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Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth Rare with Original Dust Jacket; Signed by Vivien Leigh
WILDER, Thornton [Vivien Leigh].
The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.
Early edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Octavo, original cloth and labels. Signed by actress Vivien Leigh on the front free endpaper. One of the most iconic actresses of the 20th century, known particularly for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 epic film 'Gone with the Wind,' Leigh was lauded for her talent in acting, winning multiple awards for Best Actress across her years in film. Leigh was already well-established by the time she accepted the role of Lily Sabina in Thornton Wilder's play, 'The Skin of Our Teeth,' which she performed in between work on 'Caesar and…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145370
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First Editions of this wonderfully illustrated Set; The Survey of London
BESANT, Walter Sir.
The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903-1912..
First editions of this work on the great city of London. Quarto, original red cloth, 10 volumes, with titles the spine in gilt and front panel, gilt topstain, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in very good to near fine condition with light wear to the spine extremities. An exceptional set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 2847
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First edition of Hamilton Basso's Sun in Capricorn; inscribed by him to fellow writer Norman Maclean
BASSO, Hamilton [Norman Maclean].
Sun in Capricorn.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
First edition of Basso's classic Southern novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Norman MaClean - Who can probably find in some of the details - with best wishes of Hamilton Basso Oct. 25, 1942." The recipient, fellow American author Norman Maclean is best known for his classic 1976 novel A River Runs Through It. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare; scarce signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132988
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First Edition of Up From Liberalism; Warmly Inscribed by William B. Buckley
BUCKLEY, William F.
Up From Liberalism.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Howard Klein Admiringly William F. Buckley." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132458
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"From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?": First Edition of Poems 1962-2012; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Louise Gluck
GLUCK, Louise.
Poems 1962-2012.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen Achilles.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146120
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Paul Samuelson Photograph Signed to Meet the Press Moderator Lawrence Spivak
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Paul A. Samuelson Signed Photograph.
1970.
Original photograph of Nobel Prize-winning economist. Signed by the author in the year of his being awarded the prize seated next to the moderator of Meet the Press Lawrence E. Spivak from December 20, 1970, "For Larry Spivak, Paul A. Samuelson, December 1970." In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131396
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“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate”: First Edition of The Piano Teacher; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek
JELINEK, Elfriede.
The Piano Teacher.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, "For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133735
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"This is the only one of my books that has pictures, but unfortunately the Harvard Press could not afford to print them in color": First Edition of Imagined Worlds; Lengthily Signed by Freeman Dyson
DYSON, Freeman.
Imagined Worlds.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work by Freeman Dyson. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, "For ______ ______ Freeman Dyson, February 2010 This is the only one of my books that has pictures, but unfortunately the Harvard Press could not afford to print them in color." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jill Breitbarth.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 111009
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FIRST EDITION OF EDNA FERBER'S CLASSIC WORK GIANT; SIGNED BY HER
FERBER, Edna.
Giant.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952.
First edition of this "powerful story...truly as big as its subject" (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edna Ferber. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Fred McCarroll.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 114531
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David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer; finely bound in full morocco
[LIVINGSTONE, David].
David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer.
New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd, n.d. c. 1908.
Finely bound example of this anonymous work on the life of David Livingstone. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, frontispiece. In near fine condition. Bookplate. A fine example of early 20th century binding.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124055
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First edition of Tyranny of the Status Quo; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Tyranny of the Status Quo.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration's attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Milton and Rose Friedman on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lem Rauk/ Visible Ink. Jacket photography by Frank Castro and Associates.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147053
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First Edition of Beyond Borders; Inscribed by Film Producer Lloyd Phillips; Accompanied by approximately eighty original gelatin silver prints
PHILLIPS, Lloyd.
Beyond Borders. [WITH] A Collection of Eighty Lloyd Phillips Photographs.
Malibu: Scan Shop, 2002.
First edition of this collection of photographs taken during the filming of Martin Campbell's 'Beyond Borders,' starring Angelina Jolie. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "Arthur 'J', Thanks for keeping me alive and being such a good friend. Lloyd '02." In very good condition. Accompanied by approximately eighty original gelatin silver prints. Many of these photographs are represented in the book, but there are many additional photographs not included in the book which appear here.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146969
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First Edition of Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate; Signed by Her
SPARK, Muriel.
The Mandelbaum Gate.
London: Macmillan, 1965.
First edition of this classic novel by Spark. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 57014
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First Edition of Richard Posner's The Economics of Justice; Inscribed by Him
POSNER, Richard A.
