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First Edition of Alfred Winslow Jones' Life, Liberty, and Property
JONES, Alfred Winslow.
Life, Liberty, and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Laid in is an advertisement to purchase war bonds. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 45087
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America Inscribed by Barbara Ehrenreich
EHRENREICH, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
First edition, early printing of this work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Lynn- Thanks for your support of Measure '25 Barbara Ehrenreich." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146483
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First Edition of My Life; Signed By Hillary Rodham Clinton
CLINTON, Bill; Hillary Rodham Clinton.
My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of President Clinton's autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Boldly signed in full on the title page by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138187
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"A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone"; First Edition of Enzymatic Structures of DNA; Inscribed by Arthur Kornberg
KORNBERG, Arthur.
Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Arthur Kornberg on the front free endpaper. Small stamp of Biologist L.S. Baron on the front endpage. Fine in a dust jacket that shows just a touch of wear.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 747
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First Edition of John Bates Clark's Essentials of Economic Theory
CLARK, John Bates.
Essentials of Economic Theory: As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.
First edition of this early work by John Bates Clark. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition with light marginala.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 67031
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First Edition of Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis; Signed by Walter Hooper
HOOPER, Walter [C.S. Lewis].
Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1982.
First edition of this biography on C.S. Lewis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Walter Hooper on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131584
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"For Susie and Paul Old and good Friends": First Edition of Malamud's Idiots First; Inscribed by Him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Idiots First.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul Old and good friends Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marshall Lee. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 10017
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"the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide": Rare 18th century hand-colored map of the Chinese Islands of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau from Jean- Baptiste Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique
DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste [China].
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Map of China: Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau. [Description Geographique].
J. Wood, c. 1736.
Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map providing plans of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau, being a plate extracted from Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique, the most important cartographic record of the region of the eighteenth century. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137249
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Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen
BUSH, George H. W.
George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen.
Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen bearing Bush's signature in facsimile. Housed in the original pen box bearing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. In fine condition requiring the nib insert.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114942
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"A man in search of a magician": First Edition of Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers; Warmly inscribed by Him
BURGESS, Anthony.
Earthly Powers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
First edition of this epic masterpiece by the author of A Clockwork Orange, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jose Matos, A man in search of a magician Anthony Burgess." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the spine. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115443
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First Edition of The Education of A Tennis Player; Inscribed by Tennis Legend Rod Laver
LAVER, Rod with Bud Collins.
The Education of a Tennis Player.
London: Pelham Books, 1971.
First edition of the tennis great's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Andy Best Wishes Rod Laver." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Written with Bud Collins.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 140060
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First Edition of Marcella Cucina; Inscribed by Marcella Hazan
HAZAN, Marcella.
Marcella Cucina.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Hazan. Quarto, original glossy boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Alison Harris. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Doris best wishes! Marcella Hazan." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joel Avirom.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143511
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Rare Antique Print of President Ulysses S. Grant with His Family
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Antique Print.
Rare antique print of the eighteenth president of the United States of America. Black and white print of Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia Grant and four children. Framed. In fine condition. This piece measures 13.25 inches by 16.25 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146568
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First Edition of William Kennedy's Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a newspaper article on Kennedy winning the Pulitzer Prize. Some offsetting to the half and title pages, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 690
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First edition of Vivian Fuchs' Antarctic Adventure; signed by Edmund Hillary
FUCHS, Sir Vivian. [Edmund Hillary].
Antarctic Adventure: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1959.
First edition of Sir Vivian Fuchs' classic account of The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with maps, plans, and illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. Association copy, signed by legendary mountaineer Edmund Hillary who led the New Zealand Ross Sea Support team of the expedition on the title page. The New Zealand party included scientists participating in International Geophysical Year research while the British team led by Fuchs, were separately based at Halley Bay. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137050
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First edition of Mikhail Gorbachev's The Results and Lessons of Reykjavik; signed by him
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
The Results and Lessons of Reykjavik.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986.
First edition of this collection of speeches delivered by Mikhail Gorbachev at the historic Reykjavík Summit. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114360
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First Edition of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Tommie.
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
First edition of this powerful autobiography by the Olympic gold medalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Michelle- Enjoy Life, it's divine Tommie Smith 1968 Olympics." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kate Nichols. Written with David Steele.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 117701
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First Edition of The Return to Increasing Returns; Inscribed by James M. Buchanan to his Secretary
BUCHANAN, James M. and Yong J. Yoon.
The Return to Increasing Returns.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by James Buchanan on the title page, "To Betty, another to add to your list on the shelves. J. Fairfax April 94." The recipient, Betty H. Tillman, was his assistant for 46 years and was the second person Buchanan phoned on October 16, 1986 (after his wife, Ann) when he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (see Buchanan, ‘Notes on Nobelity,’ in Better than Plowing: And Other Personal Essays, University of Chicago Press 1992). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33048
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J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish; Signed by Him
MACLEISH, Archibald .
