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First on the Moon; Signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ARMSTRONG, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin E. Aldrin.
First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
Early printing of this work, which describes the events leading up to and during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned landing on the Moon. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140419
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First edition of First Poems; signed and inscribed by James Merrill with a four-line stanza from his poem White Stag, Black Bear
MERRILL, James.
First Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
First edition of the author's first regularly published book. Octavo, original maroon cloth. One of 990 numbered copies printed, this is number 912. Association copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page with a four-line stanza from his poem White Stag, Black Bear, "...We called the autumn night his lair, Yet knew it ours, who long ago released, movements of such persuasiveness in the beast, that seven stars became a bear. James Merrill for Robert A. Wilson." The recipient, Robert A. Wilson was an noted bibliophile, publisher and proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village.…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 143437
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"But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window In the Tower of Song": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs; Inscribed by Him to Mort Lindsey and fellow singer Judy Johnson
COHEN, Leonard.
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
New York: Pantheon, 1993.
First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Mort and Judy warm regards on Christmas Day Leonard Los Angeles 1993." Cohen has include his trademark entwined heart stamp. The recipients were composer Mort Lindsey and fellow singer Judy Johnson and close friends of Cohen. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado. Jacket photograph by Edward Gajdel. Association copies are uncommon.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 117464
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart; signed by Him and three time by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Sputnik Sweetheart.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this work which "grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami’s] never written anything more openly emotional” (Los Angeles Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author "Haruki Murakami 11/7/05" on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel, title page and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 123751
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First Edition of Anthony Burgess' One Hand Clapping; Inscribed by Him to the executive producer of A Clockwork Orange Si Litvinoff
[ANTHONY BURGESS] JOSEPH KELL,.
One Hand Clapping.
London: Peter Davies, 1961.
First edition of this work by the author of A Clockwork Orange. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To dear Si with affection 'Joe’(Anthony/John.” The recipient, Si Litvinoff was the executive producer for Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange that was based on Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel, with Litvinoff's signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Gorman. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134575
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First Edition of The Suffrage of Elvira; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Suffrage of Elvira.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1958.
First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 2135
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Inscribed by Hillary Rodham Clinton to United States Senator Patrick Moynihan
CLINTON, Hillary Rodham.
It Takes A Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to former New York United States Senator Patrick Moynihan, "To Pat- Thanks for the visit- Hillary Rodham Clinton." Clinton successfully filled the New York Senate seat left by Moynihan in 2000. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Purchased from the library of Moynihan. A nice association linking these two political icons.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 5387
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First Edition of Robert Baer's See No Evil; Inscribed by Him and signed by George Clooney and Matt Damon
BAER, Robert [George Clooney and Matt Damon].
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.
First edition of this memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks, basis for the 2005 film Syriana starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dagmar, Thanks for the encouragement. Cheers Bob Bauer WDC. 7.29.02." Additionally boldly signed by George Clooney and Matt Damon on the title page. Clooney won an Academy Award for his performance in Syriana. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144086
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“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big": Trump: The Art of the Deal; Inscribed by Donald J. Trump
TRUMP, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.
New York: Random House, 1987.
First edition of Trump's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ann, Best Wishes, Donald Trump." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Michele Singer.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 141485
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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so": Rare Honorary Dinner Program; Signed by French General Charles de Gaulle
DE GAULLE, Charles.
Charles de Gaulle Honorary Dinner Program Signed.
1960.
Rare original dinner program from the Honorary Dinner For His Excellency General Charles de Gaulle held in New York City on April 26th, 1960, boldly signed by him. Quarto, 8 pages, string bound. Signed by Charles de Gaulle on the front cover of the program. The program includes listings of the presidents, officers, directors, and honorary members of the Alliance Francaise de New York, American Society of the French Legion of Honor, and The France-America Society. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed by General de Gaulle.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 92469
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First Edition of A Columbus of Space; Signed by Garrett P. Serviss in the Year of Publication
SERVISS, Garrett P.
A Columbus of Space.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911.
First edition of this classic interplanetary adventure novel. Octavo, original lime green pictorial cloth, frontispiece of a scene from page 47 "Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a man, but more savage than a gorilla." Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. In near fine condition. A rare example in this condition without any other signed copies in commerce.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146170
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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order TO Live; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.
Early printing of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 70983
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"How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water": First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's The Flame Trees of Thika; Signed by Her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.
First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129827
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Rare Signed Golda Meir Certificate
MEIR, Golda.
Golda Meir Signed Certificate.
1956.
Signed by the future Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, then Labor Minister Golda Myerson on an official Ministry of of Labor Certificate of Excellence in Studies granted to ORT school girl in the sewing profession, dated June 20, 1956. This certificate is signed with her original name just before David Ben-Gurion ordered her to change her English name to a Hebrew one. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133284
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Louis A. Coolidge's Ulysses S. Grant; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
COOLIDGE, Louis A. [Ulysses S. Grant; William Tecumseh Sherman].
Ulysses S. Grant.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.
Later edition of this biography of the eighteenth president of the United States; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in each volume. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes beneath his ownership signature with an additional gift inscription on the title page of Vol. I. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels of both volumes. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145876
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James Fergusson's A History of Architecture in all Countries; from the library of Ronald and Nancy Reagan
FERGUSSON, James. [Ronald and Nancy Reagan].
A History of Architecture in all Countries, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
London: John Murray, 1893.
Third edition of Fergusson's monumental work on the history of architecture. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher's roan-backed cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated. From the library of Ronald and Nancy Reagan with Nancy's ownership stamp to the second free endpaper listing the Reagan's 1669 San Onofre Dr. residence. The Reagans lived on San Onofre Drive in the Pacific Palisades from 1957 to 1981 before moving to the White House when Reagan became President. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145004
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Rare American Boxing Champions Signed Photograph Collection; signed by James J. Braddock, Max Baer, James 'Red' Burman, Sixto Escobar, and Bob Pastor
BRADDOCK, James J.; Max Baer; James "Red" Burman; Sixto Escobar; Bob Pastor.
American Boxing Champions Signed Photograph Collection.
c. 1937.
Collection of six original photographs signed and inscribed by five 1930s American boxing champions, including: "Cinderella Man" James J.Braddock, World Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, James 'Red' Burman, Sixto Escobar, and top-ranked heavyweight Bob Pastor. In near fine condition. An exceptional collection.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 119265
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"I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking": First Edition of Breakfast of Champions; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Giusti.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134681
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"Now I am going to write a diary because we are going to America because of the war": First Edition of P.L. Travers' I Go By Sea, I Go By Land; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
TRAVERS, P.L.
I Go By Sea, I Go By Land.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941.
First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "K. Jean Bourne, P.L. Travers 6 December '41." With drawings by Gertrude Hermes. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with reinforcement to the verso. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 103991
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First Edition of Thomas Hoggson's The Squire's Home Made Wines; Inscribed to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
HOGGSON, Thomas [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Squire’s Home Made Wines.
Fairfield Manor: Noble Foster Hoggson, 1919.
First edition of this collection of diary entries of "The Squire" and his favorite recipes for wine; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octodecimo, original half calf, frontispiece tipped in, prayer cards laid in. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ellen and Noble Foster Hoggson in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Christmas greetings to P. Tecumseh Sherman from Ella and Noble Hoggson Dec. 25. 1919." In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145991