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First Edition of Seek My Face; Signed by John Updike and three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
UPDIKE, John.
Seek My Face.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
First edition of this "brief novel of deep feeling" (Time). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123401
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"It is frankly devoted to man's crazy, triumphant return to the mud from which he came": First Edition of Charles Addams' Addams and Evil
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams]; Wolcott Gibbs.
Addams and Evil.
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Wolcott Gibbs.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147270
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First Edition of Martin Mayer's The Bankers; Inscribed by Him
MAYER, Martin.
The Bankers.
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1974.
First edition of this exploration of the world of modern banking. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Charlie Malloy with regards and thanks- Martin Mayer." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 70059
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First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's On Style and Conversation
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862.
First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145230
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First Edition of Thomas de Quincey's Historical and Critical Essays
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
Historical and Critical Essays.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853.
First edition of this collection of essays by renowned writer and literary critic Thomas De Quincey. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, blind stamped triple rule frame with floral ornamental corners enclosing central floral quatrefoil device, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities of Vol. I and spine extremities of Vol. II, some toning and spotting to the rear panel of both volumes, ownership signatures to the front pastedown of both volumes with an additional ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Vol.…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145229
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First Edition of I am Charlotte Simmons; Signed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
I Am Charlotte Simmons.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.
First edition of this "hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel" (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Laid in is the original program for the book signing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147194
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"There are always many people who say that golf cannot be learned from a book": First edition of P. A. Vaile's The New Golf
VAILE, P. A.
The New Golf.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916.
First edition of P. A. Vaile's authoritative manual of the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece engraving of Jerome D. Travers with tissue guard, illustrated with forty engravings from photographs. In near fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88077
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"The street is packed with silence. Not yet fully awake, I feel myself dreamily carried along on an invisible human tide": First signed limited edition of Alfred Kazin's The Open Street
KAZIN, Alfred.
The Open Street.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.
First edition of Kazin's short tribute to the streets of Manhattan, a selection from the work in progress that would become A Walker in the City. Small octavo, original quarter cloth over speckled boards, photographic endpapers by Victor Kraft. One of only 1,000 copies privately printed for the author, inscribed by him on the limitation page, "For my friend Belle, affectionately Alfred Kazin 1948." In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 96772
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First Edition of In Our Time; Inscribed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
In Our Time.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1980.
First edition of this unique collection of collection Wolfe's drawings from his two decades as a graphic artist; a visual commentary on the changing mores and social landscape of the 1980s. Quarto, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Al Rusch peerless tennis star Tom Wolfe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Wolfe. Jacket design by Sheila Wolfe.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144713
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"A distinctive portfolio of distinctive wallpapers": Rare 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co. "Economy Group" wallpaper sample portfolio
Sears Roebuck and Co. “Economy Group” Standard Quality Wallpaper Catalog.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1940.
Rare 1940 Sears Roebuck and Co. wallpaper sample catalog; the "Economy Group", featuring standard quality papers printed with fadeproof colors in a variety of patterns. Octavo, includes 14 wallpaper samples. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 125883
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First Edition of The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast; finely bound in full polished calf
HALL, Mr. and Mrs. S. C.
The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast.
London: Arthur Hall, 1861.
First edition of Hall's description of a tour through South Wales which originally appeared in the Art Journal. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 138426
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First edition of Pablo Neruda's Let the Rail Splitter Awake; from the library of Erica Jong
NERUDA, Pablo.
Let The Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems.
New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc, 1950.
First American edition of this collection of early English translations of Neruda's poetry, including The Heights of Macchu Picchu. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Erica Jong, although not marked. Erica 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 throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality.…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142345
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First Edition of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full; Inscribed by Him
WOLFE, Tom.
A Man In Full.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of this "masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket art by Daniel Lee. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147378
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Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2006.
First edition of The New York Times Review of Books edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. In fine condition. Introduction by Patricia Storace.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 54
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"The world has lost one of the very few with the imagination, courage, and leadership needed to restore civilization and build a firm economic base for peace and happiness": The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States
HARROD, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson.
The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. June 1946. [The Balance of Payments of the United States].
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1946.
The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ink notation to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135307
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First edition of Geoffrey Williams' Sir Thomas Lipton Wins: From the library of Explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
WILLIAMS, Geoffrey.
Sir Thomas Lipton Wins.
London: Peter Davies, 1969.
First edition of Williams' account of his record-breaking passage aboard the Sir Thomas Lipton in the Transatlantic Race of 1968. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the front 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…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 114991
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"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them": First Edition of Trying To Save Piggy Sneed; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeffrey Fisher. Author photographs by Mary Ellen Mark and Isolde Ohlbaum.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 138144
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First Edition of Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was A Number Runner
MERIWETHER, Louise; Foreword by James Baldwin.
