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Facsimile Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby Manuscript Facsimile.
Washington, D.C: Microcard Editions Books, 1973.
The facsimile manuscript edition of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by Matthew Bruccoli.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140683
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"Always remember the #1 rule of tasting- Always smell it first": First Edition of Robert M. Parker's Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
First edition of Robert M. Parker's first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "11/26/85 To Mike Cullen, All the best in wine and life Robert M. Parker." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 118933
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First Edition of Institutional Change and American Economic Growth; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass C. North
NORTH, Douglass C & Lance E. Davis.
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by Douglass C. North on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5607
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First edition of Landmark Papers in Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
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 Robert M. Solow on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 37017
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Signed Photograph of President Harry S. Truman
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Harry Truman Signed Photograph.
Photograph of President Harry S. Truman. Warmly inscribed by Harry S. Truman. In fine condition. Double matted and framed; the entire piece measures 11.5 inches 15 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 81069
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"The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be": Charles Handy's The Age of Unreason; signed by him
HANDY, Charles.
The Age of Unreason.
London: Business Books Limited, 1989.
First edition, early printing of the Irish economist's classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 136548
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Casebook of the Black Widowers; signed by him
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Casebook of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.
First edition of the third book in Asimov's Black Widowers series with the publisher's "With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc." stamp to the pastedown. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142881
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Bridge to Terabithia; Inscribed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Bridge To Terabithia.
New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.
Early printing of the author's first Newbery-Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Kay, Katherine Paterson 10/16/93." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138127
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"An important contribution to the record of world exploration": First Edition of John Grierson's Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration
GRIERSON, John.
Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960.
First edition of John Grierson's biography of fellow Arctic pioneer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "to my distinguished Namesake from John Grierson 5.10.60." From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 111212
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Reflections on the Psalms
LEWIS, C.S.
Reflections on the Psalms.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Elizabeth Andrews.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145135
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Snow; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Snow.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd (on the title page, rear jacket flap and on the front panel). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Maureen Freely.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 119589
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Johann Christoph Volkamer Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate of Arbutus im Wörnlischen Garten
VOLKAMER, Johann Christoph.
Arbutus im Wörnlischen [Tree in Wörnlischen Garden] Garten Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.
Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.
Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer's 'Nürnbergische Hesperides.' Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of Arbutus im Wornlischen Garten, or the tree in Wörnlischen Garden. In near fine condition. Double matted with a gilt ornamental border and framed. This piece measures 21.5 inches by 16.75 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145526
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"They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity": First Edition of The Things They Carried; Signed by Tim O’Brien
O'BRIEN, Tim.
The Things They Carried.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1990.
First edition of the author's classic fifth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Peace. Tim O'Brien." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147312
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"The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks sea-ward: The waters stripes like a snake, olive-pale to the leeward": First edition of Robert Browning's Dramatis Personae
BROWNING, Robert.
Dramatis Personae.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.
First edition of Browning's popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran & Co. laid in.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124109
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Folio Green Velvet Book Display Cradle
Folio Velvet Book Display Cradle.
Green plush velvet book display cradle lined with woven gold rope. The cradle measures 26.5 inches in length, 11 inches in height, and 25 inches deep and is made to house a folio book. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 101582
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"with sincere gratitude" First Edition of James Truslow Adams' The Epic of America; Warmly Inscribed by Him
ADAMS, John Truslow.
The Epic of America.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
Early printing of the work which introduced the term "American dream" into the lexicon and the "single best volume of American history" (Allan Nevins). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. D. B. Hardenbergh with sincere gratitude from James Truslow Adams. 9a and 9. It was the Bible Matthew chap 18 verses 12 & 13!!" In near fine condition. Illustrated by M.J. Gallagher. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138046
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First Edition of Agatha Christie's They Came to Baghdad
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
They Came to Baghdad.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1951.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporary inscription to the front pastedown. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144217
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's Warrant: The Current Debate; Signed by Him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
Warrant: The Current Debate.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Ann Lowe.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139243
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Rare complete limited edition set of Richard Burton's The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; in the original publisher's cloth binding
BURTON, Richard.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Introduction and Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights.
Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only, .
Limited edition of Burton's monumental masterpiece. Octavo, 17 volumes, original publisher's cloth with printed paper spine labels, top edge gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. One of one thousand numbered sets, of which this is number 807. In very good condition. Underlining and marginal notes in pencil.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144752
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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Mike Wallace
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Mike Wallace on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145822