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First Edition of Martin Flavin's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Journey in the Dark; in the scarce original dust jacket
FLAVIN, Martin.
Journey in the Dark.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.
First edition of this classic novel, which won 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, which The New York Times called "a story of a boy from Iowa who becomes a business tycoon at the price of his integrity.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original first-issue dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 120356
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First Edition of Barry Hannah's Airships; Inscribed by Him to his Publisher Seymour Lawrence
HANNAH, Barry .
Airships.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his publisher Seymour Lawrence on the half-title page to his publisher, "For Sam Lawrence - Here's to your good and fortunate life, and our good times together- Barry Hannah Oxford '86." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcinello. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 143006
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt": Waiting For the Barbarians; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee in the year of publication
COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1981.
First South African edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "Charles Barry with very best wishes J.M. Coetzee 23/4/81." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine, bookplate of the recipient.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 116489
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“FREEDOM IS THE FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT OF MAN’S MIND”: FIRST EDITION OF AYN RAND'S CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL; SIGNED BY HER
RAND, Ayn; Essays by Nathaniel Branden.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
New York: New American Library, 1966.
First edition of this collection of essays—which Rand, in her introduction, characterizes as “a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Ayn Rand 1/21/71." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by S.A. Summit, Inc. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 133525
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"One of the most important crime novels of the 20th century": First Edition of The Postman Always Rings Twice; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
CAIN, James M.
The Postman Always Rings Twice.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
First edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 146083
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Rare Royal military appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
VICTORIA, Queen.
Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.
1854.
Rare Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 13th June 1854 and appoints Francis Eastwood Newport Tuiley to the position of Captain of a Company in the 21st Regiment on foot. Signed by Queen Victoria in the upper left corner, "Victoria R." Retaining the white Royal paper seal. Countersigned by Palmerston. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The document measures 15.5 inches by 12 inches. The entire piece measures 30 inches by 26.5 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 125238
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"Who kept the heat on me and made me like it. With appreciation and great respect": First Edition of On China; Warmly Inscribed by Henry Kissinger and with an Autograph Letter Signed
KISSINGER, Henry A.
On China.
New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
First edition of Kissinger's 13th book, in which he draws on historical records and 40 years of direct interaction with four generations of Chinese leaders to analyze the link between China’s ancient past and its present day trajectory. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ann Gandolff Who kept the heat on me and made me like it. With appreciation and great respect Henry A Kissinger." Laid in is a autograph letter signed on Kissinger letterhead that reads in entirety "Dear Ann -- this is a tribute to your calm leadership. Warm Regards H. Did I…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144311
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Signed Photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Jawaharlal Nehru Photograph Signed.
Signed photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru of the first prime minister of India. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 13.5 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 99334
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First Edition of Gandhi's Young India; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mohandas K. [Mahatma].
Young India Second Series 1924-1926.
New York: The Viking Press, 1927.
First edition of the second series of the writings of Gandhi. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Gandhi founded and published the weekly periodical in English, Young India, from 1919 to 1931 to spread the philosophy and principles of the Satyagraha Movement and urge readers to participate in it. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chips and wear, name to the front pastedown.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 142054
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First Edition of Edgar Beecher Bronson's In Closed Territory; Lengthily by Him
BRONSON, Edgar Beecher.
In Closed Territory.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1910.
First edition of Beecher Bronson's classic account of his hunting experiences in Africa. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs by the author. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "The author inscribed this volume for a well-loved kindred spirit.... Edwin Willard Deming, EB Bronson NY 12 Nov '12." The recipient was American artist Edwin Willard Deming, who studied under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. In 1887 Deming first visited and painted the Apaches and Pueblos of the Southwest. His career of painting and illustrating took him repeatedly to the lands of the Blackfoot, Crow, and Sioux, as…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 62067
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow": First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison's Masterpiece Beloved; Inscribed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
Beloved.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of the author's fourth novel and considered by many her finest. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Debra Toni Morrison." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 132605
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"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve year olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations": First Edition of Infinite In All Directions; Signed by Freeman Dyson
DYSON, Freeman J.
Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page with a quote from this work, "For John Rogers from Freeman Dyson We must be careful not to discourage our twelve year olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations see page 22." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Perlow. A unique example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 111045
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"In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity": First Edition of If You Ask Me; Warmly Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt with a Lock of Her Hair
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
If You Ask Me. [AND] Eleanor Roosevelt Lock of Hair.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946.
First edition of this discussion of socio-political questions. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Olga with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by a group of ephemera which includes: an autograph note signed by the recipient, the note reads in full, "I took care of her hairstyle for this picture! Olga Meyer;" a newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt talking with Professor Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party, at an atom bomb forum; and an autograph envelope which reads,…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146912
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“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water": First Edition of Ludwig Von Mises' Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949.
