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Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Proper Studies
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Proper Studies.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.
Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards. One of 260 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146277
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"But for a dog That kept its head": Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline's Rescue; Signed by Him
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline’s Rescue.
London: Andre Deutsch/Derek Verscholyle, 1957.
First British edition, early printing of the second book in the Madeline series, which went on to win the Caldecott Medal. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ludwig Bemelmans on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 114234
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“My war is not as simple as yours was, Father": First Edition of James Webb's Fields of Fire; Warmly Inscribed by Him
WEBB, James.
Fields of Fire: A Novel.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978.
First edition of "the finest of the Vietnam novels" (Tom Wolfe). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Captain Roger C. Patton- with thanks for your own Marine Corps service. Semper F- Jim Webb January 1979." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Hal Siegel.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 118899
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The Three Faces of Eve, Signed by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley
THIGPEN, Corbett H.; Hervey M. Cleckley.
The Three Faces of Eve.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
Early printing of this work, basis for the 1957 Academy Award-winning film starring Joanne Woodward. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "Nov. 20, 1980 For Mary and Marion Barnett With appreciation for your thoughtfulness and friendship Corbett Thigpen and signed below "Hervey Cleckley." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael McIver.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129711
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First Edition of Milnor and Stasheef's Characteristic classes; Signed by John Milnor
MILNOR, John W. and James D. Stasheef.
Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 57021
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First edition of Eden Phillpotts' Children of the Mist; with an autograph letter signed by him and inscribed by English swindler Whitaker Wright
PHILLPOTTS, Eden [Whitaker Wright].
Children of the Mist: A Novel.
London: A. D. Innes & Company, 1898.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by famed English swindler Whitaker Wright on the front free endpaper, "Clara Hubbard from Mr. Whitaker Wright Lea park Mitford Surrey." Whitaker Wright was regarded as a financial wizard at the turn of the 20th century in London. He built the Park Lane house at the height of his power. Like his celebrated country home at Lea Park, where he had music and billiard rooms under an artificial lake, No. 18 Park Lane was a…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137170
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First Edition of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics; Inscribed by Her
MILLETT, Kate.
Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.
First edition of the author's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 46008
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WE SEVEN, SIGNED BY John Glenn and Scott Carpenter
CARPENTER, M. Scott; Cooper.
We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of America’s manned space program. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mercury Seven Astronauts on the front free endpaper, "Bob Best wishes- Scott Carpenter and John Glenn. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144379
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"Who came along at the tail end of this long saga- and can look forward to decades of constructive contribution to the public": First Edition of Changing Fortunes; Lengthily Inscribed by Paul A. Volcker
VOLCKER, Paul A. and Toyoo Gyohten.
Changing Fortunes: The World’s Money and the Threat to American Leadership.
New York: Times Books, 1992.
First edition of this work by the former Federal Reserve chairman. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription, "3/16/93 To Neal Loss, Who came along at the tail end of this long saga- and can look forward to decades of constructive contribution to the public! With warmest but wider appreciation for years of help. Paul." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson. Jacket illustration by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 108116
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"An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12": Official NASA 'EVA' Photograph; Lengthily Signed by Alan Bean
BEAN, Alan.
Alan Bean Signed ‘EVA’ Photograph.
Official NASA photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean. Glossy color photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean using a fuel transfer tool on the Lunar Module. Lengthily signed by Alan Bean in silver felt pen, "An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12." In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146031
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"Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education & medical care": First Edition of No Ordinary Time; With a full page inscription by Doris Kearns Goodwin
KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
First edition of the historian's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with a quote by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John, 'Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education & medical care.' With my warmest wishes, Doris Kearns Goodwin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147095
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First Edition of Will Durant's Caesar and Christ; Inscribed by Him
DURANT, Will.
Caesar and Christ.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1944.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on half-title page, "For Martha and Maurice Speiser with cordial regards from Will Durant 12.7.44." The recipient Maurice Speiser was Ernest Hemingway's lawyer and literary agent. He was also associated with William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, and others. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine. A nice association.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 123718
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First edition of Robert M. Solow's Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level
SOLOW, Robert Merton.
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Solow in the University of Manchester. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126488
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First Edition of The Price of Prosperity; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter. L.
