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"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate": First Editions of Each Novel in John Updike’s Rabbit Quartet
UPDIKE, John.
Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-2000.
First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131226
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Salvador; signed by Her
DIDION, Joan.
Salvador.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
First edition of this classic work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 148049
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Czeslaw Milosz's Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition; Signed by Him
MILOSZ, Czeslaw.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 142086
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Rare Signed limited edition of Maugham's address to the Library of Congress upon the Library's acceptance of the original manuscript of Of Human Bondage
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Of Human Bondage With a Digression on the Art of Fiction: And Address by Somerset Maugham.
Washington: The Library of Congress, 1946.
Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is in very good condition. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 108345
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The Basis for the landmark film starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep: First Edition of Avery Corman's Kramer Versus Kramer; Inscribed by Him
CORMAN, Avery .
Kramer Versus Kramer.
New York: Random House, 1977.
First edition of Avery Corman’s powerful classic novel about the end of a marriage and the bond between a father and child, basis for the film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jeff! With My Thanks, Avery Corman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Davis. Uncommon signed.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131089
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Finely bound collection of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.
Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 96168
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Evelyn Waugh's First Published Novel Decline and Fall; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Decline and Fall.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1931.
Pocket edition of Waugh's first published novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 147545
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“The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes": First Edition of The Johnstown Flood; Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
The Johnstown Flood.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Rogers David McCullough." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146412
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First Edition of The Cosmic Jest; Signed by Herbert Hoover, Clarence Budington Kelland, and another Bohemian Club Member
KELLAND, Clarence Budington; Music by Frank R. Denke; [Herbert Hoover].
The Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play.
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1949.
First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Budington Kelland, on the dedication page. Additionally signed by another member of the Bohemian Club. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146694
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The New Whole Duty of Man; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age, AS the Old Whole Duty of Man was design’d for those unhappy Times in which it was written: And Supplying the Articles of the Christian Faith, Which are Wanting in that Book. Though Essentially Necessary to Salvation. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Printed for W. Bent, 1823.
Finely bound example of this classic Protestant devotional work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a maritime view, engraved frontispiece. In good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright. Ownership inscription.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 138215
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The Complete and Rare First American Edition Set of Harold MacMillan's Memoirs; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939].
New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966-75.
First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan’s memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of 'Winds of Change,' "For Faye Bozin from Harold Macmillan." Additionally signed by Macmillan on the title page of 'Pointing the Way' and 'The Past Masters.' Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 147300
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First edition of George Bancroft's Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece
HEEREN, Arnold Hermann Ludwig. [Translated by George Bancroft].
Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece.
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.
First American edition of Bancroft's translation of Heeren's monumental work on politics in Ancient Greece. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine and a red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to…
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 128205
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First Editions of Time on the Cross; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel in Both Volumes
FOGEL, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman.
Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.
First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes. Both volumes are signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, "RW Fogel 3/18/10." Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Sarah L. Bindari.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 114451
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 119411
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain”: First Edition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
BALDWIN, James.
The Fire Next Time.
New York: The Dial Press, 1963.
First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 124915
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"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility": First Edition of Chaos: Making of A New Science; Inscribed by James Gleick
GLEICK, James.
Chaos: Making A New Science.
New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
First edition of this modern classic in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Gleick on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140606
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First Edition of Poets from the North of Ireland; Signed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Poets from the North of Ireland.
1979: Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Edited by Frank Ormsby.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 141441
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Quiet American; With the Rare Wrap Around Band
GREENE, Graham.
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
First edition of Greene's classic novel of exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the rare wrap around band. An exceptional example, rare and desirable especially with the wrap around band.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 148133
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First Edition of the First Monograph on Frank Gehry's Masterpiece The Walt Disney Concert Hall; Signed by Him
GEHRY, Frank.
Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
First edition of this volume on Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Deborah Borda. Introduction by Frank Gehry. With essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Wood. Photography by Grant Mudford.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 515
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Finely Bound Set of The Life of Samuel Johnson
BOSWELL, James.
The Life of Samuel Johnson.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.
Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively bound set.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 2542