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First Edition of Samuel Shem's The Spirit of the Place; Signed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
The Spirit of the Place.
Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.
First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Samuel Shem on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Marc Chagall.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142499
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First edition of Alfred L. Castleman's The Army of the Potomac
CASTLEMAN, Alfred L.
The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B. McClellan, to the Close of the Campaign in Virginia, About the First Day of January, 1863.
Milwaukee: Published by Strickland & Co., 1863.
First edition of the Civil War memoir of Alfred L. Castleman, Surgeon of the Fifth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132705
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First edition of A. Scott Berg's Kate Remembered; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
BERG, A. Scott.
Kate Remembered.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's biography of Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Tom and Bill - the best reason I have to return to Chicago - with new and old affection, respectively Scott. July 2003 Chicago." The recipient, Bill 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…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133040
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Rare first edition of The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers
The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers.
Charlottesville, Virgina: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1976.
First edition of the proceedings of a Seminar on the Trust Investment Process sponsored with contributions by Canadian members of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88091
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Limited First Edition of Charles Muscatine's The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer
MUSCATINE, Charles; [Geoffrey Chaucer].
The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer: An Account of the Publication of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963.
Limited first edition of this history of Chaucer's works with examples of his poetry and illustrations from his publications. Folio, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and knight design to the front panel, frontispiece of a page from the Ellesmere manuscript showing the squire, illustrated with facsimile woodcuts, engraved headpieces and initials, pictorial title pages, and an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's 'Works' tipped in to page 24. One of only four hundred and fifty examples. In fine condition, ownership tag tipped in to the front pastedown.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146547
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"TIME TO GET UP, FUNGUS MY DREARY, IT'S NEARLY DARK": First Edition of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book
BRIGGS, Raymond. Paper Engineer Ron Van Der Meer.
Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book.
London: Hamish Hamilton Children's Books, 1982.
First pop-up, or 'plop-up', edition of Briggs' well-known work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated with pop-ups engineered by Ron Van Der Meer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a pop-up opening door on the verso of the front panel in the year of publication, "For Eileen Ireland With Best Wishes from Raymond Briggs 29 September 1982." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112501
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Signed by Kai Bird
BIRD, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Later printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Kai Bird. In near fine condition. Cover design by Stephanie Kloss.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147490
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First Edition of Howard Norman's Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian People
NORMAN, Howard.
Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
First edition of this spellbinding collection of tales of the far North. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Angela Skouras.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 135334
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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 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 Russell's Corpulency and the Cure
RUSSELL, F. Cecil.
Corpulency and the Cure.
London: Woburn House, 1885.
First edition of this early work on obesity. Octavo, original gray flexible cloth, engraved frontispiece and one other engraved illustration of a laboratory. This work includes chapters covering the reasons of biliousness, obesity, constitutional predisposition, the dangers of excess fat, the author's miraculous remedy for excessive weight and testimonials. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110867
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First Edition of Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110499
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First edition, review copy of Margaret Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer
GODDEN, Margaret Rumer.
The Greengage Summer.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958.
First edition, advance review copy of Margaret Rumer Godden's story of a young English woman's coming of age during a summer holiday in France. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher's advance review copy slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110805
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First edition of Burr and Hinton's The Life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan
BURR, Frank A. and Richard J. Hinton.
The Life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Its Romance and Reality: How a Humble Lad Reached the Head of an Army.
Providence, R.I: J. A. & R. A. Reid, Publishers, 1888.
First edition of Burr and Hinton's work on famed Union army general Philip Sheridan. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132349
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First Edition of J.R. Hicks' Essays in World Economics; in the scarce original dust jacket
HICKS, J.R. [John].
Essays in World Economics.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132906
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First Edition of Ceremony And Other Poems; Inscribed by Richard Wilbur and also laid in a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur.
WILBUR, Richard.
Ceremony And Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jane and motherhood Aff'y inscribed Dick Wilbur Cambridge May 51." Also laid in is a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146260
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Inscribed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ray Grinold from Danel J. Boorstin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100661
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First Edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Amorous Fiammetta
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Amorous Fiammetta.
London: The Mandrake Press, 1929.
First edition of the first psychological novel in Western literature, reprinted from the original English edition translated by Bartholomew Young in 1587. Quarto, full green vellum with gilt titles to the spine, central design of three women stamped in gilt to the front panel, yapp edges, all edges gilt, illustrated with enchanting full-page color plates by M. Leone. One of only five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 84. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146439
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Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; elaborately bound in full polished calf
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
London: John Murray, 1858.
Finely bound example of this collection of the remarks and insights of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Small octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece portrait of Coleridge. In very good condition. A very nice binding.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 139225
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First edition of Ezra B. Chase's Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen or The "Founders of the Republic" on Slavery
CHASE, Ezra B.
Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen; or, The “Founders of the Republic” on Slavery.
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860.
First edition of this work on the opinions of early American statesmen on "the question of slavery." Octavo, recased in the original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece of George Washington. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142644