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“Out there, in the open desert, men can walk for days without passing a single house, seeing a well, for the desert is so vast that no one can know it all": First American Edition of Desert Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M.G. Le Clezio
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
Boston: A Verba Mundi Book, 2009.
First American edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ghost. Translated from the French by C. Dickson.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 1555
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First Edition of Raymond Hull's How to Write a Play; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
HULL, Raymond.
How to Write A Play.
Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1983.
First edition of this work on how to write a play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Mary Greetings and best wishes for success with all your writing Raymond Hull Vancouver, B.C. October, 1983." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Strebel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142459
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"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise": First Edition of Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye; Inscribed by Her To Sally Soames
ATWOOD, Margaret.
Cat’s Eye.
London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic... the story of Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer" (Boston Sunday Globe). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames- with best wishes- Margaret Atwood." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118434
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First Edition of Don Delillo's Running Dog; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
Running Dog.
New York: 1978.
First edition of "the best Vietnam novel to appear so far, bearing some relationship to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers and some to V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas (Houston Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Brian Light Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket painting by Karl Korah.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141423
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First Edition of John Kotter's Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It; Signed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.
New York: Amacom, 1979.
First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106742
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First Edition of Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dwight Williams' The Way of the Explorer; Inscribed by Edgar Mitchell
MITCHELL, Edgar with Dwight Williams.
The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical World.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
First edition of this engrossing evaluation of the contributions of space exploration to the future by the sixth man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the title page, "To Bud Best wishes Edgar Mitchell." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147174
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First Edition of Toni Morrison's A Mercy; Signed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
A Mercy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Jacket design by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142985
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First Edition of The Spinoza Problem; Inscribed by Irvin D. Yalom
YALOM, Irvin D.
The Spinoza Problem.
New York: Basic Books, 2012.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Kathy Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145637
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First Edition of Hype & Glory; Warmly Inscribed by William Goldman in the Year of Publication
GOLDMAN, William.
Hype & Glory.
New York: Villard Books, 1990.
First edition of this classic memoir by the author of The Princess Bride. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the title page, "21 Aug 90 Kathy From one writer to another We shall, rest assured with thanks God bless Bill." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Aquan. Jacket photograph by George Kerrigan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147475
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First Edition of Gunter Grass' First book; Signed by Him
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.
Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 574
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First Edition of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism; Inscribed by Economist William Baumol
BAUMOL, William J.; Robert E. Litan; Carl J. Schramm.
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Warmly inscribed by Baumol on the front free endpaper, "To ___ ____ from a grateful author Will Baumol." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 45006
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First Edition of Robert Solow's The Labor Market as a Social Institution; Signed by Him
SOLOW, Robert M.
The Labor Market as a Social Institution.
New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 46016
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First edition of John Updike's Marry Me; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Kenneth David Burrows
UPDIKE, John. Illustrated by Barbara Fox [Erica Jong].
Marry Me: A Romance.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976.
First edition of "the gentlest book Updike has written" (Kirkus Reviews), privately printed exclusively for Members of the First Edition Society. Octavo, original publisher's full leather elaborately stamped in gilt, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the limitation page, "For Erica + Ken warm regards, John." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142811
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First Edition of Charles Webb's The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker; Signed by Lead Actor in the Film Richard Benjamin
WEBB, Charles [Richard Benjamin].
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 1971 film starring Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus, directed by Larry Turman. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actor Richard Benjamin on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design and photograph by Milton Charles.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143069
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First Edition of The Return; Signed by Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ALDRIN, Buzz and John Barnes.
The Return: A Novel of Human Adventure.
New York: Forge/ Tom Doherty Associates, 2000.
First edition of Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s compelling work of fiction. Octavo, original glossy boards. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112686
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The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging; Signed by Ansel Adams
ADAMS, Ansel.
The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging.
New York: Morgan and Lester, 1955.
Later printing of the third book in Ansel Adams' 'Basic Photo Series.' Octavo, original decorated boards, frontispiece of The Grand Teton, Snake River, illustrated with fifty black and white photographs and diagrams, including informative tables, formulas and testing instructions. Signed by Ansel Adams on the front free endpaper. Hear fine in a very good dust jacket. .
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146951
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"May all the forces be with you!": First Edition of Frank Wilczek's The Lightness of Being; Lengthily Signed by Him and a Signed Photograph
WILCZEK, Frank.
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.
New York: Basic Books, 2008.
First edition of this "thrilling read... a glimpse of physics at its quirkiest and most illuminating" (The Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "May all the forces be with you! Frank Wilczek." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Also, laid in is a photograph signed by Frank Wilczek.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106758
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First Edition of Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave; Signed by Him
TOFFLER, Alvin.
The Third Wave.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of the sequel to the author's Future Shock. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alvin Toffler on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Caroff.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138916
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First edition of John Updike's Bech at Bay; with a typed letter and postcard signed by him to Erica Jong
UPDIKE, John [Erica Jong].
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
First edition of the third installment in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's Bech series. Octavo, original cloth. With an autograph postcard and typed letter signed by Updike to Erica Jong laid in. The recipient, Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143620
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First editions of The World's Worst Children and The World's Worst Children Two; both volumes signed by David Walliams
WALLIAMS, David.
The World’s Worst Children [with] The World’s Worst Children Two.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
First editions of the best-selling author's collection of deliciously mischievous tales of simply the worst children. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color illustrations by Tony Ross. Both volumes signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Both volumes are fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tony Ross.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145215
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First edition of Edward Albee's The Ballad of the Sad Café: Carson McCullers' Novella Adapted to the Stage; signed by Edward Albee
ALBEE, Edward; Carson McCullers.
The Play: The Ballad of the Sad Café. Carson McCullers’ Novella Adapted to the Stage by Edward Albee.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963.
First edition of Albee's quietly powerful adaptation of McCuller's novella. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Albee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of McCullers and Albee courtesy of Look.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137248
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; signed by mountaineer George Band and from the library of George Sale
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141037
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First Edition of Made In America; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
DERTOUZOS, Robert; Lester.
Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of the best-selling book in MIT Press' history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 46017
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"Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being": First Edition of Ragtime; Signed by E.L. Doctorow
DOCTOROW, E.L.
Ragtime.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition of this work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by E.L. Doctorow on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118328