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“THE COLDER THE WINTER, THE WARMER THE SPRING": FIRST EDITION OF WALT DISNEY’S BAMBI
[DISNEY, Walt].
Walt Disney’s Bambi: Adapted from the Novel by Felix Salten.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
First edition of this storybook version of Disney’s classic. Slim folio, original pictorial paper boards, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears, bookplate.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 146454
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First edition of Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor; inscribed by fellow M.I.T. Management Professor Edgar H. Schein who edited the work
MCGREGOR, Douglas. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor.
Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1966.
First edition of this collection of essays on the "dilemmas of a managerial society" by former M.I.T. management professor Douglas McGregor. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by one of the editors, Edgar H. Schein on the half-title page, "We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. Ed Schein author of Humble Inquiry." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 88145
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"Good Eating and Cooking": First Edition of Delights and Prejudices; Signed by James Beard
BEARD, James; Illustrated by Earl Thollander.
Delights and Prejudices.
New York: Atheneum, 1964.
First edition of this collection of writings from James Beard. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ruth Hessernick Good eating and cooking James Beard." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the spine tips. Jacket design by Earl Thollander.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 71977
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First Edition of Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience; Signed by Ben Bernanke
BERNANKE, Ben S..
Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
First edition of this ground breaking study. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ben Bernanke on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 109451
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“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk": First Edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People
HULME, Keri.
The Bone People.
Wellington: Spiral, 1983.
First New Zealand edition (and true first) of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112441
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“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand": First Edition of Irvin D. Yalom's First Novel: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession; Inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession.
New York: Basic Books, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Linda with best wishes Irvin D. Yalom." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140974
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First edition of George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds' The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730
DOW, George Francis and John Henry Edmonds. Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost.
The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1923.
First edition of the second book published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts. Large octavo, bound in three quarter morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, cartographic endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 130594
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Early English translation of Frederick II, King of Prussia's history of the Brandenburg Dynasty
FREDERICK II, King of Prussia.
Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1748.
Early English translation of Frederick II, King of Prussia's history of the Brandenburg Dynasty. Dedicated to his Royal Highness to Prince of Wales. Authors Preface. Initially published in three installments by Frederick II's private press at the palace of Sanssouci near Berlin, the volumes were read as part of the curriculum at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and considered as the fourth volume of Frederick's Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci (The works of the philosopher of Sans Souci). Small octavo, disbound with part of the original gilt spine intact. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 92480
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Fine hand-colored Map of Asia by Johnson and Ward
JOHNSON, Alvin J. and Benjamin P. Ward [Asia].
Johnson’s Map of Asia.
New York: Johnson and Ward, c, 1865.
Large hand-colored map of Asia by American cartographers Johnson and Ward. One page, hand-colored. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 21.5 inches by 19 inches.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137233
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FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT FROST'S STEEPLE BUSH; INSCRIBED BY HIM
FROST, Robert.
Steeple Bush.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Robert Frost to Amy Tenney 1951." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 109341
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"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever": First Edition of The Joy Luck Club; Signed by Amy Tan
TAN, Amy.
The Joy Luck Club.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
First edition of the author's most well known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Amy Tan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Jacket illustration by Gretchen Shields.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 114321
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First Edition of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Basic Christianity; Inscribed by John Stott
STOTT, John R.W.
Basic Christianity.
Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008.
First edition of the 50th Anniversary edition of Stott's classic work, originally published in 1958. Octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Tom with best wishes from John Stott." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 146110
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First Edition of Vernon Smith's Bargaining and Market Behavior; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Bargaining and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
First edition of this collection of important essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Vernon L. Smith on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James F. Brisson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 80039
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Rare first edition of the first volume in Adam Badeau's important Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865
BADEAU, Adam.
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865.
New York: Appleton and Company, 1868.
First edition of the first volume in Badeau's important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war", the second and third volumes of which were published several years later. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Grant, illustrated with 17 maps, one folding. In very good condition. Period ownership inscriptions. Rare.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 135243
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First Edition of Mary McCarthy's Birds of America; Inscribed by the author
MCCARTHY, Mary.
Birds of America.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Harlan Umansky my thanks, Mary McCarthy November 5, 1984." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Peter Vos. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph of Mary McCarthy by Jack Nisberg. An exceptional example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 142315
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First edition of Jim Peck's We Who Would Not Kill; Signed by Him
PECK, Jim.
We Who Would Not Kill.
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958.
First edition of the civil rights hero's story of a group of conscientious objectors who were imprisoned for their beliefs during World War II. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Signed by Jim Peck on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 119230
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inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Saul bellow to friend and fellow high school classmate
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate, "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake (Tuley gym!) Saul." In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2038
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First Edition of Children of Ceaucescu; Signed by Kent Klich and Herta Muller
KLICH, Kent; Essay by Herta Muller.
Children of Ceaucescu.
New York: Umbrage, 2001.
First edition of the photographer's powerful collection of images taken after the reign of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu. The aftermath is sobering, the pictures telling. Essay by Nobel Prize-winning author, Herta Muller. Signed and dated by the photographer, Kent Klich and also signed by Herta Muller. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 1590
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First Edition of Milan Kundera's The Festival of Insignificance; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015.
First edition of Kundera's eleventh fictional work. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed and dated by Milan Kundera in the the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the French by Linda Asher.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 26003
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“there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it": First edition of Harriet Lummis Smith's Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms; in the scarce original dust jacket
SMITH, Harriet Lummis. Illustrated by Weston Taylor.
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms.
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1924.
First edition of the third book in Smith's beloved Pollyanna series. Octavo, original publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Weston Taylor. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137089