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Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Summations: The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature.
Bennington College, 1987.
First Edition. Signed by Bellow. A lecture delivered at Bennington College in 1987 in an edition of 1,000. Thin Octavo. Signed by the author in facsimile in the back of the title, although not called for this copy is signed by the author in his own hand on the title page.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 178
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First American Edition of Life & Times of Michael K; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Life & Times of Michael K.
New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
First American edition of the author's first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bascove.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 74675
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First Edition of Harold Pinter's The Dwarf; Signed by Him
PINTER, Harold.
The Dwarfs.
London: Faber & Faber, 1990.
First edition of this “fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful" (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Andrzej Klimowski.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 76345
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First Literary Guild Edition of Miss Hickory; Inscribed by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin.
Miss Hickory.
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and The Viking Press, 1946.
Scarce first Junior Guild edition of this Newbery award-winning children's book. Octavo, original red cloth with black lettering to the spine and black flower decoration to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, red top stain, lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Helen Fuller, my treasured friend, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Miss H." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket and signed.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145270
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First Edition of Hooking Up; Lengthily Inscribed by Tom Wolfe in the year of publication
WOLFE, Tom.
Hooking Up.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
First edition of a wonderful compilation of some of the author's greatest essays. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Vikram and Meera and their exciting trans-hempheric life Tom Wolfe November 28 2000." Fine in near fine jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. Author photograph by Jacques Lowe.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146007
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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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First edition of The Moment of Truth; Signed by Alan Simpson
SIMPSON, Alan and Erskine Bowles.
The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Washington, D.C: 2010.
First edition of Simpson and Bowles' final report on The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Alan Simpson on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas!! Alan Simpson." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117683
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First Edition of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse; Inscribed by Richard Thompson Ford
FORD, Richard Thompson.
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
First edition of this "sharp, nuanced, enlightening reflection on how America should confront its authentic legacy of racism . . . A sharp, nuanced yet stylish analysis" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lisa Thanks for reading the book Richard Ford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Aaron Artessa. Jacket illustration by Jean Tuttle.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 120633
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First edition of We'll Laugh Again; inscribed by Art Buchwald to American Journalist William Safire
BUCHWALD, Art. [William Safire].
We’ll Laugh Again.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page, "Aug 22, 2002 To Bill, you were expecting "War and Peace?" Yours, Art Buchwald." 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 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…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 127932
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First Edition of Ian Falconer's Olivia Forms a Band; Signed by Him
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia Forms a Band.
New York: Atheneum, 2006.
First edition of the fourth book in Falconer's acclaimed Olivia series. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ian Falconer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 91657
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First Edition of Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man; Inscribed by Wolfgang Stopler
STOPLER, Wofgang F.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of A Private Man.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994." From the library of noted economist Richard Musgrove. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 4401
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James Ford Rhodes' History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
RHODES, James Ford [William Tecumseh Sherman].
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 Vol 5.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Early edition of Vol. V of the history of the United States from 1864 to 1866; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original marooon cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with folding maps of William Techumseh Sherman's Marches and the Grant-Sheridan Campaign of 1865. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145965
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First Edition of Samuel Shem's The Spirit of the Place; Signed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
The Spirit of the Place.
Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.
First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Samuel Shem on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Marc Chagall.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142499
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First Edition of Paul Theroux's Half Moon Street; Inscribed by him to Sally Soames
THEROUX, Paul.
Half Moon Street.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally Soames with best wishes Paul Theroux." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119623
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"It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special": First edition of Oliver's Story; inscribed by Erich Segal
SEGAL, Erich.
Oliver’s Story.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Regards- Erich Segal 9 June 1978." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 143618
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Signed Limited First Edition of Thornton Wilder's The Angel That Troubled The Waters and Other Plays
WILDER, Thornton.
The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Wilder photographed by Doris Ulmann. One of seven-hundred and seventy-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 726. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145431
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First Special 1993 Sponsor Edition of How I Played The Game; Signed by Byron Nelson
NELSON, Byron; Arnold Palmer.
How I Played the Game.
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.
First special 1993 Sponsor edition of Nelson’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher's full forest green leatherette with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and photographic plates. One of one thousand one hundred copies signed by Byron Nelson on the semi-transparent flyleaf, this is number 58. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Accompanied by the original gilt engraved GTE Byron Nelson Classic metal clip bookmark.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146678
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Signed Limited Edition of James A. Michener's My Lost Mexico
MICHENER, James A.
My Lost Mexico.
Austin: The State House Press, 1992.
Signed limited edition of this novel by the award-winning author, one of 350 numbered copies, this is number 59. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations by the author. Signed by James A. Michener. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119391
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Signed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 68963
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50th Anniversary Edition of The First Four Minutes; Signed by Roger Bannister
BANNISTER, Roger.
The First Four Minutes.
Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004.
Limited hardback edition of this personal account of the most ground-breaking sporting achievement of the twentieth century, now with a new introduction and a substantial new chapter to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographic plates. One of two hundred and thirty-nine copies signed by the author on a limitation slip adhered to the front flyleaf, this is number 196. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146690