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First Edition of Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society; Inscribed by Him
WIENER, Norbert.
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Larta Blanca Norbert Wiener." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Bartlett. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 142006
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"If You Only Read The Books That Everyone Else Is Reading, You Can Only Think What Everyone Else Is Thinking": First Editions in English Of Haruki Murakamis Norwegian Wood; Both Volumes Signed By Him
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Norwegian Wood.
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989.
First editions in English of the author's most well-known work. Small octavos, original wrappers as issued. Both volumes are fine in fine dust jackets. Both volumes are boldly signed by Haruki Murakami on the title pages. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 139249
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The Works of Charles Dickens; Finely Bound by Bayntun and Complete in Thirty-one Volumes
DICKENS, Charles.
Complete Set of Dickens’s Works.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863-1878.
The Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Small octavo, thirty-one volumes, bound in three-quarter navy blue crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated by Phiz (H. K. Browne), John Leech, George Cruikshank, and others. In near fine condition. Twenty-six of the thirty-one volumes were published during the author's lifetime, and the final volume, published in 1878, is The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster. A bright collection.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145410
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“YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK UPON THE GREAT CRUSADE, TOWARD WHICH WE HAVE STRIVEN THESE MANY MONTHS”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF CRUSADE IN EUROPE
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
Crusade in Europe.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948.
Signed limited first edition of General Eisenhower's wartime memoirs. Thick octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, original acetate. One of 1426 numbered copies signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, this is number 1392. Fine in the original acetate jacket and in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 133539
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Official NASA Oversized Lithograph of the Apollo 11 Liftoff; Signed by Neil Armstrong
ARMSTRONG, Neil.
Neil Armstrong Signed Photograph of the Apollo 11 Launch.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969.
Official NASA lithograph of the Apollo 11 liftoff. Oversized color lithograph of the liftoff of the Apollo 11 mission from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A on July 16, 1969, signed in black felt tip by Neil Armstrong. Matted. In fine condition. The piece measures 14 inches by 16.5 inches. Accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services Experts.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146525
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"HARD WORK, UNUSUALLY STRICT DISCIPLINE, AND A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT HORIZON": FIRST EDITION OF SETH KLARMAN'S OF MARGIN OF SAFETY
KLARMAN, Seth A.
Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor.
New York: Harper Collins Business, 1991.
First edition of this now classic book on value investing. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Littmann. Photograph by Mark Morelli.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 119671
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“THE ORIGINATOR OF THE MODERN NOVEL”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF FLAUBERT’S MADAME BOVARY
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.
London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886.
First British edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece and 5 plates, 2 pages of advertisements at front and 24-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated 1886. Translated by Karl Marx’s daughter, Eleanor Marx-Aveling. In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example, rare in this condition.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 127034
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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, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt, title-leaf a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884; illustrated captioned "Him and another Man" listed on page 88 in contents; eleventh line from bottom of page 57 reads "with the was";"5" final five on page 155 is slightly larger; page 283/284 on a stub, without additional final blank leaf, In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Housed in custom chemise and full morocco clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 100058
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The Honey Fitz Presidential Yacht Copy of Profiles in Courage; signed by John F. Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
The Honey Fitz Presidential Yacht Copy of Profiles in Courage.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1957.
Cardinal edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work; the Honey Fitz Presidential Yacht Copy; signed by John F. Kennedy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by John F. Kennedy on the verso of the front panel. Accompanied by a photograph album of various locations within the yacht. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example with provenance.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 134268
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The First Appearance of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian in Triquarterly 48: Western Stories; Signed by the author
MCCARTHY, Cormac; Richard Ford; Thomas McGuane; Tobias Wolff; Edward Abbey; Raymond Carver.
Triquarterly 48: Western Stories [Blood Meridian].
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1980.
Original Spring 1980 issue of TriQuarterly magazine containing the first excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's classic Blood Meridian, this being chapter 12, with several textual differences from the 1985 first edition publication. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy at his appearance. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 142374
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First Edition of W.D. Gann's The Tunnel Thru the Air; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
GANN, William Delbert [W.D.].
The Tunnel Thru The Air or Looking Back from 1940.
New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Company, 1927.
First edition of this work by the legendary investor. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Robert Rend With all good wishes for the success of his new book sincerely W.D. Gann May 12, 1942." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the spine. Books signed and inscribed by W.D. Gann are rare.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 7387
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First Edition of Maurice Allais' Magnum Opus Economie & Interet; Inscribed by Him; From the Library of Kenneth Arrow
ALLAIS, Maurice (Kenneth J. Arrow).
