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First Edition of The path to Power; signed by Margaret Thatcher
THATCHER, Margaret. [Dennis Thatcher].
The Path to Power.
London: Harper Collins Publishers , 1995.
First edition of Thatcher's best-selling memoir, covering her life from her birth in 1925 until she became Prime Minister in 1979. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with strips of sunning. Front jacket photograph: Margaret Thatcher in 1959 by Amy Milner. With four original color photographs of Thatcher at the book signing event during which she signed the book laid in.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146915
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"The lesson of patience and self-containing may be learnt in these trips": The Canoe and the Saddle; Signed by John H. WIlliams
WILLIAMS, John H. (Editor).
The Canoe and the Saddle or Klalan and Klickatat to Which Are Now First Added His Western Letters And Journals.
Tacoma: John H. Williams, 1913.
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. With sixteen color plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. Signed by John H. Williams on the title page. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by John H. Williams. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 61031
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First edition of Secondhand is Better; inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley to Kenneth David Burrows
MATTHEWS, Douglas; Suzanne Wymelenberg; and Susan Cheever Cowley [Erica Jong].
Secondhand is Better (2H=B).
New York: Arbor House, 1975.
First edition of this unique handbook to secondhand buying. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley on the front free endpaper, "To Burrows, without whose diverse and grateful help this book - and a lot of other things - would not have been possible. Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142533
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First Edition of High Yield Bonds; Inscribed by Martin Fridson
FRIDSON, Martin S.
High Yield Bonds: Identifying Value and Assessing Risk of Speculative Grade Securities.
Chicago: Probus Publishing Company, 1989.
First edition of this early work by Fridson. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Peter- Hoping this helps you get to the bottom line! Marty Fridson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 78912
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First editions of The World's Worst Children and The World's Worst Children Two; both volumes signed by David Walliams
WALLIAMS, David.
The World’s Worst Children [with] The World’s Worst Children Two.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
First editions of the best-selling author's collection of deliciously mischievous tales of simply the worst children. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color illustrations by Tony Ross. Both volumes signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Both volumes are fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tony Ross.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145215
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First edition of Daniel Morgaine's Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours; inscribed by him to american journalist William Safire
MORGAINE, Daniel. [William Safire].
Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours. [A Turn of the Century in 80 Days].
Paris: Editions Denoel, 1998.
First edition of Morgaine's work documenting the major events of the 20th century. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Preface by Yves Courriere. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Helene and William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 128112
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"How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?": First Edition of The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World; Warmly Inscribed by John Carlos
CARLOS, John with Dave Zirin.
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World.
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011.
First edition of the remarkable story of John Carlos, best known for raising his black-gloved fist as a salute to Black Power and human rights on the 1968 Olympic podium. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Lenz We live to make history! Much Love! John Carlos Dr. John Carlos 68+2012." Foreword by Dr. Cornel West. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146175
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"I am Eloise and I am six": First Edition of Kay Thompson's The Absolutely Essential Eloise; Signed by and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Kay Thompson’s The Absolutely Essential Eloise.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the essential edition of Eloise. Slim quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 133190
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First Edition of The Return; Signed by Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ALDRIN, Buzz and John Barnes.
The Return: A Novel of Human Adventure.
New York: Forge/ Tom Doherty Associates, 2000.
First edition of Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s compelling work of fiction. Octavo, original glossy boards. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112686
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First Edition of A Life In Our Times; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A Life In Our Times.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
First edition of Galbraith's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine, autographed sticker to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146272
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Other Colors: Essays and A Story; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Other Colors: Essays and A Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Maureen Freeley.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 123428
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Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed twice by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel and on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 125773
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First Edition of White Writing; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa.
South Africa: Radix, 1988.
First South African edition, which precedes the American edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 217
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's Diary of A Bad Year; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
Diary of a Bad Year.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2007.
First Australian edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover design by Chong.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131086
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Lincoln: The Literary Genius
BARZUN, Jacques.
Lincoln: The Literary Genius.
Evanston, IL: Evanston Publishing Company, 1960.
Signed limited edition, one of only 120 numbered copies. Octavo, original full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144299
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First Edition of The New York Monuments Commission's In Memoriam Henry Warner Slocum; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
NEW YORK MONUMENTS COMMISSION [WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum 1826-1894.
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904.
First edition of this work dedicated to the memory of an esteemed Union general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, original cloth, botanical endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Henry Warner Slocum, illustrated with twenty-six additional photographic plates and four folding maps. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In very good 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 1900s, he was…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145997
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First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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First Edition of Don Delillo's Running Dog; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
Running Dog.
New York: 1978.
First edition of "the best Vietnam novel to appear so far, bearing some relationship to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers and some to V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas (Houston Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Brian Light Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket painting by Karl Korah.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141423
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"The facts are always less than what really happened": First Edition of July’s People; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
July’s People.
South Africa: Ravan Press/ Taurus, 1981.
First South African edition and true first of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 84673