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Limited large paper edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Five Nations; one of only 200 copies printed on handmade paper
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co, 1903.
Large paper edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Large octavo, original quarter parchment over paper-covered boards. One of 200 copies on handmade paper. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120150
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth and Artist Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip [Milton Glaser].
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
First edition of the author's final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Additionally signed by artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 71974
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Him With His Foot In His Mouth; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 7344
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First Edition of Stephen Berrien Stanton's Collected Poems; Gifted By the Author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
STANTON, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Collected Poems.
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930.
First edition of this collection of poems; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original cloth. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership inscription, "P. T. Sherman from Stephen Stanton." In near fine condition with light toning to the spine.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145986
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"How Brave are you, little Annemarie?": First Edition 25th Anniversary Edition of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Number The Stars.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
First 25th Anniversary edition of Lowry's first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Smallwood. With an introduction by the author.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142577
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"The World Breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places": First edition of Michael Shaara's The Broken Place; inscribed by him
SHAARA, Michael.
The Broken Place.
New York: The New American Library, 1968.
First edition of the author's first novel, preceding his Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Killer Angels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Judy + Bill - best wishes - Mike Shaara March 22, 1968." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138681
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The City of Falling Angels; inscribed by John Berendt to Erica Jong
BERENDT, John [Erica Jong].
The City of Falling Angels.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005.
Early printing of Berendt's suspenseful novel set in the decadent and mysterious city of Venice. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Erica - A fellow Venetophile, Best wishes - John Berendt New York May 23 '07." The recipient, 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 of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142328
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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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First 50th anniversary edition of The Tin Drum; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
Boston & New York: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of the fiftieth anniversary edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Breon Mitchell. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Gunter Grass. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Author photograph by Hans Grunert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142683
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First Edition of The Messiah of Stockholm; Inscribed by Cynthia Ozick to famed photographer David Goldblatt
OZICK, Cynthia [David Goldblatt].
The Messiah of Stockholm.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of this "truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer" (The New York Review of Books). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For David Goldblatt, with good wishes! Cynthia Ozick." The recipient, David Goldblatt was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid. After apartheid had ended he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. What differentiates Goldblatt's body of work from those of other anti-apartheid artists is that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145821
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“Motion is tranquillity": First Edition of Second Book of Motor Sport; Warmly Inscribed by Stirling Moss
MOSS, Stirling.
Stirling Moss’s Second Book of Motor Sport.
London: Cassell, 1958.
First edition of Moss' sequel to his first Book of Motor Sport. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Nick A friend, from a friend, Stirling Moss" Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Maxwell Boyd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146061
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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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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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Advance reading copy of Ken Follett's Code to Zero; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
Code to Zero.
New York: Dutton, 2000.
Advance reading copy of the first edition of Follett's page-turning thriller. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,"To Ken + Erica - with love, Ken Follett." 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 of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142730
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Limited Edition of The Prince of Pleasure; Signed by J.B. Priestley
PRIESTLEY, J.B.
The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency 1811-20.
London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.
Signed limited edition of this social and political commentary on the Regency Period. Super octavo, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, decorative gilt morocco inlays and gilt patterning to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustration of the Snuff-box believed to have been presented to the 1st Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent on the verso of the frontispiece, frontispiece of The Prince Regent in Garter Robes by Sir Thomas Lawrence, generously illustrated with paintings,…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145562
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First Edition of My Life; Warmly Inscribed by Ervin Magic Johnson
JOHNSON, Ervin Magic.
My Life.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of the basketball legend's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Larry Sr. Take it easy and stay cool from your main man Ervin Magic Johnson #32." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written with William Novak.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145660
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First Edition of The Economics of Computers; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist William F. Sharpe
SHARPE, Willam F.
The Economics of Computers.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on computers. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Bill Sharpe." Near fine in a good dust jacket, name to the endpaper.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133579
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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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"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