J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Archibald MacLeish on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Title page by Ismar David.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131799
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Elizabeth Moxon's English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Reciepts; Bound with English Housewifery Improved
MOXON, Elizabeth.
English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Reciepts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery. [WITH] English Housewifery Improved; or, a Supplement to Moxon’s Cookery.
London: Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and H. Mozley, 1789.
Finely bound edition of this thorough etiquette and recipe book. Two volumes bound in one, three-quarter brown speckled calf over marbled boards with gilt titles on a morocco label and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, illustrated with a folding table and eight woodcut diagrams of table settings, two of which are folding. In very good condition with very light staining to the first few leaves, bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146428
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“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change"; First Edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case
GREENE, Graham .
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961.
First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Small name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 104522
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First Edition of The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt; Inscribed by Him
BABBITT, Milton; Edited by Stephen Peles.
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of the compilation of the essays of the great composer Milton Babbitt. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the composer, "For ____ _____, With Warmest greetings, from Milton Babbitt 6/18/08." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 1280
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First edition of Garry Wills' Explaining America: The Federalist; signed by him
WILLS, Garry.
Explaining America: The Federalist.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981.
First edition of Wills' analysis of The Federalist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Garry Wills on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132144
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First Edition of Stirling Moss' A Turn at the Wheel; Signed by Him
MOSS, Stirling.
A Turn at the Wheel.
London: William Kimber, 1961.
First edition of Moss' races, which cover the years 1957-1960, the most productive of his career. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138011
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
WHARTON, Edith.
The Glimpses of the Moon.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1922.
First edition of Wharton's sweeping epic. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near dust jacket with light wear and closed tears to the extremities.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115679
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First edition of Vladimir's Nabokov The Defense
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Defense.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel, which tells the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own genius and of the hopeless efforts of the wife who loves him to save him from himself. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Translated by Michael Scammel in collaboration with the author. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 139301
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First Edition of The Stone Raft; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Stone Raft.
New York: Harcourt, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 139
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First Edition of A Golfer’s Life; Inscribed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold .
A Golfer’s Life.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.
First edition of the golfing legend's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 black-and-white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To O.H. Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with James Dodson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145606
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"The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears": The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Finely bound and with the original wrappers bound in
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Complete. [Lay of the Last Minstrel; Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; Rokeby; Lord of the Isles].
New York and Boston: Charles S. and Joseph H. Francis, 1841.
Francis' revised complete edition of Scott's poetical works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound into 5 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137035
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First Edition of Rabindranath Tagore's The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1916.
First edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Translated from the Original Bengali by Various Writers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143008
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"And wherever they are, those Borgias, may they rest in peace": First edition of Gregory Maguire's Mirror Mirror; inscribed by him
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Mirror Mirror.
New York: ReganBooks, 2003.
First edition of the author of Wicked's lyrical revision of the tale of Snow White. Octavo, original pictorial boards, frontispiece. Designed by Judith Stagnitto Abbate. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "'And wherever they are, those Borgias, may they rest in peace.' Gregory Maguire April 2007." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Douglas Smith. Author photograph by Jill Walsh.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 126382
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First Edition of Bernard Malamud's The Tenants; Warmly Inscribed by Him to his cousins
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Tenants.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
First edition of Malamud's sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousins, "For Minnie and Marshall With affection Bern." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Jacket photograph by Janna Malamud.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 112806
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George Reisman's The Government Against the Economy; signed by him
REISMAN, George. Introduction by William E. Simon.
The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government’s On-going Destruction of the American Economic System through Price Control.
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1979.
First edition, early printing of Reisman's argument against regulated price controls. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by George Reisman on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115809
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First Edition of H.B. Martin's Pictorial Golf; Inscribed by Martin and Signed by Legendary Golfer Gene Sarazen
MARTIN, H.B.
Pictorial Golf: Practical Instruction for the Beginner, and Valuable Hints for the Star.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on practical instruction for the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To A.B. Jenks from H.B. Martin." Additionally signed by Gene Sarazen on page 52, where there is a drawing by Martin of him. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by both Martin and Sarazen. D&J M11320
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 84714
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First Edition of Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage; Inscribed by him
ROBERTS, Kenneth.
Northwest Passage.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937.
First edition of Kenneth Roberts' historical novel which follows the exploits of Robert Rogers, the leader of a colonial force fighting with the British during the French and Indian War. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page, "With all the good wishes of Kenneth Roberts." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration from a pastel by Winold Reiss, based on an original engraving of Major Rogers. Bookplate. Housed in the original slipcase which is in very good condition and a custom cloth clamshell box.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 95360
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Eleanor Roosevelt's A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty; In the rare original dust jacket
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin D.
A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935.
