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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Gary Parr
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ilya Andrew Ross Sorkin" and signed by Gary Parr. Gary Parr was Deputy Chairman and on the board of directors of Lazard, LLC. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman, Head of Global Financial Institutions and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Label to the copyright page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102768
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First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
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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 Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
London: Allen Lane, 2006.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the Amartya Sen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 108931
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First Edition of Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century; Warmly Inscribed by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
TOFFLER, Alvin.
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century.
New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
First edition of this work by the author of Future Shock. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Sergio and the Munoz Family With warmth and respect from Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132352
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First edition of Alexander Wilmot's The History of Our Own Times in South Africa
WILMOT, Alexander.
The History of Our Own Times in South Africa.
London: J. C. Juta & Co, 1897-1899.
First edition of Wilmot's authoritative history of the development of South Africa. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spines. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116824
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First Edition of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
CHANG, Iris.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.
First edition of this "powerful, landmark book" (Richard Rhodes). Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rick Pracher.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 125001
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First Edition of In Praise of Doubt; Inscribed by Peter Berger
BERGER, Peter and Anton Zijderveld.
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic.
New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
First edition of this "book of great practical wisdom by authors who have profound insight into the intellectual dynamics governing contemporary life" (Dallas Willard). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Berger on the front free endpaper, "For Christal, from Peter Berger." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 41764
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First Edition of Vidal in Venice; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Vidal in Venice.
New York : Summit Books, 1985.
First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karen Katz. Edited by George Armstrong. Photographs by Tore Gill. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126474
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First edition of In Search of America; signed and inscribed by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
JENNINGS, Peter and Todd Brewster.
In Search of America.
New York: Hyperion, 2002.
First edition of the bestselling authors' lavishly illustrated work exploring American identity from the country's foundation to present day. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs edited by Vivette Porges. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "Rebecca You are on a great journey! & a great person P.J." and "Todd Brewster 9.26.02." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Elton Robinson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144820
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Howard Jones' Mutiny on the Amistad; signed by him
JONES, Howard.
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Howard Jones Framingham, Mass. 3/6/98." In near fine condition. Cover design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135992
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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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First Edition of Loeb and Safire's Plunging Into Politics; Warmly Inscribed by Marshall Loeb
LOEB, Marshall and William Safire.
Plunging Into Politics.
New York: David McKay Company, 1964.
First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To the Langs, Who have done more for me than they shall ever know. Marshall November, 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by A/D Associates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 130822
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Kenneth J. Roberts' Black Magic; inscribed by him
ROBERTS, Kenneth J.
Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924.
Early printing of Roberts' work on fascism in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Mussolini. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For S. D. Green with the best wishes of Kenneth J. Roberts Palm Beach January, 1927." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96104
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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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Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Inscribed 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. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For my friend of many years Mr. W. W. Norman - with the sincere regards of the author: LaSalle Corbell Pickett. March 27, 1923." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145485
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First Edition of Richard S. West Jr.'s The Second Admiral; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
WEST JR, Richard S. [William T. Sherman].
The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter 1813-1891.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1937.
First edition of this biography of one of the most distinguished admirals in the history of the U. S. Navy; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Admiral David Nixon Porter, illustrated with photographs, maps, and engravings. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper 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 1900s, he…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145739
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First Edition of William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of the NAACP Fanny Garrison Villard
VILLARD, Fanny Garrison .
William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance. Together with a Personal Sketch By His Daughter Fanny Garrison Villard and a Tribute by Leo Tolstoi.
The Nations Press Printing Co, 1924.
First edition of this tribute to the prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Mildred L. Wood May 30, 1925 From Mrs. Villard." Fanny Garrison Villard was a co-founder (with her son) of the NAACP and active in women's suffrage and peace movements. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the wife of railroad tycoon Henry Villard. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 81133
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First edition of Talbott's The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the nuclear peace
TALBOTT, Strobe [Madeleine K. Albright].
The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
First edition of Talbott's nuanced portrait of one of the most influential diplomats and strategists of the 20th century. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "To Madeleine- With great admiration and full expectation that, if given a chance, you'll help change the rules of the game for the better. Strobe Talbott August 1988." 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…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 149054
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First Edition of Daniel Boorstin's The Creators; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BOOSTIN, Daniel J.
The Creators.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ed Robertson from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 24, 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132614