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First Edition of Detaille s'est fait remarquer à la fois par l'ampleur de ses compositions et par le soin dont il témoigne dans l'exactitude des détails
DETAILLE, Eduoard; Text by Jules Richard.
L’Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes.
Paris: Boussod et Valadon, 1885-89.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Large folios, 3 volumes. Elegantly bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Limited to 100 sets with the 2 volumes suite of 150 plates on Japanese paper.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 4161
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"The perfect book" (Alice Walker): Rare first edition of Mules and Men; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Mules and Men.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935.
First edition of Hurston's classic work, "the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore" (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Introduction by Franz Boas. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141719
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings": First Edition of Silas Marner; In the Rare Binding
ELIOT, George.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
First edition of this classic work in Carter's binding "A", which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copies). Octavo, original orange cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 4399
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"We hear the ocean. Older seas and deserts give asylum, peace to each abortion and mistake. Lost in the Near Eastern dreck, the tyrant and tyrannicide lie like the bridegroom and the bride": First edition of Robert Lowell's Near The Ocean; inscribed by him
LOWELL, Robert.
Near The Ocean.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
First Noonday printing of Lowell's renowned collection of poems, including his famous Waking Early on Sunday Morning. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Sebastiano In the time of my crisis Robert Lowell Jan. 6, 1976 Greenways Nur[s]ing Home Robert." In very good condition with a few holograph markings and notes including brief corrections on pages 35 and 40, owner's inscription covered with white paint on front inside cover. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142550
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First edition of Business @ The Speed of Thought; inscribed by Bill Gates to Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci
GATES, Bill with Collins Hemingway.
Business @ The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Gates' work on best practices for utilizing information systems in the business world. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Gates on the half-title page, "Governor Cellucci, Thanks for your support. Best wishes, Bill Gates." American politician and diplomat Argeo Paul Cellucci served as the 69th governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001, and as the United States Ambassador to Canada from 2001 to 2005. His major accomplishments included his efforts to reform the state's education system, his focus on fiscal responsibility, and his initiatives to promote economic development in Massachusetts. Near fine in a…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145138
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Eisenhower family photograph Signed by members of three generations of the Eisenhower family
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower; David Eisenhower.
Eisenhower Family Signed Photograph.
Photograph of the Eisenhower family, signed by Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, their son and daughter-in-law and only grandchild. Inscribed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, "For Ken & Joyce Browne with best wishes Dwight D. Eisenhower," and signed, "Mamie Doud Eisenhower." Additionally inscribed by the Eisenhowers' eldest son John and his wife Barbara, "To the Brownes from Barbara and John Eisenhower" and signed by their son David Eisenhower. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 14.25 inches. Rare and desirable signed by members of three generations of the Eisenhower family.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95836
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Richard Watson's An Apology for the Bible in a Series of Letters, Adressed to Thomas Paine
WATSON, Richard.
An Apology for the Bible; In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a book entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being and Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology.
Philadelphia: Printed for W. Young, Mills & Son, 1796.
Rare early printing of this response to Thomas Paine's 'The Age of Reason.' Duodecimo, original full leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities, front panel, and spine, some toning throughout, a small loss to the front flyleaf, and bookplates to the front free endpaper and pastedown. Many editions of this book were put out in the same year, all up and down the coast of Colonial America, all fairly small runs.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146706
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FIRST EDITION OF LUCAS SAMARAS’ FIRST BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY; INSCRIBED BY HIM TO LES NAVARRE
SAMARAS, Lucas.
Samaras Album.
New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions, 1971.
First edition of Samaras’ multimedia self-portrait, featuring a self-interview, autobiography, and hundreds of Polaroid images, both black-and-white and in color. Large quarto, original embossed pictorial cloth, mounted cover photograph. Association copy, inscribed by Lucas Samaras to Les Navarre on the title page. Navarre was the director of the Harry Abrams Art Gallery and a close friend of the artist. In fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 1371
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"the first novel in the English language": Rare complete Brussels edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series
DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
Brussels: B. Le Francq, 1803.
Cook's edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. Duodecimo, three volumes bound in full speckled sheepskin with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with eight engraved plates by Godin. In very good condition with rubbing to the spine. A very rare complete Brussels edition of this cornerstone in English literature.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145579
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First Edition of The Undoing Project; Signed by Michael Lewis and Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Daniel Kahneman
LEWIS, Michael [Daniel Kahneman].
The Undoing Project.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Michael Lewis on the title page and by Nobel Prize-winning economist and subject, "Best wishes! Daniel Kahneman" on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar. Rare and desirable signed by both Lewis and Kahneman.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138129
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First Edition of Freeman Dyson's Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics; Inscribed by Him to Edward O. Wilson
DYSON, Freeman [Edward O. Wilson].
Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics.
New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1966.
First edition of this work by the famed physicist. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Edward Best wishes Freeman Dyson." The recipient, Edward O. Wilson was a biologist, naturalist and writer. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity" for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. In very good condition, with Wilson's signature to the front free endpaper. An exceptional association, linking these two great minds of the twentieth century.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138193
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"In the twentieth century, the influence of Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person": First Edition of The Power Broker; Inscribed By Robert A. Caro and with a card signed by Caro
CARO, Robert A.
