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"Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family": First Edition of Roger Angell's autobiography; Signed by Him
ANGELL, Roger.
Let Me Finish.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Angell's autobiography of his early years growing up in New York. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Roger Angell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cooley Design Lab.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 7412
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote III; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario III.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1996.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19036
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First edition of Tanya Lapointe's The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049
LAPOINTE, Tanya.
The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049.
Los Angeles: Alcon Entertainment, 2017.
First edition of the the complete behind-the-scenes story of the sequel to Blade Runner, one of the most influential science-fiction movies ever made. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 140883
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First Edition of Henry Ford's Moving Forward; From the Ford Motor Company Archives
FORD, Henry.
Moving Forward.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. From the Ford Motor Company Archives with their stamp to the front free endpaper. Written with Samuel Crowther.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 141444
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"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write": First Edition of What is considered Ruth Rendell’s Greatest Works A Judgement in Stone
RENDELL, Ruth.
A Judgement in Stone.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 4619
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Jean Vergnes' first edition copy of his autobiography A Seasoned Chef; His personal copy
VERGNES, Jean.
A Seasoned Chef: Recipes and Remembrances from the Chef and Former Co-owner of New York’s Famous Le Cirque Restaurant.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc, 1987.
First edition of the autobiography of legendary chef Jean Vergnes, the author's personal copy. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. From the library of Jean Vergnes and thence by descent. Jean Vergnes was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder and original co-owner along with Sirio Maccion of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a chef at various top restaurants in Paris during World War II, with a brief stop in Bermuda before…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146515
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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall. Translated by Tim Wilkinson.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 697
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First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Hurston: Novels & Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and Selected Stories [with] Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road and Selected Articles.
New York: Library of America, 1995.
First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Edited by Cheryl A. Wall. Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142448
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First Edition of The Situation of Poetry; Inscribed by Robert Pinsky
PINSKY, Robert.
The Situation of Poetry.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to another poet "Lisa Colt with best wishes, Robert Pinsky November 1977." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 980
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Sis' Julie Jerome, Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146136
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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Tim Wilkinson. Jacket design by John Gall.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 72016
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First Edition of What is Realism?; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
What Is Realism.
Bennington, VT: Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.
First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 1366
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller: A Novel; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Storyteller: A Novel.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant novel" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Mark Sturgeon. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated by Helen Lane.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142072
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' Washington and the Hope for Peace
WELLS, H.G.
Washington and the Hope of Peace.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1922.
First edition of this collection of Wells' essays regarding the Washington Conference to organize the peace. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 109063
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"Take dead aim for the pin": First Edition of Tom Kite's A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life; Inscribed by Him
KITE, Tom.
A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.
First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harry- Best of luck with your golf Tom Kite." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bradford Foltz. Written with Mickey Herskowitz.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 129108
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity”: First Edition of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
FAULKNER, William.
Requiem for a Nun.
New York: Random House, 1951.
First trade edition of the sequel to Faulkner's early novel 'Sanctuary.' Octavo, original half cloth. First state with all issue points: first edition not stated, dark gray top stain, 'Chocktaw' rather than 'Choctaw' on page 21, dust jacket designer E. McKnight Kauffer's name misspelled as 'M. McKnight Kauffer' on the front flap of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 145439
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The Haw Lantern; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
The Haw Lantern.
New York: The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
First printing of the Noonday Press edition of the poet’s seventh collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Seamus Heaney March 1991." In very good condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146785
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant; Signed by Him
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on a Penguin Press bookplate to the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146292
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First Edition of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict; Inscribed by Roger Myerson
MYERSON, Roger B.
Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic introductory work on game theory. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Inscribed by Roger B. Myerson on the title page. In 2007, Myerson was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." In fine condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 74034
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"This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Moveable Feast.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.
First edition with "A-3.64[H]" present on copyright page. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket painting of Pont Neuf, Paris by Hildegard Rath.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 147904