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First Edition of Kenneth J. Arrow's Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing; Signed by Him
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing.
Amsterdam-London: North -Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Kenneth J. Arrow on the title page. Small name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition. No jacket was issued for this title. Books signed by Arrow are uncommon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 29023
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First Edition of Capital Ideas; Signed by Peter L. Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter L.
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein's editor laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Michael Langenstein.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115654
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“THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE FIGURE IN JEWISH LIFE”: FIRST EDITION OF CHAIM WEIZMANN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRIAL AND ERROR; INSCRIBED BY HIM
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Trial and Error.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition of the first president of Israel's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Pam Affectionately Chaim Wiezmann." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134391
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First Edition of J. Paul Getty and Ethel Le Vane's Collector's Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe; Signed by both authors
LE VANE, Ethel and J. Paul Getty.
Collector’s Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey Through Europe.
London: W.H. Allen, 1955.
First edition of this work by the legendary businessman and collector. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Signed by the authors opposite in the year of publication on the half-title page, "J. Paul Getty, Sept. 1955," and also inscribed by the co-author above, "To the Sprigg's, with all good wishes from Ethel LeVane (Bunny)." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Books signed by Getty are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139670
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First Edition of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics; Signed by George Reisman
REISMAN, George.
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics.
TJS Books, 1996.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original half cloth. Boldly signed by George Reisman on a bookplate attached to the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146302
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Rare Original December 13, 1968 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by the 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat
ARAFAT, Yasser.
Yasser Arafat Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Time Magazine Latin America, 1968.
Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover from the December 13, 1968 issue. Octavo, one page, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Yasser Arafat painted by Hector Garrido. Signed and dated by Arafat in Arabic at the upper right. In near fine condition with mail folds.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146623
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Scarce Printing of Arthur Lourie's Britain and Palestine
LOURIE, Arthur.
Britain and Palestine: An Examination of Present British Policy in the Light of the Mandate for Palestine.
New York: The American Zionist Emergency Council, c. 1940.
Scarce printing of this study of the relationship between the Mandate for Palestine and British Policy, based on a detailed treatment by Dr. Jacob Robinson. Thin imperial octavo, original wrappers stapled as issued, tipped in to later boards. In very good condition with toning to the wrappers and boards, paperclip evidence, institutional stamps to the first and final leaves.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146810
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"For Vivien with all my love and admiration": First Edition of A Time of Gods; Inscribed by Roloff Beny to Actress Vivien Leigh
BENY, Roloff (Vivien Leigh).
A Time of Gods.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962.
First edition of this work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpaper, illustrated with 148 photogravure plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author to actress Vivien Leigh, "For Vivien with all my love and admiration always Roloff London Oct. 23/ 63." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Beny was in early days a protégé of Peggy Guggenheim and Herbert Read. The circle of friends around him—actors, artists, collectors, writers—included such figures as Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Rose Macaulay, Bernard Berenson, Jean Cocteau, Henry Moore, and other luminaries of art and literature. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 74016
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First Edition of George Kennan's Russia Leaves the War Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920; Inscribed by Him
KENNAN, George F.
Russia Leaves the War Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956.
First edition of this classic work, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Langrock's with best wishes George Kennan." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 85982
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First edition of Samuel White Baker's Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; elaborately illustrated
BAKER, Samuel White.
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1847.
First edition of Baker's classic work documenting his journeys to the Nile. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards to each volume, with fifty full-page illustrations by Zwecker and Durand, folding map of Baker's routes. In very good condition. From the library of George Lucien Edwards with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 96200
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Original color photograph inscribed by Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower to White House Administrative Assistant Helen Colle Donaldson Hollers
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud.
Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.
Original color photograph inscribed by the 34th President and First Lady of the United States, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Presentation photograph, inscribed on the mount, "For Mrs. Helen Colle with best wishes and warm regards from Dwight D. Eisenhower" and signed, "Mamie Doud Eisenhower." The recipient, Helen Colle Donaldson Hollers, was a White House administrative assistant who served under nine presidents from Harry S. Truman to George H.W. Bush. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 12.25 inches by 15.75 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 194042
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“THE UNBELIEVABLE COINCIDENCES… JUST COULDN’T HAPPEN—AND YET THEY DID”: PORTRAIT OF THE ASSASSIN, warmly inscribed BY PRESIDENT FORD To Close Personal Friend and Mayor of Pittsburgh Bob O'Connor
FORD, Gerald R. and John R. Stiles.
