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"The mission of the lantern is to give light, to show the way": Grace Thompson Seton's Chinese Lanterns; lengthily inscribed by her
SETON, Grace Thompson.
Chinese Lanterns.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924.
Early printing of Grace Thompson Seton's work on Chinese lanterns. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated with photographs, many taken by the author. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To S.D. Green with the all good wishes of the author: Grace Thompson Seton. July 20, 1927. 'Through the Eastern Gates I wandered far where cloud-like beauties I roughed the way' -Shi-King." In near fine condition. Rare inscribed by the author.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 96116
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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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First Edition of Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire; Signed by Jan Morris
MORRIS, James [Jan].
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire.
London: Faber & Faber, 1968.
First British edition of the author's second volume in the acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 3164
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First Edition of American Architecture and Urbanism; Signed by Vincent Scully
SCULLY, Vincent.
American Architecture and Urbanism.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the Vincent Scully on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144272
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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 Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn; Warmly inscribed by Her
BAKER, Dorothy.
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, "For Nell- Hommage de l'lauteur Dorothy." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 140685
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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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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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"with thanks for friendly help": First Edition of Steven Weinberg's To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science; Warmly Inscribed by Him
WEINBERG, Steven.
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.
New York: Harper, 2015.
First edition of this “thoughtful history of science” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by on the title page, "To Roy Snodgrass with thanks for friendly help Steven Weinberg." The recipient was a close friend of the authors. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milan Bozic.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 125653
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First Edition of Honeymoon; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Patrick Modiano
MODIANO, Patrick.
Honeymoon.
Boston: Verba Mundi/ David A. Godine, 1995.
First American edition of this "haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Pour James, avec toute mon amitie Patrick Modiano." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Translated by Barbara Wright.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 118229
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First Edition of Helen Levitt's Crosstown; Signed by Her
LEVITT, Helen; Essay by Francine Prose.
Crosstown.
New York: Powerhouse, 2001.
First Edition of this handsome retrospective paying tribute the photographers work. Large quarto, original gray cloth with cover photographic plate, illustrated throughout. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 808
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First Edition of Buckminster Fuller's Ideas and Integrities, a Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure; Inscribed by Him
FULLER, Buckminster.
Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
First edition of this work by Fuller. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ed Westhoff in friendship Buckminster Fuller." Edited by Robert W. Marks. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 125971
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First edition, advance reading copy of Ken Follett's Jackdaws; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
Jackdaws.
New York: Dutton, 2001.
Advance reading copy of the first edition of the New York Times bestselling author’s classic World War II spy thriller. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,"To Ken + Erica - 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,…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 142632
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First Edition of Philip Stern's The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
STERN, Philip M.
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this early biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Joan and Arthur Gardner With the warmest and fondest wishes of their friend Phil S. November, 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 143398
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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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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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"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
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First edition of Jack Schannep's Dow Theory for the 21st Century; inscribed by him
SCHANNEP, Jack.
Dow Theory for the 21st Century: Technical Indicators For Improving Your Investment Results.
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.
First edition of the investor's must-read on trading strategy. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, "Hope some of the ideas in this book will be helpful to you in your investment success Sincerely, Jack Schannep." In fine condition. Design by Loretta Leiva. Jacket photograph by Tommy Flynn.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 124830
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"To live effectively is to live with adequate information": First Edition of Norbert Wiener’s Autobiography; Signed by Him
WIENER, Norbert.
Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Weiner's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Norbert Weiner on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 3729
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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