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"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies": First Edition of The Rabin Memoirs; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
RABIN, Yitzhak.
The Rabin Memoirs.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.
First edition in English of the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Eleanore with best wishes Y. Rabin 10.31.79." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Renfer. Photograph by Magnum photographer Leonard Freed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 92754
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Rare collection of three programs and two typed letters signed by American conductor Aaron Copland
COPLAND, Aaron.
Aaron Copland Autograph Letters and Programs Signed.
Rare collection of three programs and two typed letters signed by American conductor Aaron Copland. The programs include a 1957-1958 Season Program for the Juilliard School of Music presenting The World Premiere of Piano Fantasy inscribed by Copland, "Piano Fantasy Aaron Copland (1955-57)", a catalogue of his works by Boosey & Hawkes which includes a chronological list of his works, a League of Composers Twenty-Eighth Season Program 1950-51 inscribed, "For Betty with love Aaron Nov. 5 '50", and two typed letters signed on Copland's letterhead. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 104920
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Rare Photograph of Andrew Mellon; Inscribed by Him and Elegantly Framed with an Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company Stock Certificate Issued to Him by His Brothers Richard and William Mellon
MELLON, Andrew; [Bachrach].
Andrew Mellon Photograph Signed [WITH] Signed Stock Certificate for the Allegheny Valley Street Company Issued to Him.
Pittsburgh: Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company, 1906.
Rare photograph of the commanding American banker Andrew Mellon. Octavo, black and white photogravure of Andrew Mellon, inscribed by him below his portrait, "To W. H. Thompson with my kind regards A. W. Mellon." The recipient "W. H. Thompson" may be either William Henry Thompson, a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, or William Howard Thompson, a U.S. Senator from Kansas. Additionally signed by the photographer in pencil at the lower right of the portrait, "Bachrach." Matted and framed with an informational placard and a stock certificate for the Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146764
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"Ambitious by nature, he was never torn by ambition, never tried to be something he was not. He stood for common sense, common decency": First Edition of Truman; Lengthily Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with a quote by the author on the title page, "For John Rogers with greetings from David McCullough 'Ambitious by nature, he was never torn by ambition, never tried to be something he was not. He stood for common sense, common decency.'" Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor. A unique example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146839
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Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Signed by Him
COOLIDGE, Calvin.
Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Chicago: Government Printing Office, 1925.
First edition of this address by President Coolidge. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Calvin Coolidge. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom folding case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119470
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"There is no better high than discovery": FIRST EDITION OF SOCIOBIOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS; SIGNED BY EDWARD O. WILSON WITH A DRAWING OF AN ANT
WILSON, Edward O.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has added a drawing of an ant. Name on the front pastedown and some wear to the front free endpaper, near fine in an very good dust jacket with some closed tears.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 1616
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First Edition of The Legend of Bagger Vance; Signed by Steven Pressfield and by Matt Damon
PRESSFIELD, Steven [Matt Damon].
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1995.
First edition, early printing of one of the greatest golf novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Shalom Steven Pressfield." Additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon on the half-title page. Damon starred in the 2000 film adaptation. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Grider. Jacket illustration by Jerry LoFaro.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144822
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Note Signed by Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Jawaharlal Nehru Signed.
Signed note by Jawaharlal Nehru in both Sanskrit and English dated Nov. 1961. Matted and framed with a black and white photograph of Nehru. The entire piece measures 13.5 inches by 17.5 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 74072
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"With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career": Into Thin Air; Lengthily Inscribed by Jon Krakauer
KRAKAUER, Jon.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
New York: Villard, 1997.
First edition, early printing of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Anita Karl, illustrations by Randy Rackliff. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his teacher on the half-title page, "For Loretta Smith- With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career. Thanks, Jon Krakauer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144146
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First Edition of Mary Anderson de Navarro's A Few More Memories; Inscribed To Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
NAVARRO, Mary Anderson de [William Tecumseh Sherman].
A Few More Memories.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1936.
First edition of this autobiography of an actress; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue cloth, frontispiece portrait of Mary Anderson de Navarro, illustrated with seventeen black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to P. T. Sherman, "To P.T. Sherman with best wishes & kind greetings from Mary Anderson de Navarro In constant remembrance of my valued friend General Sherman the greatest personality I ever met, and I have known most of the great men of my time January 1937." Accompanied by an autograph letter signed from the author to Mr. Sherman thanking…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145878
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Rare black and white photograph of Albert Schweitzer during his years as a medical missionary in Africa; warmly inscribed by him
SCHWEITZER, Albert.
Albert Schweitzer Signed Photograph.
1953.
Rare photograph of Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné. Black and white photograph of Albert Schweitzer being guided down Gabon's Ogooué River, inscribed by him on the lower border in fountain pen, "A monsieur Jerome Liplain, avec mes bonnes pensáes, Albert Schweitzer. Lambarene le 19 Mars 1953, En pirogue sur l'Ogooue." Schweitzer's philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, which up to 1958 was situated in French Equatorial Africa, and after this in Gabon. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146013
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Rare Ordinary People Original Script; Signed by Director Robert Redford
SARGENT, Alvin; [Robert Redford].
Ordinary People Original Script.
Burbank, CA: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc, 1979.
Rare original screenplay from the 1980 film 'Ordinary People,' produced by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. Quarto, original orange wrappers, bound with two brass tacks. Boldly signed on the front panel, "Best wishes Robert Redford." In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146472
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First Editions of Each work in John Jake's Historical Epic, North and South; Love and War; and Heaven and Hell; Each signed by Him
JAKES, John.
The North and South Trilogy. [Including, North and South; Love and War; and Heaven and Hell].
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982-87.
First editions of each novel in the author's acclaimed North and South Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed by the author. North and South is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Carl with every good wish John Jakes 2-11-82." Each are near fine to fine condition in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119784
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Rare First Edition of Robert M. Solow's Growth Theory; Signed by Him
SOLOW, Robert M.
Growth Theory: An Exposition.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In near fine condition, with a name to the front panel and front free endpaper.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 46011
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“People can hold out just so long and then they fold": First Edition of A Is For Alibi; Signed by Sue Grafton
GRAFTON, Sue.
A Is For Alibi.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
First edition of the author's first book in her acclaimed series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Sue Grafton on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Kathie A. McGinty.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144170
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“Whatever the “real” differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike": 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Kate Millett for Prof Roger Simpson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. With some underlining in pencil to a few pages. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 100034
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First Edition of Samuel Merwin's The Citadel; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
MERWIN, Samuel [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
The Citadel: A Romance of Unrest.
New York: The Century Co, 1912.
First edition of this political novel; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth. Signed and dated in ink by Gershwin on the front free endpaper, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman June 1912." Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis, Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society.…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145594
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From the Library of Former President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant: Dr. Doran's Table Traits with Something on Them
DORAN, Dr.; [Ulysses S. Grant].
Table Traits with Something on Them.
New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1865.
Early printing of this anecdotal history of eatery; from the library of the eighteenth President of the United States. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Ulysses S. Grant's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146695
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“Knowledge advances when striking real-world events and issues pose puzzles we have to try to understand and resolve. The most important decisions a scholar makes are what problems to work on": First Edition of Essays in Economics; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
TOBIN, James [Robert M. Solow].
Essays in Economics: Volume 1 Macroeconomics.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5556
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertesz's Kaddis a meg nem szuletett gyermekert; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
Kaddis A Meg Nem Szuletett Gyermekert (Kaddish For A Child Not Born).
Budapest: Magveto, 1990.
First Hungarian edition of Kertesz's mesmerizing novel of identity and memory. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 83049