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Rare Ulysses S. Grant Autograph; Additionally Signed by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and U.S. Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler
GRANT, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; Leonard Wood; Joseph Wheeler.
Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs.
N.p., [1874-1902].
Autographs of President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and United States Army Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler. Octavo, one page. Signed by Grant, "U. S. Grant." Additionally signed and dated by Wheeler ("Joseph Wheeler Genl. USA. Apl. 11. 1902"), Wood (Leonard Wood Army Genl USA June 30th 1902"), and Fish ("Hamilton Fish Sect of State June 5/74"). In very good condition with light toning to the edges. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 146684
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“A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself”: First Edition of Catch Me If You Can; Signed by Frank Abagnale and Steven Spielberg
ABAGNALE, Frank W. [Steven Spielberg].
Catch Me If You Can.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980.
First edition of the bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, basis for the Steven Spielberg film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly inscribed by Frank W. Abagnale on the front free endpaper and Steven Spielberg on the front pastedown. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. With Abagnale's business card laid in. Rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145775
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First edition in English of Yukio Mishima's Five Modern No Plays; inscribed by him to Bella Spewack
MISHIMA, Yukio.
Five Modern Nō Plays.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
First edition in English of the author's collection of five Nō plays. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated wit ten photographs in half tone. Translated, with am introduction by Donald Keene. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Belle Spewack with the author's best wishes Yukio Mishima Feb. 1966 Tokyo." The recipient, Bella and her husband Samuel Spewack co-authored several of the most memorable works of musical theatre history including Kiss Me, Kate. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 138221
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics: Look I Made A hat; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Writer Annie Dillard
SONDHEIM, Stephen [Annie Dillard].
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
First editions of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page to fellow writer Annie Dillard, "For Annie Best Wishes from Stephen Sondheim." Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Annie Dillard.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133175
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First Edition of Cosmos; Inscribed by Carl Sagan
SAGAN, Carl.
Cosmos.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of one of the best-selling science books ever published. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For the Collins family With best wishes Carl Sagan 9/20/95." Fine a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino, jacket painting by Adolph Schaller.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 77951
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Rare Photograph Portrait Signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Theodore Roosevelt Signed Photograph.
January 29, 1907.
Rare photograph of the 26th President of the United States. Sepia-tone Harris & Ewing bust portrait of Theodore Roosevelt wearing pince-nez eyeglasses and looking to the side of the camera, boldly signed and dated by him as President, "Theodore Roosevelt Jan 29th 1907." Triple mounted. In near fine condition with slight fading to the photograph. The piece measures 9 inches by 14 inches. An exceptional piece.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 147421
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First Edition of Wall Street; Signed by Kenneth Lipper, Oliver Stone and Martin Sheen
LIPPER, Kenneth. Based On The Original Screenplay by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser.
Wall Street.
New York: Berkley Books, 1988.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Dear Dan, Thanks for the encouragement. It will help me with the next novel. Ken." Additionally signed by Oliver Stone and actor Martin Sheen on the title page. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133246
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Rare Limited Signed Edition of You Do Not Have To Love Me; Signed by Leonard Cohen and an original painting by Soheyl Dahi
COHEN, Leonard; Painting by Soheyl Dahi.
You Do Not Have To Love Me.
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2008.
Signed limited issue, "Publisher's copy no. 3", from 26 copies signed by Cohen with an original painting by Soheyl Dahi, Cohen's close friend and the founder of the Sore Dove Press. The object of the poem was the singer-songwriter Nico, who was "idealized by Cohen and made a subject of his worship" (Mesac, p. 91). You Do Not Have To Love Me first appeared in Selected Poems 1956-1968 (1968), alongside a number of other poems that reference Nico. To Cohen, who was still early in his music career, "Nico represented all the women he had ever wanted and the more…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 147664
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The Great Seal of Queen Victoria with a magnificent elaborately decorated royal patent
VICTORIA, Queen of England.
The Great Seal of Queen Victoria with Royal Patent.
Rare wax Great Seal of Queen Victoria presented with a large, elaborately illustrated patent granted to William Edward Newton. Housed in a custom metal case, the patent measures 7 inches in diameter and depicts Queen Victoria on the Royal Throne flanked by two ladies in waiting. The seal is affixed to the patent with a red braided twine. Partially printed on vellum, the patent is dated 1858 and grants William Edward Newton the rights to his invention which made "improvements in the hanging and arranging of cylindrical, conical, or spiral steel railroad springs for Railway carriages" with elaborate engraved royal…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 108053
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FIRST EDITION OF IRVING FISHER’S THE STOCK MARKET CRASH—AND AFTER; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Irving.
