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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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"An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12": Official NASA 'EVA' Photograph; Lengthily Signed by Alan Bean
BEAN, Alan.
Alan Bean Signed ‘EVA’ Photograph.
Official NASA photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean. Glossy color photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean using a fuel transfer tool on the Lunar Module. Lengthily signed by Alan Bean in silver felt pen, "An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12." In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146031
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First Edition of Rybovich; Signed Three Times by Pat Rybovich
RYBOVICH, Pat .
Rybovich.
San Francisco: Pat Rybovich Publishing , 2010.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Oblong folio, bound in full leather, silver titles to the spine, front panel, all edges silver, illustrated. Signed three times by the author, twice on the title page, "All the best! Pat" and "Pat Rybovich 562/600 September 2, 2021" and on the copyright page, "Sept 2, 2021 562/600 Pat Rbovich." In fine condition. With the original shipping box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146199
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First Edition of Milnor and Stasheef's Characteristic classes; Signed by John Milnor
MILNOR, John W. and James D. Stasheef.
Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 57021
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"To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas": First Edition of Robert M. Parker's Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
First edition of Robert M. Parker's first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Don To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas Robert M. Parker." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147055
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Apollo 13 Photograph; Signed by Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
HAISE, Fred.
Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Photograph.
1970.
Rare photograph of the Apollo 13 service module. Small quarto, color satin-finish photograph of the crippled Apollo 13 service module floating in space. Boldly signed by Fred Haise, "Our view of the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module! Fred Haise, LMP, 4/17/70." In fine condition. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147067
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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this": First English Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.
First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece, two pages of advertisements at rear. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134755
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale; finely bound and decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bickers and Son, 1880.
Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a fore-edge painting of Squire Thornhill visiting the Primrose family, illustrated. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138744
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"Cooking is Chemistry, really": First Edition of Joel Robuchon's Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon; inscribed by him
ROBUCHON, Joel with Catherine Michel.
Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986.
First edition of Robuchon's classic cook book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with full-page color photographs by Corrinne Ryman and Pierre Cabannes. Presentation copy, inscribed by the chef/author on the half-title page, "A Jacques Cooper, avec ma sympathie gourmaude Le 13 Mars 1986 Robuchon." In very good condition with a small area of dampstaining to the first several pages. Cover design by George Lemoine. Books signed by Robuchon are rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138242
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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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Rare sixth edition of William McGuffey's The Eclectic Fourth Reader
MCGUFFEY, William.
The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, From the Best American and English Writers. With Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors.
Cincinnati: Published by Truman and Smith, 1838.
Finely bound sixth edition of the fourth McGuffey Reader. Octavo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt ruling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140352
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Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems inscribed to fellow poet Gladys Schmidt
FROST, Robert.
Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems.
Chicago: The National Council of Teachers of English, c.1949.
Original LP of Robert Frost reading his poetry. Inscribed by the author on the front panel Frost to Gladys Schmidt dated Jan. 18 1952. The recipient Gladys Schmidt was a professor of English at Carnegie Tech and had already written a number of bestselling novels and was also a published poet. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120198
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Rare first separate edition of Holbrook Working's The Investigation of Economic Expectations
WORKING, Holbrook.
The Investigation of Economic Expectations.
n.p.: American Economic Review, 1949.
First separate edition of Working's treatise on economic expectations. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with charts and graphs. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126334
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First Edition of Jerome Travers' The Fifth Estate: Twenty Years of Golf; In the Rare original Dust Jacket
TRAVERS, Jerome D. and James R. Crowell.
The Fifth Estate: Thirty Years of Golf.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
First edition of this work by the four-time U.S. amateur champion. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated with plates from photographs. An excellent example in the rare dust jacket with some small chips and tears.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 14024
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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 The Magic Barrel; Inscribed by Bernard Malamud
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Magic Barrel.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
First edition of Malamud's first collection of short stories, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marshall and Min Everything good- Bernie." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111744
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FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. A very sharp example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138068
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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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"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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First Edition of A Century of Arts and Letters; Signed by All Eleven Contributors
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis; Beeson.
A Century of Arts and Letters.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work celebrating the history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters on its centenary. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed on the the title page by all eleven contributors. Preface and edited by John Updike. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145842