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First Edition of Thomas C. Schelling's Strategies of Commitment; Inscribed by Him
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Thomas C. Schelling on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 77549
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First Edition of The Hotel New Hampshire; Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981.
Review copy of the first edition with the review information of the author's fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Roger with my appreciation John Irving." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Terry Fehr.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144216
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"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams": Bernard Malamud's National Book Award-Winning Novel; Signed by Him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Fixer.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition, early printing of the author's fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140811
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Indian Tales
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Indian Tales.
New York : John W. Lovell Company, 1890.
First authorized edition of this classic collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. In near fine condition. Tanselle #99.17. A very sharp example.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 121653
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First Edition of All the Names; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
All the Names.
New York: Harcourt, 2000.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Doris Jose Saramago 29 October 2008.". Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140688
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Elizabeth Cole; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
Elizabeth Cole.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
First edition of Cheever's savage portrait of the New York art world. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York City May 4, 1990 To Ken Whose friendship and council have been my mainstay for all these years Susan Cheever." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 142886
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“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war": First Edition of William Faulkner's A Fable
FAULKNER, William.
A Fable.
New York: Random House, 1954.
First edition of the first novel to win both Pulitzer and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 70016
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“Motion is tranquillity": First Edition of Stirling Moss' Second Book of Motor Sport; Signed by Him
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. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Edited by Maxwell Boyd.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 110192
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Olivia, Signed by Ian Falconer
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia.
New York: Atheneum Books, 2000.
First edition, early printing of the author's first book. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout.Boldly signed by Ian Falconer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 647
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First Edition of The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman; Inscribed by British Artist David Gentleman with an Autograph Letter also Signed by Him
BETJEMAN, John; David Gentleman.
The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman. [WITH] Autograph Letter Signed by David Gentleman.
London: John Murray, 1995.
First edition of this humorous collection of intimate poems, illustrated with charming watercolors by one of England's most familiar artists. Medium octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist, "For Gill Sandilands with all good wishes from David Gentleman." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Gentleman to Miss Sandilands, offering her this book. One page on his Gloucester Crescent stationary, the letter reads in full, "22 March 1995, Dear Gill, I am really ashamed of having neglected your kind messages and invitation last year, and of being to inconsiderate.…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 147100
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First Edition of Wrinkles in Time; Lengthily Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist George Smoot
SMOOT, George and Keay Davidson.
Wrinkles in Time.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
First edition of the story of "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time" (Stephen Hawking). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs and 50 line drawings. Inscribed by Smoot on the half-title page, "For John There is something about looking at the night sky that makes a person wonder Best Wishes George Smoot." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 62011
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Hungarian Edition of Sorstalansag; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Sorstalansag [Fatelessness].
Budapest: Szepirodalmi, 1975.
Second Hungarian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 72014
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FIRST EDITION OF GRAHAM GREENE'S THE HEART OF THE MATTER
GREENE, Graham.
The Heart of the Matter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1948.
First American edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Edgard Cirlin.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 131747
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First edition of Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years; signed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane. Edited by Dale Peterson.
Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
First edition of the second volume of Goodall's personal and professional correspondence; a welcome sequel to her critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For the Rhoads Family- Together we can make a difference Jane Goodall." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martha Kennedy.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 142049
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"Yes, the pros are puzzled - except Kell Greene": First Edition of The Golf Swing of Bobby Jones: An Analysis of His Drive; from the library of Albert W. Tillinghast
GREENE, Kell [Bobby Jones].
The Golf Swing of Bobby Jones: An Analysis of His Drive.
Chicago: Dixon Press, 1931.
First edition of this photographic analysis of the golf swing of Bobby Jones. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 43 photographs of Jones' golf swing. From the library of golf architect A.W. Tillinghast with his handwritten library index card laid in. A.W. Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on more than 265 different courses and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which shows chips to the spine and front panel. A unique association.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95904
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First edition of Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund S. Phelps
PHELPS, Edmund S. In collaboration with Hiam Teck Hoon.
Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.
First edition of Phelps' important contribution to understanding the business cycle. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95092
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First edition of Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy; inscribed by Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis to American journalist William Safire
WEINER, Tim; David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis.
Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy.
New York: Random House, 1995.
First edition of this remarkable biography of the last American spy of the Cold War. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by all three authors on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to American journalist William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135981
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First Edition of Bacchylides Complete Poems; Signed by Translator Robert Fagles
FAGLES, Robert.
Bacchylides Complete Poems.
First edition of this translation of this classic text. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by translator Robert Fagles on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra. Introduction and notes by Adam M. Parry.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 136979
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Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper
RAFFALD, Elizabeth.
The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely From Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper: Consisting of Near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print.
London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1782.
Early edition of this instruction guide to housekeeping, with nearly nine hundred recipes. Octavo, bound in three quarter reverse calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Raffald, illustrated with three folding plates with setting plans for a grand table and a diagram of the newly invented fire stove, "wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal." In very good condition, some toning throughout, and contemporary manuscript notations to the front free endpaper and title page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146407