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Gore Vidal's Kalki; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Kalki.
New York: Random House, 1978.
First book club edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Hall. An exceptional association.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 126712
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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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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Little Mexican & Other Stories
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Little Mexican & Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924.
First edition of Huxley's third collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140252
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Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell's My Mystery Ships; from the library of Prime Minister Clement Attlee
CAMPBELL, Gordon [Clement Atlee].
My Mystery Ships.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Early printing of Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell's My Mystery Ships; from the library of United Kingdom Prime Minster Clement Attlee with his bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 134587
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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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“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 Mathematical Methods in Investment and Finance; Signed by Karl Shell
SZEGO, George Philip and Shell.
Mathematical Methods in Investment and Finance.
New York : North-Holland Publishing Company, 1972.
First edition of this work edited by the award-winning economists. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Karl Shell on the front free endpaper, "Karl Shell March 14, 2014 Ithaca, NY." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Includes essays by Joseph Stiglitz, J.H. Dreze and N.A. Niarchos.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 114473
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"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own": The Chosen; Inscribed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
The Chosen.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's first book set in the mid-twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Gidens, Best Wishes Chaim Potok 10-3-72.". Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120971
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First Edition of A Book of Travellers' Tales; Signed by Eric Newby
NEWBY, Eric.
A Book of Travellers’ Tales.
New York: Viking Press, 1985.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 5559
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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 One Man’s Bible; Signed by Gao Xingjian
XINGJIAN, Gao.
One Man’s Bible.
New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel published in English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Cicq de Cumptich. Jacket painting by Gao Xingjian.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1236
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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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“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 edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek's The Cunning Little Vixen; translated into English and inscribed by illustrator Maurice Sendak
TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
The Cunning Little Vixen.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
First edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek's classic Czech tale, translated into English and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page, "For Nicholas Robertson Maurice Sendak." Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan, and Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140351
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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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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day; in the original publisher's cloth
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanoton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.
Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Harriet Beecher Stowe to the front panel, illustrated with 18 tissue-guarded steel portraits including frontispiece portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Second state with the title page corrected to "Douglass." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 146452
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Signed Limited Edition of Eudora Welty's Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
WELTY, Eudora.
Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
New York: Random House, 1977.
Signed limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by Eudora Welty. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 115699
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First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch; one of 100 numbered copies
NORTON, Charles Eliot. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123761
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"Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can": First Edition of Until I Find You; Warmly Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Until I Find You.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dana and Cheryl with my admiration and affection John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Jane Sobel Klonsky. Tattoo art by Henk Schiffmacher.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 136964
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First Edition of Giving Kids A Fair Chance; Inscribed by James J. Heckman
HECKMAN, James J.
Giving Kids A Fair Chance.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Rogers with respect James Heckman 9/18/15." In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144400
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She Loves Me. She Loves Me Not; Signed by Maurice Sendak
KEESHAN, Robert; Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
She Loves Me… She Loves Me Not.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
First edition of the 1991 edition. Small quarto, original illustrated boards. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 27056
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First edition of Albert Cook Church's Whaleships and Whaling
CHURCH, Albert Cook.
Whale Ships and Whaling.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.
First edition of Church's work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 130850
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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 Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Existentialism.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947.
First edition of the philosopher's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. An exceptional example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144092
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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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"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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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 The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Signed by Andre Dubus III
DUBUS III, Andre.
The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed twice by Dubus with the words added "Stay true and be you." Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual fading to the orange spine panel. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 451
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Finely Bound example of Hallam's View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages
HALLAM, Henry.
View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1880.
Finely bound volume of Hallam's history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, gilt emblem to the front panel. From the library of I.H. Echalaz with a period gift inscription to him to the front free endpaper dated 1902. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 90436
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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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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 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 Madam Secretary; Inscribed by Madeleine Albright to Ambassador Henry Kimelman
ALBRIGHT, Madeleine.
Madam Secretary: A Memoir.
New York: Miramax Books, 2003.
First edition of this classic memoir by the first female Secretary of State in United States history. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ambassador Kimelman Madeleine Albright." The recipient, Henry Kimelman served as the United States ambassador to Haiti from 1980 to 1981. He was the first US ambassador to be awarded Haiti's highest civilian decoration, the Grand Cross of Honor and Merit. The governor of the Virgin Islands proclaimed February 4, 1998, "Henry L. Kimelman Day." Ambassador Kimelman also has been honored by the government of Israel. Fine in a fine…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 147966
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"Perhaps no other Englishman has quite the same power": First edition, first issue of Rudyard Kipling's The Art of Fiction
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Fiction.
London: J. A. Allen & Co, 1926.
First separate edition, first issue of this report issued on the occasion of Kipling's acceptance of the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120430
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"Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman": Raymond Briggs' Fee Fi Fo Fum; Signed and dated by him
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Fee Fi Fo Fum.
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1971.
Early printing of Briggs' collection of nursery rhymes. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Raymond Briggs 1981 April 21." In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 117431
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“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did": First edition of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying; inscribed by her
JONG, Erica.
Fear of Flying.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
First edition of the author's controversial, gound-breaking second-wave feminist classic which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Octavo, original cloth, red endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Katherine Kasten - from Erica Jong October 1973." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the rear panel. Jacket design by Judith Seifer. Author photograph by Peter Trump.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141273
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Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad; inscribed by Fagles to fellow writer and translator Charles Tomlinson
FAGLES, Robert.
The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.
Grand Street Publications, Inc, .
Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front panel of Book XVIII, "Charles and Brenda - Wonderful to have you back in Princeton with us - Love, Bob." The recipient, Charles Tomlinson, was a prolific English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator who taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University, where he became Emeritus Professor. Tomlinson was an authoritative translator of poetry from the Russian, Spanish and Italian, including work by Antonio Machado, Fyodor…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137120