The Price of Prosperity.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.
First edition of the Wall Street legend's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Paul- Best wishes for much prosperity- Peter Bernstein." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 511
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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook; Inscribed by Alice Waters and signed by Illustrator David Lance Goines
WATERS, Alice.
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Waters' first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Elizabeth Alice Waters." Additionally signed by illustrator on the half-title page, "David Lance Goines." With an original menu of Chez Panisse laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written in collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel. Recipes edited by Carolyn Dille. Designed and illustrated by David Lance Goines. A nice signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139907
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“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography": First Edition of John Szarkowski's The Photographer's Eye; Inscribed by Him
SZARKOWSKI, John.
The Photographer’s Eye.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition. Square quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to Robert Lewis; former head of the Yale School of Drama, author, actor, and founder of the Actor's Studio, "with warm good regards." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. The black jacket almost inevitably shows wear, this is a very nice example with only light wear.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 1115
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"Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return": First French Edition of J.M.G. Le Clezio's Desert; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
First French edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In very good condition with some shelf wear and toning to the extremities.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5402
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First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew's The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library
MERRIHEW, Stephen Wallis.
The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library.
New York: American Lawn Tennis, Inc, 1928.
First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew's classic work on the "World Cup of Tennis." Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved photogravure tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Davis, illustrated with 48 engravings after photographs. One of 250 copies printed of this edition de luxe, this is number 18. Signed and dated by the author, "S. Wallis Merrihew October 8, 1928." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 105106
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM; Inscribed by Writer and Publisher Elbert Hubbard to His Niece
KHAYYAM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; [Elbert Hubbard].
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906.
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay and Introduction by Clarence S. Darrow. Oblong duodecimo, original half red suede over black boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, red leather spine label, top edge gilt, illustrated with decorated headpiece, tailpieces, and initials by W. W. Denslow. Association copy, inscribed by writer and publisher Elbert Hubbard to his niece on the front flyleaf, "To Mrs. Wellman with love and blessing, from her uncle Elbert Hubbard." In very good condition with rubbing to the corners…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146576
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First Edition of Manual De Pintura E Caligraphia; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Manual De Pintura E Caligraphia [Manual of Painting and Calligraphy].
Lisboa: Moraes Editores, 1976.
First Portuguese edition and true first of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed and dated Jose Saramago. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 2630
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"The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around": First edition of Groucho and Me; inscribed by Groucho Marx
MARX, Groucho.
Groucho and Me. The Autobiography of Groucho Marx by (of all people!) Groucho Marx.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1959.
First edition of the autobiography of Groucho Marx. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Glenn from Groucho." Very good in the uncommon original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Lacking the front free endpaper and half-title page. Jacket design by Bevans, Marks & Barrow, Inc.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138618
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First edition of Billy Hayes' Midnight Express; signed by Academy Award-winning Screenplay writer Oliver Stone
HAYES, Billy with William Hoffer. [Oliver Stone].
Midnight Express.
New York: Thomas Congdon Books/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977.
First edition of Hayes' classic true story of survival and escape. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. Stone adapted the memoir into a screenplay for the 1978 film adaptation for which he won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alfred Manso.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140323
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First Edition of The Question of National Defense; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of Game Theory Oskar Morgenstern
MORGENSTERN, Oskar.
The Question of National Defense.
New York: Random House, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, "Hon. Frank Pace Jr. with high esteem O. Morgenstern Oct. 1959." The recipient, Frank Pace, Jr. was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army under Harry Truman and a business executive, who in 1964, Pace joined David Rockefeller to launch the International Executive Service Corps, which was established to help bring about prosperity and stability in developing nations through the growth of private enterprise. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Books signed by Morgenstern are rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 15044
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First Edition of The White House: an Historic Guide; Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson to Close Friend and Confidant of the Kennedy's Bill Walton
JOHNSON, Lady Bird.
The White House: An Historic Guide.
Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1964.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on The White House. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson on the title page, "To Bill Walton with appreciation Lady Bird Johnson February 17, 1965." The recipient William Walton was a painter and confidant of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, and chaired the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1971. In near fine condition. A nice association.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 69056