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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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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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First Edition of Jack Vance's The Dragon Masters; Inscribed by Him
VANCE, Jack.
The Dragon Masters.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1965.
First British and first hardcover edition of the author's work which won the 1963 Hugo Award for best novella. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Jack Vance on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine jacket with light rubbing to the crown of the spine.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 1163
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First Edition of Philip Stern's The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
STERN, Philip M.
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this early biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Arnoldo Luigi With abundant fondness from one who treasures their friendship Phil S. November, 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 143503
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A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush; Signed by Eric Newby
NEWBY, Eric.
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.
London: Picador, 1997.
First Picador edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jane Poulton. Foreword by Evelyn Waugh.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 130563
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First edition of James K. Hosmer's The Color-Guard
HOSMER, James K.
The Color-Guard: Being A Corporal’s Notes of Military Service in the Nineteenth Army Corps.
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864.
First edition of James Kendall Hosmer's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 132043
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"Less is a Bore""; Letter signed by Famed architect Robert Venturi with a drawing
VENTURI, Robert.
Robert Venturi Signed Sketch.
Philadelphia: The MIT Press, 2014.
Autograph signed letter by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi on his letterhead. The note reads, "Dear John Thanks for asking Bob 8-12-14 wishing you well (who has added a large drawing of Venturi's Mother's House)." In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140002
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First Edition of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys; Signed by Actor Richard Benjamin
SIMON, Neil.
The Sunshine Boys.
New York: Random House, 1973.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by actor Richard Benjamin on the title page. Benjamin starred in the 1975 film directed by Herbert Ross and produced by Ray Stark, with George Burns as Lewis, Walter Matthau as Clark, and Richard Benjamin as Ben. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas. Jacket photograph by Martha Swope.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 141462
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First Edition of Ethan Allen: We Make the American Home, Volume 7; Inscribed by Farooq Kathwari to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
KATHWARI, Farooq [Madeleine Albright].
Ethan Allen: We Make the American Home.
2021.
First edition of this style book of American design visionaries. Royal octavo, original wrappers, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, "June 2021 Dear Madeleine, With my best wishes, Farooq." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147610
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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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Special Edition of Charles A. Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953].
Special slipcase edition of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original gold half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, blue top stain, pictorial slipcase. Fine in a near fine slipcase.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147646
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"I like you and I know why... I like you because you and are good person to like": Sandol Stoddard Warburg's I Like You
WARBURG, Sandol Stoddard. Illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast.
I Like You.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition of Warburg's children's classic. 16mo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 124540
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Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Peter Diamond
DIAMOND, Peter and James A. Mirrlees.
The American Economic Review.
American Economic Review, 1971.
Octavo, original wrappers. Contains the well-known paper by Nobel Prize-winning economists, Peter Diamond and James Mirrlees, Optimal Taxation and Public Production II. Boldly signed by Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5732
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Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67; from the collection of American journalist William Safire
HARTE, Bret and Mark Twain. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67.
San Francisco: John Howell, 1927.
Second edition of the compiled uncollected materials of Twain and Harte from The Californian. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise gilt bands, pictorial endpapers, gilt topstain, frontispiece of page one of the first number of The Californian, illustrated. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. 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…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 127607