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Morrison's Strangers Guide and Etiquette For Washington City and Its Vicinity
Morrison’s Strangers Guide and Etiquette, For Washington City and Its Vicinity.
Washington: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1862.
Fifth edition of Morrison's classic American etiquette guide. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the front panel. Illustrated with wood and steel engravings, entirely re-written and brought down to the present time. In near fine condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 127990
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First Edition of Roberto Bolaño's La Pista de Hielo
BOLAñO, Roberto.
La Pista de Hielo. [The Skating Rink].
Alcalá de Henares: Fundación Colegio Del Rey, 1993.
First edition of this prize-winning crime novella in the original Spanish. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Cover painting by Hilla Schürholz. Accompanied by the original publisher's 'La Pista de Hielo' informational bookmark.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146928
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First Edition of Ken Fisher's The Wall Street Waltz; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Kenneth L.
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1987.
First edition of this work which provides a look at Wall Street and the stock market's history through dramatic charts and visuals. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed on by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Lee, When I told by 16 year old about your Dad and the flat tire he acknowledged that he wouldn't be able to top that. It was fun seeing you last week. Hope you like this. Ken Fisher 6/20/87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Georgene Sainati.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 57645
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“Motion is tranquillity": First Edition of Stirling Moss' Second Book of Motor Sport; Signed by Him
MOSS, Stirling.
Stirling Moss’s Second Book of Motor Sport.
London: Cassell, 1958.
First edition of Moss' sequel to his first Book of Motor Sport. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Edited by Maxwell Boyd.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 110192
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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think": First edition of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Signed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter.
Einstein: His Life and Universe.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
First edition of the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by David Ter-Avanesyan.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144608
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Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; in the original boards
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire.
London: James Cawthorn, 1810.
Early edition of Byron's satiric response to the negative review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 119205
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Finely Bound Example of Scribner's Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895; With an Early Theodore Roosevelt Article
[THEODORE ROOSEVELT],.
Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895 [Theodore Roosevelt].
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
Finely bound volume of this early Theodore Roosevelt article. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over printed boards with gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Contents include: Theodore Roosevelt article "Six Years of Civil Service Reform"; article on American posters with many examples; "Landmarks of Manhattan" with six full-page illustrations. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146034
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"Now pay attention": First edition of Sandy Hernu's Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn; signed by both Hernu and Llewelyn
HERNU, Sandy. [Desmond Llewelyn].
Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn.
East Sussex: S. B. Publications, 1999.
Signed limited first edition of Hernu's pictorial biography of the quintessential gadget master to the world's best loved Secret Agent, James Bond. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed by Desmond Llewelyn and Sandy Hernu on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 115097
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First Edition in English of Xingjian's Snow in August; Inscribed by Him
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Snow in August.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Laureate's play that is based on the legendary Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Review copy, with slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Gilbert C.F. Fong.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1234
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First Edition of Julian Barnes's Metroland; Signed by Him
BARNES, Julian.
Metroland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 127617
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First Edition of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
HAHN, Frank and Robert Solow.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 45079
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Rare Original Broadside Printing of the Anti-New Deal Poem Traitors Three
[ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.].
Traitors Three.
Rare original broadside printing of this anti-Franklin D. Roosevelt and anti-New Deal poem. Duodecimo, original paper. In good condition with some toning.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 147125
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's Vanity of Duluoz
KEROUAC, Jack.
Vanity of Duluoz.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.
First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 131320
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First Edition of The Steagle; Signed by Legendary Actor Richard Benjamin
FAUST, Irvin [Richard Benjamin].
The Steagle.
New York: Random House, 1966.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Benjamin on the title page, who starred in the 1971 film bearing the same name. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Martin Associates.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133107
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First edition of Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy; inscribed by Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis to American journalist William Safire
WEINER, Tim; David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis.
Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy.
New York: Random House, 1995.
First edition of this remarkable biography of the last American spy of the Cold War. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by all three authors on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to American journalist William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135981
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"But I speak from hearsay no longer; I knew my mother for ever now": First Edition of J.M. Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy
BARRIE, J.M.
Margaret Ogilvy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1869.
First British edition of the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's classic memoir of his mother. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare in this condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 109891
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First Edition of Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Geography and Trade.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
First Edition of Paul Krugman's work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ken Paul Krugman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 112951
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First Edition of Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence; Inscribed by Him
GREENSPAN, Alan.
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2007.
First edition of the former Federal Reserve Chairman's memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Adam Best Wishes Alan Greenspan." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144126
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Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper
RAFFALD, Elizabeth.
The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely From Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper: Consisting of Near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print.
London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1782.
Early edition of this instruction guide to housekeeping, with nearly nine hundred recipes. Octavo, bound in three quarter reverse calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Raffald, illustrated with three folding plates with setting plans for a grand table and a diagram of the newly invented fire stove, "wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal." In very good condition, some toning throughout, and contemporary manuscript notations to the front free endpaper and title page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146407
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First Edition of Blurred Zones; Inscribed by Architect Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Blurred Zones: Eisenman Architects 1988-1988.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
First edition. Folio, original gray cloth. Inscribed by architect Peter Eisenman. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2327
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First Edition of The Coming of the Space Age; Signed by Arthur C. Clarke
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Coming of the Space Age: Famous Accounts of Man’s Probing of the Universe.
