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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.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
First American 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. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Gerald McNulty with best wishes from Desmond Morris 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 85377
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
BELLOW, Saul.
Henderson the Rain King.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959.
First edition of the author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket painting by Bill Preston.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 108921
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“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Despair
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Despair.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
First American edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A very sharp example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 140005
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of The English; With 30 Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Song of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt pictorial to the front panel, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120821
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First Edition of The Strange Library; Signed Twice by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Strange Library.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed twice by illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 122378
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First edition of G. Manville Fenn's George Alfred Henty: The Story of An Active Life
FENN, G. Manville. [George Alfred Henty].
George Alfred Henty: The Story of An Active Life.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1907.
First edition of Fenn's biography of highly popular 19th century novelist George Alfred Henty. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with 11 plates including frontispiece portrait of Henty. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription. A sharp example of this rare title.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 122474
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First Edition of White Writing; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa.
South Africa: Radix, 1988.
First South African edition, which precedes the American edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 217
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First Edition of A Life In Our Times; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A Life In Our Times.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
First edition of Galbraith's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine, autographed sticker to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146272
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First edition of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
JEROME, Jerome K.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889.
First edition, second state of Jerome's humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Frederics. Second state with '11 Quay Street' (first state is without the 11) to the title page. In good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138348
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First Edition of Patrick White's The Vivisector
WHITE, Patrick.
The Vivisector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First edition of this work by "one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White's scope is vast and his invention endless" (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Adams. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 115811
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First Edition of Daniel Libeskind's Breaking Ground; Signed by Him and twice by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
LIBESKIND, Daniel.
Breaking Ground.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2004.
First edition of the famed architect's autobiography. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Daniel Libeskind on the title page. Additionally signed twice by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front jacket panel and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 122771
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Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed twice by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel and on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 125773
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First Edition of The path to Power; signed by Margaret Thatcher
THATCHER, Margaret. [Dennis Thatcher].
The Path to Power.
London: Harper Collins Publishers , 1995.
First edition of Thatcher's best-selling memoir, covering her life from her birth in 1925 until she became Prime Minister in 1979. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Margaret Thatcher on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with strips of sunning. Front jacket photograph: Margaret Thatcher in 1959 by Amy Milner. With four original color photographs of Thatcher at the book signing event during which she signed the book laid in.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146915
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Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin with Notes by George Simpson Eddy; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
FRANKLIN, Benjamin; Notes by George Simpson Eddy.
Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.
Benjamin Franklin's ledger and journal from 1728-1939 from The American Philosophical Society's 'Papers of Benjamin Franklin'; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Small quarto, original wrappers. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper. In very good condition with light rubbing and closed tears to the extremities. 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 was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145950
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“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it": First edition of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
ELIOT, T.S.
The Cocktail Party.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950.
First edition of the most popular of Eliot's seven plays published during his lifetime. First issue with "here" for "her" on page 29, line 1. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with an archival tape repair to the front panel. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137195
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First edition of Alasdair Gray's Something Leather; inscribed by him to photojournalist Sally Soames
GRAY, Alasdair. [Sally Soames].
Something Leather.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's sensational novel. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally from Alasdair 27 June 1990 Glasgow." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 124163
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First Edition of Charles Tazewell's The Littlest Angel
TAZEWELL, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans.
The Littlest Angel.
Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.
First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133161
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George H. Morris' Hunter Seat Equitation in the original dust jacket
MORRIS, George H.
Hunter Seat Equitation.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
First edition, early printing of the definitive work on the art of teaching and riding the hunter seat. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword A. Eugene Cunningham. Line Drawings by Jan Conant. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 142013
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First Edition of Nabokov's Notes on Prosody: from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Notes on Prosody.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.
First edition of Nabokov's analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 88174
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First Edition of Harvard Sitkoff's King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop; Warmly Inscribed by the author
SITKOFF, Harvard [Martin Luther King.
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.
First edition of this stunning reappraisal of King and his increased relevance. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "November 1, 2008 For Bernie, college pal, army buddy, and more...all my best, Harvey." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charlotte Strick.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 143903
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First edition of Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women; signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Men Without Women.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
First edition of this collection of seven tales about men who have lost women by internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd on the title page and both the front panel and rear flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the Japanese by Phillip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art and design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photograph by Elena Seibert.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123764
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"The facts are always less than what really happened": First Edition of July’s People; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
July’s People.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.
