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Rare early 20th century Albarel Map
[ALBAREL],.
Carte Canada et de la Louisiane. [The Albarel Map].
Beautifully illustrated facsimile map attributed to Sieur Albarel in 1695. One page, the map shows regions of North America attributed as La Louisane, Florida, Nova Anglia, Noveau Mexique, and Canada with views of Quebec, New York and Niagara Falls, and a scene of whale hunting. 'The Albarel Map' was likely produced in the early 20th century [c. 1930] and may have been sold as a copy of an authentic map produced in 1695. In near fine condition. An attractive piece.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138509
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul": First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Autobiography; Signed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life.
Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency LTD, 1976.
First edition of the legendary military leader and politician's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bethram Kapadia.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134303
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Rare Antique Print of President Ulysses S. Grant with His Family
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Antique Print.
Rare antique print of the eighteenth president of the United States of America. Black and white print of Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia Grant and four children. Framed. In fine condition. This piece measures 13.25 inches by 16.25 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146568
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Eleanor Roosevelt's A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty; In the rare original dust jacket
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin D.
A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935.
Rare second large printing of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 142053
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"Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappoints. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding": John Adams; Warmly Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Edward Ash-Milby with greetings from David McCullough 2001." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146414
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FIRST EDITION OF OUR TIME IS NOW; SIGNED BY STACEY ABRAMS
ABRAMS, Stacy.
Our Time Is Now. Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
First edition of this "striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory" (New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Stacy Abrams on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design Christopher Sergio.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134697
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First Edition of Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146167
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First Edition of Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis; Signed by Walter Hooper
HOOPER, Walter [C.S. Lewis].
Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C.S. Lewis.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1982.
First edition of this biography on C.S. Lewis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Walter Hooper on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131584
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First Edition of Iris Chang's Thread of the Silkworm; Warmly Inscribed by her
CHANG, Iris.
Thread of the Silkworm.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.
First edition of the definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, "For Janean, Best wishes! Iris Chang." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143051
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First Edition of The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers; Warmly Inscribed Bela Kornitzer to Boxing Legend Gene Tunney
KORNITZER, Bela.
The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955.
First edition of this famed journalist's work on the Eisenhower brothers. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion on the dedication page, "To Gene Tunney, who manifested that body and spirit are truly ---- [?]. With sincere admiration and affection, Bela, May 26, 1963, Stamford, Conn." Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian-born journalist, made a career of interviewing prominent men. In 1940 he compiled his many interviews into a two-volume book, Fathers & Sons, which earned him a place on the Gestapo's most-wanted list. During the Nazi occupation, he sought protection for himself and for…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145646
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America Inscribed by Barbara Ehrenreich
EHRENREICH, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
First edition, early printing of this work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Lynn- Thanks for your support of Measure '25 Barbara Ehrenreich." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146483
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First Edition of My Life; Signed By Hillary Rodham Clinton
CLINTON, Bill; Hillary Rodham Clinton.
My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of President Clinton's autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Boldly signed in full on the title page by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138187
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Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas
THIERS, Adolphe.
Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131402
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"the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide": Rare 18th century hand-colored map of the Chinese Islands of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau from Jean- Baptiste Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique
DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste [China].
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Map of China: Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau. [Description Geographique].
J. Wood, c. 1736.
Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map providing plans of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau, being a plate extracted from Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique, the most important cartographic record of the region of the eighteenth century. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137249
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First American Edition of David's Sling: The Arming of Israel; Inscribed by Shimon Peres
PERES, Shimon.
David’s Sling.
New York: Random House, 1970.
First American edition of the story of the creation of Israel's armed strength. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in 1971 in Hebrew by Shimon Peres on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 64048
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"I always proudly said 'I am a Baptist and a Democrat' ": First Edition of Rebekah Baines Johnson's A Family Album; inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson to white house correspondent jack horner
JOHNSON, Rebekah Baines. Introduction by Lyndon B. Johnson.
