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Rare Signed Golda Meir Certificate
MEIR, Golda.
Golda Meir Signed Certificate.
1956.
Signed by the future Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, then Labor Minister Golda Myerson on an official Ministry of of Labor Certificate of Excellence in Studies granted to ORT school girl in the sewing profession, dated June 20, 1956. This certificate is signed with her original name just before David Ben-Gurion ordered her to change her English name to a Hebrew one. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133284
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Rare 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Progressive Battle Flag
[ROOSEVELT, Theodore].
Progressive Era Battle Flag: Theodore Roosevelt.
[1912].
Progressive era "Battle Flag" from 1912 with a printed portrait of Theodore Roosevelt at the center surrounded by the text "Progressive Roosevelt 1912 Battle Flag", with "D & C N.Y." at lower left and and "Copyright by Underwood & Underwood NY." The flag measures 22 inches by 24 inches. Frustrated that he did not win the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1912, Roosevelt founded the Progressive or the "Bull Moose" party in order to challenge the Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Both would ultimately lose to Democrat Woodrow Wilson. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 149691
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The Collected Writing of John Maynard Keynes
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.}.
The Collected Writing of John Maynard Keynes.
London: Macmillan University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1971.
The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo, 30 volumes, original cloth. Volumes XI, XII, XVI-XXX are first editions. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144916
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Appointment Authorization Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Theodore Roosevelt Signed Document.
City of Washington: February 13, 1908.
Rare document signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President. One page, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the document is dated February 13, 1908, and appoints Robert Eaton as "Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Connecticut." Signed at the conclusion by Theodore Roosevelt, and countersigned by Secretary of Treasury George B. Cortelyou. Gold foil seal remains affixed. The printed document reads in full: To all who shall see these presents greeting: Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity, Diligence and Discretion of "Robert O. Eaton" I have Nominated and by and with the advice and consent of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146763
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“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity": First Edition of Mark Twain's Classic The Prince and the Pauper; From the library of William Safire
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Prince and the Pauper.
James R. Osgood and Company: New York, 1882.
First edition, second state with the Franklin Press imprint on the copyright page and corrected text on page 124 line 1 (corrected from estate to state). BAL 3402. Johnson p. 39-41. Octavo, original publisher's green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, with one hundred and ninety-two illustrations. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 127482
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William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed to Mary Audenried
SHERMAN, William T.
William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.
St. Louis, Missouri: May 21, 1885.
Autograph letter signed by William T. Sherman to the widowed Mary Audenried, whom he is rumored to have had a decade-long affair with. In this personal letter, William T. Sherman advises Mary Audenried, the widow of his former aide-de-camp Joseph C. Audenried, on how to manage her underage daughter's restless behavior. He shares that his wife and daughter may be leaving town and mentions the name of a local hotel, possibly hinting at a rendezvous. One page, bifolium, large duodecimo, the letter reads in part, "It is of hard course that one so loving as you should be lonely but…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145302
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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: $1,600.00 Item Number: 121439
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First Edition of Charles Rollin's The Ancient History; From the Library of General William Tecumseh Sherman
ROLLIN, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians Macedonias and Grecians.
New York: George Long, 1830.
First edition of this historical collection of travel accounts; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, four volumes, bound in full calf with gilt titles and labels to the spine, frontispiece portrait of Charles Rollin to Vol. I, folding map of the City of Syracuse besieged by the Athenians to Vol II, folding map of the coast of Spria, Phoenice and ot the Holy Land to Vol. III, folding map of Egypt and part of the Holy Land to Vol. IV, pictorial title page to each volume. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P. T. Sherman’s booklates…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145753
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"You don't think I'd steal something that didn't belong to me, do you?" First Edition of Practise to Deceive; Signed by Peter O'toole
BRADSHAW, George [Peter O'Toole].
Practise to Deceive.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.
First edition of this collection of short stories, one of which Venus Rising was the basis for the classic film How to Steal A Million, starring Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by legendary actor Peter O'Toole on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studios. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 110748
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart; signed by Him and three time by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Sputnik Sweetheart.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this work which "grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami’s] never written anything more openly emotional” (Los Angeles Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author "Haruki Murakami 11/7/05" on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel, title page and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 123751
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"Righteousness, Righteousness shalt thou pursue...": Rare Autograph Quote Signed by the 6th Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin
BEGIN, Menachem.
Menachem Begin Autograph Quote Signed.
Jerusalem: January 1985.
Rare autograph quote signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin, excerpting his May 15th 1948 speech regarding Israel's independence. One page on 'Success Quotes' card stationary, the quote reads, "'Remember ye we were strangers in the land of Egypt' - this supreme rule must continually light our way in our relations with the strangers in our gates. Righteousness [sic], righteousness shalt thou pursue... (From the radio-broadcast on May 15th 1948, in the wake of the proclamation of Israel's Independence) Jerusalem Jan. 1985 M. Begin." In fine condition. The piece measures 7.125 inches by 3.75 inches. An exceptional piece.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146685
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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to": First American Edition of Henry James' The Ambassadors
JAMES, Henry.
