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First Edition of Moshe Safdie's The city after the automobile: An architect's vision; Inscribed by Him
SAFDIE, Moshe with Wendy Kohn.
The City After the Automobile: An Architect’s Vision.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Moshe Safdie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Douglas.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 68024
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"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet": First Edition of Keith Richards' Life
RICHARDS, Keith.
Life: Keith Richards.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
First edition of Richards' autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacket photograph by David LaChapelle. Rear jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145154
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In the Wake of the Crisis; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
STIGLITZ, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence.
In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 10900
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"Wine, women and dice kept him ever hungry, ill, and poor": Finely bound example of Richard Head's The English Rogue
HEAD, Richard and Francis Kirkman.
The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant: Being a Complete History of the Most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1928.
Finely bound example of Head's famous satirical autobiography. Quarto, bound in full tree calf with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with plates after the originals. In very good condition. Stamp to the half-title page.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 109026
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1926.
First Tauchnitz edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126441
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First edition of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein's Allegro
RODGERS, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Allegro: A Musical Play.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition of the book companion to Rodgers and Hammerstein's third collaboration for the stage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Portrait of Hammerstein by Lupas.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137245
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves": First Edition of Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147113
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn
BAKER, Dorothy.
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 127005
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First edition of Okja: The Art and Making of the Film
WARD, Simon.
Okja: The Art and Making of the Film.
London: Titan Books, 2017.
First edition of the in-depth companion volume to 2017 science-fantasy action-adventure film. Quarto, original pictorial boards, 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 Access…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 142880
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Rare First American edition of henry james' theatricals: two comedies
JAMES, Henry.
Theatricals: Two Comedies.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1894.
First American edition of Henry James' book of two plays which were never produced. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 81261
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First edition of John Codman Ropes' The Story of the Civil War
ROPES, John Codman.
The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes' account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133077
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Frist Edition of Orville Victor's Incidents and Anecdotes of the War
VICTOR, Orville J.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: Together with Life Sketches of Eminent Leaders, and Narratives of the Most Memorable Battles for the Union.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, 1862.
First edition of Victor's anecdotal history of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133076
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First edition of A Flyer's Dad's Assembly Call: A Play
A FLYER'S DAD,.
Assembly Call: A Play.
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, Inc., 1943.
First edition of this classic WWII-era play. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Cover design by Pennington. Ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133436
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Original Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game
[LUCAS, George].
Monopoly: Star Wars Limited Collector’s Edition: Twenty Years 1977-1997.
Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Hasbro, Inc./Lucasfilm Ltd., 1996.
Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game. In the original shrink wrap and with a £69.99 price tag from Forbidden Planet London. In near fine condition. Accompanied by a first edition Star Wars Episode I Play-a-Sound book [Lansing, Margaret. Illustrated by DiCicco Digital Arts. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 1999]. In fine condition and in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145241
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Finely bound example of Berchoux's classic poem La Gastronomie ou L'Homme Des Champs A Table
BERCHOUX, J.
La Gastronomie ou L’Homme Des Champs A Table. Poeme Didactique En IV Chants.
Paris: Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1805.
Finely bound example of Berchoux's epic gastronomical poem. 12mo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece and other engravings throughout. In near fine condition. Tasteful bookplate to the front free endpaper. A charming example.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96179
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First Edition of John McPhee's The Deltoid Seed; Inscribed by Him
MCPHEE, John.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For Mike Hutcheson many thanks and all the best John McPhee Bradford 1/23/89." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2544
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Signed Limited First Edition of John O'Hara's Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian's Story
O'HARA, John .
Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.
New York : Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra, number 166 of 200 examples. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in the original acetate dust jacket in the fine publisher's cardboard slipcase.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 120671
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"Soul, be my song; return arrayed in white; lead home the loves that I have wronged and slain": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's The Heart's Journey
SASSOON, Siegfried.
The Heart’s Journey.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1927.
First edition of Sassoon's classic poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126713
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"She was so deeply impressed by his grandeur that she thought it impossible to do him honor enough": Henry James' The Last of the Valerii; one of one hundred numbered copies
JAMES, Henry.
The Last of the Valerii.
London: Boydell Press, 1974.
Limited Artists' Book edition of Henry James' The Last of the Valerii. Number 46 of one hundred numbered copies printed on Wookey Hole handmade paper by John Baskett in 16 point Blado italic font, the same font used in the original publication in The Atlantic Monthly for January 1874. Frontispiece by Julia Trevelyan Oman. Octavo, gilt title and tooling spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 81263
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"Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove": Uncorrected Advance Galley Printing of Various Positions; Signed by Ira B. Nadel
NADEL, Ira B. [Leonard Cohen].
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first authorized biography of author, poet, and singer song-writer Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147094