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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Signed by Her
GOODALL, Jane.
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper and note to the title page where this was signed. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138182
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First edition of Gertrude Atherton's The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
ATHERTON, Gertrude.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
First edition of the first novel in the author's California series. Octavo, original cloth elaborated stamped in gilt, illustrated by Harrison Fisher. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116833
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"With Pablo there must always be a victor and a vanquished ... Since I loved him, I couldn't afford to be vanquished": Life with Picasso; Inscribed by Francoise Gilot
GILOT, Francoise and Carlton Lake.
Life with Picasso.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.
First edition, early printing of this revealing memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elaine and Jim McDonald, Francoise Gilot." Additionally dated in the year of publication in another hand "11-10-73." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147265
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"True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse”: Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman In The World; Signed by Him
MANDINO, Og.
The Greatest Salesman In The World.
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc, 1973.
Early printing Mandino's classic work on salesmanship and success. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Og Mandino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142029
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First edition of On Directing Film; Warmly inscribed by David Mamet in the year of publication
MAMET, David.
On Directing Film.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of Mamet's insightful guide to directing. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Glenn - Thank you for your support of my work. I appreciate it very much. David Mamet 27 F. 91 Book Soup." The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design Neil Stuart. Back jacket photograph by Mike Hausman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119879
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Uncorrected Proof of The Soul of a New Machine; Inscribed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original wrappers. Inscribed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122
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First Edition of George Soros' The Age of Fallibility; Inscribed by Him
SOROS, George.
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.
New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of The Alchemy of Finance. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by George Soros on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45092
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"The two large fields lay on a hillside facing south. Being newly cleared of hay, they were golden green, and they shone almost blindingly in the sunlight": First edition of D.H. Lawrence's Love Among The Haystacks & Other Pieces
LAWRENCE, D.H. With a Reminiscence by David Garnett.
Love Among The Haystacks & Other Pieces.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930.
First edition of this collection of four of Lawrence's short stories, posthumously published by close friend David Garnett. Octavo, original publisher's half buckram over bright yellow boards. One of 1600 copies printed on hand-made paper at the Curwen Press, 550 of which were for sale in the United States by Random House, this is number 356. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143228
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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First Edition of In Praise of Doubt; Inscribed by Peter Berger
BERGER, Peter and Anton Zijderveld.
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic.
New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
First edition of this "book of great practical wisdom by authors who have profound insight into the intellectual dynamics governing contemporary life" (Dallas Willard). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Berger on the front free endpaper, "For Christal, from Peter Berger." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 41764
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Rare first edition of Vernon Grant's Mr. Mixie Dough
GRANT, Vernon.
Mr. Mixie Dough.
Racine, Washington: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934.
First edition of Grant's children's classic. Quarto, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 full-page illustrations. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136341
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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"The Breath of an old-fashioned nosegay": First edition of the Crum Elbow Folks; lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt
BARNES, P.R. Foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt.
Crum Elbow Folks.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.
First edition of Barnes' classic tale of the small Quaker settlement of Crum Elbow with a foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 1938 For W. French Cyrus Paris - from Sara D. Roosevelt - This is a story of the 'Friends' who lived until lately in 'Crum Elbow' about a mile East from Hyde Park." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100315
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J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish; Inscribed by Him
MACLEISH, Archibald .
J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of this classic play. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Benjamin Epstein cordially Archibald MacLeish." Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138201
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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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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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William P. Dewees' An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition; in the original publisher's boards
DEWEES, William P.
An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain, and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition.
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1819.
Second edition of Dewees' inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136502
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First Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 84277
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“That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb": First Edition of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckenridge; Signed by Him
VIDAL, Gore.
Myra Breckinridge.
Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1968.
First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo, black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Photo courtesy of the Hotel Sahara. A very nice example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 98977
