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First Edition of Economist on Wall Street; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein to His Sister Aline Bernstein Saarinen
BERNSTEIN, Peter.
Economist on Wall Street: Notes on the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the Security of Investments, and Other Delusions.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970.
First edition of this classic collection of early Bernstein writings. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the author's sister, "For Aline - With all my love - Peter." The recipient, Aline Bernstein Saarinen was a well-known critic of art and architecture in the United States, an author and a television journalist, who married the architect Eero Saarinen. She was given the International Award for Best Foreign Criticism at the Venice Biennale in 1951. She received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for best newspaper art criticism in 1953, and the American Federation of Arts Award for best…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115722
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Toledo Israel Bond Committee Invitation; Signed by The First Lady of the Free World Eleanor Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Israel Bond Committee Invitation.
B'Nai Israel Social Hall (Kenwood Blvd.): The Toledo Israel Bond Committee, November 11, 1957.
Rare invitation from the Toledo Israel Bond Committee, addressed to "The Outstanding Woman of Our Time" First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One page, invitation administered on behalf of State of Israel Development Bonds to attend a community meeting at B'Nai Israel Social Hall on November 11, 1957, illustrated with a portrait of Roosevelt on the front panel, boldly signed by her beneath the portrait of herself. In near fine condition with card folds. A rare and unique example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146600
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Iris Murdoch's Under the Net; Inscribed by Her to her Former Pupil
MURDOCH, Iris.
Under the Net.
London: Chatto & Windus, .
Early printing of Murdoch's first novel which announced "the emergence of a brilliant talent" (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Eddie... All best wishes to my dear pupil Iris Murdoch." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Ross. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 170039
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's After Dark; Signed by Him and three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
After Dark.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this "hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all, it’s [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense"(The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and stamped by Haruki Murakami and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, below Murakami's signature and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 123497
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First Edition of Ruth Rendell's The Best Man to Die; Signed by Her
RENDELL, Ruth.
The Best Man to Die.
London: John Lang, 1969.
First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 61004
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First edition of Eugene Kennedy and Sara C. Charles' Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America; inscribed by them to Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
KENNEDY, Eugene and Sara C. Charles. [Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne].
Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America.
New York: The Free Press, 1997.
First edition of authors' work on power, authority, and influence. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors on the front free endpaper, "For John and Joan with the affectionate good wishes and, more than that, our real love - Gene and Sally." The recipients, American journalists Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late 1950s when Didion was working for Vogue. They were soon married and both picked up writing work from book publishers and magazines, traveled together on journalism assignments, and established a working pattern that served for the next 40 years. They had…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141084
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First Edition of Israel, Zionism and the New Left; Signed by David Ben-Gurion
RUBENSTEIN, Richard L. (David Ben-Gurion).
Israel, Zionism and the New Left.
New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1969.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed on the title page, "3.3.73 D. Ben Gurion." Ben-Gurion passed away in December of 1973. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding box.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 72028
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Rare large format color photograph of the Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in Space; signed by Walter Cunningham
[CUNNINGHAM, Walter].
Walt Cunningham Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in Space Signed Photograph.
Rare large format glossy photograph of the historic Apollo 7/S-IVB rendezvous in space signed by Apollo 7 Pilot Walter Cunningham, "S-IVB stage during rendezvous, Walt Cunningham, Apollo 7 Pilot, October 11-22, 1968." In near fine condition. The photograph measures 20 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142635
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First edition of David Dreman's Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success; inscribed by him to fellow economist John Pugsley
DREMAN, David.
Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of Dreman's revolutionary work on the stock market success. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Pugsley with best personal regards David Druman 1/1/80." The recipient, John Pugsley was an American voluntaryist libertarian political, economics commentator, lecturer, and best-selling author. In the late 1960s Pugsley entered the investment business, founded a publishing company, the Common Sense Press, and wrote his first book, Common Sense Economics. It sold over 150,000 hardcover copies. His second book, The Alpha Strategy (1980), was on the New York Times bestseller list for nine…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133045
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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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“To imitate nature involves the verb to do": First Edition of The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams; Inscribed by Him
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams.
New York: Random House, 1951.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Robert H. Fuller wishing him luck William Carlos Williams 10/19/51." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 136387
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First Edition of Harry Crews' Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit; Inscribed by Him to his Bibliographer
CREWS, Harry.
Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.
First edition of the author's classic fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Michael-- Good and dear friend--All good things in your life Harry Crews July 75 Gainsville, Fl." The recipient, Michael Hargraves was a close friend of the Crews and author of Harry Crews A Bibliography. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Terry M. Fehr. Author photograph by Tom Kennedy. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142087
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First Edition of The Truro Bear; Signed by Mary Oliver
OLIVER, Mary.
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133714
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“Hello Clarice”: Signed Limited First Edition of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs
HARRIS, Thomas.
The Silence of the Lambs.
United States: Suntup , 2021.
Signed limited first edition of Harris’ third and most famous novel. Octavo, bound in full silk, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Thomas Harris and illustrator Tom Bagshaw. In fine condition. This is a publishers copy, without a number.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 136994
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First Editions of Cadernos De Lanzarote I-IV; Each Volume Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario I- IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1994-1997.
First Portugese editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, 4 volumes. Each volume is signed by Saramago, who has added the word "Lanzarote." Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148
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First Deluxe Edition of The Game of Golf; Inscribed by Roger Wethered
WETHERED, Joyce and Roger; Bernard Darwin; Horace Hutchinson; & T.C. Simpson.
The Game of Golf….Lonsdale Library, Vol. IX.
London: Seeley, Service & Company, 1931.
First edition, deluxe issue of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half green morocco over cloth. Inscribed by Roger Wethered in the year of publication, "Hope this will help you to beat Harry! Roger Wethered 1931." Illustrated with plates, which some folding from 100 photographs. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 14008
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's The Good Citizen's Alphabet; Inscribed by Him to his lover Rhoda Kellogg
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
The Good Citizen’s Alphabet.
London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited, 1953.
First edition of this playful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Rhoda Kellogg from Bertrand Russell." The recipient, Rhoda Kellogg was a notable scholar of early childhood and maintained an extensive collection of children's artwork. She also had carried on an extra-marital affair with Russell. From Michael D. Stevenson's "In Solitude I Brood on War": Bertrand Russell's 1939 American Lecture Tour", "Although Russell claimed he possessed no 'errant philandering impulses' (Let. 3) and seemed to avoid the sexual entanglements that marked…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138589
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Rare First Edition of Robert M. Solow's Growth Theory; Signed by Him
SOLOW, Robert M.
Growth Theory: An Exposition.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In near fine condition, with a name to the front panel and front free endpaper.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 46011
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"It may read better in print than it did in manuscript": First Edition of Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Inscribed by Him to Editor Ted Solotaroff
HELLER, Joseph.
Something Happened.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ted Solotaroff, With good wishes (It may read better in print than it did in manuscript.) Joseph Heller." The recipient, Ted Solotaroff was an editor and literary critic. Solotaroff attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1952, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he became friends with Philip Roth and dedicated himself to literature. He was an editor at Commentary from 1960 to 1966, then in 1967 founded The New…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142998
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"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies": First Edition of The Rabin Memoirs; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
RABIN, Yitzhak.
The Rabin Memoirs.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.
First edition in English of the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Eleanore with best wishes Y. Rabin 10.31.79." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Renfer. Photograph by Magnum photographer Leonard Freed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 92754