Daddy Was A Number Runner.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this modern classic “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145875
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First Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads; Signed by Him
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
First edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leisha Israel. Author photograph by Linda Solomon.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 137799
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"A wickedly gay and irrepressible book about a bishop, young love and a nudist colony": Thorne Smith's The Bishop's Jaegers
SMITH, Thorne.
The Bishop’s Jaegers.
Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1932.
First Sun Dial Press edition of Smith's wildly hilarious comic romp, preceded by the first edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in the same year. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by Roese. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 109968
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First edition of Star Chamber Revels (Or, The Fountayne of Justice); signed by Andre L. Simon
SIMON, Andre L.
Star Chamber Revels (Or, The Fountayne of Justice). A Satyre Acted on Friday the eleventh day of June, in the yeare 1602 by the then Lords of the Queen Elizabeth’s most honourable Council.
Peekskill: Printed by Crosby Gaige, 1937.
First edition of Andre L. Simon's retelling of a day in the life of the Lords of the Star Chamber. Octavo, original boards, engraved headpiece and tailpiece. Signed by the author at the conclusion of his introduction. Very good in the rare original glassine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115807
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First Edition of All For Love; Inscribed by Tasha Tudor
TUDOR, Tasha.
All For Love.
New York: Philomel Books, 1984.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elaine! Tasha Tudor 1986." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146497
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First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook; inscribed by her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook.
1964: William Morrow & Company, New York.
First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter, an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient, Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley’s. They often exchanged letters, books, and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 96083
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First Edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Life of Dante.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1904.
First edition of the first formal biography of the father of the Italian language. Small folio, original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles to the spine. One of two hundred and sixty-five copies printed for Houghton Mifflin and Company and stated on the colophon, this is number 18. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146440
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Limited Edition Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Signed by Illustrator Thomas Hart Benton
PARKMAN, Francis. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Oregon Trail.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.
Signed limited edition of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with numerous plates by Thomas Hart Benton. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the crown of the spine and a faint stain to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146546
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Uncorrected Proof 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.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's first book, a well-received collection of stories. Octavo, original orange wrappers. Signed by Andre Dubus III on the title page. Review slip laid in. In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 447
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THE SCHOOL BUDGET; CONTAINING A LETTER FROM RUDYARD KIPLING AND CARICATURE OF HIM
KIPLING, Rudyard and Max Beerbohm.
The Budget: A Reprint of the Issues of May 14th and May 28th, 1898, Containing Contributions.
New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123533
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First Edition of John Dos Passos' Adventures of a Young Man
DOS PASSOS, John.
Adventures of a Young Man.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939.
First edition and advance review copy of the first book in Dos Passos' District of Columbia Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher's review copy stamp to the front free endpaper dated June 1st 1939. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 96769
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"He has plucked the sting from our bad dreams": First Edition of Charles Addams' Black Maria
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 147271
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's The T-Shirts I Love; Signed Twice by designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The T-Shirts I Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original illustrated boards by Chip Kidd. Signed twice by Chip Kidd, once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In fine condition. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 131851
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN'S THE AMERICANS: THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE; LENGTHILY INSCRIBED BY HIM
BOORSTIN, David.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
New York: Random House, 1973.
Later printing of the final volume in Boorstin's The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Lydia A. Bogdoyan with admiration and warm regards from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 23, 1976." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 96031
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First Edition of Alone Across The Atlantic; From the Library of Explorer and Adventurer Steve Fossett
CHICHESTER, Francis .
Alone Across The Atlantic.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961.
First edition of this work by the famed explorer. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. 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. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record…
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 112552
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First edition of Col. Harold P. Sheldon's Tranquility: Tales of Sport with the Gun
SHELDON, Col. Harold P. Introduction by Nash Buckingham.
Tranquility: Tales of Sport with the Gun.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936.
First edition of Sheldon's collected outdoor sketches. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 94. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 116019
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First Edition and Publisher's Presentation Copy of The Ice Harvest; Signed by Scott Phillips and Illustrator Michael Kellner
PHILLIPS, Scott.
The Ice Harvest.
Tuscon: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2000.
First edition and publisher's presentation copy of Phillip's debut novel. Octavo, bound in the original quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. Dust jacket and interior artwork by Michael Kellner. Signed and dated by the author on the limitation page, "Scott Phillips 11/11/00" and with an original drawing of a melting block of ice. Additionally singed by the illustrator on the copyright page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in the original slipcase.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 101301
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Deception; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
Deception.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
First edition of this "extraordinary, elegant novel" (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144392
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"Their fate sent them to serve in India, which is nota golden country though poets have sung otherwise": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.
First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123804
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYOR, Sonia.
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2018.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Bianchini and Larsson McSwain.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123929
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First edition of Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul; signed by him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul.
New York: Grove Press Inc., 1978.
First edition of this collection of two dark comedies. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the playwright on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 129083