Portrait of an Assassin.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.
First edition of the first book about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to be authored by a member of the Warren Commission, boldly signed by Ford. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bob O'Connor with warmest personal regards and very best wishes. Gerald R. Ford." The recipient, Bob O'Connor was the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a close personal friend of Ford. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Smith. Photograph on the front of jacket by James Murray. Housed in a custom half morocco…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 125682
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Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles; finely bound in full morocco with a disappearing fore-edge painting
[SEELEY, Emma Louise].
Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1883.
Finely bound example of this classic on Knights and the Middle Ages. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, inner dentelles, illustrated with six illuminations, all edges gilt. With a disappearing fore-edge painting which reveals a jousting scene. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131780
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First Edition of Earl Warren's A Republic, If You Can Keep It; Signed by Him
WARREN, Earl.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Earl Warren on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket, text, and binding design by Warren Chappell. Eagle design by Fritz Kredel.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 135475
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"one of the most important and remarkable innovations in the private enterprise of cartography": Rare hand-colored lithograph map of South Florida and The Bahamas from Philippe Vandermaelen's Atlas Universel.
VANDERMAELEN, Philippe Marie.
Amérique Septentrionale. Florides et Iles Lucayes. No. 62. [Map of Florida and the Bahamas].
Brussels: Lithographed by H. Ode, 1825.
Rare hand-colored lithograph map of South Florida, the Keys and the Bahamas from renowned 19th century Belgian cartographer Philippe Vandermaelen's Atlas Universel. One page, the map displays South Florida and the Bahamas including major cities as of 1825 with numerous Native American trails and roads recorded and an inset text regarding the flora and fauna of the Everglades. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 29 inches by 27 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 137108
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“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work”: First Editions of Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home Of The Blizzard; From the Library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
MAWSON, Sir Douglas.
The Home Of The Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914.
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and William Heinemann, 1915.
First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration. Thick octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue cloth, profusely illustrated with 18 color plates, hundreds of black-and-white plates, numerous in-text illustrations and three color folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111828
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Rare original December 24, 1973 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by Henry Kissinger
KISSINGER, Henry A.
Henry Kissinger Signed Time Magazine Cover.
December 24, 1973.
Original cover from the December 24, 1973 issue of Time Magazine featuring a caricature of Henry Kissinger, signed by him. Quarto, original illustrated front wrapper. In very good condition with fold creases.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145306
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First Edition of 100 Years of Wimbledon; Signed by Lance Tingay and Wimbledon Champion Carlos Alcaraz
TINGAY, Lance. [Carlos Alcaraz].
100 Years of Wimbledon.
London: Guinness Superlatives Limited, 1977.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on Wimbledon. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Barry Newcombe, the most esteemed of colleagues Lance Tingay." Additionally signed by Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146249
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First edition of James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary; bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
POPE-HENNESSY, James.
Queen Mary 1867-1953.
London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1959.
First edition of Pope-Hennessy's esteemed biography of Queen Mary, for which he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1960. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 131526
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“It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language": First Edition of Seabiscuit: An American Legend; Signed by Laura Hillenbrand and Actor Tobey Maguire
HILLENBRAND, Laura [Tobey Maguire].
Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
New York: Random House, 2001.
First edition of this best-selling work, basis for the unforgettable Academy Award-nominated film starring Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Laura Hillenbrand on the title page and additionally signed by actor Tobey Maguire on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 144024
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"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body": First Edition of Margaret Sanger's An Autobiography; Inscribed by Her
SANGER, Margaret.
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.
First edition of Sanger's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Hubert Michelman Margaret Sanger." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 5034
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Signed Limited Edition of Looking Forward; Signed by George H.W. Bush
BUSH, George.
Looking Forward: An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday Press, 1987.
Signed limited first edition of the 41st President of the United States' memoir, published during his term as Vice-President. Octavo, original blue leather, all edges gilt, original slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by George Bush. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146899
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First Edition of James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BALDWIN, James.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
First edition of this classic collection by the author of Giovanni's Room. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "To Maggie, yours, James Baldwin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 120563
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First Edition of Churchill's Ian Hamilton's March in the original cloth
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Ian Hamilton’s March.
London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.
First edition of Churchill's fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton, folding map in color and 4 pages of advertisements for Churchill's works at rear. In near fine condition. A sharp example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 129329