The Economics of Justice.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
First edition of Posner's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Roger with all best wishes Dick Posner." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 85890
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Jan Gehl's Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space; Lengthily Signed by Him
GEHL, Jan.
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.
Early printing of this "thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening work" (Jane Jacobs). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Keep up the good work and greetings from Jan Gehl Copenhagen 20.01.2015." In near fine condition. Translated by Jo Koch.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 73672
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First Edition of A Dog's Ransom; Inscribed by Patricia Highsmith
HIGHSMITH, Patricia.
A Dog’s Ransom.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
First edition of this work by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "For Margaret et Barrett- avec plaisir a un lecteur Patricia Highsmith 15 April 1975." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144489
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"Statesman, Warrior, Writer, and Painter, his genius had few parallels ever": First Edition of Elizabeth Longford's Winston Churchill; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
LONGFORD, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill].
Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.
First edition of Elizabeth Longford's photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe , gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs. Foreword by Anthony Eden. Afterword by Winston S. Churchill, M.P. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139533
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"What did all this have to do with doing business?": First Edition of Barbarians At The Gate; Lengthily Signed by Co-Author John Helyar
BURROUGH, Bryan and John Helyar.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.
First edition of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Lengthily signed by co-author John Helyar on the half-title page as follows, "What did all this have to do with doing business? John Helyar." This is the final line of this title. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119559
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First Edition of The White Plague; Signed by Frank Herbert
HERBERT, Frank.
The White Plague.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982.
First edition of this classic novel which explores madness and revenge on a global scale. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Abe Echevarria. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126758
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First Edition of Bill Owens' Suburbia; Inscribed by Him
OWENS, Bill.
Suburbia.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Press, 1973.
First Edition. Oblong quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. Inscribed by Bill Owens on the front free endpaper, "For Dave Bill Owens Can you avoid Suburbia." In very good condition. Laid in is the photographer's business card.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 948
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Rare First Editions of Vicente Bacallar y Sanna's Comentarios de la guerra de España, e historia de su Rey Phelipe V el Animoso
BACALLAR Y SANNA, Vicente.
Comentarios de la guerra de España, e historia de su Rey Phelipe V el Animoso: Volumes I & II.
Genoa: Matheo Garvizza, 1725.
First edition of this commentary, which covers the reign of King Philip V of Spain and The War of the Spanish Succession. Octavo, 2 volumes, contemporary tree calf, morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 51019
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First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Signed Four Times by Jacket Illustrator Thomas Taylor and with an illustration
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Thomas Taylor. Signed four times by jacket illustrator Thomas Taylor, on the half-title page with a drawing of glasses, on the jacket panel, on the book front panel and on the rear jacket panel. At the time of the book’s publication in 1996, Thomas Taylor had just graduated from art school and was working at Heffers Children’s Bookshop in Cambridge. At Heffers, Taylor…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144071
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First Edition of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
GALLICO, Paul.
The Snow Goose.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
First edition of this classic story, the moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month prior to publication on the front free endpaper, "To Stuart Rose- Who has great patience with me- with my love- Paul Gallico March, 1941." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover art by George Salter.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110454
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First edition of Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon; finely bound in full morocco
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [Eleanor Farjeon].
Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.
London: The Medici Society, 1930.
First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119841
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William Augustus Henderson's The Housekeeper's Instructor; from the library of American journalist William Safire
HENDERSON, W. A. [William Safire].
The Housekeeper’s Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook: Being a Full and Clear Display in all its Branches… To Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, [1823].
Early printing of Henderson's bestselling English cookery book. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with engravings, lacking the frontispiece, one plate and with loss to another plate. Corrected and revised by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. From the library of William Safire, although not marked. 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…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123841
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First Edition of Frantz Fanon's Studies in a Dying Colonialism
FANON, Frantz.
Studies in a Dying Colonialism.
New York: Monthly REview Press, 1965.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ernest Socolov. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Introduction by Adolpho Gilly.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 129464
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Robert Trivers' The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism; inscribed by him
TRIVERS, Robert L.
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism.
Cambridge, Mass.: Reprinted from The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1971.
First appearance of Trivers' enormously influential first published paper, written while he was still earning his PhD at Harvard under Bayr and Drury in which he coined the term "reciprocal altruism" as well as "delayed return altruism." Octavo, disbound from the original journal. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, "To Jeff Kurland, a little something I thought you might enjoy. Bob." The recipient, Jeffrey A. Kurland, was a distinguished professor of biological anthropology and evolution at Penn State. In fine condition. With Kurland's Peabody Museum, Harvard University ownership stamp. Small tape repair to the front panel.…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136255
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First edition of William Gladstone's Speeches and Addresses Delivered at the Election of 1865; signed by him
GLADSTONE, William.
