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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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First Edition of Beowulf; Signed by Neil Gaiman
GAIMAN, Neil and Roger Avary.
Beowulf: The Script Book.
San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2007.
First edition of this illustrated work of Beowulf. Octavo, original wrappers. illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. In fine condition. Art and cover by Gabriel Rodriguez. Colors by Jay Folos.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 116056
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"Well, I will be off to my hut; the sun is just setting and supper will be ready for me": First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Lost Heir
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
The Lost Heir.
London: James Bowden, 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated by Ernest Pater. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Uncommon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122963
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First Edition of the Next Century; Inscribed and Dated by David Halberstam in the Year of publication
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Next Century.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.
First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "For Sandy and Virginia with love David Jan 1991." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 144104
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First Edition of A Song Flung Up to Heaven; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
ANGELOU, Maya.
A Song Flung Up To Heaven.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of the final volume in Angelou's autobiography series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Ann Sherry, Joy! from Wendy and Maya Angelou." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Jacket photograph by Dwight Carter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88974
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First Edition of River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea; Inscribed by Colin Fletcher
FLETCHER, Colin.
River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of this epic adventure by Fletcher, a renowned traveler and writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 15 maps and 42 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Jimmie Stanley, Colin Fletcher 6/8/97." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100432
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First Edition of Paul Theroux's Half Moon Street; Inscribed by him to Sally Soames
THEROUX, Paul.
Half Moon Street.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally Soames with best wishes Paul Theroux." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119623
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First Edition of Jeane Kirkpatrick's The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State; Inscribed by Her to William Safire
KIRKPATRICK, Jeane J. [William Safire].
The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State and Other Surprises.
Washington, D.C: The AEI Press, 1990.
First edition of this work by Ambassador Kirkpatrick, who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire Columnist extraordinaire. With admiration and friendship. Jeane Kirkpatrick. December, 1990." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 127827
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First edition of Agatha Christies Towards Zero: A Play in Three Acts
CHRISTIE, Agatha and Gerald Verner.
Towards Zero: A Play in Three Acts.
London: Samuel French Limited, 1957.
First edition of Christie and Verner's adaptation for the stage of Christie's classic work of detective fiction. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128049
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First Literary Guild Edition of Miss Hickory; Inscribed by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin.
Miss Hickory.
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and The Viking Press, 1946.
Scarce first Junior Guild edition of this Newbery award-winning children's book. Octavo, original red cloth with black lettering to the spine and black flower decoration to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, red top stain, lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Helen Fuller, my treasured friend, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Miss H." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket and signed.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145270
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"The night surrounds me in a dark, grey fog. I feel its chill even under my futon": First Wesleyan University Press edition of Garrett Kaoru Hongo's Yellow Light; Inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dilllard
HONGO, Garrett Kaoru.
Yellow Light.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo's first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, "for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May '84." From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. Cover illustration by Wakako Yamauchi.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88098
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First Edition of Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes; Inscribed by Karl Shell
FISHER, Franklin M. and Karl Shell.
Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
First edition of the first study to discuss output and input price indexes. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Karl Shell on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 75768
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First Edition of Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was A Number Runner
MERIWETHER, Louise; Foreword by James Baldwin.
Daddy Was A Number Runner.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this modern classic “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145875
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First edition of Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding R. N. 2 September 1903.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, 1943.
First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter, written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son, John. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies, this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 122437
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THE SCHOOL BUDGET; CONTAINING A LETTER FROM RUDYARD KIPLING AND CARICATURE OF HIM
KIPLING, Rudyard and Max Beerbohm.
The Budget: A Reprint of the Issues of May 14th and May 28th, 1898, Containing Contributions.
New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123533
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First edition of building the getty; Signed by Architect Richard Meier
MEIER, Richard.
Building the Getty.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original cloth. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "with best wishes Richard Meier." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 1911
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First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's On Style and Conversation
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862.
First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145230
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First English edition of Leo Tolstoy's The Great Iniquity
TOLSTOY, Leo. Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I. F. Mayo.
A Great Iniquity.
London: The Free Age Press, n.d.
First English edition of Tolstoy's work on peasant welfare in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135472
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First Edition of Falling to Earth; Signed by Al Worden and Francis French
WORDEN, Al with Francis French.
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Books, 2011.
First edition of this unprecedented and exhilarating account of Al Worden's experience with NASA. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by the authors on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Dick Gordon. Epilogue by Tom Stafford. Jacket design by Brian Barth.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147208
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First Edition of Christmas in Plains; Signed by Jimmy Carter
CARTER, Jimmy.
Christmas In Plains.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of this Christmas story by the 39th President of the United States. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated by Amy Carter. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Fenton J Carter." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Amy Carter.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147913