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First Edition of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
GALLICO, Paul.
The Snow Goose.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
First edition of this classic story, the moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month prior to publication on the front free endpaper, "To Stuart Rose- Who has great patience with me- with my love- Paul Gallico March, 1941." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover art by George Salter.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110454
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FIRST EDITION OF MARC CHAGALL’S Vitraux pour Jerusalem, WITH TWO ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS
CHAGALL, Marc; Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie.
Vitraux Pour Jerusalem.
Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1962.
First edition of this work by the famed artist. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123122
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First edition of James T. Farrell's Gas-House McGinty; inscribed by him to fellow great American author John Dos Passos
FARRELL, James T. [John Dos Passos].
Gas-House McGinty.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1933.
First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John Dos Passos Cordially Jim Farrell." The recipient, American novelist John Dos Passos, is best known for his 1925 novel Manhattan Transfer as well as his notable U.S.A. Trilogy which consists of The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) and was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Beyond his writing, Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. Following his…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125330
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“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate”: First Edition of The Piano Teacher; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek
JELINEK, Elfriede.
The Piano Teacher.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, "For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133735
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First Edition of Leonard Bernstein's The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard; Inscribed by Him
BERNSTEIN, Leonard.
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
First edition of this work by the legendary composer. Oblong, quarto, original illustrated boards, original slipcase, original records enclosed. Inscribed by the Leonard Bernstein on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 44062
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Rare Winter 1958 Edition of The Tamarack Review Issue Six; Signed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Nathan; Ringuet; F. E. Sparshott; Mary McAlpine; John Sutherland; A. J. M. Smith; Louis Dudek; Diana Goldsborough; Murdo Mackinnon; Ronald Bates; Leonard Cohen; Beatrice Corrigan; Robert McCormack; F. R. Scott; Louis de Niverville.
The Tamarack Review Issue Six: Winter 1958.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958.
First edition of this mixed-genre Canadian literary magazine. Octavo, original blue pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the table of contents, "Leonard Cohen 2002." Scarce early Cohen appearance from 1958 when he was 24 years old. Four of his poems are included, some of which do not appear elsewhere: 'Before the Story;' 'Poem for Marc Chagall;' 'Gift;' and 'Bait.' Also present are works by teacher and poet Louis Dudek who was the first influential teacher of Cohen at McGill University in Montreal, who encouraged Cohen to be a poet. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145368
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First Edition of John Ashbery’s Pulitizer Prize-Winning Work; Signed by him
ASHBERY, John.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Michael Teague. Jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110844
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First Edition of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests; Signed by Him
SOYINKA, Wole.
A Dance of the Forests.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
First edition of Soyinka's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Wole Soyinka on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123932
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First Edition of James M. McPherson's Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction; Inscribed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
First edition of this classic work, now in its fourth edition. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 71 photographs and 37 maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To Rebecca and Clarke Sherman Best wishes from James McPherson March 28, 1991." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by James M. Wall.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137392
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"I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it": First Edition of Louise Gluck's The Triumph of Achilles; Inscribed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The Triumph of Achilles.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Meryl with good wishes Louise Glück." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138593
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"BON APPETIT!": FIRST EDITION OF FROM JULIA CHILD’S KITCHEN, SIGNED BY BOTH JULIA AND PAUL CHILD
CHILD, Julia.
From Julia Child’s Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
First edition of Child's fourth book. Octavo, original pictorial coated cloth boards. Boldly by the author on front free endpaper, "To Jackie Julia Child." Additionally signed by Paul Child on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographs and drawings by Paul Child.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146345
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered; inscribed by him to Elsie Tritton
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinamann Ltd, 1932.
First edition of Maugham's popular play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "by W. Somerset Maugham for Elsie Tritton." The recipient, Elsie Tritton, was a noted collector and friend of Maugham's who introduced him to Alan Searle. A younger man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had previously embarked upon an affair with the writer Lytton Strachey. Maugham began a relationship with him after his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944. In 1962, Maugham attempted to adopt Searle as his son and heir when he disowned his daughter after a financial dispute,…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133055
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First Edition of The Samuelson Sampler; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
The Samuelson Sampler.
Glen Ridge, New Jersey: Thomas Horton and Company, 1973.
First edition of this collection of writings by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original blue cloth. In very good condition. Signed and dated by Paul Samuelson on the title page.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 2261
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First Edition of Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture; Inscribed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].
Lisbon: Caminho, 1999.
First edition of the author's Nobel Prize speech given in 1998. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed and dated by the author in Portuguese. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1503
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Program for the inauguration ceremony of Bill Clinton and Al Gore; Signed by Both William Rehnquist and Byron White
REHNQUIST, William H.; Byron White; Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Byron White Signed 1993 Inaugural Program.
1993.
Program for the inauguration ceremony of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Signed by both Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Byron White. Rehnquist had administered the oath of office to Bill Clinton, and White had administered the oath of office to Al Gore. First Day Cancellation stamp dated January 20, 1993. It measures 6 inches by 8.75 inches. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 48065
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"Love Yoko": Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue Album; Inscribed by Yoko Ono
ONO, Yoko.
Yoko Ono Signed Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue: A Spoken Word Documentary Album.
New York: Ono Music and PolyGram Records, 1983.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue vinyl album. Boldly signed by Ono on the front panel, "Love, Yoko, NYC '87." In near fine condition, PSA/DNA authenticity certification label to the lower right corner. Record included.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146740
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"For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written": First edition of A Will to Survive; warmly inscribed by John Philips to the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kolleck who contributed the book's afterword
PHILLIPS, John. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek.
A Will To Survive. Israel: The Faces of Terror 1948 The Faces of Hope Today.
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977.
First edition of the renowned photojournalist's remarkable portrait of the people of Israel. Quarto, original wrappers, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Teddy Kollek, who contributed the afterword, in the year of publication, "For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written. With sincere best wishes John Phillips Jerusalem April.21.77." The recipient, Teddy Kollek, was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993 and founded the Jerusalem Foundation…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119901
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First Edition of Forgotten Flies; Signed by Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils
SCHMOOKLER, Paul and Ingrid V. Sils.
Forgotten Flies.
Millis, MA: The Complete Sportsman, 1999.
First edition of this tribute to the humble craft of American fly tying. Folio, original black cloth, illustrated with full color paintings and photographs taken by the authors throughout. Boldly signed by Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147042
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage; Signed by Him and Three times by Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
First edition of this “piercing and compact story about friendship and loneliness" (St. Louis Dispatch). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, on the front panel, half-title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Binding and jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123828
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First editions Ransom Riggs' The Miss Peregrine Series; Each Signed by him
RIGGS, Ransom.
The Miss Peregrine Series Including: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, Library of Souls, Tales of the Peculiar, Map of Days, The Conference of the Birds.
New York : Random House, various dates.
First editions of the first six volumes in the author's acclaimed series. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Each are signed by Ransom Riggs on the half-title and title pages. Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 128727