Economie & Interet.
Paris: Imprimerie National, 1947.
First edition of Allais' groundbreaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow, with his name in each volume. In near fine condition with light shelfwear, minor mending to the first few pages of volume one. A nice association linking these two Nobel Prize winning-economists and giants of twentieth century economics.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 16078
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Official NBA Spalding Basketball; Signed by 13 Members of the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team, Including Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen
JORDAN, Michael; Scotty Pippen; Steve Kerr; et al.
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team Signed NBA Basketball.
Official NBA Spalding Basketball, boldly signed by 13 members of the 1997-98 NBA Champion Chicago Bulls including Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen. Additionally accompanied by a James Spence Letter of Authentication. Housed in a custom acrylic case. This extremely rare multi-signed basketball signifies the end of the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990's and marks the conclusion of the legendary Michael Jordan's tenure with the team, leaving a significant impact on both the sport and the world.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145461
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Cosway Style Binding by Bayntun of John Fyvie's Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era
FYVIE, John [Cosway].
Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era. [Cosway].
London: Archibald Constable, 1916.
Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Both the front and rear panels with a double gilt fillet border around an inner border incorporating ornamental cornerpieces, upper cover set with an oval portrait miniature of an actress under glass, within an ornamental gilt border, lower cover with panel border; raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated ornamental panel in the rest; board edges gilt dotted, turn-ins gilt, doublures and both endpapers of dark blue watered silk, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 10 additional plates. In fine condition. Housed in a felt-lined modern cloth box.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 27030
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused": First Edition of The Quiet American; Inscribed by Graham Greene
GREENE, Graham.
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
First edition of Greene's classic novel of exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Joseph from Graham Greene." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 98538
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First Edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson The Europeans; Signed by Him
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
The Europeans.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
First edition in English of Cartier-Bresson’s famous photobook, “capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen,” with 114 large photogravures (many double-page) and bright cover designed by Joan Miró. Folio, original illustrated boards. Signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson on the title page. Fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket. With the captions booklet laid in.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 2330
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MANDELA, Nelson] Photograph by Jurgen Schadeberg.
Nelson Mandela Silver Gelatin Print.
Silver Gelatin Print of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Moroka, and Yusuf Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign Trial of 1952. Signed by both Mandela on the image and the photographer, Jurgen Schadeberg (signed and stamped on the verso by Schadeberg and also signed on the front). Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18.5 inches by 19 inches.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 4054
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RARE ELABORATELY ILLUMINATED PATENT OF NOBILITY SIGNED BY Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, King of Arms to King Charles III of Spain
DON RAMON ZAZO OF ORTEGA,.
Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega Signed Patent of Nobility.
Rare illuminated patent of Nobility signed by Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, historian and King of Arms to Charles III, King of Spain. Quarto, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine, marbled endpapers, elaborately illuminated hand-painted full page coat of arms and numerous heraldic shields each with silk guard leaves, text in script, illuminated hand-painted initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Singed at the conclusion of the patent by Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega and Vicente Lorenzo Verdugo with Royal paper seals. In very good condition.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 110235
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"PROFITS ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, BUT LOSSES NEVER DO": FIRST EDITION OF JESSE LIVERMORES HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS
LIVERMORE, Jesse.
How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price.
New York : Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most well-known traders. Octavo, original blue cloth, contains 16 full color charts. Octavo, original blue cloth. In near fine condition with light shelfwear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 5108
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Clement Attlee's Personal Scrapbook of his Tour of the United States of America; Inscribed to Him by Harry S. Truman
ATTLEE, Clement; [Harry S. Truman].
A Tour of the United States of America.
1959.
The only copy of this beautiful record of the friendship between The Right Honourable Clement 'Earl' Attlee and President Harry S. Truman. Folio, original presentation faux leather boards with gilt fascimile lettering and ruling to the front panel, bound with green velvet rope, silver patterned engdpapers, original photographs and news clippings throughout. Inscribed by Harry S. Truman to Clement Attlee, "To my good friend Lord Attlee, with kindest regards and highest admiration for his public service and his contribution to the peace of the world. Harry Truman. Independence, Missouri October 28, 1959." Clement Attlee served as Prime Minister of the…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145339