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First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love; In the Exceedingly Rare Dust Jacket
LAWRENCE, D.H.
Women in Love.
New York: Thomas Selzer, 1922.
First American trade edition of the author's classic work which many consider his masterpiece, in the exceedingly rare dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 139105
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Rare First Edition in English of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
HUGO, Victor.
Les Miserables.
New York : Carleton, Publisher, 1862.
First American edition and first edition in English of Victor Hugo's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, five volumes complete in one volume. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour. In near condition, previous owners names. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 140083
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": Rare First Edition of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed Twice by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
London: Faber & Faber, 1967.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed twice by Tom Stoppard, once on the title page and again on a bookplate with the Union Jack flag to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 141432
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Rare Signed Limited Naval Aviation in Space Print; Signed by Nine Astronauts including Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard
ARMSTRONG, Neil; John Glenn; Wally Schirra; Alan Shepard; Gene Cernan; Jim Lovell; Rick Hauck; Pete Conrad; Jack Lousma.
Naval Aviation in Space Signed Print.
Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, 1989.
Signed limited Naval Aviation in Space print, one of 1000 copies signed by Neil Armstrong and eight other astronauts representing all of NASA’s space programs, including: Alan Shepard (first American in Space and Apollo 14 Commander/moonwalker); Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11 Commander and first moonwalker); Pete Conrad (Commander of Gemini, Apollo 12 moonwalker, and Skylab missions); Jack Lousma (Skylab astronaut); John Glenn (first American to orbit the earth); Gene Cernan (Commander of Apollo 17 and the Last man on the Moon); Jim Lovell (Commander of Apollo 8, the first flight to/around the moon); Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to fly in…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 147600
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First Edition of Stable Money; Inscribed by Irving Fisher
FISHER, Irving.
Stable Money.
New York: Adelphi Publishers, 1934.
First edition of Fisher's classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Alden A. Potter with the compliments and good wishes of Irving Fisher November, 1941." Near fine in the rare dust jacket that has a small chip to the crown and light rubbing to the exterior. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 2825
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“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years": First Edition of Thomas Wolfes Look Homeward, Angel; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
WOLFE, Thomas.
Look Homeward, Angel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Mrs. Dorothy Mencher with kindest regards Thomas Wolfe Nov 8, 1929." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 136222
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Rehnquist Supreme Court oversized color photograph signed by all nine justices
STEVENS, John Paul; Sandra Day O’Connor; Antonin Scalia; William H. Rehnquist; David Souter; Anthony Kennedy; Clarence Thomas; Byron R. White; Harry A. Blackmun.
Rehnquist Supreme Court Signed Oversized Photograph.
William Rehnquist Supreme Court oversized photograph signed by all nine justices, dressed in robes. Signed on the mat by John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, William H. Rehnquist, David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Byron R. White, and Harry A. Blackmun. Matted and framed. In fine condition. The piece measures 22.15 inches by 17 inches overall.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 146710
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“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician”: First Edition of The Wright Brothers; Inscribed by Orville Wright
KELLY, Fred C.; Introduction by Orville Wright.
The Wright Brothers.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
First edition of this classic American biography authorized by Orville Wright and long considered the definitive Wright biography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Orville Wright in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Edward with affectionate regards. Orville Wright May 4, 1943." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Orville Wright.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 142422
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“I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donner bakery gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want": First edition of the Daniel Keyes' Flowers For Algernon; Lengthily Signed by Him
KEYES, Daniel.
Flowers for Algernon.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966.
First edition of the author's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, basis for the Oscar award-winning movie adaptation Charly. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, who has transcribed the opening paragraph as follows, "I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donner bakery gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. Daniel Keyes." Additionally signed again by Daniel Keyes on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Carl Smith.…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 7304
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"I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked": FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1886.
First English edition of Stevenson’s classic book. Octavo, original cloth, olive green floral endpapers. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 117203
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“It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky": First Edition of E.B. White's Here is New York; Inscribed by Him
WHITE, E.B.
Here Is New York.
New York: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949.
First edition of this classic meditation on the City of New York. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "E.B. White Dec. 1949." Presented above by Katherine White, "Merry Christmas from the Whites." White was a writer and wife of the author. She was the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960. In 1977, William Shawn wrote, "More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The New Yorker its shape, and set it on its course." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 74056
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First Edition of A Magician Among the Spirits; Inscribed by Harry Houdini in the Year of Publication
HOUDINI, Harry.
A Magician Among the Spirits.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1924.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ben Burke Best wishes Houdini May 19/24." In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed as Houdini passed away shortly after publication.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 147702
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“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing": First Edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] .
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition of Twain's masterpiece, with the first state of the frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original publisher's decorated green cloth gilt to the spine and front panel. With frontispiece portrait of Twain inserted at front (with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co., but the cloth is not visible). This example exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is conjugate. Copyright notice dated 1884; the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed as p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was..." (first state); p. 283 is an integral leaf with the corrected engraving; the final…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 85975
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First Edition of D'entre les morts; Signed by both Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac (writing as Boileau-Narcejac).
D’entre les morts.
Paris: 1954.
First edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "A Madame Cordroc 'h, avec notre gratitude et l'homage de notre défèrente sympathie Th. Narcejac Pierre Boileau." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In very good condition.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 74068
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“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving": First Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
New York: Arthur A.Levine Books / Scholastic Inc, 2007.
First American edition of the seventh and final novel in Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter series. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page, with the author's hologram to the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. Uncommon signed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 140780
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First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary: A Drama; inscribed by him to his son Hallam Tennyson
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Queen Mary: A Drama.
London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.
First edition of the first book in Tennyson's historical trilogy. Small octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his son on the title page, "Hallam from A." Tennyson's eldest son Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson served as his father's personal secretary and served as his official biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897 and he bequeathed many of his father's notebooks to Trinity College in 1924. A significant association copy.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 109503
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First Edition of Bureaucracy; Signed by Ludwig von Mises and In the Rare Dust Jacket
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Bureaucracy.
London: William Hodge & Company, 1945.
First edition of this early work by von Mises. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig von Mises on the title page. Near fine in a original price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example, uncommon in the dust jacket.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 145921
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"All things return, both sphere and mote, and I shall hear my bluebird's note, and dream the dream of Auburn dell": First Edition, first issue of Ralph Waldo Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces; Signed by him
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
May-Day and Other Pieces.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
First edition, first issue of this collection of Emerson's later poems. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and botanical emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. Signed by Emerson on the title page, "R.W. Emerson." In very good condition with rubbing to the crown of the spine and minor chipping to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 96771
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“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of": First Edition, First Issue of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page of the author's classic work. Octavo, 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 inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed and dated by the author on a page bound in, "Roald Dahl 1988." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 147116