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First Edition of Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M. [Translated and Introduced by].
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this collection of poetry translated and introduced by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coeztee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Maria Lindenfeldar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 129194
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First edition of Thomas P. Kettell's History of the Great Rebellion
KETTELL, Thomas P.
History of the Great Rebellion, From Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving An Account of Its Origin, The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government.
New York: N. C. Miller, 1862.
First edition of volume I of Kettell's history of the American Civil War. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, illustrated with over 125 engravings including 80 portraits. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 136514
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First edition of Susan Cheever's A Handsome Man; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
A Handsome Man.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "April 30 New York For Burrows with love Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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 written in the…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142364
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First Edition of Major-General Dunsterville's Stalky's Adventures
DUNSTERVILLE, Major-General L. C.
Stalky’s Adventures.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.
First edition of this autobiography by Major-General Dunsterville. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122198
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BLENCOWE (MRS.) EDITED BY,.
The Casket, a Miscellany, Consisting of Unpublished Poems.
London, John Murray, 1829.
First edition. Octavo, original boards with leather spine. In good condition. An anthology of original work by Praed, Montgomery, Rogers, Hodgson, Moore, and Wordsworth. Also contains a Lord Byron unpublished poem.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 1610
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Rare first edition of The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers
The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers.
Charlottesville, Virgina: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1976.
First edition of the proceedings of a Seminar on the Trust Investment Process sponsored with contributions by Canadian members of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88091
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First American Edition of Life & Times of Michael K; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Life & Times of Michael K.
New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
First American edition of the author's first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bascove.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 74675
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Inscribed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ray Grinold from Danel J. Boorstin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100661
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First Edition of Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110499
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Anita Lovitt. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Translated by George Kolovakos and Ronald Christ.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142083
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First Edition of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse; Inscribed by Richard Thompson Ford
FORD, Richard Thompson.
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
First edition of this "sharp, nuanced, enlightening reflection on how America should confront its authentic legacy of racism . . . A sharp, nuanced yet stylish analysis" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lisa Thanks for reading the book Richard Ford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Aaron Artessa. Jacket illustration by Jean Tuttle.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 120633
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First Edition of A Month of Sundays; Inscribed by John Updike to His Neighbors
UPDIKE, John.
A Month of Sundays.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his neighbors Ken and Jane Field. A very sharp copy of Updike's seventh novel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 3600
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First edition of Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Santiago; Signed by Him
NOOTEBOOM, Cees.
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Cees Nooteboom on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 5715
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Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
On the Razzle.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982.
First edition, early printing of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Pentagram.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128103
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Charles C. Nott's Sketches of the War
NOTT, Charles C.
Sketches of the War: A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1865.
Second edition of Charles Cooper Nott Sr.'s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132723
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First Vintage Books edition of Bob Colacello's Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
COLACELLO, Bob. [Andy Warhol] [William Safire].
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.
New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
First Vintage Books edition of "by far the best of Andy Warhol's portraits, including his own" (George Plimpton). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication, "To Bill Zwecker, with fondness, Bob Colacello 2014 Chicago." The recipient, Bill Zwecker, was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133037
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50th Anniversary Edition of The First Four Minutes; Signed by Roger Bannister
BANNISTER, Roger.
The First Four Minutes.
Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004.
Limited hardback edition of this personal account of the most ground-breaking sporting achievement of the twentieth century, now with a new introduction and a substantial new chapter to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographic plates. One of two hundred and thirty-nine copies signed by the author on a limitation slip adhered to the front flyleaf, this is number 196. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146690
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"Northern must wage unending war with the powers of nature, battling against snow and ice and ocean tempests, as ceaselessly as Thor banged away at the giants with his hammer": First Edition of Lars Christensen's Such Is The Antarctic; From the library of Explorer Steve Fossett
CHRISTENSEN, Lars.
Such Is The Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.
First edition of Norwegian Antarctic explorer Lars Christensen's account of his Antarctic voyages between 1930 and 1934. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with 44 plates and one folding map. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111526
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"Well, I will be off to my hut; the sun is just setting and supper will be ready for me": First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Lost Heir
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
The Lost Heir.
London: James Bowden, 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated by Ernest Pater. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Uncommon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122963
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First Edition of Thierry Rannou's La Route Du Rhum; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
RANNOU, Thierry.