The Power Broker.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard from Robert A. Caro." Also laid in is a signed card from Robert A. Caro from the East Rockaway Library Board and the Cultural Arts Council, dated November 7, 1974. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146799
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"a key point in the development of cartography in Spain": Two rare original Francisco Coello maps of Cuba from the first edition of his magnum opus Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions
COELLO, D. Francisco .
Atlas de Esapana y Susus Posesiones de Ultramar: Isla de Cuba Por El Teniente Coronel Captain de Ingenieros D. Francisco Coello. [Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions].
Madrid: 1851-1853.
First edition of famed cartographer Francisco Coello's magnum opus, Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions, containing two large engraved broadside maps of the Island of Cuba. Housed in the publisher's original small octavo stiff paper boards, the first map displays the Island of Cuba with fine hand-colored borders. The second shows detailed views of the historical districts of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Typography by D. Cailo Alaberand, Desbuissons, and Estruch. Outlines by Leroux, Raynaud, Leelereq, and Bacot. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 127183
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": First American Edition of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
New York: Grove Press, 1967.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kuhlman Associates. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142102
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"Don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by": First edition of Colin Higgins' Harold and Maude; signed by him and legendary singer Cat Stevens
HIGGINS, Colin. [Cat Stevens].
Harold and Maude.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1971.
First edition of the classic 1971 American coming-of-age dark comedy–drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Colin Higgins [on the front free endpaper] and singer-songwriter Cat Stevens [on the front pastedown]. The music in Harold and Maude was composed and performed by Cat Stevens. He had been suggested by Elton John to do the music after John had dropped out of the project. Stevens composed two original songs for the film, "Don't Be Shy" and "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" and performed instrumental and alternative versions of the previously…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133160
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noticia de un Secuestro; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.
First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Para Juana y Sergio, en la linea contra la Helius - Burlon; y Le amistad de siempre, Gabo 96." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely unknown to the literary world…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132317
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John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage; Signed by President George H.W. Bush
KENNEDY, John F. [George H.W. Bush].
Profiles In Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.
First edition, early printing of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Boldly signed by President George H.W. Bush on the front free endpaper. Bush was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Grushkin. Foreword by Allan Nevins.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 140792
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The Spirit of St. Louis; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month before the date of publication on the title page, "To Andy Cain With best wishes, Charles A. Lindbergh June 9, 1954." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147499
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Signed Limited First Edition of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint; Signed by Him and Legendary Actor Richard Benjamin
ROTH, Philip [Richard Benjamin].
Portnoy’s Complaint.
New York: Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of Roth's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original cloth, slipcase. One of 600 numbered examples signed by Philip Roth and additionally by actor Richard Benjamin, who starred in the 1972 adaptation. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142668
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"I Was a Very Smart Child at the Age of Thirteen": First Edition of Mark Twain's Editorial Wild Oats; In the rare Original Dust jacket
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Editorial Wild Oats.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Rare in the original jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 68027
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Rare first edition, presentation copy of L'Hotel du Nord; inscribed by Eugène Dabit
DABIT, Eugene.
L’Hotel du Nord.
Paris: Robert Denoël, 1929.
First edition of the author's immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endleaves, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Valmard, with two illustrations signed by Dabit mounted to the front and rear pastedown. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Bernard Steele. Hors commerce copy, from a total edition of 250 numbered copies. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144043
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration Depicting designer John Galliano
KNIGHT, Hilary (John Galliano).
Hilary Knight Original John Galliano Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features a portrait of Dior designer John Galliano brandishing a saber at his curtain call. The Christian Dior Show which opened the Paris haute couture season in January 2006 was marked by Galliano's daring and cryptic show: "Red is the New Libertine. Platinum is the New Marie Antoinette. Leather is the New Luxury. Veiling is the New Seduction. Dior is the…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95325
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“Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen": Signed Limited Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor’s Edge
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge: A Novel.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
Signed limited first and true first edition of Maugham’s masterpiece, published prior to both the American and English trade edition. Octavo, original publisher's red buckram, black leather spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. One of seven hundred fifty numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 501. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146255
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First Edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Nobel Lecture on Literature; Inscribed by Him
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander [Solzhenitzn].
The Nobel Lecture on Literature.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this powerful Nobel lecture by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Small octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page entirely in his hand. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138171
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Rare 19th Century Creek Indian Land Grants for River Sections in Muscogee County, Georgia
WATSON, James C; Charles J. McDonald.
Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.
1826-1839.
Four rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants. Octavo, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, each with the official wax seal attached by a pale red ribbon, the collection includes: a Creek Indian document from Washington County, Georgia dated 1827 and signed by Governor Schley; a Creek Indian document from Muscogee County, Georgia for Sara McIntosh, the daughter of Creek Nation chief William McIntosh by his first wife Eliza Grierson; a Cherokee Indian land grant signed by Governor Gilmer; and a Cherokee Indian land grant signed by Governor Mc Donald. In very good condition. The pieces measure…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146855
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An American Dilemma "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilization"; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Gunnar Myrdal
MYRDAL, Gunnar.
