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Signed by Tasha Tudor
TUDOR, Tasha.
Pumpkin Moonshine.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First printing of this edition of the author's first book and the first title in her "Calico" series. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Tasha Tudor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 1149
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated by Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 199244
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First Edition of The Great Society: Lessons for the Future; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
GINZBERG, Eli and Robert M. Solow.
The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 43098
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"The search of your life is the search for your life": First Edition of Erwin McManus' Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit; Inscribed by Him
MCMANUS, Erwin Raphael.
Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit.
Nashville : Nelson Books, 2008.
Early printing of this early work by McManus. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dan- Live your story Leave a mark! Erwin McManus." In very good condition with some highlighting. Cover design by Joby Harris.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 136213
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Signed Limited First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December
BELLOW, Saul.
The Dean’s December.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the original acetate.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 120568
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Signed Limited Edition of James Michener's Miracle in Seville
MICHENER, James A.
Miracle in Seville.
New York: Random House, 1995.
Signed limited edition by James Michener. Octavo, original cloth. Number 391 of 500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase, still in the original shrinkwrap.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 107453
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First Edition of the Playwright's Pulitzer-Prize winning work Three Tall Women; Signed by Edward Albee
ALBEE, Edward.
Three Tall Women.
New York: Dutton Book, 1995.
First edition of Albee's Three Tall Women, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, his third. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Edward Albee on the title page. With a program from the 1995 Celebrity Lecture Series at Michigan State University featuring Albee as a speaker laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Steve Ash.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 5722
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First Edition of Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism; Inscribed by Paul Johnson
JOHNSON, Paul.
Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
First edition of this innovative study which reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Marilyn With best wishes Paul." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hart McLeod.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 141813
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First edition of The Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's verse. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 126444
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"BUT THOUGHT'S THE SLAVE OF LIFE, AND LIFE TIME'S FOOL; AND TIME, THAT TAKES SURVEY OF ALL THE WORLD, MUST HAVE A STOP": FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S TIME MUST HAVE A STOP
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Time Must Have A Stop.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1945.
First British edition of Huxley’s complex and powerful novel. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 138775
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First Edition of Roy DeCarava's Photography
DECARAVA, Roy.
Roy DeCarava: Photographs.
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1981.
First edition of this piece of human artistry. Square quarto, original full linen, illustrated with 82 laser-scanner reproductions of DeCarava's exceptional work. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Sherry Turner DeCarava.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146963
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First Edition of James Webb's I Heard My Country Calling; Inscribed by Him
WEBB, James .
I Heard My Country Calling.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
First edition of the moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Lee with best wishes JWebb." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Laid is the original signing brochure for the reading.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 141516
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN'S THE AMERICANS: THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE; LENGTHILY INSCRIBED BY HIM
BOORSTIN, David.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
New York: Random House, 1973.
Later printing of the final volume in Boorstin's The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Lydia A. Bogdoyan with admiration and warm regards from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 23, 1976." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 96031
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Deception; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
Deception.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
First edition of this "extraordinary, elegant novel" (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144392
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First Edition of Elizabeth B. Custer's Boots and Saddles
CUSTER, Elizabeth B.
Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
First edition of Elizabeth Custer's memoir. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial brown cloth decorated and stamped in black and gilt with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt embellishments of a rising sun and bugle to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, outline map of portions of Montana and Dakota. In near fine condition. A bright example.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145222
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Rare first edition of For Britain's Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families; with contributions by Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells
KIPLING, Rudyard; Sir Walter Besant; Max Pemberton; Morley Roberts; H.G. Wells; Percy White; et al.
For Britain’s Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families.
London: Methuen & Co, 1900.
First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 122456
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First edition of Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul; signed by him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul.
New York: Grove Press Inc., 1978.
First edition of this collection of two dark comedies. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the playwright on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 129083
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“A WOMAN IS LIKE A TEABAG - ONLY IN HOT WATER DO YOU REALIZE HOW STRONG SHE IS”: First Edition of My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan; Inscribed by Her
REAGAN, Nancy.
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First edition of Nancy Reagan's memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Laid in is a note from her office thanking the recipient for the letter. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written in collaboration with William Novak.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 64571
