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First Edition of Eric Garcia's Matchstick Men; Signed by Eric Garcia and Actor Bruce Altman
GARCIA, Eric.
Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman and Alison Lohman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eric Garcia and actor Bruce Altman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140061
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First Edition of Hugh Johnson's Wine
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145332
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"Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change": Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin: A Novel; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MCCANN, Colum.
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.
New York: Random House, 2009.
First edition of the author's classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on both the half and title pages, "For Bettyann and Ed With the very best of Irish wishes- and with thanks!! Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change...Colum McCann." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Jacket drawing by Matteo Pericoli. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136604
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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants; Signed by Her
GOODALL, Jane with Gail Hudson.
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this work by the renowned naturalist and scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny. Foreword by Michael Pollan.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138252
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Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries; inscribed by Irving Caesar
CAESAR, Irving and Rudolph Sieczynski.
Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries Signed Musical Score.
New York: Harms Inc, 1937.
Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Irving Caesar on the front wrapper, "To Percy with friendship from Irving." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138548
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First Edition of Five Chiefs; A Supreme Court Memoir; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul .
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this memoir from Justice John Paul Stevens. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison J. Warner. Uncommon signed in the actual book, as most examples are signed bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139184
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"Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?" Rare first edition of Oscar Wilde's Ave Imperatrix!
WILDE, Oscar.
Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire by Oscar Wilde.
Washington: Snohomish, 1902.
First edition of Wilde's classic Hellenic poem. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with engravings and hand painted initials embellished in gilt, frontispiece by John Dennis Clancy. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140214
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"So that's your diary-that's your private mind translated into shirt-sleeved history": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Satirical Poems; inscribed by close friend and fellow writer Edmund Blunden
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Satirical Poems.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926.
First edition of Sassoon's classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Edmund Blunden on the front free endpaper, "A.F.W. with E.B.'s undying affection, Cowlinge, Nov. 10, 1927." English poet, author and critic Edmund Blunden was one of Sassoon's closest friends and, like him, wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. Blunden was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. With Bluden's review of The Poems of Clough from the November 23, 1951 issue of the Time Literary Supplement laid in which is also inscribed by him, "A.F.W. from the author…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 128255
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First edition of Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
ZWEIG, Martin E.
Winning on Wall Street.
New York: Warner Books, 1986.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100037
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First edition of Charles Allston Collins' At the Bar: A Tale
COLLINS, Charles Allston.
At The Bar: A Tale.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866.
First edition of Collins' ambitious novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Embossed library stamp. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123135
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First edition of Lord Byron's Lara and Samuel Roger's Jacqueline; in the original boards
BYRON, Lord George Gordon and Samuel Rogers.
Lara, A Tale. Jacqueline, A Tale.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1814.
First edition of Byron's tragic narrative poem, Lara, published in conjunction with Samuel Rogers' Jacqueline. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label. Bookplate and three generations of ownership signatures.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120644
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“To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit": First edition of John Burroughs' Wake-Robin
BURROUGHS, John.
Wake-Robin.
New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.
First edition of the author's first commercially published book in BAL's binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL 2135. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with the gilt decorations very bright. Housed in a custom folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139475
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First Edition of Loeb and Safire's Plunging Into Politics; Warmly Inscribed by Marshall Loeb
LOEB, Marshall and William Safire.
Plunging Into Politics.
New York: David McKay Company, 1964.
First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To the Langs, Who have done more for me than they shall ever know. Marshall November, 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by A/D Associates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 130822
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First Edition of The Book of the Warsaw 1935 International Chess Team Tournament; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
REINFELD, Fred and Harold M. Phillips.
Book of the Warsaw 1935 International Chess Team Tournament.
New York: Black Night Press, 1936.
First edition of the fifth volume in the Modern Chess Library. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 70019
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“Time is counted, not by hours, but by heart-beats": The Poetical Works of Robert Browning; finely bound in full polished tree calf
BROWNING, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder. & Co, 1897.
Finely bound example of Browning's collected poetical works. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Browning to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138644
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George Iles's Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
ILES, George [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.
The second volume of a stunning collection of autobiographies, this volume containing William Tecumseh Sherman's memoir; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octodecimo, original red cloth, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition. In 1908, upon completing work on 'Little Masterpieces of Autobiography,' Iles sent Philemon Tecumseh Sherman the entire set of works as thanks for Sherman's permission to reprint from his father's memoirs.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145976
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the 'Nineties
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the ‘Nineties.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.
First edition of Kipling's tale of a polo pony living among the British in India. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, frontispiece and plates in color. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122493
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First Edition of Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue Scenario; Warmly inscribed by Him
FULLER, Buckminster.
Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue Scenario.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
First edition of this autobiographical work. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fuller on the front free endpaper, "To: Harriet Nichols In warmest friendship Bucky Buckminster Fuller." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kadi Tint. Documented and edited by Robert Snyder.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124719
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First edition of Dominick Dunne's People Like Us; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Ken Burrows
DUNNE, Dominick [Erica Jong].
People Like Us.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1988.
First edition of Dunne's richly textured novel of New York society in the eighties. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Erica & Ken Best regards, Dominic Dunne." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142904
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Kenneth J. Roberts' Black Magic; inscribed by him
ROBERTS, Kenneth J.
Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924.
Early printing of Roberts' work on fascism in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Mussolini. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For S. D. Green with the best wishes of Kenneth J. Roberts Palm Beach January, 1927." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96104