Speeches and Addresses Delivered at the Election of 1865. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer.
London: John Murray, 1865.
First edition of the Gladstone's collected speeches delivered at the Election of 1865. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gladstone on the front panel, "From the Author." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134982
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First Edition of The Art of George Tuska; Inscribed by Him to Legendary Creator Stan Lee
DEWEY CASSELL WITH AARON SULTAN AND MIKE GARTLAND FOREWORD BY STAN LEE,.
The Art of George Tuska.
Raleigh: Two Morrows Publishing, 2005.
First edition of this work by the artist, inscribed by him to legendary creator Stan Lee, who contributed the foreword to this volume. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. The recipient, Stan Lee co-created iconic characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. In fine condition. From the library of Stan Lee.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140472
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Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's Goodnight Moon; Signed by Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
BROWN, Margaret Wise; [Fred Haise].
Goodnight Moon.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, [2013].
75th anniversary edition of this classic children's book. Octodecimo, original pictorial boards. Humorously inscribed by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise in black felt tip on the front panel, "I had a harder time than the cow! Fred Haise Apollo 13 LMP." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146184
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Salvador; Signed by Her
DIDION, Joan.
Salvador.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
First edition of this classic work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124791
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First Edition of Forever Ulysses; Signed by Translator Patrick Leigh Fermor
RODOCANACHI, C.P. [Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor].
Forever Ulysses.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's first novel and Patrick Leigh Fermor's first significant literary contribution. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the translator Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the crown of the spine and a few small closed tears. Leigh Fermor translated this novel at the age of 22.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3901
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First Edition of An Anthropologist on Mars; Inscribed by Oliver Sacks to His Editor in the Year of Publication
SACKS, Oliver.
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
First edition of this astounding collection of unique medical histories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with color plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his editor in the year of publication, "For Stanley Holwitz, editor, guide, friend - with all my thanks and best wishes - 2/12/95 Oliver." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Jacket photograph by Joyce Ravid.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146916
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First edition of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel; bound in a unique full morocco binding
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
My Cousin Rachel.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951.
First edition of Daphne du Maurier’s classic mystery-romance. Octavo, bound in full morocco to mimic a lady's riding jacket with three jeweled buttons. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 129038
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Rare econometric paper by Paul A. Samuelson
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Economic Theory and Mathematics: An Appraisal.
Chicago: Cowles Commission For Research in Economics at The University of Chicago, 1952.
Rare econometric paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Small contemporary name to the front panel. In near fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 88161
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First Edition of The China Diary; Signed by George H.W. Bush and Jeffrey Engel
BUSH, George H.W.; Edited by Jeffrey Engel.
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
First edition of Bush's diary, which he dictated while being de facto U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China in 1974–75. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by President George H.W. Bush and inscribed by the editor, Jeffrey Engel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144397
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First Edition of Anthony Powell's Temporary Kings
POWELL, Anthony.
Temporary Kings.
London: Heinemann, 1973.
First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142957
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First Edition of Herbert Hoover's The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Hugh Kelly with the good wishes of Herbert Hoover." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman. First editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138559
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First American Edition of The Interrogation; Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
The Interrogation.
New York: Atheneum, 1964.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the spine. Jacket design by Isadore Seltzer. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1709
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"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly": First Edition of Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper
HUGHES, Langston.
The Dream Keeper.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Helen Sewell. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Sewell. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125808
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First edition of Suzanne Labin's Chile: The Crime of Resistance; Inscribed to Henry Kissinger
LABIN, Suzanne [Henry A. Kissinger].
Chile: The Crime of Resistance.
Surrey, England: Foreign Affairs Publishing Company, 1983.
First edition of Chile: The Crime of Resistance. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication to Henry Kissinger, "A Henri Kissingers Secretaire d'Etat hommage respectueux, Suzanne Labin le Paris 12.3.83." A nice association linking Labin, a provocative anti-Communist French analyst and Kissinger, a pro-Pinochet supporter. Labin portrays a Chile that vindicates Kissinger's policies -- Allende was the oppressor and Pinochet a beacon of progress according to Labin. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 5310
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First edition of Tyranny of the Status Quo; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Tyranny of the Status Quo.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration's attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by both Milton and Rose Friedman on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lem Rauk/ Visible Ink. Jacket photography by Frank Castro and Associates.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 47004
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Rare first edition of Hornblower One More Time; signed by Alexander Kent
FORESTER, C.S. [Alexander Kent].
