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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Joe Pete Townshend." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144404
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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey; Inscribed by Her
GOODALL, Jane with Phillip Berman.
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Goodall's moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Caroline Together we make a difference Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer and Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138205
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized”: The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, Thomas.
The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales.]
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c. 1896.
The American edition of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels. Octavo, seventeen volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spines, author's initials stamped in gilt to the front panels, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, author's signature in facsimile opposite the frontispiece of volume I. In very good condition with some toning to the spines, ownership signature and gift inscription to the front free endpaper of some volumes. The first uniform and collected edition of Hardy's works in America.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147342
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"A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone"; First Edition of Enzymatic Structures of DNA; Inscribed by Arthur Kornberg
KORNBERG, Arthur.
Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Arthur Kornberg on the front free endpaper. Small stamp of Biologist L.S. Baron on the front endpage. Fine in a dust jacket that shows just a touch of wear.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 747
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie, Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife, Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147232
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First Edition of Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey; Lengthily Inscribed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane with Phillip Berman.
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Goodall's moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Barbara and Nancy Together we can make this a better world for all. Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer and Flag.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 146888
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“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale": First Edition of The Last Unicorn; Signed by Peter S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S. with Peter B. Gillis; Art by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon.
The Last Unicorn.
San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2011.
First edition of the graphic novel adaptation of Beagle’s classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon. Boldly signed by Peter S. Beagle on the front end paper. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147091
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"The Sun's not eternal, That's why there's the blues": Allen Ginsberg's White Shroud 1980-1985; Inscribed by Him with a large drawing
GINSBERG, Allen.
White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page, "for Lorraine & Gene Levy from cousin (first) Allen Ginsberg February 4, 1989 Pittsburgh." Additionally inscribed on the opposite with a large hand-drawn illustration of a Bhudda-like figure surrounded by stars, a sun with initials "AH" at the center, and a skull holding a flower at the bottom. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146471
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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"Some people care too much. I think it's called love": First Edition Set of A. A. Milne's Christopher Robin Songbooks
MILNE, A.A.; Music by H. Fraser-Simson.
Christopher Robin Songbooks: Teddy Bear & Other Songs From When We Were Very Young, Songs From Now We Are Six, More Very Young Songs.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926-1928.
First edition set of songbooks from Milne's Christopher Robin and Pooh series. Quarto, 3 volumes, original tan half cloth, illustrated with decorations by E. H. Shepard. In near fine condition with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper of each volume.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146005
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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First Edition of War Diaries; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
War Diaries: Politics and War in The Mediterranean January 1943-May 1945
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1984.
First edition of the British politician's collected diaries from the Second World War. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with maps and photographs. Boldly signed by Harold Macmillan on the title page as "Stockton," his title in the House of Lords. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the foot of the jacket spine. Jacket photograph from the Macmillan Family Archives. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145158
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Him With His Foot In His Mouth; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 7344
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"There's no greater pleasure than to talk over the big things with a believer": First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination; With an Autographed Postcard from WIlder
WILDER, Thornton.
Heaven’s My Destination.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935.
First edition of this comedic novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. Octavo, original cloth. With an autographed postcard from Thornton Wilder laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Haberstock.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140196
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"With Pablo there must always be a victor and a vanquished ... Since I loved him, I couldn't afford to be vanquished": Life with Picasso; Inscribed by Francoise Gilot
GILOT, Francoise and Carlton Lake.
Life with Picasso.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.
First edition, early printing of this revealing memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elaine and Jim McDonald, Francoise Gilot." Additionally dated in the year of publication in another hand "11-10-73." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147265
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First 50th anniversary edition of The Tin Drum; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
Boston & New York: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of the fiftieth anniversary edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Breon Mitchell. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Gunter Grass. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Author photograph by Hans Grunert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142683
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First Edition of Emily Eden's The Semi-Attached Couple; Signed by Anthony Eden
EDEN, Emily; Introduction by Anthony Eden.
The Semi-Attached Couple.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.
First edition of the Honorable Emily Eden's brilliant comedy of manners. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth with central botanical flourish, illustrated by Suzanne Suba. Association copy, signed and dated by the Right Honorable Anthony Eden, who contributed the introduction, on the verso of the half-title page, "Anthony Eden Paris March 1948." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown and gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Susanne Suba. Drawing of the author by George Richmond, R.A. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145160
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"Wishing our country strength, wisdom and liberty": First Edition of Everything We Had; Warmly Inscribed by Al Santoli
SANTOLI, Al.
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of this reminder of the Vietnam War in thirty-three reports from ordinary American soldiers. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dan & Michele Memory is our victory. Al Santoli." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Aulicino. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146841
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First Edition of Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey; Signed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane with Phillip Berman.
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Goodall's moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Laura Hear your heart Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer and Flag.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146860