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"She knows everything about the plaza": Kay Thompson's Eloise series; each volume Signed by illustrator Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Kay Thompson’s Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition, later printings of the first three books in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. Quartos, 3 volumes, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Each volume signed by illustrator Hilary Knight. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jackets.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133189
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First Edition of Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146167
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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214
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Marcella's Italian Kitchen; Signed by Her
HAZAN, Marcella.
Marcella’s Italian Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes! Marcella Hazan." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Front-of-jacket photograph by David Massey. Jacket design by Karen Katz.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143529
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First Edition of New York Close-Up; from the library of American journalist William Safire
MCCRARY, Tex and Jinx Falkenberg. [William Safire].
New York Close-Up.
New York: New York Herald Tribune, 1949-1951.
Bound collection of New York Close Up columns, from the library of American Journalist William Safire. Folio, original boards with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132199
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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Inscribed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth in the year of publication opposite the title page, "For Crisci - from his best library friend - Philip R April 1993." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 61793
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First Edition of The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan; Warmly Inscribed by Paul Goldberger
GOLDBERGER, Paul.
The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this classic work on New York. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Edith and Martin Segal, Such treasured parts of New York that they should really be a part of this book- but even more important, valued friends. With much fondness, Paul Goldberger 16 October 1979." The recipients, Martin E. Segal made his fortune through the Segal Company, an international consulting business, and was perhaps best known as the elder statesman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he served…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145643
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; Inscribed By Doris Kearns Goodwin
GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.
First edition, early printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "To the Madesons, Doris Kearns." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138811
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First Edition of William Kennedy's Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a newspaper article on Kennedy winning the Pulitzer Prize. Some offsetting to the half and title pages, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 690
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First Edition of Rabindranath Tagore's The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1916.
First edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Translated from the Original Bengali by Various Writers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143008
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First Edition of Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley; signed by Denton A. Cooley
COOLEY, Denton A.
Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984.
First edition of this collection of essays which illuminates, with brilliant insight, our contemporary world of medicine. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Denton A. Cooley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146290
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Finely bound example of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Great Boer War; finely bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Great Boer War.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1901.
New edition, being the fourteenth impression, of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work on the Boer War, which he revised sixteen times throughout the course of the war. Octavo, bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club with their insignia stamped in gilt to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, folding map at rear. In near fine condition. Edinburgh Angus Club bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 118603
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FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND VOLUME OF RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL'S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: Young Statesman; complete with all three parts of its companion volume
CHURCHILL, Randolph S.
Winston S. Churchill. [The Official Biography]. Volume II: Young Statesman 1901-1914 [with] Volume II Companion Parts I, II, and III.
London: Heinemann, 1967-1969.
First edition of the second volume in Randolph S. Churchill’s official biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill; complete with first editions of all three parts of its companion volume. Octavo, 4 volumes, original publisher's cloth, top edges red, illustrated, photographic frontispiece portrait of Winston S. Churchill in 1904. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144722
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First American edition of John Maynard Keynes' Essays in Persuasion
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
Essays in Persuasion.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
First American edition of Keynes’ first volume of collected essays. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 135116
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of this "indispensable book" (Anwar Ibrahim). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33051
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First Edition of Alfred Winslow Jones' Life, Liberty, and Property
JONES, Alfred Winslow.
Life, Liberty, and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Laid in is an advertisement to purchase war bonds. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 45087
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First Edition of Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side; Signed by Him
ALGREN, Nelson.
A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Algren's "most critically acclaimed and best-known novel" (ANB). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay. A superior example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 76436
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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation": Out of the Crisis; Inscribed by W. Edwards Demings
DEMING, W. Edwards.
Out of the Crisis.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Greetings to Mr. Carl Wouden W. Edwards Deming 7 February 1992." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 122253
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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Inscribed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 125369
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J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish; Signed by Him
MACLEISH, Archibald .
J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Archibald MacLeish on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Title page by Ismar David.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131799