New York: Meredith Press, 1967.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 145398
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"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone": First Edition of Ravelstein; Inscribed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Ravelstein.
New York: The Viking Press, 2000.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Tina Gotte Saul Bellow." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 174
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First Edition of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis
RAMóN Y CAJAL, Santiago.
Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis.
Springfield: Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1960.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist's important treatise on vertebrate neuroembryology. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Translated by Lloyd Guth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 126007
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Signed by Award Winning Architect Richard Meier
MEIER, Richard.
Richard Meier: Buildings and Projects 1965-1981.
Zurich: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, 1982.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original wrappers. Signed by Richard Meier on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows very light wear to the extremities.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 878
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First and signed limited edition of Richard Murphy's The Last Galway Hooker; one of 200 copies signed by the author
MURPHY, Richard.
The Last Galway Hooker.
[Dublin]: The Dolmen Press, 1961.
First and signed limited edition of the Irish poet's classic poem. Octavo, original quarter parchment. One of 200 copies signed by the author. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 128143
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First Edition of The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman; Inscribed by British Artist David Gentleman with an Autograph Letter also Signed by Him
BETJEMAN, John; David Gentleman.
The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman. [WITH] Autograph Letter Signed by David Gentleman.
London: John Murray, 1995.
First edition of this humorous collection of intimate poems, illustrated with charming watercolors by one of England's most familiar artists. Medium octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist, "For Gill Sandilands with all good wishes from David Gentleman." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Gentleman to Miss Sandilands, offering her this book. One page on his Gloucester Crescent stationary, the letter reads in full, "22 March 1995, Dear Gill, I am really ashamed of having neglected your kind messages and invitation last year, and of being to inconsiderate.…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 147100
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"Once it was thought in Colorado that gold and silver were the only products of the country worth considering": First Edition of Seeing the Far West; Inscribed by John Thomas Faris
FARIS, John Thomas.
Seeing The Far West.
Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920.
First edition of this classic work of American travel literature. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated througout with 113 photographs, 2 folding maps at rear. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "May this volume speak to you of pleasant day. John T. Faris March 22, 1924." In very good condition with some rubbing and wear. A nice example of early American natural history and travel writing.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 80118
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First Edition of Rethinking International Trade; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Rethinking International Trade.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To William Paul Krugman." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 87512
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First Edition of Ernest Seton-Thompson's Lives of the Hunted; Inscribed by Him
SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.
Lives of the Hunted.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, with over 200 drawings. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To S.D. Green with best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson." Seton Thompson has added a drawing of a bear paw. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 79038
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First edition and signed limited edition of Alexander Blok's The Twelve; one of 650 copies signed by illustrator George Biddle
BLOK, Alexander. [Aleksandr]. Translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Lithographs by George Biddle.
The Twelve.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931.
First edition and signed limited edition of Blok's controversial long poem. Quarto, original quarter morocco with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with lithographs by George Biddle. Translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. One of 650 copies printed, 100 of which are numbered and have as illustrations the original lithographs by George Biddle, this is number 77. In very good condition with the rare original dust jacket laid in which is lacking the spine.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 134252
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"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!": Dr. Seuss's Horton Hatches the Egg
DR. SEUSS. [GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].
Horton Hatches the Egg.
New York: Random House, 1940.
Early printing of this Seuss classic. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated, second state dust jacket with $2.50 price to back flap and description of The King's Stilts. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Child's ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper and rear panel of the dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135097
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"In nature nothing exists alone": Silent Spring; Signed by Edward O. Wilson
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
New York: Mariner Books, 2002.
Early printing of the 40th anniversary edition author's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Afterword by Edward O. Wilson. Introduction by Linda Lear. In fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 137514
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First Edition of Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables.
London: Faber & Faber, 2009.
First British edition of Heaney's translation of Henryson's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Hand lettering and illustration by Seb Lester.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 4179
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"We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more": First Edition of Giving; Signed By Bill Clinton
CLINTON, Bill [William Jefferson].
Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. Octavo, blue boards. Boldly signed by Bill Clinton on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 132496
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"It was a different game now. Clearly the machine no longer belonged to its makers": First Edition of The Soul of a New Machine; Signed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
First edition of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Peter deAngeli. A nice example.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 78911
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First Edition of Albert Camus' The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
CAMUS, Albert.
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135389
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First Edition of The Poetic Species; Signed by Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas
WILSON, Edward O. & Robert Haas.
The Poetic Species: A Conversation With Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas.
New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2014.
First edition of this "wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings). Small octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Robert Haas and Edward O. Wilson (who has drawn a picture of an ant) on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3300
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First Edition of Health Security: The President's Report to the American People; Inscribed by Hillary Clinton
CLINTON, Bill and Hillary.
Health Security: The President’s Report to the American People.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
First edition of this work by the 42nd President of the United States and First Lady. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hillary Rodham Clinton on the front free endpaper, "To Ann Marie and Hank Dullea with best wishes Hillary Rodham Clinton." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 41032
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First Edition of Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith's Autobiography Discovery; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Discovery: A Memoir.
Bloomington, IL: Author House, 2008.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John with warm regards, Vernon L. Smith Oct 29, 2014." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 107991
