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First Edition of Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks; Warmly Inscribed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank.
Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.
New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frank Gehry on the half-title page, "For Bob and Annie Much Love from Frank Gehry 2001." Edited by Mildred Friedman. Essay by Michael Sorkin. Commentary by Gehry throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112371
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First Edition of Javier Marias' Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me; Signed by Him
MARIAS, Javier.
Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996.
First edition of this "brilliantly imagined novel" (La Vanguardia). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with two closed tears. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 2891
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First Edition of From So Simple A Beginning; Signed by Editor Edward O. Wilson
WILSON, Edward O.; Charles Darwin.
From So Simple A Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals).
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of this collection of the four works of Darwin. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the editor, Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn an image of an ant. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by B. Middleworth.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 140254
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First Edition of Just as Long as We're Together; Inscribed by Judy Blume in the year of publication
BLUME, Judy.
Just as Long as We’re Together.
New York: Orchard Books, 1987.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Jessica Love, Judy Blume December 1987." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, sticker to the front free endpaper. Jacket painting by Peter Catalanotto.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144145
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"Over the great world tragedy of today the star of Bethlehem shines with divine radiance and lights the way to a brighter day when peace and love shall reign forever": Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Lengthily Signed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett
PICKETT, Lasalle Corbell [George Pickett].
What Happened to Me.
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 17, 1917. Lengthily signed by the author on the front pastedown, "Over the great world tragedy of today the star of Bethlehem shines with divine radiance and lights the way to a brighter day when peace and love shall reign forever - Faithfully from LaSalle Corbell Pickett." In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145582
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know": First Modern Library Edition of James Salter's A Sport And A Pastime; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
A Sport And A Pastime.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
Early printing of The Modern Library edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Howard Norman on the title page, "To Howard Norman James Salter." Most of Norman's short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 123919
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First French Edition of Saul Bellow's L'Homme De Buridan; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
L’Homme De Buridan [Dangling Man].
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1954.
First French edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 185
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First edition of Jim Brandenburg's White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend; inscribed by him to Peter Matthiessen
BRANDENBURG, Jim. [Peter Matthiessen].
White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend.
Minocqua: Northwood Press, Inc., 1988.
First edition of Brandenburg's landmark work in nature publishing. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Peter In admiration of your work & Looking forward to working with you. Jim Brandenburg." The recipient, American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 140120
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes; inscribed by him
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.
First edition of Asimov's wonderfully woven, old-fashioned murder mystery. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Stephen Isaac Asimov." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 142352
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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; Lengthily Inscribed by W. Edwards Deming
DEMING, W. Edwards.
Out of the Crisis.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of W. Edwards Demings. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ms. Minato Asakawa. May your work in cross-cultural be successful, & may the 1990s bring you health & happiness. W. Edwards Deming 22 April 1990." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146267
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“CAPITALISM WITHOUT FAILURE IS LIKE RELIGION WITHOUT SIN”: FIRST EDITION OF ALLAN H. MELTZER'S WHY CAPITALISM?; INSCRIBED BY HIM
MELTZER, Allan H.
Why Capitalism?
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
First edition of Meltzer's Why Capitalism? Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jack An old friend Best Wishes Allen Meltzer." Additionally signed by Meltzer on a book plate attached to the front free end paper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 43457
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Leonard Cohen’s First Novel; Signed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
The Favourite Game.
London: Black Spring Press, 1996.
Later printing of Cohen's classic novel . Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the half-title page with his "Order of the Unified Heart" stamp below. In fine condition. Illustration by David Wood.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144295
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"Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature": First Edition of Soul Mountain; Signed by Gao Xingjian
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Soul Mountain.
New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
First edition in English of the author's magnum opus, which led to him winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2000. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Mabel Lee.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 138016
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"My love to Beatrice and Bruce- who first gave the Fountain its chance to flow": First Edition of The Fountain Overflows; Inscribed by Rebecca West to Bruce and Beatrice Gould
WEST, Rebecca.
The Fountain Overflows.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "My love to Beatrice and Bruce- who first gave the Fountain its chance to flow Rebecca West 1965." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined to the home"…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145967
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Limited Edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan; Signed by Writer and Publisher Elbert Hubbard
KHAYYAM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; Elbert Hubbard.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1899.
Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay. Oblong octodecimo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel on a decorated morocco label, marbled endpapers, sparsely illustrated with decorative images and initials. One of nine hundred and twenty numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard on the limitation page, this is number 414. In very good condition, with some toning to the front and rear endleaves, previous owner calligraphic epitaph to the front flyleaf.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146603
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First Edition of Thomas H. Sherman's Twenty Years with James G. Blaine; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
SHERMAN, Thomas H.; with Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler [William T. Sherman].
Twenty Years with James G. Blaine: Reminiscences by His Private Secretary.
New York: The Grafton Press, 1928.
First edition of this biography of American statesman, Republican politician, and Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, from the observations of his private secretary; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of James G. Blaine, illustrated with black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145741
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First Edition of Malamud's Idiots First; Inscribed by Him to his cousin
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Idiots First.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousin, "For Marshall, Every good wish Bernie." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Marshall Lee.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112830
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Advanced Reading Copy of Blindness; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Blindness.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997.
Advanced reading copy of the first edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. In near fine condition. Front panel design by Claudine G. Mansour.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 138043
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First edition of Garry Kasparov's Autobiography Child of Change; Signed by Him
KASPAROV, Garry.
Child of Change: An Autobiography.
London: Hutchinson , 1987.
First edition of this chess legend's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 5392
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"This First Edition...with warm regards": First Edition of David McCullough’s National Book Award-Winning Work The Path Between the Seas; Warmly Inscribed by Him
MCCULLOUGH, David.
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
First edition of the author's National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with two detailed maps and 80 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "This first edition is for Bette and John with warm regards David McCullough Hillsdale College 2006." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor. Photograph by Rosalee McCullough.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 117653