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One Hundred & One Ballades; Inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh
MACKINTOSH, H.S.; Winifred Agar; Sidney Allnut; Maurice Baring; Hilaire Belloc; E.C. Bentley; Cecil Chesterton; Geoffrey Howard; Diggory King; Theodore Maynard; J.B. Morton; J.S. Phillimore; T. Michael Pope; C.K. Scott-Moncrieff; J.C. Squire; R. Weatherhead; Louis Wharton.
One Hundred & One Ballades.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1931.
First edition, second printing of this collection of narrative poetry, some of which appear for the first time here. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with engravings by John Nash. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh, "To Miss S. Fraser-Luckis from H.S. Mackintosh. September 1937." In very good condition with some toning to the spine and light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147098
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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Ludwig von Mises' Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1969.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120643
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First edition of Sharon Gosling's Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film
GOSLING, Sharon. Foreword by Patty Jenkins.
Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film.
London: Titan Books, 2017.
First edition of the complete behind-the-scenes story of Wonder Woman. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, 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 a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140108
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Rude Rhymes: Mother Goose Goes Behind the Bike Shed; Inscribed by Michael Rosen
ROSEN, Michael.
Rude Rhymes: Mother Goose Goes Behind the Bike Shed.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1989.
Early printing. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issue. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "hello Eileen Michael Rosen was here." In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 82141
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First Edition of Jonathan Schorr's Hard Lessons with Autographed Letter; FROM THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST WILLIAM SAFIRE
SCHORR, Jonathan [William Safire].
Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City Charter School.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
First edition of this journalistic analysis of charter school life from the library of American journalist William Safire. Octavo, original half cloth. Autographed letter to American journalist William Safire laid in. As thanks for his thoughtful announcement in the word column, the note reads in part, "I am touched by the effort and generosity that went into the plug you gave my book. I hope you know what an enormous difference it makes in the trajectory of the book's life. I'll not soon forget this kindness." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jonathan Schorr. Jacket…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145238
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Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
SELECTED BY COETZEE, J.M.
African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006.
Claremont, SA: Spearhead/ New Africa Books, 2006.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page, who selected these stories.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 2478
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"One of the most famous in all the small gallery of true heroes of the war": T. E. LAWRENCE'S REVOLT IN THE DESERT
LAWRENCE, T. E.
Revolt in the Desert.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.
Early American printing of Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123444
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First Edition of Henry James' View and Reviews
JAMES, Henry.
Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1908.
First edition of this series of literary essays written in James' earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 78043
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Col. I Winslow Ayer's The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War
AYER, I. Winslow.
The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War. Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot Ever Devised! Imminent Hidden Perils of the Republic. Astounding Developments Never Before Published.
Chicago: U.S. Publishing Co, n.d..
Early printing of Ayer's Civil War account. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132537
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First edition of David Rieff's Going to Miami; inscribed by him and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
RIEFF, David. [Peter Matthiessen].
Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
First edition of Rieff's classic work on the complex history of Miami, Florida. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "For Maria, with much love. David New York IX.9.87." The recipient, Maria Eckhart was the third wife of American writer Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135144
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"The minute we look, we cease being afraid": Limited First Edition of Michael Crichton's Travels; Signed by Him
CRICHTON, Michael.
Travels.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of Crichton's fourth, final, and most famous non-fiction book, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece and interior illustrations by Robert Wisneiwski specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146870
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Rare first separate edition of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1921.
First separate edition of the play that established O'Neill as a successful playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118107
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First edition of Ralph Durand's A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
DURAND, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling].
A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126349
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Under Wellington’s Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 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 Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123041
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First edition of Gelett Burgess' The Maxims of Methuselah
BURGESS, Gelett.
The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem’s Coming of Age in Regard to Women.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
First edition of the humorist's colorful take on the Battle of the Sexes. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations, decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 119078
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First edition of Brian Moore's No Other Life; inscribed by him to famed photographer Sally Soames
MOORE, Brian.
No Other Life.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
First edition of the award-winning novelist's gripping drama. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames L'Image B S Moore." 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 her…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126419
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"We had, in silence, a little luminous talk about it, in the course of which she seemed to tell me the most interesting things": First edition of Henry James' The Soft Side
JAMES, Henry.
The Soft Side.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900.
First edition of this collection of James' novellas. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 80111