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944.
First edition, early printing in one volume of the economist's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed and dated by Gunnar Myrdal in 1965. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear and chips to the extremities.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 1406
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Rare First Edition of Schola Italica Artis Pictoriae sive Tabulae insigniores in Romanis Pinacothecis Adservatae
Schola Italica Artis Pictoriae sive Tabulae insigniores in Romanis Pinacothecis Adservatae.
Rome: Petri Pauli Montagnani-Mirabili, 1806.
Rare first edition of Schola Italica Artis Pictoriae sive Tabulae insigniores in Romanis Pinacothecis Adservatae. Folio, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, fine engraved pictorial title and 39 plates. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 90342
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"With love to you, on Washington's birthday": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the half-title page, "Eleanor Roosevelt with love to you, on Washington's birthday Fer. 22, 1954 Vernon." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional inscription.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 110954
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“I know that like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have": Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
1950.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and lengthily inscribed and dated by her in Spanish. Retaining the original mount. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 18 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 116038
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First Edition of George Schuyler's Slaves Today. A Story of Liberia; Inscribed by Him
SCHUYLER, George S.
Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia.
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931.
First edition of "the first novel about Africa written by an African American" (Aric Putnam). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Dan John from George S. Schuyler." In very good condition. Books signed and inscribed by Schuyler are rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 116439
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“Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time": First Edition of The Caine Mutiny; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Herman Wouk
WOUK, Herman .
The Caine Mutiny.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 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 by Herman Wouk on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147484
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First edition of Selected Writings of Holbrook Working; inscribed by him
WORKING, Holbrook.
Selected Writings of Holbrook Working.
Chicago: Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, 1977.
First edition of Working's selected writings. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bill Jones, with warm good wishes, Holbrook Working." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 126837
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First Edition of Paths of Glory; Signed by Humphrey Cobb and Legendary Actor Kirk Douglas
COBB, Humphrey [Kirk Douglas].
Paths of Glory.
New York: The Viking Press, 1935.
First edition of the author’s first and only book, the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Humphrey Cobb and actor Kirk Douglas. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 89922
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“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument": C.S. Forester's The African Queen; Signed by Him
FORESTER, C.S.
The African Queen.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
First edition, early printing of C.S. Forester’s beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston’s 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by C.S. Forester on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132321
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"But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there": First Editions of the author’s Masterpiece; Warmly Inscribed by Rebecca West to the Editors of the Ladies Home Journal
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
First American editions of Rebecca West's masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there. Rebecca West 1962." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145979
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"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not": Rare Nirvana Flyer signed by Kurt Cobain
COBAIN, Kurt.
Kurt Cobain Signed Nirvana Flyer.
Rare original Nirvana flyer signed by the lead signer and guitarist of one of the best-selling bands of all time, Nirvana. One page, printed. The flyer includes a detachable t-shirt order form returnable to Nirvana, 4739 University Way NE Suite 1606 Seattle WA 98105. Signed by Kurt Cobain. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 14.5 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 126995
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Signed Limited First edition of Louise Gluck's FIrstborn
GLUCK, Louise.
Firstborn.
Oxford: Anvil Press Poetry, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning poet's first book, one of only 50 numbered copies. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Louise Gluck on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 136043
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First Edition of Russell's The Principles of Mathematics
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
The Principles of Mathematics. Volume 1.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.
First edition of Russell's groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth. From the library of philosopher Augusta Klein, with her annotations. Augusta Klein was an author and philosopher; co-author with William Ralph Boyce Gibson of The Problem of Logic. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 97331
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"Part of life's mystery depends on future possibilities": Saturn V S-IC First Stage Separation PHOTOGRAPH; SIGNED BY MICHAEL COLLINS
COLLINS, Michael.
Michael Collins Signed Saturn V First Stage Separation Oversized Photograph.
Oversized photograph of a Saturn V S-IC first stage separation, boldly signed in silver by American astronaut Michael Collins, "Michael Collins Apollo XI CMP." The Apollo 11 first stage separation occurred at an altitude of about 38 miles, some 55 miles downrange from Cape Kennedy. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145782
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"From a student to the master, a small token of my very great esteem. With affection and warmest regards": First Edition of The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script; Inscribed to legendary writer William Goldman
FRANK DARABONT [WILLIAM GOLDMAN] [STEPHEN KING],.
The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script.
New York : Newmarket Press, 1996.
First edition of the shooting script of one of the greatest film in history. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to William Goldman, "4-30-96 For Bill, From a student to the master, a small token of my very great esteem. With affection and warmest regards. Frank Darabont P.S. thanks for helping me out with the exact wording of kill your darlings! I quote you (accurately) on page 146!" The recipient, William Goldman was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. Among other accolades, Goldman won two Academy…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144749