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"Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before": First Edition of The City and the Pillar
VIDAL, Gore.
The City and the Pillar.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1948.
First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144891
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First Edition of Ken Fisher's The Wall Street Waltz; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Kenneth L.
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1987.
First edition of this work which provides a look at Wall Street and the stock market's history through dramatic charts and visuals. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed on by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Lee, When I told by 16 year old about your Dad and the flat tire he acknowledged that he wouldn't be able to top that. It was fun seeing you last week. Hope you like this. Ken Fisher 6/20/87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Georgene Sainati.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 57645
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"And they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh": First edition of William Bradford Huie's He Slew the Dreamer; Signed by Him
HUIE, William Bradford. [Martin Luther King.
He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, For the Truth About the Murder of Martin Luther King.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
First edition of the sensational journalist's report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William Bradford Huie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wenk/Schwartz.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 121041
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“What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?”: First Edition of Gold; Signed by Legendary Photographer Sebastiao Salgado
SALGADO, Sebastiao.
Gold.
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2019.
First edition of this powerful work by the award-winning photographer. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Sebastiao Salgado on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 148131
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"Now pay attention": First edition of Sandy Hernu's Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn; signed by both Hernu and Llewelyn
HERNU, Sandy. [Desmond Llewelyn].
Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn.
East Sussex: S. B. Publications, 1999.
Signed limited first edition of Hernu's pictorial biography of the quintessential gadget master to the world's best loved Secret Agent, James Bond. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed by Desmond Llewelyn and Sandy Hernu on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 115097
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First Edition of Rethinking International Trade; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Rethinking International Trade.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To William Paul Krugman." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 87512
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"A great shot is when you pull it off. A smart shot is when you don't have the guts to try it": First Edition of Phil Mickelson's One Magical Sunday; Signed by Him
MICKELSON, Phil.
One Magical Sunday: (But Winning Isn’t Everything).
New York: Warner Books, 2005.
First edition of this work by the great Masters champion. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Phil Mickelson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag. Written with Donald T. Phillips.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 136983
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Looking For Work; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Looking For Work.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Burrows with love Susan." 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 by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 142332
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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 158
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First Edition of Ernest Seton-Thompson's Lives of the Hunted; Inscribed by Him
SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.
Lives of the Hunted.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, with over 200 drawings. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To S.D. Green with best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson." Seton Thompson has added a drawing of a bear paw. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 79038
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First Edition of Richard Hofstadter's Classic The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
HOFSTADTER, Richard.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's pivotal volume of essays, including the title work that expresses his alarm at "the arena of uncommonly angry minds" that dominates the nation's politics, manufacturing a "vast and sinister conspiracy… as the motive force in historical events… Time is forever just running out." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 147147
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"A STATE OF JOY AND LAUGHTER": First EDITION OF JACQUELINE AND LEE BOUVIER'S ONE SPECIAL SUMMER
BOUVIER, Jacqueline and Lee [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis].
One Special Summer.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.
First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both authors. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 141411
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First Edition in English of Le Clezio's The Giants; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
The Giants.
New York: Atheneum, 1975.
First American edition of the author's sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear. Jacket design by Diane Simmard. Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 775
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First Edition of Blurred Zones; Inscribed by Architect Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Blurred Zones: Eisenman Architects 1988-1988.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
First edition. Folio, original gray cloth. Inscribed by architect Peter Eisenman. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2327
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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 The Steagle; Signed by Legendary Actor Richard Benjamin
FAUST, Irvin [Richard Benjamin].
The Steagle.
New York: Random House, 1966.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Benjamin on the title page, who starred in the 1971 film bearing the same name. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Martin Associates.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133107
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First edition of Charles Dalton's The Waterloo Roll Call; finely bound
DALTON, Charles.
The Waterloo Roll Call.
London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1890.
First edition of Dalton's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon's last. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Bookplate. Ownership name. Rare.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 137101
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Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist J.M.G. Le Clezio
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
The Interrogation.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964.
Uncorrected proof of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In good condition with spotting to the front panel and a small stain to the page edges.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 18044
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"If my bed grew wings I would fly to a thick forest where there was an old broken-down castle that no one knew about, hidden in trees": First edition of Michael Rosen's Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book; Inscribed by him
ROSEN, Michael.
Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book.
London: Walker Books, 1986.
First edition of Michael Rosen's charming book of bedtime stories, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the dedication page, "Michael Rosen was here 23 Aug 89." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 88122