Hornblower One More Time.
Tacoma: The Non-Profit Press, 1976.
First edition of this collection of three Hornblower stories never before published in book form. Octavo, original boards, cartographic endpapers. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Alexander Kent of an edition of 350 numbered copies. Additionally one of 15 copies with one of the co-sponsors' gilt names to the front panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131908
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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“People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion": First Edition of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools; Signed by Her
PORTER, Katherine Anne.
Ship of Fools.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of this classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner which dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Porter on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rob Howard. Photograph of Katherine Anne Porter by Arthur B. Long. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142403
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First edition, advance review copy of Llyod Lewis's Captain Sam Grant; from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Herbert Donald
LEWIS, Lloyd. [David Herbert Donald].
Captain Sam Grant.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
First edition, advance review copy of Lewis' great biography of American Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, with the publisher's review slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald with three drafts of a review of the book by Donald's mentor and the director of his dissertation at the University of Illinois, John Randall, laid in.; one with hand-written annotations. American historian David Herbert Donald is best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography two times for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136237
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First Edition of Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner; Signed by William Sharpe and Robert Solow
SHARPE, William F. and Cathryn M. Cootner[Robert S. Solow].
Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner.
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1982.
First edition of this collection of essays in honor of the famed economist. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists William Sharpe and Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 143055
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First edition of John Le Carre's The Naive and Sentimental Lover; signed by him
LE CARRE, John.
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
First edition of le Carré's classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes. An exceptional example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146204
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"My name is Charles Frederick Bush, C. Fred for short": First edition of White House Dog C. Fred's Story; Inscribed by both Barbara and George Bush
BUSH, C. Fred. Edited Slightly by Barbara Bush (George Bush).
C. Fred’s Story: A Dog’s Life.
New York: Doubleday, 1984.
First edition of First Lady Barbara Bush's children's book about the adventures of White House dog C. Fred Bush. Large octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs throughout. Inscribed by Barbara Bush, "To Edna Pryn - With love and affection to a dear friend - Warmly - Barbara Bush" and President George Bush, "With love, George Bush," and with a paw print stamp in the likeness of C. Fred's paw. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust Jacket design by David Gatti. Jacket photograph by Cynthia Johnson.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 82391
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First Editions of Time on the Cross; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel in Both Volumes
FOGEL, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman.
Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.
First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes. Both volumes are signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, "RW Fogel 3/18/10." Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Sarah L. Bindari.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 114451
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"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate": First Editions of Each Novel in John Updike’s Rabbit Quartet
UPDIKE, John.
Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-2000.
First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 131226
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First American Edition of Vassilis Vassilikos' Z; Inscribed by Him
VASSILIKOS, Vassilis.
Z.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
First American edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Matthew with my love, Vassilis Vassilikos 5.05.01." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket that shows very light wear. Jacket design by Enrico Arno. Translated from the Greek by Marilyn Calmann.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 44632
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Finely bound collection of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.
Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 96168
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 119411
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“The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes": First Edition of The Johnstown Flood; Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
The Johnstown Flood.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Rogers David McCullough." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146412
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The Complete and Rare First American Edition Set of Harold MacMillan's Memoirs; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939].
New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966-75.
First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan’s memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of 'Winds of Change,' "For Faye Bozin from Harold Macmillan." Additionally signed by Macmillan on the title page of 'Pointing the Way' and 'The Past Masters.' Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 147300
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Czeslaw Milosz's Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition; Signed by Him
MILOSZ, Czeslaw.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 142086
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The New Whole Duty of Man; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age, AS the Old Whole Duty of Man was design’d for those unhappy Times in which it was written: And Supplying the Articles of the Christian Faith, Which are Wanting in that Book. Though Essentially Necessary to Salvation. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Printed for W. Bent, 1823.
Finely bound example of this classic Protestant devotional work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a maritime view, engraved frontispiece. In good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright. Ownership inscription.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 138215
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"I began to feel like some sort of hero. Maybe I’m not so medium after all." First Edition of the Author’s Newbery Award-Winning Novel; Signed by Beverly Cleary
CLEARY, Beverly.
Dear Mr. Henshaw.
New York: William Morrow, 1983.
First edition of the author's Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 140935
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First Edition of The Cosmic Jest; Signed by Herbert Hoover, Clarence Budington Kelland, and another Bohemian Club Member
KELLAND, Clarence Budington; Music by Frank R. Denke; [Herbert Hoover].
The Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play.
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1949.
First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Budington Kelland, on the dedication page. Additionally signed by another member of the Bohemian Club. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 146694