First edition of the economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 130677
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First Edition of The Adventures of Augie March; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the John Steinbeck ad on the rear flap and no reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 58004
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First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers in the Rare Original Dust Jacket; Signed by Her
YEZIERSKA, Anzia.
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on the limitation page. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 84583
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Rare 19th century example of Johnson's Map of Florida
WARD, Benjamin P. and Alvin Jewett Johnson.
Johnson’s Map of Florida.
New York: Johnson and Ward, c. 1866.
Rare 19th century example of Johnson's famed post-Civil War era map of the state of Florida. One page, the hand-colored lithographic map depicts the state in full with color coding according to county shortly following the close of the American Civil War with references to towns, railroads, villages, depots, swamps, the territories of Native American tribes, forts and battle sites related to the Seminole Wars, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Indian Hunting Grounds between Fort Poinsett and Key Biscayne Bay, Tampa Bay and the Okefenokee Swamp. Additionally notes the course of a proposed canal route leading from Tampa to the Atlantic…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 138512
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Rare first edition of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation; in the scarce original dust jacket
POLANYI, Karl.
The Great Transformation.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944.
First edition, first printing of Polanyi’s landmark work, widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some chips to the extremities. Scarce and exceedingly so in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 124390
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First Edition of Pearl Buck's Classic First Novel The Good Earth; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
BUCK, Pearl S.
The Good Earth.
New York: The John Day Company, 1931.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. 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. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143665
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"Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!": First Edition of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewhit
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full calf by Root and Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 40 plates. In near fine condition, remnant of a bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 137984
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"And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly": "the greatest juvenile classic since Winnie the Pooh"; The Story of Ferdinand; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
LEAF, Munro. Illustrated By Robert Lawson.
The Story of Ferdinand.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition, early printing of Munro Leaf's beloved children's classic. 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 stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation of one of the most sought after children's books of the twentieth century,
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147974
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Rare Series 1977 Five Dollar Bill Signed by President Ronald Reagan
REAGAN, Ronald.
Ronald Reagan Signed Five Dollar Bill.
1977.
Series 1977 five dollar bill from the United States of America. Boldly signed by Ronald Reagan on the verso near the image of the Lincoln Memorial in black ballpoint. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clear acrylic frame and stand. The piece measures 7.5 inches by 3.375 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147783
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Scarce First Edition of W.E.B. Du Bois' John Brown: American Crisis Biographies
DU BOIS, W.E.B.
John Brown: American Crisis Biographies.
Philadephia: George W. Jacobs, 1909.
First edition of this scarce biography on Brown, which was printed in a very small run. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Edited by Ellis Paxton Oberholzer.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 86458
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories; Signed by Him
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
Early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Rear panel photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. A superior example, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 97433
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Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award winning screenwriter Ron Kovic
KOVIC, Ron.
“The Joy of Color!” Ron Kovic Original Painting.
2013.
Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter Ron Kovic. On thick Aquarell watercolor paper, the painting is signed three times by the artist on the verso, "Ron Kovic Oct 2013", "'The Joy of Color' by Ron Kovic" and with a signed self-caricature. American anti-war activist, writer, and United States Marine Corps sergeant Ronald Lawrence Kovic was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the Academy Award–winning 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 135265
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Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside; containing liturgical prayers, hymns, and creeds in latin
Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside.
Germany: c. 1780.
Rare late 18th century liturgical broadside. Printed broadside mounted on a decorated heart-shaped hardwood frame with a hand-painted botanical border containing Protestant liturgical chants, daily prayers, and hymns. Text in Latin. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 96227
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“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that": Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple; with a rare promotional brochure from Steven Spielberg's 1985 film adaptation signed by Alice Walker
WALKER, Alice .
The Color Purple.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Walker's third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. With a promotional brochure for the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, signed by Alice Walker. [A Steven Spielberg Film: The Color Purple: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story. Warner Bros. Inc.: 1985]. Oblong octavo, original purple wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. In fine condition. A nice pairing.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146798
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First Edition of I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa; Inscribed by Charles Brandt and Signed by Al Pacino
BRANDT, Charles [Al Pacino].
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa.
Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2004.
First edition of "the best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all" (Steven Van Zandt), basis for the 2019 Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Brenda, Darryl tells me you're going to like this. Hope so. Warm regards, Charles Brandt." Additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino, who played Jimmy Hoffa in the film opposite the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chad Roberts. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147472
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"A milestone in the study of culture": First Edition of Triste Tropiques; Inscribed by Claude-Levi Strauss With a Large Drawing
LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.
Tristes Tropiques.
New York: Atheneum , 1974.