First edition of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 543
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First edition of A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932; Signed by John Richardson
RICHARDSON, John; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully [Pablo Picasso].
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
First edition of the third volume in Richardson's four-volume biography of the famous artist. Small quarto, original black boards, frontispiece portrait of Picasso in Saint-Raphael 1919, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and a several color images of Picasso's paintings. Boldly signed by John Richardson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Valentine Hugo.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 145267
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First edition of Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; from the library of American writer and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen
BROWN, Stephen [Editor]. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. Introduction by David Allen Sibley [Peter Matthiessen].
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2006.
First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 135489
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“Now I am a man; World have changed a lot. Some things nearly so, Others nearly not.”: P.B. Socci sketch of Yul Brynner; Signed by Yul Brynner
SOCCI, P.B. (Yul Brynner).
Yul Brynner Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Russian-born film and stage actor Yul Brynner. Boldly signed by Yul Brynner. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. In fine condition. The drawing measures 10 inches by 8 inches. A striking example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 89137
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance": John F. Kennedy's First Edition Copy of The Strategy of Peace
KENNEDY, John F.
The Strategy of Peace.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144218
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First American Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
First American edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 4159
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First Edition of The Journey Back; Inscribed by Johanna Reiss
REISS, Johanna.
The Journey Back.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To ___ _____ Love and peace Johanna Reiss October '76 Nice to see you again." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 5522
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First Edition of Samuel L. Clemens' The Curious Republic of Gondour
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
First edition of Twain's classic collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137388
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First Edition of A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln; Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
FONER, Eric and Olivia Mahoney.
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
New York: 1990, CHS/ W.W. Norton & Company.
First edition of this early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Steinbrenner.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 119339
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First edition of Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach
STONE, Robert.
Outerbridge Reach.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1992.
First edition of Stone's fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Sally recalling a lovely, morning in London - wishing all the best. Bob Stone London May 19, 1992." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123971
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First Edition of A Life of Magic Chemistry; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist George Olah
OLAH, George A.
Life of Magic Chemistry: Autobiographical Reflections of A Nobel Prize Winner.
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by George Olah on the front free endpaper. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 15069
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"I FIRST MET HIM IN PIRAEUS": KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK; Lengthily signed by the work's translator Peter Bien
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos. Translated by Peter A. Bien.
Zorba The Greek.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Early printing of of this new translation of Kazantzakis' masterpiece and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by translator Peter Bien with the opening line of the novel on the front free endpaper, "I first met him in Piraeus Peter Bien 3-27-23." Peter Bien translated a number of Kazantzakis' works, most notably this translation of Zorba the Greek. This edition translated, directly from Kazantzakis’s Greek original, is a more faithful rendition of his original language, ideas, and story, and presents Zorba as the author meant him to be. In fine condition. Cover design by Marilyn Dantes.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141461
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Rare First edition of Holcombe and Adams' An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek
HOLCOMBE, R.I. and Thomas W. Adams.
An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, or Oak Hills, Fought Between the Union Troops, Commanded by Gen. N. Lyon. and the Southern, or Confederate Troops, Under Command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, August 10, 1861, in Green County, Missouri.
Springfield, Missouri: Dow & Adams, Publishers, 1883.
First edition of Holcombe and Adams' account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Octavo, original publisher's binding decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133053
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"Whisper there was not, nor word, shadow nor showing. Still the light stirred on the deep, glowing and growing": First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
First American edition of this collection of Kipling’s poetry, published October 30, 1896, the same day as the English edition. Octavo, original publisher's elaborately decorated cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121694
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First Edition of Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Anna J. Schwarz.
Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970.
First edition of this monumental work on history of monetary statistics in the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110121
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First Edition of
TROUPE, Quincy [James Baldwin].
James Baldwin: The Legacy.
New York: Touchstone Book, 1989.
First edition of this work on the legacy of the incomparable James Baldwin. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by the editor on the title page, "Quincy Troupe 11/26/89." In very good condition. Cover design by Carin Goldberg. Foreword by Wole Soyinka.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 147899
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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's Trilogy; Each volume signed by Him
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The Year of the French, Tenants of Time and The End of the Hunt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/ E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979-1994.
First edition of the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed and inscribed by Thomas Flanagan, with The Tenants of Time inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Ellen in the year of publication. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 107361
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sis' Nancy Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 118572
