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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 The Cider House Rules; Warmly inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Cider House Rules.
New York: William Morrow , 1985.
First edition of Irving's sixth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rob with my appreciation John Irving." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145774
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First edition of Ralph Nading Hill's Robert Fulton and the Steamboat; signed by the 40th president of the United States Ronald Reagan
HILL, Ralph Nading. [Ronald Reagan].
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.
New York: Random House, 1954.
First edition of the author's compelling work on the inventor of the world's first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames. Signed by Ronald Reagan on the half-title page. Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. When Reagan left office in 1989, he held an approval rating of 68%, matching those of Franklin…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137258
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First Edition of Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom and Marc Norman.
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay.
New York: Miramax, 1998.
First edition of the screenplay, which won Stoppard an Academy Award. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the half-title page. In fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140189
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First Edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes; Warmly Signed by Vincent Price
PRICE, Mary and Vincent.
A Treasury of Great Recipes.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965.
First edition of this classic cookbook, which gives a detailed portrait of world famous restaurants that includes menus, pictures and recipes. Folio, padded copper leatherette with gilt lettering and decorations, pictorial endpapers, silk bookmark. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the authors, "Bon Appetit Mary and Vincent Price." Edited by Darlene Geis. Recipes tested by Ann Seranne. Designed by Arthur Hawkins. Introduction by Cleveland Amory. In near fine condition, with the original acetate jacket. Uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140903
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"ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF MODERN FICTION": FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos [Kazantzaki].
Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].
Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1947.
First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Kazantzakis traveled to Paris frequently throughout his life and spoke French fluently. From 1902 Kazantzakis studied law at the University of Athens, then went to Paris in 1907 to study philosophy. Here he fell under the influence of Henri Bergson. His 1909 dissertation was titled "Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State." In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 4634
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“People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion": First Edition of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools; Signed by Her
PORTER, Katherine Anne.
Ship of Fools.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of this classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner which dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Porter on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rob Howard. Photograph of Katherine Anne Porter by Arthur B. Long. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142403
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First Edition of Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner; Signed by William Sharpe and Robert Solow
SHARPE, William F. and Cathryn M. Cootner[Robert S. Solow].
Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner.
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1982.
First edition of this collection of essays in honor of the famed economist. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists William Sharpe and Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 143055
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“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours”: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; Signed by Him
CARNEGIE, Dale.
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937.
Early printing of one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Dale Carnegie on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146043
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"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true": First Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls in the Original First-Issue Dust Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
First edition with Scribner's A of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a good unrestored second-issue price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137027
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First Edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Scherz, List und Rache [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge]
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Scherz, List und Rache. [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge].
Leipzig: Bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790.
First edition of this libretto in the original German. Octodecimo, in wrappers. In near fine condition with very light toning. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half cloth case. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145573
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Rare First edition of Bunnell's The Discovery of the Yosemite and The Indian War of 1851
BUNNELL, Lafayette Houghton.
The Discovery of the Yosemite and The Indian War of 1851, Which Led To That Event.
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1880.
First edition of Bunnell's account of the discovery of Yosemite Valley with the Mariposa Battalion in 1851. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers, illustrated with 21 engravings including frontispiece portrait of Bunnell. In very good condition with wear to the extremities and rear panel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 107042
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“FOUNDED THE SCIENCE OF MODERN POLITICS”: MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE; FINELY BOUND BY ASPREY
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo.
Nicholas Machiavel’s Prince.
London: The Folio Society, 1970.
Finely bound edition of Machiavelli’s Prince, a seminal work in the foundation of modern political theory and a great classic of political science. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Asprey, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. A nice presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139631
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“Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself": First edition of John Hersey's The Wall; Warmly inscribed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The Wall.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Edgar Potts -with best wishes John Hersey From Barbara Johns, after her visit with Mitch en route to Williamsburg- Feb, 1950." With an original Saturday Review article laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of Dr. Potts to the front pastedown some offsetting to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by George Salter. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139270
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability": Rare Second Edition of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine
OSLER, William.
The Principles and Practice of Medicine.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895.
Rare first printing of the second edition of Osler's magnum opus. Thick octavo, bound in contemporary leatherette. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140471
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"I remember, I remember... precious little, now it comes to the crunch": First edition of William Cooper's From Early Life; inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
COOPER, William.
From Early Life.
London: Macmillan, 1990.
First edition of Cooper's collection of early recollections. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to Sally Soames, "For Sally - Super-artist with the camera. With love from Harry William Cooper August 1990." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124537
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First Edition of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell Pomeroy
KINSEY, Alfred C..
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Boldly signed by Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell B. Pomeroy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 21049
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First edition of The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865
MOTTELAY, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland.
The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865. Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-Field.
Richmond and New York: Stanley Bradely Publishing Company, 1890.
First edition of both volumes in this profusely illustrated set, containing large engraved portraits of Lincoln, Grant, McClellan and numerous battle scenes. Folio, 2 volumes, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hillen, Becker, Lovie, and Schell among others. In good condition. A rare complete set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134950
