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First edition of Peter Howitt's The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays
HOWITT, Peter [John Maynard Keynes].
The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990.
First edition of Howitt's collected essays analyzing Keynesian and Walrasian economics. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John with best wishes Peter Howitt." Laid in is an additional note inscribed by the author which reads, "12/9/14 John, With best wishes and many thanks for the kind words. Peter." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110737
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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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First edition of Hugh Thomson's illustrated rendition of William Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEARE, William. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1910.
First trade edition of Hugh Thomson's elaborately illustrated rendition of Shakespeare's famed comedy. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 39 colored plates by Hugh Thomson. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135149
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"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
JAY, William.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay's classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 82412
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"They toil, argue, starve and siffer, hope and fear, love and hate": First Edition of Co-op: A Novel of Living Together
SINCLAIR, Upton .
Co-op: A Novel of Living Together.
Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, 1936.
First edition of Sinclair's Co-op. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking the front free endpaper.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146055
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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 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
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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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First edition of Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
First edition of the fifth and final volume in the author's Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Lawrence Durrell 1985." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket watercolor by David Gentleman. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115874
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First edition of Frederic Masson's Josephine Repudiee; finely bound and profusely illustrated
MASSON, Frederic.
Josephine Repudiee.
Paris: Societe d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques, 1901.
First edition of the third installment in Masson's three volume biography of Empress Josephine. Imperial octavo, bound in full polished crushed levant morocco by S. David with gilt titles to the spine, gilt central emblem to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top-edge gilt with others untrimmed, hand-colored frontispiece, likely extra-illustrated, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Bookplates, presentation inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 138462
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Actions and Reactions
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.
First British edition of Kipling’s Actions and Reactions. Octavo, original cloth with gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124551
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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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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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First Edition of What the Twilight Says; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Derek Walcott
WALCOTT, Derek.
What the Twilight Says: Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Rebecca best Derek Walcott 2004." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 130537
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"Through the naked words and mean, May ye see the truth between, As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the Earth!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co, 1896.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and vignette to the front panel. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121559
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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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First Edition of Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat! ...or The Scarlet Slippers; inscribed by him
PULLMAN, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.
London: Doubleday, 1999.
First edition of Pullman's classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Eileen - greetings! Philip Pullman." In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114586
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The Affluent Society; Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Affluent Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of the 40th anniversary of the economist's landmark work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 118388
