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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: Thomas Crowell, 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. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 4088
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First Edition of Revolution On Wall Street; Inscribed by All Three Authors
BLUME, Marshall E.
Revolution On Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.
First edition of this informative history of the New York Stock Exchange. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by all three authors on the front free endpaper, "To Barbara and David Holmes The pride of the Franklin Inn! Dan Rottenberg, Jeremy Siegel and Marshall E. Blume." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Greco.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138057
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First Edition of Arrival and Departure; Inscribed by Arthur Koestler in the Month of Publication
KOESTLER, Arthur.
Arrival and Departure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943.
First edition of the third novel in the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the half-title page, "Elisa Mann from Arthur Koestler London, 24.XI.43." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 5695
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First Edition of Langston Hughes' Troubled Island. An Opera in Three Acts; Signed by Him
HUGHES, Langston and William Grant Still.
Troubled Island. An Opera in Three Acts.
New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1949.
First edition of the first grand opera composed by an African American to be produced by a major company. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140395
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First Edition of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam; Warmly Inscribed by Neil Sheehan
SHEEHAN, Neil.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam.
New York: Random House, 1988.
First edition of the definitive Vietnam War exposé which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "Dec. 4, 1988 To Tom Griffin, With Best Wishes, Neil Sheehan." Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Sposato.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140223
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First Edition of Advances In Game Theory; Signed by Mathematician W.H. Fleming
EDITED BY M. DRESHER; L.S. SHAPLEY; A.W. TUCKER [W.H. FLEMING],.
Advances In Game Theory.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
First edition of collection of papers on game theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by mathematician W.H. Fleming on the title page, next to his name. Wendell Helms Fleming was a mathematician, specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations. Fleming received in 1951 his PhD under Laurence Chisholm Young at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a thesis entitled Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces. Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he retired in 2009 as professor emeritus. Fleming was with Herbert Federer a pioneer of geometric measure theory. Later in his career, he worked on stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations and their applications in control theory.…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146321
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"For Murray Milner, outstanding public servant, from his friend": First Edition of Booth Mooney's The Lyndon Johnson Story; lengthily inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson
MOONEY, Booth. With a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Lyndon Johnson Story.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Booth Mooney's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, "For Murray Milner, outstanding public servant, from his friend, Lyndon B. Johnson." Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 117422
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First Edition of Gertrude Stein's Geography and Plays; Inscribed by Her
STEIN, Gertrude.
Geography and Plays.
Boston: The Four Seas Company Publishers, 1922.
First edition of this work by the author of The Autobiography of Alice Toklas. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Joanna Graham from Gertrude Stein." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118469
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"the greatest building of our time" (Philip Johnson) First Edition of Frank Gehry’s Monograph on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Signed by Him
VAN BRUGGEN, Coosje [Frank Gehry].
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1999.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on Gehry's masterpiece, The Guggenheim Museum in Balbao, Spain. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Frank Gehry at the preface. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Thomas Krens.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 4597
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“Home is where the Books are”: P.B. Socci sketch of legendary actor Richard Burton; Signed by Richard Burton
SOCCI, P.B. (Richard Burton).
Richard Burton Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of legendary actor Richard Burton as Hamlet. Signed by Richard Burton. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 89127
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First Edition of Cass Timberlane; Signed by Sinclair Lewis
LEWIS, Sinclair.
Cass Timberlane.
New York: Random House, 1945.
First edition of this work, basis for the 1947 classic film directed by George Sidney and starring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Zachary Scott. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Sinclair Lewis. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the extremities.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146020
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First Edition of Roberto Bolano's 2666; Signed by Translator Natasha Wimmer
BOLANO, Roberto.
2666.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
First edition of the author's masterpiece published posthumously in English, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charlotte Strick.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146350
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First edition of The 56th Fighter Group In World War II; SIGNED BY 13 MEMBERS OF THE 56TH FIGHTER GROUP
The 56th Fighter Group In World War II.
Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1948.
First edition of this authoritative record of the 56th Fighter Group's achievements in the European Theater of Operations. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by 13 members of the 56th Fighter Group on the half-title page including Robert S. Johnson, Robert J. Rankin, Billy G. Edens (with an additional signed card by Edens laid-in), and more. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146987
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Inscribed by Eric Carle with a Drawing of a Bear
CARLE, Eric.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1983.
First General Book edition, early printing of enormously creative children's book. Small quarto, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Grrr, for Ryan, Eric Carle," with an large original drawing of a bear standing on two legs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable with an original drawing.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147284
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First Edition of My Name is Red; Signed by him and Twice by Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
My Name Is Red.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
First edition of this "fabulously rich novel, highly compelling" (The Independent). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the half-title page and on the jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119627
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First Edition of Edward O. Wilson's The Diversity of Life; Warmly inscribed by Him to Colleague Ruth Turner
WILSON, Edward O.
The Diversity of Life.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ruth Turner with warmest regards and respect Edward O. Wilson." Wilson who has also added a drawing of an ant. The recipient, Ruth Turner was a colleague of Wilson's at Harvard and was also a pioneering marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marianne Perlak. An…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131698
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"Best African Wishes": I Married Adventure; Inscribed by Osa Johnson
JOHNSON, Osa.
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.
First edition of Johnson's classic work. Octavo, original striped cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Esther Bates With my very best African wishes. Affectionately Osa Johnson." Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143893
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First Edition of Reflections and Observations: Inscribed by Denton Cooley to his Nephew
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. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to his nephew, "12-7-84 To Talbot With deep affection and best wishes "Uncle Denton." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146303
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First Edition of The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild; Signed by Niall Ferguson
FERGUSON, Niall.
The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
First British edition of Ferguson's monumental history of the Rothschilds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed Niall Ferguson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147605
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J.H. Stine's History of the Army of the Potomac; inscribed by him
STINE, J.H.
History of the Army of the Potomac.
Washington, D.C.: Privately Printed, 1893.
Second edition of Stine's history of the the principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, "With the compliments of the author to a personal friend C.A. Fromm... J.H. Stine." In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 132771