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FIrst edition of Ken Follett's A Place Called Freedom; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
A Place Called Freedom.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995.
First edition of Follett's New York Times bestseller. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Erica & Ken, with love Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142627
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First Edition of Dr. Seuss's The King's Stilts
SEUSS, Dr. [Theodor Seuss Geisel].
The King’s Stilts.
New York: Random House, 1939.
First edition, later printing with red lettering on the front panel and $2.50 on the front dust jacket flap. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144611
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Rare February 11, 1952 Time Magazine Cover Signed by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden
EDEN, Anthony.
Anthony Eden Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Havana: February 11, 1952.
Original February 11, 1952 Time Magazine Latin American edition cover signed by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Quarto, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Eden painted by Boris Artzybasheff. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145308
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First Edition of Anne Morrow Linbergh's Listen! The Wind; with a lengthy autograph note from her expounding on the different types of love
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Listen! The Wind.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. With a foreword and map drawings by Charles A. Lindbergh. With a lengthy autograph note entirely in the hand of Anne Morrow Lindbergh which reads, "From Marcel & Elise 'Love is to the soul what the would is to the body - an increase, an additional soul.' 'To love means to see, and seeing belongs to the order of grace. To see means to recover a being in his glory. To re-establish him in his order of origin, which is super-natural. Love is the Sacrament of the Real Presence....…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133595
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"Who were there at the Hawk Bench when it all began": First Edition of Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park; Warmly Inscribed by Marie Winn
WINN, Marie.
Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
First edition of this "engaging work...Dr. Zhivago with feathers" (The Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Anne and Reed, who were there at the Hawk Bench when it all began, with warmest regards, Marie Winn 7/11/98." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tomar Levine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 148001
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First edition of Sir Walter Scott's The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French Revolution
BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLY," &c. [Sir Walter Scott].
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French Revolution.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827.
First edition of Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon. Royal octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Napoleon. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 139524
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Rare first edition of Walter Browning or The Slave's Protector
Walter Browning; or, The Slave’s Protector. Founded on Fact.
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Store, 1856.
First edition of this anti-slavery tract. 12mo, original publisher's cloth, yellow endpapers, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142106
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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Angus Deaton
DEATON, Angus.
Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour: In Honour of Sir Richard Stone.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
First edition of this collection of essays in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Stone. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the editor Angus Deaton on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 75092
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“A real connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes of its secrets”: FIRST EDITION OF SALVADOR DALÍ’S THE WINES OF GALA
DALI, Salvador.
The Wines of Gala.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this classic work by Dali. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Translated from the French by Olivier Bernier. Near fine in the original decorative stiff paper dust jacket which is in near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146783
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Bridge to Terabithia; Inscribed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Bridge To Terabithia.
New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.
Early printing of the author's first Newbery-Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Karen, Katherine Paterson 1/29/92." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137988
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FIRST EDITION OF MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First edition of Coretta Scott King's autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front free endpaper, "To Beatrice Thrope With best wished Coretta Scott King." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 90443
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"And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire": First Edition of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire; warmly Inscribed by Him
TARKINGTON, Booth.
Monsieur Beaucaire.
New York: McClure, Philips, 1900.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel, basis for the classic 1946 film starring Bob Hope. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire." Booth Tarkington. For Miss Carmel Myers." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137803
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First Edition of Antarctica: A Call to Action; Inscribed by Sebastian Copeland
COPELAND, Sebastian; Foreword by Orlando Bloom.
Antarctica: A Call to Action.
San Rafael, CA: Earth Aware, 2008.
First edition of the inspiring sequel to 'Antarctica: The Global Warning.' Oblong duodecimo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with breathtaking high-resolution photographs by Sebastian Copeland throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "January 2009 To Linda, Sebastian Copeland." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Orlando Bloom.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146836
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"with sincere gratitude" First Edition of James Truslow Adams' The Epic of America; Warmly Inscribed by Him
ADAMS, John Truslow.
The Epic of America.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
Early printing of the work which introduced the term "American dream" into the lexicon and the "single best volume of American history" (Allan Nevins). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Miss Barbara Hegg, with the kind regards of James Truslow Adams." In near fine condition. Illustrated by M.J. Gallagher. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138823
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First edition of Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson
WINFREY, Oprah.
Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson.
Auckland, New Zealand: PQ Blackwell Limited/Los Angeles: Harpo, Inc., 2010.
First edition of the book companion to Oprah Winfrey's Master Class series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140634
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"The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice": The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; containing the First appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Light that Failed
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.