The Stock Market Crash—And After.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930.
First edition of Fisher's important work tracing the causes and the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publciation on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Robert W. King with the compliments of Irving Fisher March, 1930." In near fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 116232
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"He must begin again": First Edition of Theodore Dreiser's The Titan; Inscribed by Him
DREISER, Theodore.
The Titan.
New York: John Lane Company, 1914.
First edition of the second book in the author's acclaimed Trilogy of Desire. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For George T. Keating my most American book Theodore Dreiser N.Y. City 1919." The recipient George Keating was a well-known book collector in the early twentieth century, who amassed a large Joseph Conrad collection. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing and offsetting to the endpapers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 56090
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First Edition of The Age of Turbulence; Inscribed by Alan Greenspan to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
GREENSPAN, Alan [Madeleine K. Albright].
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2007.
First edition of the former Federal Reserve Chairman's memoir. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Association copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Madeleine Albright Best Wishes Alan Greenspan." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 147426
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The Poetry Collection of Annie Dillard; over 35 volumes each signed or inscribed to her
[DILLIARD, Annie].
The Poetry Collection of Annie Dillard.
Various Publishers, .
Rare collection of dozens of volumes of poetry from the collection of American author Annie Dillard, each signed or inscribed to her and with her bookplate. Approximately 35 volumes, the collection includes inscribed first editions and early printings of Fred Chappell's Wild Mountain, Leo Connellan's First Selected Poems, Karen Connelly's The Border Surrounds Us, Paul Zimmer's Crossing to Sunlight, A. J. Hovde's Selected Poems, Tom Owen-Towle's Sauntering, Joe Rosenblatt's The Sleeping Lady, and Frank Polite's Letters of Transit. Each volume is in near fine to fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 128534
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First edition of Landmark Papers in General Equilibrium Theory, Social Choice and Welfare; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu
ARROW, Kenneth & Gerard Debreu.
Landmark Papers in General Equilibrium Theory, Social Choice and Welfare.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition. Thick octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Books signed together by these two giants in the field are rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 5788
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"There can be peace in the world": First edition of Growing Toward Peace; Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and Regina Tor
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & Regina Tor.
Growing Toward Peace.
New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of this work by Roosevelt and Tor. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Eleanor Roosevelt and Regina Tor opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Laid in is a publicity photograph of both authors. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This is the first example we have seen signed by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 5476
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First Edition of Jurgen Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests; Signed by Him and Daniel Bell
HABERMAS, Jurgen [Daniel Bell].
Knowledge and Human Interests.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
First edition in English of Habermas' classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jurgen Habermas on the front free endpaper. Sociologist Daniel Bell's copy, with his signature and his extensive notes throughout. Translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket desiged by Richard C. Bartlett.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 49027
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"Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are": First Edition of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey
WOLFE, Tom. [Ken Kesey].
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960's. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and inscribed by Ken Kesey on pages bound in. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 148163
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA; with an autograph letter and 1883 warrant signed by Queen Victoria laid in
VICTORIA, Queen. Edited by Arthur Christopher and Viscount Esher.
Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from her Majesty’s Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861.
London: John Murray, 1907.
First edition set of this selection of the letters of Queen Victoria, written between 1837 and 1861. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco by Henry Southeran and Co. with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings including tissue-guarded frontispieces to each volume. Gift inscription tipped in dedicating this set to prominent Freemason and British Liberal Party politician Harry Manfield. With a partially printed Queen's Warrant dated 17 February 1883 signed by Queen Victoria and an additional note in her hand requesting the presence of…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 132058
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“If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head": First Edition of All the King's Men; Signed by Robert Penn Warren
WARREN, Robert Penn.
All The King’s Men.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Robert Penn Warren on the front free endpaper. Near fine in the second state dust jacket which is in good condition with the $3.00 price present. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 143762
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“Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs": First Edition of The Alchemy of Finance; Inscribed by George Soros
SOROS, George.
The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
First edition of "this seminal investment book" (Barton Biggs). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Bos Todol best George Soros." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Jenkins.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 33768