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Lytton Strachey's famed Eminent Victorians; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
STRACHEY, Lytton.
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Finely bound example of the work that placed Strachey firmly in the top rank of biographers. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 129185
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Rare Second Pickering Diamond Edition of Horace's Quintus Horatius Flaccus
HORACE,.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1824.
Rare second Pickering Diamond edition, large paper issue, with an additional engraved title page. 12 mo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the front panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 82315
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First Edition of Roger Moore's James Bond Diary; Inscribed by Roger Moore
MOORE, Roger.
Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary.
Fawcett Publications, 1973.
First edition of Moore's diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John from Roger Moore." In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133640
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"One of the earliest feminist journals published": First edition of Volume XIV of The Englishwoman
The Englishwoman. Volume XIV. April-June 1912.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912.
First edition of of Volume XIV of the Englishwoman's Review, one of the first feminist journals published. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135267
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Rare 18th Century Map of Florida, Louisiana, and Neighboring Countries by famed French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane, et Pays Voisins. [18th Century Map of Florida, Louisiana, and Neighboring Countries. To be used in the General History of Travel].
Jean-Francois de La Harpe, 1757.
Rare 18th century engraved map of North America by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page, hand-colored, the map shows the French territory of Louisiane and Florida. Labelled cities and regions include St. Augustine, Savannah, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Toronto, Detroit, Mobile, Pensacola, New Mexico, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Topographical features include Lakes Michigan, Erie, and Superior, the Savannah, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, and the Appalachian Mountains. Bellin also labels the locations of various Native tribes such as the Cherokees, Osages, and Apaches, as well as locations of major forts. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138434
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First illustrated edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
WILDE, Oscar. With Woodcuts by Frans Masereel.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1925.
First illustrated edition of this rare Wilde title. Royal octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. One of 450 numbered copies, this is number 16. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139325
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First Edition of All Things Bright and Beautiful; Inscribed by James Herriot
HERRIOT, James.
All Things Bright and Beautiful.
London`: Michael Joseph, 1976.
First edition of this classic, the sequel to All Creatures Great and Small. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bob and Nancy with best wishes and thanks James Herriot." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Camera Press.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144243
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First Edition of Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; Warmly Inscribed by Tom Wolfe in the year of publication
WOLFE, Tom.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Dan, with thanks- for a pleasant mid-day in the bowels of the NBC Building! Tom Wolfe December 9, 1976." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed and inscribed in the year of publication.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131703
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"Time to get up, Fungus my dreary, it's nearly dark": First edition of Fungus the Bogeyman; Signed by Raymond Briggs
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Fungus the Bogeyman.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
First edition of illustrator Raymond Briggs' classic work. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Signed and dated by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, "Raymond Briggs 21 April 1981." In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 89018
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"I dream of you and long for you as the sun slowly sinks in the west": Madame Sybil Terry's Poems
TERRY, Madame Sybil.
Poems.
Tampa: Florida Grower Press, 1947.
First edition of this collection of sacred, romantic, and household poems. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145569
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First edition of Switch Bitch; inscribed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Switch Bitch.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First American edition of this collection of Dahl's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jon Walley Thanks Roald Dahl 1975." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Shields.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146282
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"No artist lives and loves, that longs not Once, and only once, and for one only": First edition of Robert Browning's Men and Women
BROWNING, Robert.
Men and Women.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1855.
First edition of one of Browning's finest collections, in the primary binding with pale cream-colored endpapers. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's olive green cloth stamped in blind, gilt titles to the spines. In good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 136291
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First Edition of Advances In Game Theory; Signed by Mathematician W.H. Fleming
EDITED BY M. DRESHER; L.S. SHAPLEY; A.W. TUCKER [W.H. FLEMING],.
Advances In Game Theory.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
First edition of collection of papers on game theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by mathematician W.H. Fleming on the title page, next to his name. Wendell Helms Fleming was a mathematician, specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations. Fleming received in 1951 his PhD under Laurence Chisholm Young at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a thesis entitled Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces. Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he retired in 2009 as professor emeritus. Fleming was with Herbert Federer a pioneer of geometric measure theory. Later in his career, he worked on stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations and their applications in control theory.…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146321
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First Edition of My Name is Red; Signed by him and Twice by Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
My Name Is Red.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
First edition of this "fabulously rich novel, highly compelling" (The Independent). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the half-title page and on the jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119627
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"Being right was largely a matter of explanations": First Edition of Mr. Sammler’s Planet; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Mr. Sammler’s Planet.
New York: The Viking Press, 1970.
First edition of the author's third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 184
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First Edition of Travesìa del Horizonte; Signed by Javier Marias
MARIAS, Javier.
Travesìa del Horizonte.
Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia, 1972.
First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 3368
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Rare First Edition of Hermann Weyl's Raum Zeit Materie Vorlesungen uber Allgemeine
WEYL, Hermann.
Raum Zeit Materie Vorlesungen uber Allgemeine [Space, Time, Matter].
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918.
First edition of "the standard treatise on the general theory of relativity" (Nature). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142307
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First Edition of Kingsley Amis' The James Bond Dossier
AMIS, Kingsley.
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
First edition of Amis' critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jan Pienkowski based on the famous trompe l'oeil paintings by Richard Chopping reproduced on the jackets of the James Bond books. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144348
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First Edition of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam; Warmly Inscribed by Neil Sheehan to Commander Barbara Williams
SHEEHAN, Neil.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam.
New York: Random House, 1988.
First edition of the definitive Vietnam War exposé which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "May 17, 1989 To Comdr. Barbara Williams, USN, Who cares! With All Best Wishes, Neil Sheehan." Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Sposato.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145959
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First edition of Landmark Papers in Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow and economist Peter Howitt
SOLOW, Robert M.
Landmark Papers in Economic Growth.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition of this collection of writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by economists Robert M. Solow and Peter Howitt on the title page. Howitt contributed an essay in this volume. In near fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 132181