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First Edition of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jose Saramago 1.2006." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133715
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Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Poema
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Il Filostrato, Poema.
Paris: Presso Franc. Ambr. Didot Il Miaggiore, 1789.
Eighteenth century edition of this marvelous narrative poem. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary brown calf over blue marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, original silk ribbon laid in. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities, spine, front and rear panels, some loss to the calf binding and very light toning throughout.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146404
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The Author's copy of the First British Edition of Death Be Not Proud
GUNTHER, John.
Death Be Not Proud.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
First British edition of this deeply moving book, a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy, bound for the author. Octavo, bound by the author in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition. A unique piece.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137985
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First Edition of James McPherson's The Struggle for Equality; Signed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by James McPherson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137871
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Rare First Edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's American Vines
VIALA, Pierre and Louis Ravaz; Raymond Dubois and Edmund Twight.
American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.
San Francisco: Press of Freygand-Leary Co, 1903.
Rare first American edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's of 'Les Vignes Americaines,' translated in its entirety from the original French by Raymond Dubois and Edmund H. Twight. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, botanical endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. In near fine condition, Santa Cruz Department of Agriculture stamps to the front pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147239
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"Once upon a time there were three Billy Goats and their name was Gruff. There was Little Billy Goat Gruff, Big Billy Goat Gruff, and Biggest Billy Goat Gruff": First edition of Frank Dobias' The Three Billy Goats
DOBIAS, Frank.
The Three Billy Goats.
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1927.
First edition of Dobias' charming retelling of the classic Norwegian fairy tale. Small octavo, original illustrated boards, patterned endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 115582
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Rare Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection; including first appearances of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection: The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion.
Boston: The Youth's Companion, 1898.
Rare collection of Kipling first appearances including the first appearance of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion. Quarto. Housed in a custom folder. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 123595
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First Edition of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; Signed by Haruki Murakami and three times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2006.
First edition of this collection of twenty-four stories by Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the title page and additionally three times by illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustrated by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 122387
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James Thurber and E.B. White's Is Sex Necessary; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
THURBER, James and E.B. White [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.
Early edition of this collection of satirical essays in theme with the many Freudian sexual theories published in the 1920s; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece photograph of New York, illustrated with about fifty-two drawings by James Thurber. Signed and dated by Gilman in pencil on the front free endpaper below an antiquarian ownership signature which she has crossed out, "C. P. Gilman Nov. 1931." Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145591
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Pleasure-Dome; Inscribed by Him to Close Friend and critic John Sutro
GREENE, Graham.
The Pleasure-Dome.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1972.
First edition of this film criticism by Graham Greene. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For John and Gillian with love from Graham Christmas 1972." The recipient, John Sutro was a British film producer and close friend of Greene's. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Smither.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137598
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First Edition of John Grierson's High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route; inscribed by him
GRIERSON, John. Introduction by Wolfgang von Gronau.
High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route.
London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, 1936.
First edition of English Aviator John Grierson's account of his solo trip along the Arctic Air Route. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Associtation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Chief Factor Ralph Parsons with best wished John Grierson 15/11/36." The recipient, Ralph Parsons was a Canadian Arctic explorer and fox fur trader who played an important role in the development of early trading posts around Hudson Strait, particularly on the south shore of Baffin Island. He was named Fur Trade Commissioner in 1931 and the posts he founded across the…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111250
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First Edition of Julia Child's Menu Cookbook; Signed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
Julia Child’s Menu Cookbook.
New York: Wing Books, 1991.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated cookbook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with over 500 color photographs by James Scherer. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Bon Appetit! Julia Child." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Clair Moritz.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147991
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Rare autograph equation Signed and entirely in the hand of Kenneth J. Arrow
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Kenneth J. Arrow Autograph Equation Signed.
Rare three-page equation inscribed and entirely in the hand of Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth J. Arrow. Three pages, the equation bears the title "The Shadow Price of Technological Change" and is signed by the author on the first page, "With best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow." In addition to his work on social choice theory analysis, Arrow made significant contributions to the general equilibrium theory and, with fellow economist Gérard Debreu, presented the first rigorous proofs of the existence of a market clearing equilibrium. Strongly influenced by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Arrow's work on general equilibrium theory extended the model…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 114565
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"I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can": First Edition of High Adventure; Inscribed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
High Adventure.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First British edition of Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, bound in full morocco, marbled endpapers, slipcase, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in a contemporary hand, "To Muriel Brent-Smith E.P. Hillary." In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140999
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First Edition of Taxes and Business Strategy; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron S. Scholes
SCHOLES, Myron S. and Mark A. Wolfson.
Taxes and Business Strategy. A Planning Approach.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1992.