First American edition of this translation, which is the first complete edition of Levi-Strauss' landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Patricia Anawalt who is interested in Indians and loves cats, with author's regards Claude Levi-Strauss." Levi-Strauss has added a large drawing of a cat below his inscription. The recipient, Patricia Anawalt was an anthropologist and authority on Mesoamerican ritual and attire, She wrote several books, including "The Worldwide History of Dress", which examined the costumes of a wide range of peoples, including Neolithic plant-fiber skirts, ancient Egyptian linen shifts and Mongolian shamanic…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 57044
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“What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see": First Edition of Jane Bowles' Two Serious Ladies
BOWLES, Jane.
Two Serious Ladies.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A sharp example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 142122
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The Great Crash; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Great Crash 1929.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147988
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Rare Signed Photograph of Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines taken at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach
PERRY, Fred and Ellsworth Vines.
Fred Perry vs. Ellsworth Vines Signed Photograph in Palm Beach.
Palm Beach, Florida: 1937.
Rare signed photograph of a tennis match with the caption in the photo entitled "Palm Beach Presentation" with Ellsworth Vines of United States, World's Professional Champion vs. Fred Perry of England, World's Amateur Champion, at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 1st, 1937, boldly signed by both Perry and Vines. A full court shot taken from the stands with Perry in foreground and Vines in background. Vines was a winner of three Grand Slams: Wimbledon 1932, U.S. 1931, 1932, World's No. 1 player 1932, 1935-37. He became a professional tennis player in 1934 and later in his…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147318
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First Edition Of the Author’s Third Novel: Signed By The Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
Miguel Street.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
First edition of Naipaul’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the crown. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 3544
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First edition of Benjamin Netanyahu's A Durable Peace; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
NETANYAHU, Benjamin. [William Safire].
A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations.
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
First edition of Netanyahu's masterful tribute to Israel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire, an avowed and unabashed supporter of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 127073
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write": Saul Bellow's retained copies of the original contracts with Viking Press for his novels Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and Mosby's Memoirs
BELLOW, Saul.
Saul Bellow Signed Novel Contracts.
New York: Viking Press, 1956-1968.
Saul Bellow's retained copies of the original contracts with Viking Press for his novels Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and short story collection Mosby's Memoirs. Each contract is four pages, signed at the conclusion by Bellow. The first contract dated April 4, 1956 obligates Bellow to "three untitled novels in 1956, 1957, and 1958" to which Bellow has added a note indicating that one of these will be Henderson the Rain King. The second, dated August 27, 1964 confirms Bellow's delivery of the finished work Herzog. The third, dated January 22, 1968 confirms Bellow's delivery of "a volume of short…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 61091
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"Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world That's pure and good and right": Bat Out of Hell Album; Signed by Meat Loaf and four other musicians
ADAY, Michael Lee [Meat Loaf]; Edgar Winter; Todd Rundgren; Roger Powell; Kasim Sulton.
Meat Loaf Signed Bat Out of Hell Album.
New York: Cleveland International Records, 1977.
Meat Loaf's debut studio album, released in 1977. Boldly signed by Meat Loaf, Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, and Kasim Sulton on the front panel. Each of the artists which appear here rocked in the same sphere with artist and producer Rundgren having production credits with multiple music albums including 'Bat Out of Hell,' Sulton performing bass and singing background vocals for Meat Loaf, and Winter playing saxophone on this explosive breakout album. In near fine condition. Record included.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147517
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
HURSTON, Zora Neale .
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition of this humorous novel set in Florida, a place Hurston knew well, having been born in Eatonville, an entirely black Florida town. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143512
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First Edition of Martin Amis' Money; Signed by Him
AMIS, Martin.
Money.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author's photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 133821
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Rare First Edition of William Worthington Fowler's Ten Years In Wall Street
FOWLER, William Worthington.
Ten Years In Wall Street; Or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on ‘Change.
Hartford: Worthington, Dust & Co, 1870.
Rare first edition of this classic work on Wall Street and the personalities involved in that history. Octavo, bound in buckram, gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, illustrated by Arthur Lumley. In very good condition. Scarce, with only two examples appearing at auction in the last eighty years.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 76908
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Rare complete collection of all 80 issues of The Magic World
PIERCE, J.E and Walter B. Gibson.
The Magic World.
Philadelphia: The Magic World Publishing Co, 1917-1924.
Rare complete collection of all 80 issues of The Magic World, the early 20th century periodical 'Devoted to the Interests of Magicians, Ventriloquists, Illusionists, and Others of the Allied Arts.' Octavo, 80 issues, illustrated. The issues range from April 1917 to June 1924, several feature stories about Harry Houdini with his magic trick tutorials. In near fine condition. Housed in three stiff paper wrappers.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 132590