The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling's early novel, The Light That Failed. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121480
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First Edition of David Finn's Corporate Oligarch; Inscribed by Him
FINN, David.
Corporate Oligarch.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.
First edition of this classic work by the famed advertising executive. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Fran Horn with warm regards David Finn." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Toller.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 129554
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First edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores; inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
First edition of O'Rourke's international best-seller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Jennifer all the best! P.J. O'Rourke 6/2/91." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133079
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Jeremy Siegel's Stocks For The Long Run; Signed by Him
SIEGEL, Jeremy J.
Stocks For The Long Run.
Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this stock investing classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill- Good luck with stocks! Jeremy J. Siegel." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138167
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First Edition Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course; Signed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold.
Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated autobiography of this golfing legend. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Arnold Palmer on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147919
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"With sincere Thanks for your friendship & for helping to make this story a success!": First Edition of Love in Black and White; Inscribed by William and Janet Cohen to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
COHEN, William S.; Janet Langheart Cohen; [Madeleine K. Albright].
Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
First edition of this profound story of perseverance against racial hatred and bigotry. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the authors on the half-title page, "For Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, with sincere Thanks for your friendship & for helping to make this story a success! Bill Cohen. Madame Secretary, Thanks for your support. I hope you enjoy the read. Love, Janet." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147386
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"If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it": Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest; Gregory Peck; Susan Hayward; Ava Gardner].
Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Theatre Lobby Card Poster.
20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952.
Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro produced exclusively for display in theatres. One page, printed in color, featuring a still from the film of Peck and Hawyard embracing. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124199
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First Editions of The Political Economy of Hunger
DREZE, Jean and Amartya Sen.
The Political Economy of Hunger.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, 3 volumes. Each volume is near fine in near fine dust jackets. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144378
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FIRST EDITIONS OF JOHN R. HICKS' COLLECTED ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC THEORY
HICKS, John R.
Collected Essays on Economic Theory. Wealth and Welfare. With: Money, Interest and Wages. With: Classics and Moderns.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981-83.
First edition of John Hicks' three-volume series which comprise his most important theoretical papers. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 7347
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First Edition of Values of Non-Atomic Games; Inscribed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Robert Aumann
AUMANN, Robert J. and Lloyd S. Shapley.
Values of Non-Atomic Games.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this "first class contribution to the field of game theory" (Oskar Morgenstern). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Robert Aumann on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 45076
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First Edition of Another Africa; Signed by Chinua Achebe
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Another Africa.
New York: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1998.
First edition of this work with essays and poems by Chinua Achebe. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Hubbard. Photographs by Robert Lyons.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 130393
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First Edition of Greeley's The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America
GREELEY, Horace.
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America.
Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 131811
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Jeremy Siegel's Stocks For The Long Run; Signed by Him
SIEGEL, Jeremy J.
Stocks For The Long Run.
Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this stock investing classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Good luck with stocks! Jeremy J. Siegel." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138399
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First Edition of A Golfer’s Life; Signed 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 Jack Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with James Dodson.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140389
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John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal; Warmly inscribed by John Cheever
CHEEVER, John.
The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of the collected reissue of Cheever's National Book Award and William Dean Howells Medal-winning Wapshot novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mark Zimmer with the Hope of enjoying him as a Friend as I enjoy his brother John Cheever." The recipient was likely a sibling of Max Zimmer, Cheever's former student, protégé and lover who moved into the Cheever family household and became Cheever's caregiver later in life. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 143273
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First edition of H. Alan Day's The Horse Lover; inscribed by him and signed by his sister Sandra Day O'Connor who contributed the introduction
DAY, H. Allan. With Lynn Wiese Sneyd. Foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor.
The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs.
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
First edition of Day's personal history of Mustang Meadows Ranch. Inscribed by H. Alan Day on the title page, "To Jane Best Wishes Alan Day" and signed by his sister Sandra Day O'Connor who contributed the introduction and with whom he previously coauthored Lazy B.: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Joel Sartore. Rare signed by Sandra Day O'Connor.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121061
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First Edition of The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
First edition of Kuhn's classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Foreword by James Bryant Conant.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126596
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First Edition of The California Wine Book; Signed by Bob Thompson
THOMPSON, Bob and Hugh Johnson.
The California Wine Book.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976.