First edition of this classic work, now in it's sixth edition. Quarto, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "_____ Good luck in all of your endeavors Myron S. Scholes 6/12/10." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117632
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"my friend, whose support and enthusiasm have been a great kick in the ass": First Edition of On Golden Pond; Warmly inscribed by Ernest Thompson to George Schaefer
THOMPSON, Ernest.
On Golden Pond.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication to director George Schaefer, "September 79 For George, my friend, whose support and enthusiasm have been a great kick in the ass. Love Ernest." The recipient, George Schaefer was an director of television and Broadway theatre, who was active from the 1950s to the 1990s. He was a close friend of the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos, based on a concept by Paul Tankersley.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 119372
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First Edition of The Farewell Party; Inscribed by Milan Kundera
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Farewell Party.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
First edition of Kundera's third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Milan Kundera in the year of publication on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, clipping from Kundera's novel on the rear pastedown. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket illustration by Charles Shields. Translated from the the Czech by Peter Kussi.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120543
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Rare 1919 United States Military Citation signed by General John J. Pershing
PERSHING, General John J.
General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.
1919.
Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for "exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous services as Colonel Officer of the Base Hospital A09 France". Dated April 19, 1919 and signed by General John J. Pershing.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120411
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First Edition of Richard Wright's Le Transfuge; Inscribed by Him
WRIGHT, Richard.
Le Transfuge.
Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
First edition of this work by the author of Native Son. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. With the rare wrap-around band laid in to the front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jack with all my best wishes Richard Wright Feb. 7, 1956 Paris." In near fine condition, with the recipient's name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 50003
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“You might as well take your punishment and get it over with": Advanced Review Copy of the First Edition of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key
HAMMETT, Dashiell.
The Glass Key.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
First edition of Hammett's personal favorite novel. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy, with the slip pasted to the front free endpaper, in very good condition, corner clipped, name to the front pastedown. Rare as an advance copy.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145902
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First Edition of A Century of Arts and Letters; Signed by All Eleven Contributors
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis; Beeson.
A Century of Arts and Letters.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work celebrating the history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters on its centenary. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed on the the title page by all eleven contributors. Preface and edited by John Updike. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145842
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First Modern Library Edition of John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct; Signed by Him
DEWEY, John.
Human Nature and Conduct.
New York: The Modern Library, 1930.
First Modern Library edition of Dewey's important work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Dewey on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Books signed by Dewey are scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 74075
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"HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE SOUL OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY, BECAUSE HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE VERY SOUL OF OUR SENSE OF NATIONHOOD": FIRST EDITION OF KEEPING FAITH; SIGNED BY JIMMY CARTER AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HAROLD BROWN
CARTER, Jimmy.
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.
New York: Bantam Books, 1982.
First edition of the 39th President of the United States' memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jimmy Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown on the title page. Brown was the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet Jimmy Carter. He had previously served in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations as Director of Defense Research and Engineering and Secretary of the Air Force. In the last stages of the Cold War, as Secretary of Defense, he set the groundwork for the Camp David accords. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132220
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Inscribed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page, "For John with admiration Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 76891
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FIRST EDITION OF J.M. KEYNES' FIRST MAJOR WORK ON ECONOMICS INDIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
Indian Currency and Finance.
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.
First edition of Keynes' first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136408
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“experience nine times out of ten is merely stupidity hardened into habit": First Edition of Marjorie Morningstar; Signed by Herman Wouk
WOUK, Herman.
Marjorie Morningstar.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by John Scotford. Jacket photograph by Richard Avedon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 110555
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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook; Inscribed by Alice Waters and signed by Illustrator David Lance Goines
WATERS, Alice.
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Waters' first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Elizabeth Alice Waters." Additionally signed by illustrator on the half-title page, "David Lance Goines." With an original menu of Chez Panisse laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written in collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel. Recipes edited by Carolyn Dille. Designed and illustrated by David Lance Goines. A nice signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139907
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First Edition Value, Capital and Growth: Papers In Honour of Sir John Hicks; Signed Twice by Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow
HICKS, John R. [Robert M. Solow].
Value, Capital and Growth: Papers In Honour of Sir John Hicks.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
First edition of this work in honor of John Hicks. Octavo, original cloth. Signed twice by Robert Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Edited by J.N. Wolfe.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5798
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First edition of Here's To You, Rachel Robinson; inscribed by Judy Blume in the year of publication
BLUME, Judy.
Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson.
New York: Orchard Books, 1993.