La Route Du Rhum.
Paris: Editions du Sport, 1994.
First edition of Rannou's photographic history of the Route du Rhum. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with full-color photographs. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset was also one of sailing’s most…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112318
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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, top stain red, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145730
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First Edition of Stephen Berrien Stanton's The Essential Life; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
STANTON, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Essential Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
First edition of this poetical guide to a fulfilling life; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original navy blue cloth. P.T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145983
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First Edition of Ian Falconer's Olivia Forms a Band; Signed by Him
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia Forms a Band.
New York: Atheneum, 2006.
First edition of the fourth book in Falconer's acclaimed Olivia series. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ian Falconer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 91657
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"TIME TO GET UP, FUNGUS MY DREARY, IT'S NEARLY DARK": First Edition of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book
BRIGGS, Raymond. Paper Engineer Ron Van Der Meer.
Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book.
London: Hamish Hamilton Children's Books, 1982.
First pop-up, or 'plop-up', edition of Briggs' well-known work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated with pop-ups engineered by Ron Van Der Meer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a pop-up opening door on the verso of the front panel in the year of publication, "For Eileen Ireland With Best Wishes from Raymond Briggs 29 September 1982." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112501
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First Literary Guild Edition of Miss Hickory; Inscribed by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin.
Miss Hickory.
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and The Viking Press, 1946.
Scarce first Junior Guild edition of this Newbery award-winning children's book. Octavo, original red cloth with black lettering to the spine and black flower decoration to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, red top stain, lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Helen Fuller, my treasured friend, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Miss H." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket and signed.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145270
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First Edition of The Elephant and the Flea; Inscribed by Charles Handy
HANDY, Charles.
The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future.
London: Hutchinson, 2001.
First edition of this memoir by the eminent philosopher. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Les Best wishes Charles Handy 2.11.01." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145494
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First Edition of J.R. Hicks' Essays in World Economics; in the scarce original dust jacket
HICKS, J.R. [John].
Essays in World Economics.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132906
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"Give a chunk to a monkey, give a chunk to a fighter": Later printing of Michael Rosen's Nuts About Nuts; Signed and dated by him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten. .
Nuts About Nuts.
London: Diamond Books, 1999.
Early printing of British children's author Michael Rosen's illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, "Hello Eileen, Michael Rosen was here." In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88125
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First Edition of Roy DeCarava's Light Break
DECARAVA, Roy.
Light Break.
New York: First Print Press / David Zwirner Books, 2019.
First edition of this breathtaking photo collection from the photographer of the people, Roy DeCarava. Square quarto, original full linen, illustrated with DeCarava's outstanding black and white photographs. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146966
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Signed by Kai Bird
BIRD, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Later printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Kai Bird. In near fine condition. Cover design by Stephanie Kloss.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147490
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First American Edition of Henry James' The Ivory Tower
JAMES, Henry.
The Ivory Tower.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.
First British edition of James' unfinished novel, published posthumously in 1917. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 109563
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First edition of John Diamond's Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...; Signed by him
DIAMOND, John.
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…
London: Vermilion, 1998.
First edition of Diamond's story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Diamond on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally Soames.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 141524
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First Edition of Billie Jean King's All In: An Autobiography; Signed by Her and three times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
KING, Billie Jean.
All In: An Autobiography.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
First edition of the tennis champion's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Billie Jean King and twice by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, on the front panel and again on the rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 144522
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First Edition of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover photograph by Bob Chase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128109
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First edition of The Moment of Truth; Signed by Alan Simpson
SIMPSON, Alan and Erskine Bowles.
The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Washington, D.C: 2010.
First edition of Simpson and Bowles' final report on The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Alan Simpson on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas!! Alan Simpson." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117683
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First Edition of Miles Smeeton's Once is Enough; From the library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
SMEETON, Miles; Foreword by Nevil Shute.
Once is Enough.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959.
First edition of this "unique among books of maritime adventure" (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112199
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First Edition of Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man; Inscribed by Wolfgang Stopler
STOPLER, Wofgang F.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of A Private Man.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994." From the library of noted economist Richard Musgrove. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 4401
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"It is a lot of Sundays later but all sundays have become one": Our Game; signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John .
Our Game.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
First edition, second printing of this novel by the author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Douglas Brothers.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146510
