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"Wine, women and dice kept him ever hungry, ill, and poor": Finely bound example of Richard Head's The English Rogue
HEAD, Richard and Francis Kirkman.
The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant: Being a Complete History of the Most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1928.
Finely bound example of Head's famous satirical autobiography. Quarto, bound in full tree calf with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with plates after the originals. In very good condition. Stamp to the half-title page.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 109026
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122446
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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "XXX Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124841
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves": First Edition of Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147113
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First Edition of Annie Proulx's Memoir Bird Cloud; Signed by Her
PROULX, Annie.
Bird Cloud: A Memoir.
New York: Scribner, 2011.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's magnificent memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Annie Proulx on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rex Bonomelli. Jacket photograph of Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140722
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First edition of Okja: The Art and Making of the Film
WARD, Simon.
Okja: The Art and Making of the Film.
London: Titan Books, 2017.
First edition of the in-depth companion volume to 2017 science-fantasy action-adventure film. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated. 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 including Access…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 142880
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“I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down
STEINBECK, John.
The Moon Is Down.
New York: The Viking Press, 1942.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126981
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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
First edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137801
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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "To Anne with XXs, Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124701
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First edition of Hugh Thomson's illustrated rendition of William Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEARE, William. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1910.
First trade edition of Hugh Thomson's elaborately illustrated rendition of Shakespeare's famed comedy. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 39 colored plates by Hugh Thomson. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135149
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First Edition of Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek
[FRIEDRICH VON AUGUSTE HAYEK] [F.A],.
Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fritz Machlup. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146448
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"Through the naked words and mean, May ye see the truth between, As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the Earth!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co, 1896.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and vignette to the front panel. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121559
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First edition of Eric Linklater's Position at Noon; one of only 250 copies signed by him and illustrator Hans Tisdall
LINKLATER, Eric. Decorations by Hans Tisdall.
Position at Noon.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.
First edition and signed limited edition of Linklater's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. With decorations by Hans Tisdall. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, this is number 247. Near fine in the original glassine jacket with printed paper flaps which is in good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128153
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"So the talk while I was listening, so many voices smote or questioned Him." First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' Lee: A Dramatic Poem; inscribed by him
MASTERS, Edgar Lee.
Lee: A Dramatic Poem.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926.
First edition of Masters' play about Robert E. Lee at the dawn of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For William W. Pineos with the compliments of Edgar Lee Masters December 3 - 1928." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96232
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
GREENE, Graham.
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146262
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First edition of George A. Henty's Yule-Tide Yarns
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Yule-Tide Yarns.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with forty-five illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122632
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"Please may I come in? I am Boots. I am son of Kildonan Brougue - Champion Reserve - V.H.C. - very fine dog": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
First edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121841
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First edition of Henry Williamson's Love and the Loveless
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author's semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128063
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First Edition of What the Twilight Says; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Derek Walcott
WALCOTT, Derek.
What the Twilight Says: Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Rebecca best Derek Walcott 2004." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 130537
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"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing": First Edition of Simon Wiesenthal's Murderers Among Us
WIESENTHAL, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg.
Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.
First edition of Simon Wiesenthal's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Joseph Wechsberg. Jacket design by Leonard Leoni. Jacket photo by Lester Krauss.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147288
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First Edition of Shirley Eaton's Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems; Signed by Her
EATON, Shirley; Foreword by Roger Moore.
Shirley Eaton’s Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems.
Tennessee: Concept Productions, 2006.
First edition of this diary by the famed actress of James Bond's Goldfinger. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "Best wishes Shirley Eaton Enjoy." In fine condition. Foreword by Roger Moore.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 123244