The Ambassadors.
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1903.
First American edition of this dark comedy, which Henry James considered his finest work. Octavo, original cloth, gilt topstain. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142170
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First on the Moon; Signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ARMSTRONG, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin E. Aldrin.
First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
Early printing of this work, which describes the events leading up to and during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned landing on the Moon. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140419
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“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination": The Left Hand of Darkness; Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin
LE GUIN, Ursula K. [LeGuin].
The Left Hand of Darkness.
New York: Walker & Company, 1969.
Early printing of the author's Nebula and Hugo award-winning novel. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "For Louise with best wishes Ursula Le Guin 5/III/88." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lena Fong Lueg. Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147540
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First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Finely Bound
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
First American edition, which precedes the British edition of Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133892
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"Now I am going to write a diary because we are going to America because of the war": First Edition of P.L. Travers' I Go By Sea, I Go By Land; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
TRAVERS, P.L.
I Go By Sea, I Go By Land.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941.
First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "K. Jean Bourne, P.L. Travers 6 December '41." With drawings by Gertrude Hermes. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with reinforcement to the verso. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 103991
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First Edition of Robert Baer's See No Evil; Inscribed by Him and signed by George Clooney and Matt Damon
BAER, Robert [George Clooney and Matt Damon].
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.
First edition of this memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks, basis for the 2005 film Syriana starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dagmar, Thanks for the encouragement. Cheers Bob Bauer WDC. 7.29.02." Additionally boldly signed by George Clooney and Matt Damon on the title page. Clooney won an Academy Award for his performance in Syriana. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144086
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“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created": First edition of The Road Ahead; Signed by Bill Gates
GATES, Bill.
The Road Ahead.
New York: The Viking Press, 1995.
First edition of Gates' modern classic work on the information age. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Bill Gates on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Laurie Rippon. With an interactive CD-ROM.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 117376
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial; Signed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932.
First edition of the author's classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Banting. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142447
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Rare Russian Imperial Bond; Signed by Banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild
ROTHSCHILD, Nathan Mayer.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild Russian Imperial Bond Signed.
St. Petersburg, Russia: Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund, 1822.
Rare Russian Imperial bond signed by banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Quarto, two pages, the document is dated March 1, 1822 and certifies the bearer is entitled to 720 rubles with a 5% annuity. Signed in ink by Rothschild at the upper right. In very good condition with some toning, a few losses, and splitting to the intersecting folds.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146849
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“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House
DICKENS, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.
First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fine condition. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 136226
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Extra-illustrated first edition of Robert Southey's The Pilgrim's Progress With a Life of John Bunyan; elaborately bound in full morocco by bayntun riviere
SOUTHEY, Robert. [John Bunyan].
The Pilgrim’s Progress. With a Life of John Bunyan.
London: John Murray and John Major, 1830.
First edition of A Pilgrim's Progress to include Southey's Life of Bunyan, extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruling and decorative borders to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bunyan, illustrated with two engravings by William Raymond Smith after paintings by John Martin and woodcut illustrations in text by Charles Nesbit. This copy extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Southey's biography of Bunyan reinvigorated interest in…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133036
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion; From the Library of Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
MARABLE, Manning. [J.M. Coetzee].
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990.
University of Mississippi Press: Jackson and London, 1990.
Revised second edition from the library of Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee with his ownership signature to the title page. J.M. Coetzee is an essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (three times), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. Waiting for the Barbarians received both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Age of Iron was awarded the Sunday Express Book of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144545
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“For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins": The Poems and Tragedies of Algernon Charles Swinburne
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
The Poems and Tragedies of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904-1906.
The Large-Paper edition of the poems and tragedies of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Octavo, 11 volumes, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in. One of 110 numbered sets, this is number 54. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 141035
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First Edition of Geek Love; Signed by Katherine Dunn and three times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd
DUNN, Katherine.
Geek Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition of this classic work, named by The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Dunn on the title page and signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel; on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. The book's original cover art by Chip Kidd caused a sensation at book conventions when it was introduced in 1989. Its plain, stark orange color and unusual fonts went against conventional design aesthetics. In keeping with the novel's theme of mutation, the lettering of the title employs mutated…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147967
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"And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time." "And did she ever come out?" "Not yet": First Edition of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Lengthily Signed by Gregory Maguire With a Large Drawing
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.
First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author with a large drawing on the half-title page, "And then the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time." "And did she ever come out?" "Not yet." Gregory Maguire Sept 15, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Douglas Smith. Jacket design by Joel Avirom. A unique example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146864
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it": First Edition of Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me
FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, bookplate. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140615
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Color photograph signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Jimmy Carter
CARTER, Jimmy and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jimmy Carter Signed Photograph.