First edition of the author's sequel to her best-selling young adult novel 'Just as Long as We're Together.' Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Joanne Thanks! Love, Judy Blume Aug. 1993." Very good in a fine dust jacket. Closed tear and creasing to the rear endpaper. Jacket design by Jim DeLapine. Author photograph by George Cooper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145014
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First Edition of Henry M. Stanley's Magdala
STANLEY, Henry M.
Magdala: The Story of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1866-7.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896.
First edition of the second part of the 'Coomassie and Magdala' volume. Octavo, original leather binding, illustrated with a map of the British expedition and numerous drawings by Melton Prior and other artists. In very good condition. Library bookplate to the front pastedown with the Latin motto 'Vicilans Non Cadet' - 'The vigilant man falls not.' The library was named in honour of Sir Henry Behrend, Chairman of The Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum at West Norwood, England.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145193
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"nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other": Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls
GOGOL, Nikolai V.
Dead Souls.
London: Vizetelly & Co., n.d..
Finely bound example of Gogol's masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132581
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Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Edward C. Prescott
STOKEY, Nancy L.; Robert E. Lucas with Edward C. Prescott.
Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Edward Prescott on the front free endpaper, "Yurjec and Huixin Economics is fun learning the language of economic theory is hard Best wishes, Edward C. Prescott 8 April 2010." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132389
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"The whole thing was an affair of misty shadows": First edition of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
WELLS, H.G.
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.
First edition of Wells' satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 95220
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First Edition of Crazy Heart; Inscribed by Thomas Cobb in the Year of Publication
COBB, Thomas.
Crazy Heart.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First edition of this work which "might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none" (Houston Post), basis for the 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Sally With thanks for so much Love Tom Houston, 87." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137411
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First Edition of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Inscribed by Stephen Sondheim
SONDHEIM, Stephen; Burt Shevelove.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1963.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kurt Rowley, with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136038
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"I am certain, if everyone could see the Earth floating just outside their windows, every day would be #EarthDay. There are few things more fragile or more beautiful than Earth": Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey; Inscribed by Astronaut Michael Collins
COLLINS, Michael; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1974.
First edition, early printing of one of the finest memoirs of space travel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For David A. Stanfield, with all good wishes - Michael Collins." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert T. McCall. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147170
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First Edition of Tomas Transtromer's Twenty Poems; Lengthily Inscribed by Him and Translator Robert Bly
TRANSTROMER, Tomas; Translated by Robert Bly.
Twenty Poems.
New York: The Seventies Press, 1970.
First edition of the first work in English to be translated by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of only 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by both Thomas Transtromer and the translator Robert Bly on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bilingual edition, Swedish and English. Translated by Robert Bly. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147497
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First Edition of Dusklands; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Dusklands.
Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket that shows some light soiling to the extremities.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 224
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Rare first separate edition of Holbrook Working's The Investigation of Economic Expectations
WORKING, Holbrook.
The Investigation of Economic Expectations.
n.p.: American Economic Review, 1949.
First separate edition of Working's treatise on economic expectations. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with charts and graphs. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126334
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"WE WENT SLIPPING SILENTLY ALONG, BETWEEN THE GREEN AND FRAGRANT BANKS, WITH A SENSE OF PLEASURE AND CONTENTMENT THAT GREW AND GREW": FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S A TRAMP ABROAD
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Tramp Abroad.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.
First edition of Twain's classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, early issue with the portrait in BAL state B (no priority), frontispiece in the first state (captioned "Moses"), state A of the text block (no priority), and the cover stamping in state A. Octavo. 631, [1, ad] pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, with 328 illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow. BAL 3386. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144227
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Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph; Signed by Edgar Mitchell
MITCHELL, Edgar.
Edgar Mitchell Signed Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph.
February 1971.
Poster-sized photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing on the lunar surface of the Fra Mauro formation, the future landing site of the Apollo 14 mission. Color photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing at the Apollo 14 landing site. Boldly signed in blue felt tip by Edgar Mitchell, "Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 LPM Fra Mauro Base Feb 1971." In near fine condition. The piece measures 20 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145298
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First Edition of Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Fire; Signed by Him
CLEAVER, Eldridge.
Soul On Fire.
Waco, Texas: Word Books Publishers, 1978.
First edition of Cleaver's autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Towards Freedom for all God's Children Eldridge Cleaver 2/25/81." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Dennis Hill. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 63456
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they took photographs": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133621
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“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone": Rare First Edition Of Richard Yates Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 147181
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Rare autograph note signed by Apollo Astronauts Ronald Evans, Gene Cernan, and John Young
CERNAN, Gene; Ron Evans; John Young.
Apollo Astronauts Signed Note.
Rare note signed by Apollo astronauts John Young (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9), Ronald Evans (Apollo 17), and Gene Cernan (Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17). One page, signed by each astronaut. The note measures 7 inches by 5 inches. The entire piece measures 13.25 inches by 11.25 inches.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 120894
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From the Library of John Steinbeck
[STEINBECK, John].
Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.
Moscow: Various, c. 1960.
Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose plates featuring artwork from the Hermitage Museum. From the library of John Steinbeck. In very good condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 117588
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First Edition of The Victim; Signed Twice by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
The Victim.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed twice by the author. Signed "good wishes Saul Bellow" on the title page and again on a notecard on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing, near fine in the original dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 1961
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"The Foremost Academic Economist of the 20th Century"; The Collected Papers of Paul A. Samuelson Volume I; Inscribed by Him
SAMUELSON, Paul A. [Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Robert C. Merton; Hiroaki Nagatni; Kate Crowley].
The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volumes I.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
First edition, early printing of Volume I of the Nobel Prize-winning economists papers. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Doug Burrows, Paul A. Samuelson, Endicott House, June 21, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 53008
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in full leather
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: George G. Harrap, 1924.
Finely bound example of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to the front and rear panels, frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 119346
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"I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something": Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of The Ginger Man
DONLEAVY, J.P.
The Ginger Man.
New York: McDowell, Obelensky, 1958.
Rare uncorrected proof of the first American edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 120176
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“To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live": First edition of Tenzing After Everest; signed by Tenzing Norgay and with a signed letter on his letterhead
NORGAY, Tenzing with Malcolm Barnes.
After Everest: An Autobiography by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.
First edition of Tenzing's second autobiography, the sequel to his best-selling Tiger of the Snows. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page beneath an inscription in a secretarial hand, "To William Levine," "Tenzing Norgay." With the original typed transmittal letter on Norgay's personal letterhead signed by him laid in which reads: Dear William Levine, I have just returned back home here in Darjeeling. It was a very wonderful time in China which I hope you will never forget. I am sending you my book, Tenzing After Everest, with my autograph. With kind regards a loves. Sincerely,…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 123218
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Review Copy of William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit
FAULKNER, William.
Knight’s Gambit.
New York: Random House, 1949.
First edition of this short story collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with the slip laid in, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by E.McKnight Kauffer. A very nice example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 100822
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Rare First Edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyitch
TOLSTOI, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy].
Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1887.
First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole with a preface by him. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. A very sharp example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 139452
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Rare First Edition of Douglas Jerrold's A Man Made of Money
JERROLD, Douglas.
A Man Made of Money.
London: Punch, 1848-49.
First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scarce in the original wrappers.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 121345
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“ONE OF THE BEST POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES IN ENGLISH:” FIRST EDITION OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL'S LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Lord Randolph Churchill.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1906.
First editions of Winston S. Churchill's biography of his father. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth bound, gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill after a photograph by Mackintosh to Volume I, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill after a photograph by Russell and Sons to Volume II, illustrated. In very good condition, bookplate. A nice example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 130791
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First edition, association copy of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy; inscribed by George Plimpton to Senator Ted Kennedy
PLIMPTON, George. [Editor]. Interviews by Jean Stein [Edward M. Kennedy].
American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1970.
First edition of this remarkable biography of Robert F. Kennedy, based on interviews by Jean Stein and edited by George Plimpton. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by George Plimpton on the front free endpaper to Robert Kennedy's youngest brother, Ted Kennedy, "To Senator Kennedy with great admiration and best wishes, George." The recipient, Ted Kennedy served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the prominent political Kennedy family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died.…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 142518
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First Edition of Hubert Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn; Inscribed by Him
SELBY, Jr..
Last Exit To Brooklyn.
New York: The Grove Press , 1964.
First edition of Selby's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Glenn With All Best Wishes H. Selby Jr 6/22/91." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Roy Kuhlman. An exceptional example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 51892
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Signed Limited First Edition of Bemelmans' Madeline and the Bad Hat
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline and the Bad Hat.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
Signed limited edition of the third book in Bemelmans' acclaimed Madeleine series. Quarto, original cloth. One of 985 copies signed by Ludwig Bemelmans. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 69041
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"There's nothing on this earth I'd rather do than take pictures": Shooter; Inscribed by David Hume Kennerly to General Colin Powell
KENNERLY, David Hume [Colin Powell].
Shooter.
New York: Newsweek Books, 1979.
Second edition of this incomparable biography of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. Oblong octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographic plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author opposite the half-title page, "To Chairman Colin Powell, who has been there - and back. With respect & admiration, David Hume Kennerly Wash D. C. 3/24/93." The recipient, General Colin Powell was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the first Black secretary of state. When Life magazine made a brief comeback for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Kennerly shot an inside story called "Men of War" on Secretary…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 146673