A Family Album.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
First edition of this work documenting Lyndon B. Johnson's family tree, prepared for him by his mother as a Christmas present to her son. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Introduction by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the dedication page, "To Jack and Leota Horner from your friend and admirer Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, White House Correspondent Garnett D. Jack Horner, served as President of the White House Correspondents Association and covered Presidents from FDR to Gerald Ford. President Johnson often invited favored reporters to the LBJ Ranch, including Horner on multiple occasions throughout…
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 110560
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Signed limited edition of Sydney D. Smith's Grapes of Conflict; signed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith
SMITH, Sydney D. Foreword by Cesar Chavez.
Grapes of Conflict.
Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 1987.
First edition, signed limited edition of Smith's account of the relationship between the Migrant Ministry and National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s farmworkers' movement. Octavo, original publisher's red velvet with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel. Singed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith on the signature page. In fine condition.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 122036
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Burnaby's On Horseback Through Asia Minor
BURNABY, Frederick Gustavus.
On Horseback Through Asia Minor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.
Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in original publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, spine vignettes in black, illustrated with 3 folding maps and a mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 105843
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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 Hugh Johnson's Wine
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145332
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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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First edition of Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941; signed by John M. Erskine
[ERSKINE, J. M.].
Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1941].
First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine beneath his portrait, "J.M. Erskine 27/1/42." Fine in the original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124099
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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 Theodore Pratt's That Was Palm Beach; signed by him
PRATT, Theodore.
That Was Palm Beach.
St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors, 1968.
First edition of Pratt's history of Flagler era of Palm Beach, Florida. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. Front cover photograph of "the great Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach, the grandest hotel of all time, the largest wooded building ever built in the history of the world."
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138405
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George Iles's Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
ILES, George [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.
The second volume of a stunning collection of autobiographies, this volume containing William Tecumseh Sherman's memoir; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octodecimo, original red cloth, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition. In 1908, upon completing work on 'Little Masterpieces of Autobiography,' Iles sent Philemon Tecumseh Sherman the entire set of works as thanks for Sherman's permission to reprint from his father's memoirs.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145976
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First Edition of George Gilder's Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America; Inscribed by Him With A Full Page Inscription
GILDER, George.
Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of Gilder's seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59027
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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William P. Dewees' An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition; in the original publisher's boards
DEWEES, William P.
An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain, and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition.
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1819.
Second edition of Dewees' inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136502
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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 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 Gore Vidal's Screening History; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Screening History.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie, love, Gore Vidal." The recipient, Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126011
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"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives": First Edition of John Adams; signed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Nancy Kovac with greetings from David McCullough 2017." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138030
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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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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Jewish Welfare Board, .
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven heliotint pages in a folding album, original envelope wrappers, illustrated. Fine in good wrappers with some rubbing and closed tears, a few losses to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145990
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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 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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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 Reflections and Observations: Inscribed by Denton Cooley
COOLEY, Denton A.
Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984.
First edition of this collection of essays which illuminates, with brilliant insight, our contemporary world of medicine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "12-7-84 To Robert White with best wishes! Denton A. Cooley MD." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities and hinges of the dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147027
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First Edition of Byzantium; Inscribed by John Julius Norwich on date of Publication
NORWICH, John Julius.
Byzantium: The Apogee.
London: Viking Press, 1991.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Derek with all love from John Julius Publication Day, 14.x.91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 4421
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First edition of Gertrude Atherton's The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
ATHERTON, Gertrude.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
First edition of the first novel in the author's California series. Octavo, original cloth elaborated stamped in gilt, illustrated by Harrison Fisher. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116833
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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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"The Road is always better than the inn": Daniel Boorstin's The Seekers; Inscribed by him in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the third and final volume in Boorstin's "knowledge" trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Cole- a fellow seeker from Oklahoma- from Daniel J. Boorstin December 3, 1998." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art: frontispiece plate from William Blake's Europe: a Prophecy, 1794.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133115
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First Edition of The Economics of Computers; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist William F. Sharpe
SHARPE, Willam F.