First edition on this work on California wine. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 17 color plates, 35 photographs and prints, 9 maps. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with best wishes, Bob Thompson April 1977." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145904
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First Edition of Henry Kaufman's On Money and Markets; Inscribed by Him
KAUFMAN, Henry. Foreword by Paul A. Volker.
On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
First edition of Henry Kaufman's memoir of his life spent on Wall Street. Octavo, original half cloth. Foreword by Paul A. Volker. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Peter with best wishes Henry Kaufman 2/5/05." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 131708
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First edition of the Report of General George B. McClellan on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac
[STANTON, Edward M.; George B. McClellan].
Letter of The Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, Under the Command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, From July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864.
First edition of Stanton's official report on the organization and campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132804
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First Edition of Charles King's The True Ulysses S. Grant; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
KING, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The True Ulysses S. Grant.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914.
First edition of this biography of soldier, statesman, and president Ulysses S. Grant; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Grant as Major-General Commanding in the West, illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. Accompanied by a Lexington Hand-Colored postcard, illustrated with a portrait of General Robert E. Lee. In very good condition with light rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance,…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145931
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"Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau , the younger had ruled the older. Did anyone ever say Esay and Jacob? Jacob have I loved": First Edition of Jacob Have I loved; Inscribed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Jacob Have I Loved.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980.
First edition of the author's second Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author, "Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau , the younger had ruled the older. Did anyone ever say Esay and Jacob? Jacob have I loved... For Lisa Katherine Paterson." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kinuko Craft. A unique example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 73768
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Wildcats to Tomcats; Signed and Inscribed by Wally Schirra, Phil Wood, and Barrett Tillman
CORMIER, Richard L. 'Zeke'; Walter M. 'Wally' Schirra; Phillip R. 'Rat' Wood; Barrett Tillman.
Wildcats to Tomcats: The Tailhook Navy.
St. Paul, MN: Phalanx Publishing Co, 1996.
First edition, early printing of this collection of flying stories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Captain Phillip Wood, "9/6/96 Tailhook To Ozzy: A great Tailhooker Warrior. Big A little F but still one of the finest. 'Rat'" and Barrett Tillman, "To Ozzy: One of the gutsiest VFA pilosalfoat - Tailhook membership proves it! Barrett Tillman Tailhook '96." Additionally signed by Wood, "Phil Wood,"and Wally Schirra next to their respective names on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A rare collection of signatures.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147212
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's The New Realities; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The New Realities: In Government and Politics in Economics and Business in Society and World View.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.
First edition of this work by Drucker. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 104114
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods; Signed by Him
GAIMAN, Neil.
American Gods.
New York: William Morrow, 2001.
First edition, early printing of Gaiman's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 141802
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First edition of George A. Henty's Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion
HENTY, George A. [G.A.].
Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by W. Parkinson. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 122962
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First Edition of Here is New York; Inscribed by Gilles Peress
PERESS, Gilles; Michael Schulan; Susan Meiselas; Jeff Mermelstein.
Here is New York.
New York: Scalo, 2002.
First edition of this work by the award-winning photographer. Thick oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, original slipcase. Inscribed by Gilless Peress. Illustrated with nearly 1000 full-color and black-and-white photographic plates with images by noted photographers such as Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas and Jeff Mermelstein. Fine in a fine slipcase. Parr & Badger II, 232.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 972
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First Edition of Taha Hussein's The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar
HUSSEIN, Taha.
The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar.
Cairo: Al-Maaref Printing & Publishing House, 1943.
Rare first edition (preceding the first British edition) of the autobiography of one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers, translated from the Arabic by Hilary Wayment. Octavo, original tan cloth. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146473
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Paul Brickell's Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader; signed by Douglas Bader
BRICKELL, Paul.
Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader.
London: Collins, 1954.
First edition, early printing of the biography of one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by Douglas Bader on the frontispiece in the year of publication, "Douglas Bader 27/6/54." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146974
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First Edition of The Ascent of Money; Signed by Niall Ferguson
FERGUSON, Niall.
The Ascent of Money.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2008.
First edition of this original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go round, destined to become a modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Niall Ferguson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147604
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"Where wealth accumulates, men decay": First edition of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
Essays by Mr. Goldsmith.
London: Printed for W. Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, 1765.
First edition of the collected essays of Oliver Goldsmith which paid the author a profit of only 20 guineas but greatly extended his reputation. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked retaining the contemporary spine label, copperplate vignette to the title page. One of two 1765 editions; Scott argues for the priority of this cheaper of the two editions, but Rothschild suggests also that it may be a piracy. Rothschild 1027. In good condition. Small ownership inscriptions and bookplate.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140433
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First Edition of Iris Chang's Thread of the Silkworm; Warmly Inscribed by her
CHANG, Iris.
