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First Edition of Anne Morrow Linbergh's Listen! The Wind; with a lengthy autograph note from her expounding on the different types of love
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Listen! The Wind.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. With a foreword and map drawings by Charles A. Lindbergh. With a lengthy autograph note entirely in the hand of Anne Morrow Lindbergh which reads, "From Marcel & Elise 'Love is to the soul what the would is to the body - an increase, an additional soul.' 'To love means to see, and seeing belongs to the order of grace. To see means to recover a being in his glory. To re-establish him in his order of origin, which is super-natural. Love is the Sacrament of the Real Presence....…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133595
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First Edition of Rembrandt's Hat: Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Rembrandt’s Hat.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
First edition of this collection of short stories by the author of The Natural. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Susie and Paul, Kind good friends- Bern May 1973." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 100043
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"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension": First edition of Twilight Zone: The Movie; signed by Robert Bloch
BLOCH, Robert.
Twilight Zone: The Movie.
New York: Warner Books, Inc , 1983.
First edition of the novelization of the classic film. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with a 16-page insert of black and white photographs from the film. Boldly signed by Robert Bloch on the title page. In near fine condition. Small hole punch in the upper right corner of the front wrapper.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 148054
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First edition of Jean-Louis Bourgeois' Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition; signed by him and Carollee Pelos and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
BOURGEOIS, Jean-Louis. Photographs by Carollee Pelos. [Peter Matthiessen].
Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition.
New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this spectacular celebration of traditional Adobe architecture in the West. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Carollee Pelos. Historical Essay by Basil Davidson. Signed by Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Carollee Pelos on the half-title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140210
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Advanced reader's edition of Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red; Signed by him and Twice by Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
My Name Is Red.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Advanced reader's edition of this "fabulously rich novel, highly compelling" (The Independent). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd (once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In near fine condition. Design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar. The jacket was later changed to a different design.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126789
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Limited Edition of The Dictionary of Garden Plants; Signed by Roy Hay and Patrick M. Synge
HAY, Roy and Patrick M. Synge.
The Dictionary of Garden Plants in Colour with House and Greenhouse Plants.
London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.
Signed limited edition of this photographic plant dictionary. Quarto, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, decorative gilt morocco inlays and gilt patterning to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, generously illustrated with over 2,000 full-color photographs of alpine and rock gardens, annuals and biennials, greenhouse and house, bulbs, perennial, trees and shrubs, and climbers and conifers. One of only two hundred and sixty-five copies signed by the authors on the limitation page, this is number 53.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145563
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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 Karen, Katherine Paterson 1/29/92." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137988
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"And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire": First Edition of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire; warmly Inscribed by Him
TARKINGTON, Booth.
Monsieur Beaucaire.
New York: McClure, Philips, 1900.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel, basis for the classic 1946 film starring Bob Hope. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire." Booth Tarkington. For Miss Carmel Myers." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137803
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First edition of Sir Walter Scott's The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French Revolution
BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLY," &c. [Sir Walter Scott].
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French Revolution.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827.
First edition of Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon. Royal octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Napoleon. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 139524
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Rare first edition of Walter Browning or The Slave's Protector
Walter Browning; or, The Slave’s Protector. Founded on Fact.
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Store, 1856.
First edition of this anti-slavery tract. 12mo, original publisher's cloth, yellow endpapers, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142106
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John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal; Warmly inscribed by John Cheever
CHEEVER, John.
The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of the collected reissue of Cheever's National Book Award and William Dean Howells Medal-winning Wapshot novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mark Zimmer with the Hope of enjoying him as a Friend as I enjoy his brother John Cheever." The recipient was likely a sibling of Max Zimmer, Cheever's former student, protégé and lover who moved into the Cheever family household and became Cheever's caregiver later in life. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 143273
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First Editions of Harvard Design School Project on the City; Both Volumes signed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas
KOOLHAAS, Rem.
Harvard Design School Project on the City: Volumes 1 & 2
New York: Taschen, 2001.
First editions of both volumes 1 and 2. Quarto, original flexboards, illustrated throughout. Both volumes are signed by Rem Koolhaas. Essays by Rem Koolhaas, Tae-Wook Cha, Chuihua Judy Chung, Jutiki Gunter, Daniel Herman, Hiromi Hosoya, Jeffrey Inaba, Sze Tsung Leong, Kiwa Matsushita, John McMorrough, Juan Palop-Casado, Markus Schaefer, Tran Vinh, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Louise Wyman. Design by Sze Tsung Leong & Chuihua Judy Chung. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 742
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First Edition of Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-Wind
CARSON, Rachel L.
Under the Sea-Wind.
London: Staples Press Limited, 1952.
First British edition of Carson's first book and her personal favorite. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125649
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First Edition Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course; Inscribed 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To George Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145787
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First edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores; inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
First edition of O'Rourke's international best-seller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Jennifer all the best! P.J. O'Rourke 6/2/91." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133079
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"Now it is YOUR TURN! Be well, Be strong!": First Edition of Eating Dr. King's Dinner; Lengthily Inscribed by Chuck Fager
FAGER, Chuck.
Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966.
Fayetteville, North Carolina: Kimo Press, 2005.
First edition of this personal memoir of Civil Rights activism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "Durham NC, 2023 For James, The narrative here concludes in early 1966. Chuck Fager. But fifty-plus years later, the story & the courageous black struggle goes on, in some ways as intense as ever. For young readers, these pages are not only history; they are also a call - Now it is YOUR TURN! Be well, Be strong!" In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146361
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Jeremy Siegel's Stocks For The Long Run; Signed by Him
SIEGEL, Jeremy J.
Stocks For The Long Run.
Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this stock investing classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill- Good luck with stocks! Jeremy J. Siegel." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138167
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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 Miss Barbara Hegg, with the kind regards of James Truslow Adams." In near fine condition. Illustrated by M.J. Gallagher. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138823
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First Edition of The Struggle For Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square; Inscribed by Steven A. Cook to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
COOK, Steven A. [Madeleine Albright].
The Struggle For Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
First edition of this historical account of Egypt in the modern era. Octavo, original publisher's black boards, illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Association copy, inscribed by the author, 'To Secretary Albright - With admiration & respect. Enjoy! - Steven'. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO,…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147351
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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