Color photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama warmly shaking the hand of President Jimmy Carter in 2002, signed by both. The two leaders met in 2002 and later 2005 during the American Himalayan Foundation’s annual dinner at San Francisco. Carter publicly expressed admiration several times for the Dalai Lama’s advocacy of peace and compassion as the voice of Tibet in the midst of decades of conflict with China. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 137343
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"But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window In the Tower of Song": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs; Inscribed by Him to Mort Lindsey and fellow singer Judy Johnson
COHEN, Leonard.
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
New York: Pantheon, 1993.
First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Mort and Judy warm regards on Christmas Day Leonard Los Angeles 1993." Cohen has include his trademark entwined heart stamp. The recipients were composer Mort Lindsey and fellow singer Judy Johnson and close friends of Cohen. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado. Jacket photograph by Edward Gajdel. Association copies are uncommon.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 117464
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Finely Bound Example of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; With a Foredge
BUNYAN, John.
Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]
London : L. and G. Seeley, 1840.
Finely bound example with a foredge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840 of one of the most significant works of religious English literature, Pilgrim's Progress. Octavo, bound in full morocco, all edges gilt, 15 plates and illustrations, all hand-colored, with a fore-edge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. An nice presentation.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 120842
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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order TO Live; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.
Early printing of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 70983
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Rare Wrapper Edition of A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska
BOYNTON, C.B. and T.B. Mason.
A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources.
Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1855.
Rare wrapper-bound issue of the second book on Kansas. Octavo, original wrappers, with a folding map of Nebraska and Kansas by Boynton. The pictorial advertisement for the publisher on the rear wrapper features a picture of the establishment. With "Sixth Thousand!" printed at the top of the front wrapper. In good condition with some wear to the spine and extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 76010
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Rare Fourth American edition of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
PAINE, Thomas.
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
Albany: Re-Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, n.d.
Fourth American edition of Paine's classic work. Octavo, disbound. In near fine condition. A rare and desirable American separate printing.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134509
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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so": Rare Honorary Dinner Program; Signed by French General Charles de Gaulle
DE GAULLE, Charles.
Charles de Gaulle Honorary Dinner Program Signed.
1960.
Rare original dinner program from the Honorary Dinner For His Excellency General Charles de Gaulle held in New York City on April 26th, 1960, boldly signed by him. Quarto, 8 pages, string bound. Signed by Charles de Gaulle on the front cover of the program. The program includes listings of the presidents, officers, directors, and honorary members of the Alliance Francaise de New York, American Society of the French Legion of Honor, and The France-America Society. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed by General de Gaulle.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 92469
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First Edition of Anthony Burgess' One Hand Clapping; Inscribed by Him to the executive producer of A Clockwork Orange Si Litvinoff
[ANTHONY BURGESS] JOSEPH KELL,.
One Hand Clapping.
London: Peter Davies, 1961.
First edition of this work by the author of A Clockwork Orange. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To dear Si with affection 'Joe’(Anthony/John.” The recipient, Si Litvinoff was the executive producer for Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange that was based on Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel, with Litvinoff's signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Gorman. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134575
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First Edition of Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins
WILSON, Margaret.
The Able McLaughlins.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine second state jacket, with notice of the Harper Prize printed at the top of the front panel and the front flap, with $2.00 price present, but no Pulitzer Prize sticker or re-order coupon at bottom rear flap. Uncommon.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142067
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Inscribed by Hillary Rodham Clinton to United States Senator Patrick Moynihan
CLINTON, Hillary Rodham.
It Takes A Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to former New York United States Senator Patrick Moynihan, "To Pat- Thanks for the visit- Hillary Rodham Clinton." Clinton successfully filled the New York Senate seat left by Moynihan in 2000. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Purchased from the library of Moynihan. A nice association linking these two political icons.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 5387
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"THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED FRANCE TO NEWTONIAN PHYSICS": RARE FIRST EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S ELEMENS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE DE NEUTON
VOLTAIRE. [AROUET, François-Marie].
Elemens de la Philosophie de Neuton. [Elements of the Philosophy of Newton].
Amsterdam: Chez Jacques Desbordes, 1738.
First edition of one of the most elegantly illustrated science books ever printed and the book that introduced France to Newtonian physics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated seven folding engraved plates, headpieces and tailpieces and 60 in-text illustrations. In good condition, lacking the frontispiece.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 128559
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"For in the end, is it not fitting that a book about the Constitution should close by studying what the Constitution is not about?" First Edition of American Constitutional Law; Lengthily Inscribed by Laurence Tribe
TRIBE, Laurence H.
American Constitutional Law.
New York: The Foundation Press, 1978.
First edition of the legal scholar's classic treatise on constitutional law. Quarto, original red boards. In near fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed the author on the front free endpaper, "For Adri- For in the end, is it not fitting that a book about the Constitution should close by studying what the Constitution is not about? Laurence H. Tribe June 2009." In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 143896
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"I wish you good fortune": First Edition of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Warmly signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
The Golden Notebook.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 114758