonathan." The recipient, Sin Soracco is the author of the noir classics Low Bite and Edge City. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michael Koelsch. Jacket design by Michael Koelsch and Steven Cooley.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123214
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Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels' Vaclav Havel; Signed by Him
HAVEL, Vaclav.
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.
Frankfurt: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, 1989.
Early printing of this work by the legendary Czech poet and politician. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Vaclav Havel with a drawing of a heart. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141282
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's A Search For The King; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
VIDAL, Gore.
A Search For The King.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Marie from Gore- all best wishes 1950." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126014
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First Edition of David Ben-Gurion's The Jews in Their Land
BEN-GURION, David.
The Jews in Their Land.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
First edition of this finely illustrated work by David Ben-Gurion. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Shahn. Translated from the Hebrew by Modechai Nurock and Misha Louvish.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140977
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"Toledo lived in my mind just as El Greco had painted it in the storm": Rare First Greek Edition of Nikos Kazantzakis' Spain
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
Spain [In Greek].
Athena: 1937.
Rare first Greek edition of this early travelogue by Kazantzakis. Octavo, bound in half morocco over cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 23009
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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First Edition of Desmond Morris' The Human Zoo; Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
MORRIS, Desmond.
The Human Zoo.
Toronto: Clark, Irwin & Company Limited , 1969.
First edition of this work, which examines how the biological nature of the human species has shaped the character of the cultures of the contemporary world. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Edward Glover Best wishes Desmond Morris." The recipient Edward Glover was a British psychoanalyst, whose lasting achievements in the combined field of psychotherapy and criminology – aside from his clinical work and extensive publications – are his roles as: co-founder of the Psychopathic Clinic and the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, joint founder of The British Journal of Criminology – he was co-editor until his…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96342
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William P. Dewees' An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition; in the original publisher's boards
DEWEES, William P.
An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain, and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition.
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1819.
Second edition of Dewees' inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136502
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First Edition of Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey; Signed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane with Phillip Berman.
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Goodall's moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Laura Hear your heart Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer and Flag.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146860
