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“But we want young men. Romance. Love and things": First edition of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy; signed by her
O'BRIEN, Edna [Erica Jong].
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
First edition of the omnibus edition of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. From the library of Erica Jong. 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 of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142563
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's The Red-Haired Woman; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
The Red-Haired Woman.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, .
First edition of this "intriguing modern take on the Oedipus story" (The Herald, London). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, title page and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Ekin Oklap.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123836
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Paule Marshall's Triangular Road; Signed by Her
MARSHALL, Paule.
Triangular Road: A Memoir.
New York: Basic Civitas Book, 2008.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the famed author's insightful memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paule Marshall on the the title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129301
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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
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First Edition of Budd Schulberg's The Harder They Fall; Inscribed by Him to Editor Herb Yellin
SCHULBERG, Budd.
The Harder They Fall.
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition of Schulberg's second book, basis for the 1956 film directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart's final film role. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Budd Schulberg on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Louis Glanzman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120678
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First Edition I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941; Signed by Both Frederick Lewis Allen and Agnes Rogers
LEWIS ALLEN, Frederick; Agnes Rogers.
I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941.
New York: : Harper & Brother Publishers, 1947.
First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Dick Lounsbury with the best wishes of the assemblers: Agnes Rogers" and also signed by Frederick Lewis Allen. In very good condition with The Knickerbocker Club stamp in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45091
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First Edition of The Education of A Tennis Player; Inscribed by Tennis Great Rod Laver
LAVER, Rod with Bud Collins.
The Education of a Tennis Player.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
First edition of the tennis great's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Rod Laver on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 70031
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Howard Jones' Mutiny on the Amistad; signed by him
JONES, Howard.
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Howard Jones Framingham, Mass. 3/6/98." In near fine condition. Cover design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135992
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Gary Parr
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ilya Andrew Ross Sorkin" and signed by Gary Parr. Gary Parr was Deputy Chairman and on the board of directors of Lazard, LLC. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman, Head of Global Financial Institutions and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Label to the copyright page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102768
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First Edition of The Shapley Value; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth
ROTH, Alvin E. [Lloyd Shapley].
The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
First edition of this work regarding the papers of Nobel Prize winner Lloyd Shapley. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alvin Roth on the front free endpaper, "For James, Alvin E. Roth." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Vail.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116176
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First edition of Paul Krugman's Exchange-Rate Instability; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Exchange-Rate Instability.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of Krugman's provocative analysis of the extraordinary exchange-rate volatility of the 1980s. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For William, Paul R. Krugman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 114546
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"When the water's countenance blurs 'twixt glance and second glance... hear the Channel Fleet at sea, Libera nos domine!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.
First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120541
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First Edition of Samuel Shem's Man's 4th Best Hospital; Inscribed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
Man’s 4th Best Hospital.
New York: Berkley Books, 2019.
First edition of the sequel to The House of God. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For James Best wishes, Shem." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Colleen Reinhart. Author photograph by Janet Surrey.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141533
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
GREENE, Graham.
The Heart of the Matter.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948.
First edition of what many consider the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146309
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First Edition of Vidal in Venice; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Vidal in Venice.
New York : Summit Books, 1985.
First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal." 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. The two remained close throughout their lives. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karen Katz. Edited by George Armstrong. Photographs by Tore Gill. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126474
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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 Ken Purdy's Wonderful World of the Automobile; Inscribed by Him
PURDY, Ken.
Wonderful World of the Automobile.
London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1961.
First edition of this work by legendary automobile writer Ken Purdy. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jesse, with best wishes, Ken Hawlchurst, Kent 2 1962." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jozef Gross.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129763
