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First edition of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel; bound in a unique full morocco binding
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
My Cousin Rachel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951.
First edition of Daphne du Maurier’s classic mystery-romance. Octavo, bound in full morocco to mimic a lady's riding jacket with three jeweled buttons. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 129038
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Rare econometric paper by Paul A. Samuelson
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Economic Theory and Mathematics: An Appraisal.
Chicago: Cowles Commission For Research in Economics at The University of Chicago, 1952.
Rare econometric paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Small contemporary name to the front panel. In near fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 88161
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First Edition of The China Diary; Signed by George H.W. Bush and Jeffrey Engel
BUSH, George H.W.; Edited by Jeffrey Engel.
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
First edition of Bush's diary, which he dictated while being de facto U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China in 1974–75. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by President George H.W. Bush and inscribed by the editor, Jeffrey Engel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144397
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"But for a dog That kept its head": Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline's Rescue; Inscribed by Him
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline’s Rescue.
New York: The Viking Press, 1955.
First edition, early printing of the second book in the Madeline series, which went on to win the Caldecott Medal in 1954. Thin quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Linda with love Ludwig Bemelmans Christmas 1955." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146919
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Rare Taj Mahal Postcard Signed by Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal.
Jawaharlal Nehru Postcard Signed.
Dariba, Delhi: Lal Chand & Sons, Photographers, n.d.
Rare autograph postcard signed by the first prime minister of India. Octodecimo, Lal Chand & Sons postcard featuring a photograph of the Taj Mahal from River Side. Signed by Jawaharlal Nehru on the righthand side. In very good condition with toning, light rubbing to the extremities, a few miniscule holes of unknown origin, a splitting crease to the top right corner, and a small loss to the top right corner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146910
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First Edition of A Course In Game Theory; Signed by Ariel Rubinstein
OSBORNE, Martin J. and Ariel Rubinstein.
A Course In Game Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994.
First edition of this classic work on game theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ariel Rubinstein on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 112551
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Our New Music: Leading Composers in Europe and America; Signed by Aaron Copland
COPLAND, Aaron.
Our New Music: Leading Composers in Europe and America.
New York: Whittlesey House, 1941.
Early printing of the composer's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Harold Moran Aaron Copland April 1944." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 116734
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"HOLMES' MOST CELEBRATED WORK": First edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.
First edition of the first book in the the series that gained Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. international fame. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and four gilt rings to the spine and elaborate stamping to the front and rear panels, engraved tissue-guarded title page, publisher's advertisement to the front and rear endpapers (BAL binding A). In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119502
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FIRST EDITION OF MARC CHAGALL’S Vitraux pour Jerusalem, WITH TWO ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS
CHAGALL, Marc; Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie.
Vitraux Pour Jerusalem.
Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1962.
First edition of this work by the famed artist. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123122
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First Edition of The White Plague; Signed by Frank Herbert
HERBERT, Frank.
The White Plague.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982.
First edition of this classic novel which explores madness and revenge on a global scale. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Abe Echevarria. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126758
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First Edition of Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate; Signed by Her
SPARK, Muriel.
The Mandelbaum Gate.
London: Macmillan, 1965.
First edition of this classic novel by Spark. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 57014
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First editions Ransom Riggs' The Miss Peregrine Series; Each Signed by him
RIGGS, Ransom.
The Miss Peregrine Series Including: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, Library of Souls, Tales of the Peculiar, Map of Days, The Conference of the Birds.
New York : Random House, various dates.
First editions of the first six volumes in the author's acclaimed series. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Each are signed by Ransom Riggs on the half-title and title pages. Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 128727
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First Edition of Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cookbook; Signed by Her
VANDERBILT, Amy; Drawings by Andy Warhol.
Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cookbook.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Andy Warhol. Boldly signed by Amy Vanderbilt on the half-title page. Drawings by Andy Warhol. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132379
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First Edition of Richard Posner's The Economics of Justice; Inscribed by Him
POSNER, Richard A.
The Economics of Justice.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
First edition of Posner's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Roger with all best wishes Dick Posner." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 85890
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First edition of Tyranny of the Status Quo; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Tyranny of the Status Quo.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration's attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Milton and Rose Friedman on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lem Rauk/ Visible Ink. Jacket photography by Frank Castro and Associates.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147053
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First Edition of Beyond Borders; Inscribed by Film Producer Lloyd Phillips; Accompanied by approximately eighty original gelatin silver prints
PHILLIPS, Lloyd.
Beyond Borders. [WITH] A Collection of Eighty Lloyd Phillips Photographs.
Malibu: Scan Shop, 2002.
First edition of this collection of photographs taken during the filming of Martin Campbell's 'Beyond Borders,' starring Angelina Jolie. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "Arthur 'J', Thanks for keeping me alive and being such a good friend. Lloyd '02." In very good condition. Accompanied by approximately eighty original gelatin silver prints. Many of these photographs are represented in the book, but there are many additional photographs not included in the book which appear here.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146969
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138597
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Rare complete set of the works of Charlotte Elizabeth; in the publisher's original full deluxe morocco
ELIZABETH [TONNA], Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. With an Introduction by H. B. Stowe.
New York: Published by M. W. Dodd, 1849.
Seventh edition of the complete works of English Victorian writer and suffragette Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher's full deluxe morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt decorations to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Volume I contains an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, followed by Charlotte Elizabeth's Personal Recollections, of which Stowe wrote, "We know of no piece of autobiography in the English language which can compare with this in richness of feeling…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142626
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First Edition of Buckminster Fuller's Ideas and Integrities, a Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure; Inscribed by Him to his Niece
FULLER, Buckminster.
Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
First edition of this work by Fuller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed "To Brooke, with great love, Bucky 3/30/80." The recipient, Brooke Maxwell, along with one of Fuller's other nieces Sarah Abbot, was one of Fuller's key assistants on his Synergetics Project. Edited by Robert W. Marks. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. A fine association.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124570