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"history was a literary art, because in history the subject and its audience were one. The effective historian is always telling us about ourselves": First edition of Daniel Boorstin's The Seekers; signed by him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition of the third and final volume in Boorstin's "knowledge" trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Boorstin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art: frontispiece plate from William Blake's Europe: a Prophecy, 1794.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128155
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First Edition of Thomas Schelling's Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction; Inscribed by Thomas Schelling
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction.
Washington, D.C: American Enterprise Institute, 1998.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Warm regards to John Rogers Tom Schelling October 2015." In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 133495
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"Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived": First Editon of Seeing; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Seeing.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's sequel to Blindness. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140
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First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Get Home Free; Inscribed by Him
CLELLON HOLMES, John .
Get Home Free.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1964.
First edition of Clellon Holmes' third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "May 1976 For Burt Britton- with appreciation- John Clellon Holmes." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 71478
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Soixante-Dix_Sept Bibliophiles Signed Limited Edition of Machiavelli's La Mangragore (The Mandrake); One of 77 copies signed by artist Claude Durrens
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. Illustrated by Claude Durrens.
La Mandragore: Comedie en Cinq Actes de Machiavel Gentilhomme Florentin. (The Mandrake).
Soixante-Dix_Sept Bibliophiles, .
Soixante-Dix-Sept signed limited edition of Machiavelli's classic comedy, The Mandrake. Folio, loose leaves as issued, illustrated with 12 original lithographs by Claude Durrens, additional suite of lithographs in rear. One of only 77 copies signed by the artist on the colophon. In very good condition. housed in the original one quarter morocco and chemise slip case.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 101228
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“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode": Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story; Inscribed by Him
VIZZINI, Ned.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story.
New York: Miramax Books, 2006.
Early printing of the author's second novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Thorn and Edith- Thank you! Enjoy Ned Vizzini NedVizzini.com." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Number Seventeen. Jacket illustration by Abigail Smith.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 102348
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First edition of Jim Peck's We Who Would Not Kill; Signed by Him
PECK, Jim.
We Who Would Not Kill.
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958.
First edition of the civil rights hero's story of a group of conscientious objectors who were imprisoned for their beliefs during World War II. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Signed by Jim Peck on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 119230
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First Edition of Wall Street and the Wilds; Lengthily Inscribed by A.W. Dimock
DIMOCK, Anthony W.
Wall Street and the Wilds.
New York: Outing Company, 1915.
First edition of Dimock's autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some mention of fishing for tarpon, trout and salmon. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Melville A. Clark Dear Melville; If one must choose between the wilds of Wall Street and the gentleness of the wilds the wise man will take the woods. A.W. Dimock The Happy Valley Oct. 18,1917." In near fine condition, with some offsetting to the…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4562
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Shalom Leon Uris." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112569
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First Edition of Milan Kundera's The Festival of Insignificance; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015.
First edition of Kundera's eleventh fictional work. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed and dated by Milan Kundera in the the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the French by Linda Asher.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 26003
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
This I Remember.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition, early printing of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper, with an inscription noting where this book was signed, bookplate. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 147705
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First edition of Marvin Albert's The Riviera Contract; inscribed by him
ALBERT, Marvin.
The Riviera Contract.
London: Macmillan, 1992.
First edition of the author's classic thriller. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Regine & Nadim and their beautiful family, my friends & neighbors, with much affection from Marvin Albert 23 April 1993." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Neil Phillips.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128164
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FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT FROST'S STEEPLE BUSH; INSCRIBED BY HIM
FROST, Robert.
Steeple Bush.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Robert Frost to Amy Tenney 1951." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 109341
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"Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones": First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Lengthily Inscribed by The Author and signed three times Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
WEINER, Jonathan.
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Betsy and Joe with best wishes Jonathan Weiner May 1994." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the half-title page and the jacket rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Drawings by K. Thalia Grant. A unique example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137989
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First Edition of Institutional Change and American Economic Growth; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass C. North
NORTH, Douglass C & Lance E. Davis.
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by Douglass C. North on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5607
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First Edition of the papers presented at the irst C.F.A. Seminar: Is Financial Analysis Useless?; Signed by Jack L. Treynor and Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe
BLOCK, Frank E..
Is Financial Analysis Useless? The Proceedings of a Seminar on the Efficient Capital Market and Random Walk Hypothesis.
Charlottesville, Virginia: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1975.
First edition of this proceedings issue consisting of the papers presented at the first C.F.A. Seminar, entitled Is Financial Analysis Useless? Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated with graphs. Signed by Jack L. Treynor and William F. Sharpe on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 96334
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"What I can't see isn't likely to hurt me": First Edition of the author’s Newbery Honor Novel The Great Gilly Hopkins; Signed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
The Great Gilly Hopkins.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this realistic children's novel, which was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Katherine Paterson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140766
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"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever": First Edition of The Joy Luck Club; Signed by Amy Tan
TAN, Amy.
The Joy Luck Club.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
First edition of the author's most well known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Amy Tan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Jacket illustration by Gretchen Shields.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 114321
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First Edition of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment; Signed by Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN, Daniel; Olivier Sibony; Cass R. Sunstein .
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.
New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a tour de force” (New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Daniel Kahneman on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 146715
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First Edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Steep Ascent; Inscribed by Her
The Steep Ascent.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1944.
First edition of this work which chronicles Lindbergh's travels to the Alps, with the engaging philosophical observations which made her Listen, the Wind! so popular. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Esther and Norman Biltz Anne Morrow Lindbergh December 1948." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 120837
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inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Saul bellow to friend and fellow high school classmate
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate, "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake (Tuley gym!) Saul." In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2038
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First Edition of Amos Oz's Scarce First Book My Michael; Inscribed by Him
OZ, Amos.
My Michael.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1972.
First English edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Gania, with my best wishes and warmest shalom, Amos Oz." Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears and wear to the spine. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 5723
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"I feel that my whole life is a contribution"; FIRST EDITION OF THE INCOMPLEAT SINGER; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LEGENDARY FOLKSINGER PETE SEEGER
SEEGER, Pete; edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz.
The Incompleat Folksinger.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
First edition of this work by the legendary folksinger. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Robert! Pete Seeger." Seeger has also drawn a picture of a banjo. Edited by Jo Metclaf Schwartz. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2166
