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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization; Signed by Peter Senge
SENGE, Peter M.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Early printing of Senge's bestselling classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Senge on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 58934
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First edition of The Constant Gardener; signed by John le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
The Constant Gardener.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
First edition of the author's classic spy thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Christine Rodin. Author photograph by Simone Casetta.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146443
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"he alone saved our civilisation": First edition of The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History; signed by Boris Johnson
JOHNSON, Boris.
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.
First edition of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's work on the the life and character of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Boris Johnson on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 132034
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Limited Librarie Dardel Edition of Lucien Tendret's La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin
TENDRET, Lucien.
La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin.
Chambery: Librairie Dardel, 1934.
Limited Librarie Dardel edition of Tendret's best-known work, published posthumously by his direct descendants as a strict reproduction of the original 1892 printing. Octavo, original wrappers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tendret in 1885. One of 1750 numbered copies, this is number 1390. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 110841
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First Edition of Milton Babbitt's Words About Music; Inscribed by Him
BABBITT, Milton; Edited by Stephen Dembski & Joseph N. Straus.
Words About Music.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the Babbitt, "For _____ ______, With warmest greetings, from Milton Babbitt P.S. how ty Rot-partitione!" Edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus. A very nice inscription.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 1279
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First Edition of I am Charlotte Simmons; Inscribed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
I Am Charlotte Simmons.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.
First edition of this "hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel" (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To the Michaels Charlotte Simmons c'est Moi! Tom Wolfe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 143989
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First Edition of Patrick White's Masterpiece Voss
WHITE, Patrick.
Voss.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fifth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by famed Australian artist Sydney Nolan.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 131223
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“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame": William Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust; In a Stunning Fine Dust Jacket
FAULKNER, William.
Intruder In The Dust.
New York: Random House, 1948.
First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 118002
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First Edition of Codex; Signed by Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.
First edition of this work by Eisenman. Oblong quarto, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In fine condition. Inscribed and dated by Peter Eisenman on the title page.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 38753
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First Edition of North of South: An African Journey; Signed Twice by Shiva Naipaul
NAIPAUL, Shiva.
North of South: An African Journey.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 915
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First Edition of Phishing For Phools; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Shiller
AKERLOF, George A. and Robert J. Shiller.
Phishing For Phools.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
First edition of "this tour de force" (Alan Blinder). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert J. Shiller on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Edward Koren. Jacket illustration by Jason Alejandro.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 70027
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First Edition of And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation; Inscribed by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
KAMARA-UMUNNA, Agnes Fallah; Emily Holland [Madeleine K. Albright].
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation.
New York: Hyperion, 2011.
First edition of this memoir about the devastation of the Liberia civil war and its rise out of the ashes. Octavo, original publisher's boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To former secretary of state Madeleine Albright Best Regards Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna... 03/02/2016." 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…
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 147576
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First edition of George A. Henty's A Jacobite Exile
HENTY, George A. [G.A.].
A Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XIL of Sweden.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1894.
First edition of Henty’s classic historical tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by Paul Hardy and a map of Central Europe. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 122080
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"Every ball game is an opening night, and with every winner there is a loser": First edition of Laraine Day's Day with the Giants; signed by her and illustrator Leo Durocher
DAY, Laraine [Leo Durocher].
Day with the Giants.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.
First edition of Day's account of her experiences as "The First Lady of Baseball". Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Leo Hershfield. Signed by Lairaine Day and Leo Durocher on the third free endpaper. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Jacket photograph by Editta Sherman.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 123480
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Original Playbill from the May 1991 performance of The Caretaker; Signed by Harold Pinter, Colin Firth, and Donald Pleasence
PINTER, Harold.
Original The Caretaker Playbill.
London: Proscenium Publications, 1991.
Original Playbill from the May 1991 performance of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker performed at the Alhambra Theatre. Small octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Rehearsal photographs by Ivan Kynci. Signed by Harold Pinter, Colin Firth, and Donald Pleasence. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 88116
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First Edition of Aghion and Howitt's The Economics of Growth; Inscribed by Both Economists
AGHION, Philippe and Peter Howitt.
The Economics of Growth.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009.
First edition of this comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms. Quarto, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "John, with best wishes Peter Howitt" and "Wishing you lots of success!! Philippe Aghion." Written in collaboration with Leonardo Bursztyn. Cover art by Sara Chaillet. In fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 41854
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“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds": First Edition of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition of this landmark biography of John D. Rockefeller. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146458