Thread of the Silkworm.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.
First edition of the definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Wei-ling Dai, Best wishes and happy Chinese New Year! Iris Chang 2-17-96." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125008
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Finely bound example of Alain-René Lesage's famous 18th century novel History of Gil Blas De Santillane
LESAGE, Alain-René.
Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.
Finely bound example of Lesage's famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings by the best artists of Paris. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145006
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First Edition of Crisis On the Korean Peninsula: How To Deal With a Nuclear North Korea; Inscribed by Mike Mochizuki to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
O'HANLON, Michael; Mike Mochizuki [Madeleine K. Albright].
Crisis On the Korean Peninsula: How To Deal With a Nuclear North Korea.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
First edition of Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki's broad and ambitious program for the United States and its allies to defuse North Korea's military threat. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white maps, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Secretary Albright, With great esteem and fondness Mike." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147590
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First Editions of Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam; First Edition Six Volume Set of Great Religions of Modern Man
J. LESLIE DUNSTAN [PROTESTANTISM]; GEORGE BRAND [CATHOLICISM]; ARTHUR HERTZBERG [JUDAISM]; RICHARD A. GARD [BUDDHISM]; LOUIS RENOU [HINDUISM]; JOHN A. WILLIAMS [ISLAM],.
Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam: Six-Volume Set of Great Religions of Modern Man.
New York: George Braziller, 1961.
First editions of this classic collection of works. Octavo, original cloths, 6 volumes, original slipcase. Near fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Joseph Low.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140432
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"The golden room enslaved of the rising sun, the jade room of day long happiness, the scarlet room wherein the setting sun lies sleeping. These were the names we gave the rooms": Paul Scott's The Chinese Love Pavilion; inscribed by him
SCOTT, Paul.
The Chinese Love Pavilion.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960.
Early printing of this dramatic story by the author of The Raj Quartet which many consider to be his best novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With Best Wishes to A.A. Martin from the author Aug 24 '67" and signed on the title page, "Paul Scott." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Angela Collins.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120224
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Rare early separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Soldiers Three.
New York: The Minerva Publishing Company, 1892.
Rare early separate edition of Kipling's second collection of short stories. Octavo, original wrappers. The Marco-Botsaris Series No. 10. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126908
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Second American Revolution and other essays (1976-1982); Inscribed by Him to his Stepmother
VIDAL, Gore.
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982).
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Kit all love Gore Vidal." The recipient, Katherine "Kit" Vidal was Eugene Vidal's second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125211
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First edition of Georges de Scudéry's Curia Politiae: Or, The Apologies of Several Princes
SCUDéRY, Georges de.
Curia Politiae: Or, The Apologies of Several Princes: Justifying to the World Their most Eminent Actions, by the Strength of Reason, And the most Exact Rules of Policie.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1654.
First edition in English of Scudéry's great catalogue of eminent world leaders, published early in early in Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Small quarto, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece, with 11 engraved portraits including those of Emperor Charles the Fifth; Matthias Corvin, King of Hungary; Mahoment the Second, the Grand Seignior; James the First, King of England; and Henry the Eighth, King of England among others. With the final page issued by Thurloe appointing Moseley to print the work. In very good condition. Bookplates…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126839
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First edition of Models of Economic Growth: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem; Signed by Peter Diamond
[DIAMOND, Peter]. Edited by James A. Mirrlees and N. H. Stern.
Models of Economic Growth: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem.
The International Economic Association: Macmillan, 1973.
First edition of the proceedings of the Conference on economic growth models held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper, who contributed an article to this volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126882
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"Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so": First Edition of Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Warmly Inscribed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane.
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Alan, Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so. Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145836
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First Edition of We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends; Inscribed by David Herbert Donald
DONALD, David Herbert.
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "For Shane Bartleson, with warm regards, David Herbert Donald." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kai Chu.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146498
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“The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity": First Edition of Julie and Julia; Signed by Julie Powell
POWELL, Julie.
Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005.
First edition of this work, basis for the 2009 film directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Messina. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Julie Powell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 139851
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John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy
MILL, John Stuart.
Principles of Political Economy.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865.
Finely bound example of John Stuart Mill's classic treatise. Octavo, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels, gilt rules to the front and rear panels, raised bands, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. In excellent condition, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140085