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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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First Edition of Marilynne Robinson's The Death of Adam; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
ROBINSON, Marilynne.
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 1002
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"You must play boldly to win": First Edition of Go For Broke; Inscribed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold.
Go for Broke: My Philosophy of Winning Golf.
London: William Kimber and Co. Limited, 1974.
First British edition of this autobiographical golf instruction book from 'The King' of golf. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fly leaf, "To Nora Best Regards Arnold Palmer." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Braren.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145496
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“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale": First Edition of The Last Unicorn; Signed by Peter S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S. with Peter B. Gillis; Art by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon.
The Last Unicorn.
San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2011.
First edition of the graphic novel adaptation of Beagle’s classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon. Boldly signed by Peter S. Beagle on the front end paper. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147091
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First edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Gerard
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Gerard.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903.
First edition of the second book of Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by W. B. Wollen. In near fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137265
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Ethics of Liberty.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.
First edition of Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140921
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Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Inscribed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett
PICKETT, Lasalle Corbell [George Pickett].
What Happened to Me.
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 17, 1917. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For my friend of many years Mr. W. W. Norman - with the sincere regards of the author: LaSalle Corbell Pickett. March 27, 1923." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145485
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Screening History; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Screening History.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie, love, Gore Vidal." The recipient, Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126011
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Photograph of musical director Saul Chaplin with legendary crooner Frank Sinatra; Signed by Saul Chaplin
CHAPLIN, Saul. (Frank Sinatra).
Saul Chaplin Signed Photograph.
Early black and white photograph of American composer and musical director Saul Chaplin with legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. Signed by Saul Chaplin. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 73011
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First Edition of Age Of Diminished Expectations: Signed By Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of Krugman's straightforward treatise on the position of the American economy in the 1990s. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Christopher Volet. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135228
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners De Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, original decorative stiff paper dust jacket, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143953
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth and Artist Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip [Milton Glaser].
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
First edition of the author's final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Additionally signed by artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 71974
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First edition of J.K. Rowling's Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit
ROWLING, J.K.
The Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003.
First edition of the Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit. Octavo, three volumes, housed in the original pictorial slipcase and shrink wrap. The pack includes one adult first edition and 2 children's first editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with 5 bookmarks, 5 Do Not Disturb Signs, 5 sticker sets, and 3 bookplates. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144952
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"Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return": FIrst British Edition of J.M.G. Le Clezio's Desert; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
London: Atlantic Books, 2009.
First British edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the wrap around band. Jacket design by Ghost.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 774
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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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First edition of Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941; signed by John M. Erskine
[ERSKINE, J. M.].
Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1941].
First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine beneath his portrait, "J.M. Erskine 27/1/42." Fine in the original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124099
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First Edition of Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers
CHERN, Shiing-Shen.
Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978.
First edition of this work by the legendary mathematician. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Chern. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the front and rear endpapers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146057
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First edition of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; signed by him
PERKINS, John.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004.
First edition of Perkins' bestselling exposé. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by MBV Design.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124194
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First Edition of The Book of the Warsaw 1935 International Chess Team Tournament; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
REINFELD, Fred and Harold M. Phillips.
Book of the Warsaw 1935 International Chess Team Tournament.
New York: Black Night Press, 1936.
First edition of the fifth volume in the Modern Chess Library. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 70019
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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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"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated": First Edition of Arnold Palmer's My Game and Yours; Inscribed by Him
PALMER, Arnold.
My Game and Yours.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
First edition of Palmer's second book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Adrienne Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 38997
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First edition of Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
ZWEIG, Martin E.
Winning on Wall Street.
New York: Warner Books, 1986.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100037
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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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The City of Falling Angels; inscribed by John Berendt to Erica Jong
BERENDT, John [Erica Jong].
The City of Falling Angels.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005.
Early printing of Berendt's suspenseful novel set in the decadent and mysterious city of Venice. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Erica - A fellow Venetophile, Best wishes - John Berendt New York May 23 '07." The recipient, Erica 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, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142328
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Signed Photograph of Potter Stewart to Fellow Justice Irving Kaufman
STEWART, Potter.
Potter Stewart Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph from Potter Stewart to Irving Kaufman. "For Irving R. Kaufman, With the best wishes and high regard of his friend Potter Stewart." The recipient, Irving Kaufman was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, and was awarded the Presidential medal of Freedom in 1987 by President Reagan “for his exemplary service to our country, his work as chairman of the President’s commission on organized crime and his multifacted efforts to promote an understanding of the law and our legal tradition." He awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 50026
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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 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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First Edition of The Century; Signed by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
JENNINGS, Peter and Todd Brewster.
The Century.
New York: Doubleday, 1998.
First edition of this historic overview of the twentieth century. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both authors, Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144008
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"I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, the deaths ye died I have watched beside, and the lives that ye led were mine": Scarce early printing of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses Together With Departmental Ditties.
New York: United States Book Company, 1892.
Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119266
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
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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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Peter Koomans from Peter Drucker." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147033
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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 Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Dinevosodey 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: 141359
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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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Finely Bound example of The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.
Finely bound example of the Golden Treasury. Octavo, bound in full morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised spine bands, inner dentelles, moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 109328
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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