The Economics of Computers.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on computers. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Bill Sharpe." Near fine in a good dust jacket, name to the endpaper.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133579
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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 Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jane Goodall on the half-title page and inscribed by the co-author on the title page, "For Mike- with hope Thane Maynard." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138447
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The author's autograph edition of Richard Byrd's Little America; one of one thousand numbered copies signed by him
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Byrd’s account of his first expedition to the South Pole. Octavo, original publisher's half parchment over blue boards, with 74 illustrations and maps. Author's Autograph Edition, one of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author and publisher on the limitation leaf, this is number 139. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140404
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First Edition of Corporate Culture and Performance; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John P. and James L. Heskett.
Corporate Culture and Performance.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by REM Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145992
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First Edition of George Soros' The Age of Fallibility; Inscribed by Him
SOROS, George.
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.
New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of The Alchemy of Finance. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by George Soros on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45092
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Rare Eighteenth Century Map Of the mouth of the Pearl River by renowned French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Des Isles Qui Sont a l’Embouchure de la Riviere de Canton. [Eighteenth Century Map Of The Islands Which Are At The Mouth Of The Canton River].
Paris: c. 1750.
Eighteenth century map of the isles of the Pearl River (formerly the Canton River) by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page, hand-colored, central fold. In very good condition. Later hand-coloring. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18.25 inches by 14 inches.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137244
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First Edition of Five Chiefs; A Supreme Court Memoir; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul .
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this memoir from Justice John Paul Stevens. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison J. Warner. Uncommon signed in the actual book, as most examples are signed bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139184
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First Edition of Value Investing: A Balanced Approach; signed by Martin J. Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J.
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144681
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First edition of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; signed by him
PERKINS, John.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004.
First edition of Perkins' bestselling exposé. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by MBV Design.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124194
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Limited Edition of The Prince of Pleasure; Signed by J.B. Priestley
PRIESTLEY, J.B.
The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency 1811-20.
London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.
Signed limited edition of this social and political commentary on the Regency Period. Super octavo, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, decorative gilt morocco inlays and gilt patterning to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustration of the Snuff-box believed to have been presented to the 1st Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent on the verso of the frontispiece, frontispiece of The Prince Regent in Garter Robes by Sir Thomas Lawrence, generously illustrated with paintings,…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145562
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First Edition of The Warmth of Other Suns; Signed and dated by Isabel Wilkerson
WILKERSON, Isabel.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s First Great Migration.
New York: Random House, 2010.
First edition of this work which won National Book Critics Circle Award, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Isabel Wilkerson Feb. 1, 2011." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147077
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First Edition of In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story; Signed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story.
Wisconsin: Shadow Mountain, 2010.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by David McCullough on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143615
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First Edition I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941; Signed by Both Frederick Lewis Allen and Agnes Rogers
LEWIS ALLEN, Frederick; Agnes Rogers.
I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941.
New York: : Harper & Brother Publishers, 1947.
First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Dick Lounsbury with the best wishes of the assemblers: Agnes Rogers" and also signed by Frederick Lewis Allen. In very good condition with The Knickerbocker Club stamp in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45091
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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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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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it": First edition of Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion; signed by the film's screenplay writer Tony Kushner
RUBEL, David. Tony Kushner. Forewords by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy. [Doris Kearns Goodwin].
Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion.
New York: Disney Editions, 2012.
First edition of this pictorial companion to Spielberg’s monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln. Quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the title page by Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for the film loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137109
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First Edition of George Agar Ellis' The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask
ELLIS, George Agar.
The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives.
London: John Murray, 1826.
First edition of this early account of the French legend, later retold by Alexandre Dumas in The Man in the Iron Mask. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary straight grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled. In very good condition. An attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137292