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First Edition of Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns; inscribed by Michael D. Edleson and signed by Warren Buffett
EDLESON, Michael E. [Warren E. Buffett].
Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns.
Chicago: International Publishing Corporation, 1991.
First edition of this work which evolved out of Edleson's 1988 article which first introduced his concept of value averaging to the world. Octavo, original glossy wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear John, Many Happy Returns, Michael E. Edleson." Additionally signed by Warren Buffett, "Warren E. Buffett." Like Edleson, American business magnate Warren E. Buffett developed his own innovative investment strategies based on the concept of value investing which he shared in several papers, essays and books. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by both Edleson and Buffett.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 90411
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“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog": Dwight D. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe; Inscribed by Him With Noted Provenance
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition, early printing of General Eisenhower's wartime memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations and maps, including four double-page color maps of the European theatre and battlefields. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Arthur B. Tourtellot- with sincere admiration of the skill he displayed in bringing a visual story of the European conflict to the American people with best wishes Dwight D. Eisenhower" at half-title. Recipient's bookplate facing inscription. Arthur Bernon Tourtellot produced "Crusade in Europe" as a television series at CBS, based on Eisenhower's book; Eisenhower's inscription here acknowledges Tourtellot's key role in the adaptation.…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147949
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First Edition, association copy of Murmurs of Earth; warmly Inscribed by Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan to Sagan's executive assistant Shirley Arden
SAGAN, Carl; F.D. Drake; Anne Druyan; Timothy Ferris; Jon Lomberg; Linda Salzman Sagan.
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.
New York : Random House, 1978.
First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan on the half-title page, "For Shirley, With my deep gratitude for contributions numerous, substantive, and spiritual to the success of the project and this book. With love, Carl Sagan" and "Dearest Shirley - There is no one in all the millions of miles that Voyager crosses like you - for all your kindness, your implementation, your goodness - my deep love - I'm so lucky to know you and I treasure…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 138246
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The complete works of John Galsworthy; finely bound in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
GALSWORTHY, John.
The Complete Works of John Galsworthy.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906-1932.
Uniformly bound set of the complete works of John Galsworthy. Various sizes (quarto, octavo, 12mo), 36 volumes uniformly bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling, cornerpieces, and blind-stamped basketweave pattern to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in. Comprised of first editions or first American editions unless otherwise noted: The Man of Property [1906]; Villa Rubein [1908]; The Little Man and Other Satires [1915]; A…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 143524
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Rare eighteenth century collection of the Tragedies and Comedies of the great English Playwrights including William Shakespeare and John Dryden
SHAKESPEARE, William; John Dryden; William Congreve; et al.
Tragedies and Comedies of the Great English Playwrights.
London: Various Publishers, c.1730-1760.
Finely bound sammelband collection of comedies and tragedies by early English playwrights including William Shakespeare, John Dryden, and William Congreve. Octavo, 43 volumes bound into 7 in half contemporary calf over marbled boards with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, numerous engraved frontispieces, headpieces, tailpieces and illustrations. In very good condition. A very unique collection.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 137210
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Rare First Edition of Leonard Cohen's First Book, One of 400 copies Let Us Compare Mythologies
COHEN, Leonard.
Let Us Compare Mythologies.
Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.
First edition of Cohen's first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth. With five full-page line illustrations by Freda Guttman. An excellent example of this rare first book, which reportedly, fewer than 400 copies of the first edition were printed (Nadel, 45). In near fine condition, with the rear jacket flap laid in.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 138294
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"WE’D FORGIVE MOST THINGS IF WE KNEW THE FACTS": FIRST EDITION OF THE HEART OF THE MATTER; INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM GREENE
GREENE, Graham.
The Heart of the Matter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1948.
First American edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bob Goldstein from Graham Greene Nothing under $200,000." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Edgard Cirlin. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 3736
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"I Am An American, Chicago Born – Chicago, That Somber City – And Go At Things As I Have Taught Myself, Free-Style, And Will Make The Record In My Own Way": First Edition of The Adventures of Augie March; Inscribed and dated by Saul Bellow in 1954
BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Raymita Chaffee with best wishes Saul Bellow Breadloaf VT, 1954." The recipient was a student of Bellow’s at Breadloaf. Fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket, Jacket design by Robert Hallock. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Contemporary inscriptions in this title are uncommon.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 4244
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First Edition of the Work "L’Unite D’Habitation de Marseille" Which Inspired Brutalist Architecture; Inscribed and Dated by Le Corbusier in the Year of Publication
LE CORBUSIER [CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET],.
L’Unite D’Habitation de Marseille.
Souillac: Le Point, 1950.
First edition of this work by the famed architect. Small quarto, original wrappers with the dust jacket. Inscribed by Le Corbusier and dated in December 1950. In very good condition with some light rubbing. The subject of this book by Le Corbusier is among his most well-known works, L’Unite D’Habitation de Marseille, which inspired the Brutalist architectural style and philosophy. An important work of twentieth century architecture, rare signed and inscribed by Le Corbusier.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 3784
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"ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND INNOVATIVE LITERARY STYLISTS OF THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS": FIRST EDITION OF KNUT HAMSUN'S VAGABONDS; INSCIRBED BY HIM
HAMSUN, Knut.
Vagabonds.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1931.
First English edition of the first novel in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s “August” trilogy—Hamsun’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Mr. B. A. Abel with thanks! Knut Hamsun Norholm 15 Mars. 1931." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Scarce and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 131407
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it": First Editions of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War; Bound in Full Morocco by the Harcourt Bindery
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell & Co, 1948-54.
First editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt, signature to the front panel of each volume, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 137185
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF NABOKOV'S TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.
First edition of Nabokov's masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green wrappers. In very good condition with light rubbing, some toning to the extremities. Ownership names and newspaper clipping tipped in.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 107536
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Rare original printing of The Gazette of the United States, issued on July 29, 1789
Gazette of the United States. No. XXXI. Wednesday, July 29, 1789.
New York: John Fenno, July 29, 1789.
Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States, issued during the presidency of George Washington on July 29, 1789. Folio, one page, folded, this issue includes a the following articles, many continued from previous issues: Sketch of the Political State of America, Original Specimens of Eloquence, Foreign and Domestic Miscellaneous Articles, and Sketches of Proceedings of Congress approved by G. Washington, President of the United States. In near fine condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 116728
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"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos" True First Edition of Solaris; Signed by Stanislaw Lem
LEM, Stanislaw.
Solaris.
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961.
True first edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Stanislaw Lem on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example, uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 143784
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"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish": First Edition of Gary Becker’s Classic Work Human Capital
BECKER, Gary S.
Human Capital.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1964.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 84768
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“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry": First Edition in English of Thomas Mann's Death In Venice; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
MANN, Thomas.
Death in Venice and Other Stories.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
First edition in English preceding the British edition by three years of Mann's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the crown of the spine. First editions are rare, especially in the original dust jacket.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 68098
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities": Finely bound set of Voltaire's Complete Works in 97 volumes
VOLTAIRE (AROUET, Francois-Marie).
Oeuvres Completes De Voltaire avec des Remarques et des Notes Historiques, Scientifiques, et Literaires Par Mm. Auguis, Clogenson, Daunou, Etc. [The Works of Voltaire].
Paris: Deslangle Frères, 1828-34.
Finely bound set of the complete works of Voltaire with historic, scientific and literary notes. Octavo, 97 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, frontispieces with tissues guards and half titles as issued. In very good condition. A complete set, covering the broad scope of the versatile and prolific writer.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 96178
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself; Inscribed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the men who clerked for her
KAMMEN, Michael [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Early printing of this analysis of the United States' relationship with its constitution. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece of 'Washington Giving the Laws to America' by J. P. Elven, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "March, 1987, To Judge Ginsburg, From the "boys in the back room" - Jay, Mark, & David." The inscription appears to have been written by men who clerked for Justice Ginsburg during the 1986-1987 term, when she was a Federal Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147157
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"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose": First Edition of The Sociological Imagination; Signed by C. Wright Mills
MILLS, C. Wright.
The Sociological Imagination.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
First edition of one the the most influential sociological works of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by C. Wright Mills on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 4096
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"The first full-sized marble statue in New England": Fine terracotta pedestrian statue of George Washington, after Sir Francis Chantrey's Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826
CHANTREY, Sir Francis. [George Washington].
Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826. [Sir Francis Chantrey George Washington Terracotta Pedestrian Statue].
c. 1850.
Fine terracotta statue of President George Washington, after Sir Francis Chantrey's Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826. Terracotta. In 1818, the Washington Monument Association commissioned Francis Chantrey to sculpt a pedestrian statue of George Washington in white marble. Unveiled in Doric Hall of the Massachusetts State House in November 1827, it was the first sculpture to be placed in the then new State House and the first full-sized marble statue in New England. In fine condition. The statue measures 14.75 inches in height.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 123164
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First Edition of Derek Parfit's On What Matters; Signed by Him
PARFIT, Derek.
On What Matters.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Derek Parfit on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 138917
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"Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality": Signed Limited Edition of Watership Down In Full Morocco; Signed by Richard Adams and with an original watercolor by John Lawrence
ADAMS, Richard.
Watership Down.
London: Paradine, 1976.
Signed limited edition, one of only 250 numbered examples and with an original watercolor, this copy being number presentation copy from the author. Octavo, bound in full morocco bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel with gilt stamping of two rabbits, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by Richard Adams and with an original watercolor from the illustrator, John Lawrence and signed by him. In fine condition with the original slipcase. Rare.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147959
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RARE 1885 PROPERTY DEED SIGNED BY FAMED ABOLITIONIST FREDERICK DOUGLASS AS RECORDER OF DEEDS FOR WASHINGTON, D.C.
DOUGLASS, Frederick.
Frederick Douglass Signed Property Deed.
Washington, D.C: March 23, 1885.
Rare real estate document signed by famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass as Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C. One page, partially printed, the property deed agreement is signed by Douglass, “Fredk. Douglass” as Recorder of Deeds, certifying a deed transferring a plot of land in Washington, DC, from Joseph C.G. Kennedy to Thomas D. Bond. Following the Civil War, Douglass received numerous political appointments from Republican presidents including positions as United States Marshal of Washington, D.C. (1877-81), and later ambassador to the Republic of Haiti (1889-91). He was nominated Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C. by President James Garfield and confirmed by the Senate on May 7,…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 141500
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Il Flobert; Signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari
FERRARI, Enzo.
Il Flobert: Enzo Ferrari.
Modena: Arbe, 1976.
Rare limited first edition, one of 1000 copies given to family and friends of Ferrari, full of his history and Enzo's personal dedications to people who played a special or important role in his life. Signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari on the half-title page, "Ferrari 78 28/9." In near fine condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 144088