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Rare First Edition the author's Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road; Inscribed And Dated By Richard Yates
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 2784
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The Haworth edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters in seven volumes; finely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son
BRONTE, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte.
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters.
London: John Murray, 1920-1926.
The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In near fine condition. A stunning set.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 143434
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Rare First Edition of Harry Markowitz’s Landmark Work Portfolio Selection; Inscribed by Him
MARKOWITZ, Harry M.
Portfolio Selection.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.
First edition of the economist's work, which revolutionized modern investment theory and practice. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For William Best Wishes Harry Markowitz." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 141319
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Black and White Photograph Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip; from the Royal 1954 Christmas Card
ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.
1954.
Black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with young Prince Charles and Princess Anne waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, signed by Queen Elizabeth II, "Elizabeth R 1954" and Prince Philip, "Philip." Removed from the official Royal 1954 Christmas card. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches. Matted and attractively framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 13.5 inches.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145203
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Fine nineteenth century oil painting of a View of the Birthplace of George Washington
[CHAPMAN, John Gadsby; George Washington].
View of the Birthplace of George Washington.
Rare nineteenth century oil painting after John Gadsby Chapman (New York/Italy, 1808-1889) depicting the birthplace of President George Washington in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Oil on canvas, the painting depicts the inlet of the Potomac River which divides the site of the Washington family home at Pope's Creek Plantation in the foreground from the Maryland shore and farmyard visible in the distance. A stone marker in the extreme foreground reads: "Here on the 22 February AD 1732 Geo Washington was Born." Likely an early copy of the engraving after John Gadsby Chapman's painting of the same scene, now in the collection…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145244
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The Night Traveler; Signed by Twice by Her
OLIVER, Mary.
The Night Traveler.
A Bits Chapbook, 1978.
First edition of this early collection by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed twice by Mary Oliver, once on the front free endpaper and on the title page. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 133671
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Finely Bound First Edition of Fads and Fancies
MANN, William d'Alton.
Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Being a Portrayal of their Tastes, Diversions and Achievements.
New York: Town Topics Publishing Company, 1905.
First edition of this lavishly published work regarding New York's wealthy society at the time, including names such as John Jacob Astor, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Huntington. Folio, original full green morocco, elaborate tooling to the spine, front and back panels, green silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt. Illustrated hundreds of photogravures, all edges gilt. Signed by William Mann, the publisher of Town Topics. Includes sketches of Astor, Pell, Yerkes, Stanford White, Flagler, Schwab, Depew, C.P. Huntington, H.E. Huntington, Chanler, Cleveland, Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, Foxhall Keene, and many others. In fine condition. Housed in rare original felt-lined wooden…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 129391
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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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First Edition of Continuous-Time Finance; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert C. Merton
MERTON, Robert C.; Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson.
Continuous-Time Finance.
Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
First edition of Merton's landmark work, which introduced the concepts of continuous-time optimization. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John, Robert C. Merton April 26, 2015." Also, with a laid in business card inscribed and signed by Robert C. Merton. Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146444
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all": First Edition of Brideshead Revisited; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Brideshead Revisited.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1945.
First edition of Waugh's masterpiece. 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Inscribed for John Maloney by Evelyn Waugh December 1959" on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 147460
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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 idea that men are created equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other": First Edition of "one of the most influential books of the 20th Century" The Lonely Crowd; lengthily Signed by Nathan Glazer
RIESMAN, David with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer.
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the the co-author Nathan Glazer on the title page, "The idea that men are created equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. (p. 373) Nathan Glazer March 11, 2015." In near fine condition, name to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Scarce and desirable signed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146112
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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 Murakami’s 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 ORIGINATOR OF THE MODERN NOVEL”: TRUE FIRST EDITION OF FLAUBERT’S MADAME BOVARY
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.
Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1857.
True first edition, first printing with the mistake in the name of the dedicatee, "Sénart" written with T and not a D, "nor of your dedication" on the same page, which will become "and of your dedication", and the double space between two words p. 7 (23rd line) of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather over marbled boards. In near fine condition, owner name. A very sharp example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 144079
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Rare Signed Portrait of Ludwig Von Mises
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Ludwig Von Mises Signed Portrait.
1971.
Portrait of the influential Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. Boldly signed, “August 27, 1971 Ludwig Mises.” The portrait measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 16.5 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 62034
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First edition of James Baldwin's Just Above My Head; inscribed by him to close friend and biographer David Adams Leeming
BALDWIN, James.
Just Above My Head.
New York: The Dial Press, 1979.
First edition of the last novel published in Baldwin's lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "for my beloved David Adams Leeming: Godspeed. Jimmy Baldwin." The recipient, literary scholar David Adams Leeming, and Baldwin were close friends for twenty-five years. Leeming published his James Baldwin: A Biography in 1994, a vivid and intimate portrait of Baldwin, his complexities, and importance in the literary canon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 129068
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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
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“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense": First Edition of Stoner; Inscribed by John Williams
WILLIAMS, John.
Stoner.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bob and Margaret, with much love- John Williams Christmas, 1970 Denver." The recipients were close friends of the author. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 122576
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Rare Thirty-Eight Star American Parade Flag
Thirty-Eight Star American Parade Flag.
[1877-1890].
Rare 38-star linen American parade flag. Canton of 38 stars against blue, field of 13 alternating red and white stripes, printed on linen bunting, 2 holes on hoist end without grommets. The thirty-eight star flag was in use between July 4, 1877 when the state of Colorado was admitted into the Union as the 38th state and July 4, 1890 when North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho were admitted as the 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, and 43rd states. The flag measures 9 inches by 14 inches. Glazed and framed. The entire piece measures 13.5 by 18.5 inches.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 149038
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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