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First Edition, First Printing of Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Giant Horse of Oz
THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly; Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum.
The Giant Horse of Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1928.
First edition, first printing of Thompson's eighth fantastical continuation of Frank Baum's Oz stories. Octavo, original red cloth with color pictorial paper onlay, illustrations by John R. Neill. In good condition. Slight rubbing to the extremities. Watercolor to the illustration on the front pastedown by a previous owner. Ownership signature in black crayon to the ownership page. First issue with the perfect, undamaged 'r' on page 116 and all color plates present and accounted for.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145082
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“THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SAGA OF HOW AMERICA BECAME INVOLVED IN VIETNAM”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Best and the Brightest.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005.
Signed limited edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Signed David Halberstam. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144148
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First Edition of Rocking the Boat; Inscribed by Gore Vidal To His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Rocking the Boat.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, "Valerie -- with semi-fraternal best wishes & God-paternal blessings for Christmas '62. Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, laminated by Vidal. An exceptional association.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126579
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First edition of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis; From the library of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
WIT, Joel S.; Daniel B. Poneman; Robert L. Gallucci [Madeleine K. Albright].
Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
First edition of this account where three former U. S. officials trace the efforts that led to the dismantling of North Korea's plutonium production program. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright." 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 1998 NATO summit, Albright…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147577
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“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people": Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1930.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition. Quarto, original cloth, slipcase, illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138086
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First Edition of The French Lieutenant's Woman; Signed by John Fowles
FOWLES, John.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Early printing of Fowles' classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144337
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker; inscribed by her to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of Cheever's frank and moving autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "New York City January 1999 For Erica and Ken What can I say? No words could begin to express mt gratitude, my fond memories, my affection and my love for you both S C." 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142607
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First Edition of Appeasing the Ayatollahs and Suppressing Democracy; Inscribed by Dr. Raymond Tanter to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
[ALBRIGHT, Madeleine] [Raymond Tanter].
Appeasing the Ayatollahs and Suppressing Democracy: U. S. Policy and the Iranian Opposition.
Washington, D.C: Iran Policy Committee, 2006.
First edition of this critical analysis of Iranian diplomacy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with full color photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by President of the Iran Policy Committee, Dr. Raymond Tanter on the title page, "25 Jun 07 The Honorable Madeleine Albright: Thanks for your contribution to our national security and to our Georgetown University: Raymond Tanter President and Visiting Professor." 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147352
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"Perhaps no other Englishman has quite the same power": First edition, first issue of Rudyard Kipling's The Art of Fiction
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Fiction.
London: J. A. Allen & Co, 1926.
First separate edition, first issue of this report issued on the occasion of Kipling's acceptance of the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120430
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First edition of A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932; Signed by John Richardson
RICHARDSON, John; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully [Pablo Picasso].
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
First edition of the third volume in Richardson's four-volume biography of the famous artist. Small quarto, original black boards, frontispiece portrait of Picasso in Saint-Raphael 1919, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and a several color images of Picasso's paintings. Boldly signed by John Richardson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Valentine Hugo.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 145267
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance": John F. Kennedy's First Edition Copy of The Strategy of Peace
KENNEDY, John F.
The Strategy of Peace.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144218
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"Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman": Raymond Briggs' Fee Fi Fo Fum; Signed and dated by him
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Fee Fi Fo Fum.
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1971.
Early printing of Briggs' collection of nursery rhymes. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Raymond Briggs 1981 April 21." In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 117431
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First Edition of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Signed by Andre Dubus III
DUBUS III, Andre.
The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed twice by Dubus with the words added "Stay true and be you." Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual fading to the orange spine panel. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 451
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First American Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
First American edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 4159
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First Edition of Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Gathering Blue.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition of this work by the Newbury Award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathy Black.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 139213
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First Edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Existentialism.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947.
First edition of the philosopher's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. An exceptional example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144092
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First Edition of Burton Richter's Beyond Smoke and Mirrors; Inscribed by Him
RICHTER, Burton.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
First edition of this insightful overview of climate change science by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Burton Richter. Octavo, original glossy boards. Inscribed by Burton Richter on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition, without the dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 34014
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First edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Le Mur
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Le Mur. [The Wall].
Paris: Gallimard, 1939.
Limited edition of Sartre's 1939 short story collection, containing one of his greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall. Octavo, original boards. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 910. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137275
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First edition of Umberto Eco's Baudolino; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Kenneth David Burrows
ECO, Umberto [Erica Jong].
Baudolino.
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2002.
First American edition of the author's international bestseller. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Erica & Ken with all my friendship Umberto." 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 written in…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 142833