Rare second large printing of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 142053
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First edition of Return to the Moon; inscribed by Harrison Schmitt
SCHMITT, Harrison. Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space.
New York: Copernicus Books in Association with Praxis Publishing, 2006.
First edition of the author's visionary plan for humankind's future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bob Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jordan Rosenbum.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144631
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Plaque of Her Majesty the Queen's Royal Performance of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun
ELIZABETH II, Queen [Agatha Christie].
Evil Under the Sun Royal Performance Plaque.
Variety and EMI Films, December 23, 1981.
Rare royal film performance plaque presented in congratulations to EMJ Films producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin and director Guy Hamilton for their selection of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' for Her Majesty the Queen at the 1982 Royal Film Performance Presentation. Glossy performance plaque, the text on the plaque reads in part, "The Royal Film Performance 1982 in the gracious presence of H. M. The Queen at the Odeon Leicester Square Monday 22nd March 1982." In very good condition with some rubbing and abrasions to the surface. The piece measures 17.5 inches by 13 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145561
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First Edition of The Faces of Jesus; Signed by Frederick Buechner
BUECHNER, Frederick.
The Faces of Jesus.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
First edition of this work on the life of Jesus. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photography by Lee Boltin. Design by Ray Ripper.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 67998
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First Edition of Return to Earth; Signed by Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga
ALDRIN, Buzz .
Return to Earth.
New York: Random House, 1973.
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin and inscribed by co-author Wayne Warga on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146504
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First American edition of John Maynard Keynes' Essays in Persuasion
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
Essays in Persuasion.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
First American edition of Keynes’ first volume of collected essays. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 135116
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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214
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First Edition of Ethel King's The Calendar In Rime; Signed by Her
KING, Ethel.
The Calendar In Rime.
Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1947.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my compliments- Ethel King." Near fine in the rare original glassine.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114523
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First Edition of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Tommie.
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
First edition of this powerful autobiography by the Olympic gold medalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "6-7-07 To Philip Health and Wellness. Faith Tommie Smith." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kate Nichols. Written with David Steele.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 117848
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Finely bound example of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Great Boer War; finely bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Great Boer War.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1901.
New edition, being the fourteenth impression, of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work on the Boer War, which he revised sixteen times throughout the course of the war. Octavo, bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club with their insignia stamped in gilt to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, folding map at rear. In near fine condition. Edinburgh Angus Club bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 118603
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First Edition of Annie Dillard's An American Childhood; The Author's Own Copy
DILLARD, Annie.
An American Childhood.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First edition of Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. The author's own copy with her personal bookplate. Signed by Annie Dillard on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Dreese Breslin.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 1746
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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Inscribed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 125369
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First Edition of Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking; Signed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Julia Child. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jane Julia Child." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Front of the jacket photograph by Micheal McLaughlin. Book photograph by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145839
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First Edition of Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers; Inscribed by Judy Blume
BLUME, Judy.
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of this collection of censored writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor in the year of publication on the title page, "To Lorrie Love, Judy Blume Sept. 1999." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lily Malcolm.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144168
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First Edition of Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side; Signed by Him
ALGREN, Nelson.
A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Algren's "most critically acclaimed and best-known novel" (ANB). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay. A superior example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 76436
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First Edition of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death
MITFORD, Jessica.
The American Way of Death.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
First edition of Mitford's classic study. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Author's photograph by Seymour Linden. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 136027
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First Edition of Detective Story; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Detective Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 699
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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation": Out of the Crisis; Inscribed by W. Edwards Demings
DEMING, W. Edwards.
Out of the Crisis.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Greetings to Mr. Carl Wouden W. Edwards Deming 7 February 1992." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 122253
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; Inscribed By Doris Kearns Goodwin
GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.
First edition, early printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "To the Madesons, Doris Kearns." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138811
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of this "indispensable book" (Anwar Ibrahim). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33051
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First Edition of Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146167
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First Edition of Capitalism and Historians; Edited by F.A. Hayek
HAYEK, F.A.
Capitalism and the Historians.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1954.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small stamp to the front panel. Includes essays by T.S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, F.A. Hayek, W.H. Hutt and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133717
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"ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE": Finely bound edition de luxe of Laurence Stern's The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
STERNE, Laurence.
The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1910.
Finely bound example of Sterne's popular travelogue which helped establish the genre of travel writing and Sterne as the "most eminent novelist of the period" (Baugh, 1022). Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colored plates by Everard Hopkins. In very good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138940
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First Edition of The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan; Warmly Inscribed by Paul Goldberger
GOLDBERGER, Paul.
The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this classic work on New York. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Edith and Martin Segal, Such treasured parts of New York that they should really be a part of this book- but even more important, valued friends. With much fondness, Paul Goldberger 16 October 1979." The recipients, Martin E. Segal made his fortune through the Segal Company, an international consulting business, and was perhaps best known as the elder statesman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he served…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145643
