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First edition of Ray Bradbury's The October Country; signed by him
BRADBURY, Ray.
The October Country.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955].
First edition of Bradbury's classic collection of nineteen macabre short stories. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. In Currey's "B" binding in its first state, with the Ballantine Books monogram at spine foot printed upside down. One of three bindings, no priority determined. Currey p.57. Signed by the author on the title page, "Ray Bradbury 1/22/81." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Mugnaini. Author photograph by Morris Dollens.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142805
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First Edition of Will Durant's Caesar and Christ; Inscribed by Him
DURANT, Will.
Caesar and Christ.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1944.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on half-title page, "For Martha and Maurice Speiser with cordial regards from Will Durant 12.7.44." The recipient Maurice Speiser was Ernest Hemingway's lawyer and literary agent. He was also associated with William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, and others. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine. A nice association.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 123718
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First edition of Wilson Rawls' Summer of the Monkeys; inscribed by him
RAWLS, Wilson.
Summer of the Monkeys.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.
First edition of this award-winning novel by the author of Where the Red Fern Grows. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sincerely, Wilson Rawls." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by William Maughan. Jacket typography by Lewis Friedman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 128142
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First edition of Here's To You, Rachel Robinson; inscribed by Judy Blume in the year of publication
BLUME, Judy.
Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson.
New York: Orchard Books, 1993.
First edition of the author's sequel to her best-selling young adult novel 'Just as Long as We're Together.' Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Joanne Thanks! Love, Judy Blume Aug. 1993." Very good in a fine dust jacket. Closed tear and creasing to the rear endpaper. Jacket design by Jim DeLapine. Author photograph by George Cooper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145014
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First Edition of Henry M. Stanley's Magdala
STANLEY, Henry M.
Magdala: The Story of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1866-7.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896.
First edition of the second part of the 'Coomassie and Magdala' volume. Octavo, original leather binding, illustrated with a map of the British expedition and numerous drawings by Melton Prior and other artists. In very good condition. Library bookplate to the front pastedown with the Latin motto 'Vicilans Non Cadet' - 'The vigilant man falls not.' The library was named in honour of Sir Henry Behrend, Chairman of The Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum at West Norwood, England.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145193
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"One bloody, painfully honest, and courageous book" (Martin Cruz Smith): Chickenhawk; Lengthily Signed by Robert Mason
MASON, Robert.
Chickenhawk.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition, early printing of Mason's classic first book, one of the finest about the Vietnam War. Octavo, original cloth, map by David Lindroth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "'No one is more shocked than I.' Keep 'em flying! Robert Mason." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Peter Cox.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146077
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"The whole thing was an affair of misty shadows": First edition of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
WELLS, H.G.
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.
First edition of Wells' satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 95220
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First edition of Billy Hayes' Midnight Express; signed by Academy Award-winning Screenplay writer Oliver Stone
HAYES, Billy with William Hoffer. [Oliver Stone].
Midnight Express.
New York: Thomas Congdon Books/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977.
First edition of Hayes' classic true story of survival and escape. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. Stone adapted the memoir into a screenplay for the 1978 film adaptation for which he won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alfred Manso.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140323
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics.
New York: : Adelphi Company, 1927.
First edition in English. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3682
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"WE WENT SLIPPING SILENTLY ALONG, BETWEEN THE GREEN AND FRAGRANT BANKS, WITH A SENSE OF PLEASURE AND CONTENTMENT THAT GREW AND GREW": FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S A TRAMP ABROAD
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Tramp Abroad.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.
First edition of Twain's classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, early issue with the portrait in BAL state B (no priority), frontispiece in the first state (captioned "Moses"), state A of the text block (no priority), and the cover stamping in state A. Octavo. 631, [1, ad] pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, with 328 illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow. BAL 3386. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144227
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Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph; Signed by Edgar Mitchell
MITCHELL, Edgar.
Edgar Mitchell Signed Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph.
February 1971.
Poster-sized photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing on the lunar surface of the Fra Mauro formation, the future landing site of the Apollo 14 mission. Color photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing at the Apollo 14 landing site. Boldly signed in blue felt tip by Edgar Mitchell, "Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 LPM Fra Mauro Base Feb 1971." In near fine condition. The piece measures 20 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145298
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Rare 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover Signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.
Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.
Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a portrait of Hillary wearing a winter jacket. Signed by Hillary in black felt tip on the front panel, "Ed Hillary." In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146008
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First Edition of The Story of the FBI; Inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication
HOOVER, J. Edgar [Introduction].
The Story of the FBI.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1947.
First edition of the official picture book of the FBI. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Ellen Mc Mahon J. Edgar Hoover 10.21.47." In very good condition. Introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133207
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First Edition of Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Fire; Signed by Him
CLEAVER, Eldridge.
Soul On Fire.
Waco, Texas: Word Books Publishers, 1978.
First edition of Cleaver's autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Towards Freedom for all God's Children Eldridge Cleaver 2/25/81." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Dennis Hill. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 63456
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First Edition of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
STEIN, Gertrude.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.
First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135222
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“We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves": The Works of George Meredith; finely bound by Maclehose
MEREDITH, George.
The Works of George Meredith.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897.
Finely bound set of the works of George Meredith. Octavo, 18 volumes bound by Maclehose in three quarters crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124159
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First Edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel .
The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. BAL 7621.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 119422
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Rare Illuminated Leaf from a German Medieval Book of Hours
Illuminated Medieval Book of Hours Leaf.
Rare illuminated leaf from a German Medieval Book of Hours. One page, text in Latin, elaborately engraved with an illuminated border, the image depicts a scene from the book of Samuel in which David offers a sacrifice to God in an attempt to end plague on Israel. In fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 by 12.5 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120446
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T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom; elaborately bound in full morocco by Brentano's
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Brentano's, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144546
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First Edition of Adam Smith's Paper Money; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Adam [George Goodman].
Paper Money.
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 20005
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"When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever": A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MILNE, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.
Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, decorations by Ernest Shepard. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129436
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The Three Faces of Eve, Signed by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley
THIGPEN, Corbett H.; Hervey M. Cleckley.
The Three Faces of Eve.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
Early printing of this work, basis for the 1957 Academy Award-winning film starring Joanne Woodward. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "Nov. 20, 1980 For Mary and Marion Barnett With appreciation for your thoughtfulness and friendship Corbett Thigpen and signed below "Hervey Cleckley." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael McIver.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129711
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First Edition of Richard Wright's Le Transfuge; Inscribed by Him
WRIGHT, Richard.
Le Transfuge.
Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
First edition of this work by the author of Native Son. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. With the rare wrap-around band laid in to the front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jack with all my best wishes Richard Wright Feb. 7, 1956 Paris." In near fine condition, with the recipient's name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 50003
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"Do assure me that the pain of separation does not outweigh the joy of confidence and belief in this abiding:" Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed to his "Beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown
HOLMES JR., Oliver Wendell.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed.
Boston: September 8, 1898.
Autograph letter signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to his "beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown, flirtatiously discussing the difficulty of putting her out of his mind, complaining of the work that awaited him after their time together, and expressing bitterness at having to respond to continuous queries concerning his father, the physician, poet, and polymath, four years after his passing. Two pages on Supreme Judicial Court stationary, quarto, original envelope, the letter reads in part, "... I wrote to you a short diary ... which I hope you will receive this week and another later ... I hate to have…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145310