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"They know the merriest tunes and dance the jolliest dances. They like witty stories and they love love": First edition of Tales Told From Holland
BEAUPRE MILLER, Olive. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Tales Told in Holland.
Chicago and Toronto: The Book House for Children, 1929.
First edition of Maud and Miska Petersham's charmingly illustrated compilation of Dutch children's tales. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135419
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First Edition of When Boyhood Dreams Come True; Inscribed by James T. Farrell
FARRELL, James T.
When Boyhood Dreams Come True.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946.
First edition of this work by the author of Studs Lonigan. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For JW Miller With best wishes James A. Farrell." Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114731
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"There was a blizzard early in November and, while the snow still lay unthawed in the gutters and gardens, another fiercer and colder." First edition of John Christopher's The World in Winter
CHRISTOPHER, John.
The World in Winter.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author's post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96196
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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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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Without Benefit of Clergy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121504
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"Hello Dolly, This is miss Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong": Rare 1964 issue of Life Magazine; inscribed by musical actress Carol Channing
[CHANNING, Carol].
Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.
New York: Life Magazine, 1964.
April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, "To Anne with XXs, Carol Channing." In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124701
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First edition of The Rainbow Comes and Goes; signed by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
COOPER, Anderson and Gloria Vanderbilt.
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss.
New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
First edition of this revealing and moving memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the authors on the limitation page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Bilardello.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135099
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First edition of J. M. Reid's The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938
REID, J. M.
The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1938.
First edition of Reid's authoritative history of the Clydesdale Bank. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, engraved frontispiece portrait of James Lumsden, the first chairman of the bank. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. With the Clydesdale Bank's complimentary slip laid in.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124093
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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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 Edition of The Messiah of Stockholm; Signed by Cynthia Ozick
OZICK, Cynthia.
The Messiah of Stockholm.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of this "truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer" (The New York Review of Books). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cynthia Ozick on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Rafal Olbinski. Jacket calligraphy by Gun Larson.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145996
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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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"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing": First Edition of Simon Wiesenthal's Murderers Among Us
WIESENTHAL, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg.
Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.
First edition of Simon Wiesenthal's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Joseph Wechsberg. Jacket design by Leonard Leoni. Jacket photo by Lester Krauss.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147288
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First edition of The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club; with contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Corelli and many others
KIPLING, Rudyard; Marie Corelli; Arthur Conan Doyle; George Meredith. Edited by Major H. Trippel.
The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club.
London: Published By The Daily Mail For The Union Jack Club, [1907].
First edition of The Flag: The Book of the Union Jack Club with contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Corelli and many others. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121408
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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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"OF ALL THE SIGHTS I LOVE IN THIS WORLD — AND THERE ARE PLENTY — VERY NEAR THE TOP OF THE LIST IS THIS ONE: DOGS WITHOUT LEASHES”: First Edition of Dog Songs
OLIVER, Mary.
Dog Songs: Poems.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2013.
First edition of this collection of poems by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar. Jacket illustration by John Burgoyne.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 144885
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First Edition of Oliphant Smeaton's Edinburgh and its Story
SMEATON, Oliphant. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington.
Edinburgh and its Story.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1904.
First edition of Smeaton's history of Edinburgh. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt with others uncut, marbled endpapers, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, copiously illustrated with colored tissue-guarded engravings. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96044
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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
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First Edition of John Gardner's For Special Services
GARDNER, John.
For Special Services.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Bill Botten.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 28021
