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SNYDER, Julian.
The History of Money.
Continental Silver Corporation, 1973.
Rare first edition of this work on the history of money. Octavo, original wrappers, 32 pp. Contents: I. The American Illusion of Invulnerability, II. The Four Stages of Monetary Decline, III. The End of the Gold-Backed Dollar, IV. Printing Press Prosperity, V. The Problem with Inflation Addiction, VI. Exponential Inflation and the $100 Cup of Coffee, VII. The Point of No Return, VIII. Five Ways You Can Protect Yourself and Your Family Against the Double-Barreled Thread of Runaway Inflation and Depression., IX. The Silver Lining - Your Investment Opportunity, X. How Will My Family and I Be Affected -- End.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144087
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First Edition of Guy de Rothschild's The Whims of Fortune
ROTHSCHILD, Guy de.
The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild.
New York: Random House, 1985.
First edition of Guy de Rothschild's revealing memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Tony Kent. Jacket design by Loretta Leiva.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144635
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First edition of Richie Unterberger's Turn! Turn! Turn! the '60s Folk-Rock Revolution; inscribed by him
UNTERBERGER, Richie.
Turn! Turn! Turn! the ’60s Folk-Rock Revolution.
San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002.
First edition of Unterberger's comprehensive survey of '60s folk-rock. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, signed by songwriter Donovan Phillips Leitch and inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Glenn, Enjoy the book and thanks for all your support Richie Unterberger." The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 119884
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First Edition of Charles King's The True Ulysses S. Grant; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
KING, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The True Ulysses S. Grant.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914.
First edition of this biography of soldier, statesman, and president Ulysses S. Grant; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Grant as Major-General Commanding in the West, illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. Accompanied by a Lexington Hand-Colored postcard, illustrated with a portrait of General Robert E. Lee. In very good condition with light rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance,…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145931
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Second American Revolution and other essays (1976-1982); Inscribed by Him to his Stepmother
VIDAL, Gore.
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982).
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Kit all love Gore Vidal." The recipient, Katherine "Kit" Vidal was Eugene Vidal's second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125211
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First Edition of Values of Non-Atomic Games; Inscribed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Robert Aumann
AUMANN, Robert J. and Lloyd S. Shapley.
Values of Non-Atomic Games.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this "first class contribution to the field of game theory" (Oskar Morgenstern). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Robert Aumann on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 45076
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First edition of the Report of General George B. McClellan on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac
[STANTON, Edward M.; George B. McClellan].
Letter of The Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, Under the Command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, From July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864.
First edition of Stanton's official report on the organization and campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132804
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"The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice": The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; containing the First appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Light that Failed
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.
The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling's early novel, The Light That Failed. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121480
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First Edition of Without End; Inscribed by Adam Zagajewski to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Without End: New and Selected Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, "To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton, February 2005." Also, laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that "Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy..." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Translated by Clare Cavanagh, and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4688
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First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Collected Poems 1947-1980; Inscribed by Him to his Cousin
GINSBERG, Allen.
Collected Poems 1947-1980.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original red wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on the title page, "for Ed [sic] & Lorraine Levy from Allen Ginsberg February 22, 1989," and the opposite blank, "Shalom with thanks for Under The Bamboo Tree, Memphis Minnie, & your book on J.W. Johnson from Cousin Allen," above a hand-drawn doodle of a sun with initials "AH" in the center and a Star of David with a skull in the middle, holding a flower over crossbones. In very good condition.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146470
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First Edition Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course; Signed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold.
Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated autobiography of this golfing legend. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Arnold Palmer on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147919
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First edition of Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson
WINFREY, Oprah.
Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson.
Auckland, New Zealand: PQ Blackwell Limited/Los Angeles: Harpo, Inc., 2010.
First edition of the book companion to Oprah Winfrey's Master Class series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140634
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A fine collection of five first editions of Evelyn Anthony Novels
ANTHONY, Evelyn.
Evelyn Anthony First Edition Collection. Including: The Poellenberg Inheritance, The Persian Ransom, The Return, The Company of Saints, and Voices on the Wind.
London: Hutchinson, 1972-1985.
A fine collection of five first editions of Evelyn Anthony novels. Octavo, original cloth, 5 volumes. The collection includes: The Poellenberg Inheritance (1972), The Persian Ransom (1975), The Return (1978), The Company of Saints (1983), and Voices on the Wind (1985). Each volume is near fine to fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 119088
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"Photographing a cake can be art": First Edition of Still Life; Signed by Irving Penn
PENN, Irving.
Still Life.
New York: Bullfinch Press, 2001.
First edition of this collection of photographs. Tall quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4324
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First Edition of One Giant Leap for Mankind; Signed by Walt Cunningham, Charles Conrad, and Nancy Conrad
CERNAN, Eugene A; Karl E. Kristofferson; Nancy Conrad; D.C. Agle; Bill Novarik; Hope Winsborough; Steven G. Brunner; Mitch Varnes; Holly Gordon; [Walt Cunningham]; [Charles Conrad].
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the First Lunar Walk.
Largo, FL: Rococo International, Inc, 1993.
First edition of the official book for the 25th anniversary of one of mankind's greatest triumphs. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Walt Cunningham, Charles Conrad, and Nancy Conrad on the front cover. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147257
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First Edition of Gary Player’s First Book; Signed Twice by Golfing Legend Gary Player
PLAYER, Gary .
Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.
First edition of Gary Player's first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Gary Player on the title page and additionally signed by Player on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a good dust jacket with a large chip to the rear panel.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 109227
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First Edition of Paul Bocuse's French Home Cooking; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BOCUSE, Paul.
French Home Cooking.
London: Granada, 1982.
First edition of this work by the legendary chef. Small quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Paul Bocuse on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 139552
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First Edition of Philip Roth's When She Was Good; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
When She Was Good.
New York: Random House, 1967.
First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the "culture…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 117571
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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Signed limited first edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. One of 1500 copies signed by Frost on the limitation page, this is number 1302. Fine in the original slipcase which is in fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146121
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Pete Townshend on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 2929