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"Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived": First Editon of Seeing; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Seeing.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's sequel to Blindness. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140
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First Edition of Amos Oz's Scarce First Book My Michael; Inscribed by Him
OZ, Amos.
My Michael.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1972.
First English edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Gania, with my best wishes and warmest shalom, Amos Oz." Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears and wear to the spine. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5723
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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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First Edition of The English Patient; Signed by Michael Ondaatje and Three Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
ONDAATJE, Michael.
The English Patient.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First American edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Michael Ondaatje on the title page and three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the title page, the front panel and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 123198
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First Edition of Patric Dickinson's A Round of Golf Course; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
DICKINSON, Patric.
A Round of Golf Courses.
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1922.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs, course maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Judge Sherman from Patric Dickinson in memory of a happy evening June 14, 1952 and because The Rye Golf Club and The Apawamis Golf Club should also be united." Foreword by Bernard Darwin. From the library of Joseph Murdoch, with his bookplate, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Murdoch 202; D&M 15070; D&J D4350.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 84562
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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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Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
Mr. Scarborough’s Family and An Old Man’s Love.
London: Chatto & Windus; Edinburgh and William Blackwood and Sons, 1883-1884.
Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love. Octavo, five volumes uniformly bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 110623
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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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"I feel that my whole life is a contribution"; FIRST EDITION OF THE INCOMPLEAT SINGER; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LEGENDARY FOLKSINGER PETE SEEGER
SEEGER, Pete; edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz.
The Incompleat Folksinger.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
First edition of this work by the legendary folksinger. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Robert! Pete Seeger." Seeger has also drawn a picture of a banjo. Edited by Jo Metclaf Schwartz. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2166
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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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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Burr; Inscribed by Him to his Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Burr.
New York : Random House, 1973.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Valerie -- love -- Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, jacket laminated by Vidal. Jacket design by Jack Ribik.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 126791
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“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble": Irrational Exuberance; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Irrational Exuberance.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Robert J. Shiller Oct 8, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144343
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Historia delle guerre civili di Francia; Bound in the Original Vellum
DAVILA, Enrico Caterino.
Historia delle guerre civili di Francia.
Venice: Paolo Baglioni, 1642.
Thick octavo, bound in contemporary vellum, 1056 pages. Woodcut title vignette. In excellent condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 1833
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First Edition of Carl Snyder's Capitalism the Creator in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SNYDER, Carl.
Capitalism the Creator: Economic Foundations of Modern Industrial Society.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.
First edition of this exposition on capitalism. Octavo, original cloth, with 44 original charts. Original promotional material laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4506
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First Edition of Anthony Powell's The Soldier's Art
POWELL, Anthony.
The Soldier’s Art.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1966.
First edition of the eighth novel in the 'A Dance to the Music of Time' series and second volume in the 'War' trilogy. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities of the cloth and jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morroco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145148
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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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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven pages in a folding album, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145936
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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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First Edition of Louise Gluck's The House on Marshland; Inscribed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The House on Marshland.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1975.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Larry Louise Gluck." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Loretta Li.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 141607
