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First edition of Edmund S. Phelps' Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory; signed by him
PHELPS, Edmund S.
Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory: The Cost-Benefit Approach to Monetary Planning.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's study in economic policy and theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 115886
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First Edition of Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks; Signed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank.
Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.
New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Edited by Mildred Friedman. Essay by Michael Sorkin. Commentary by Gehry throughout.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 47014
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First Edition of the Everman’s Library of A House For Mr. Biswas; Signed by V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A House For Mr. Biswas
New York: Everyman's Library/ Knopf, 1995.
First edition of the Everyman's Library of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 2188
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"THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT": THE CONGRESSMAN'S POWERFUL MEMOIR, First Edition of WALKING WITH THE WIND, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN LEWIS
LEWIS, John .
Walking with the Wind. A Memoir of the Movement.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition, early printing of Congressman Lewis' pivotal account of the Civil Rights movement that transformed America. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Terry Thomas, Keep the faith. Best Wishes, John Lewis 10-30-98." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photograph by Danny Lyon. Written with Michael D'Orso.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 145399
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First Edition of Bernard Malamud's A New Life; Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MALAMUD, Bernard.
A New Life.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.
First edition of Malamud's third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul, Old friends, Everything good Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 100098
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First Edition of Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Christopher Pissarides' Labour Market Adjustment: Microeconomic Foundations of Short-run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics; Inscribed by Him
PISSARIDES, Christopher A.
Labour Market Adjustment: Microeconomic Foundations of Short-run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
First edition of Pissarides' first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 62031
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First Edition of Baseball: An Illustrated History; Signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin
WARD, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns [Doris Kearns Goodwin].
Baseball: An Illustrated History.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
First edition of this companion book to the classic documentary series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin on the title page. Kearns Goodwin served as a commentor in the series. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 144374
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"The farmer woke up from his dream, looked out of his window and saw snow. It was not dream snow. It was real snow": First Edition of Eric Carle's Dream Snow; Signed by Him
CARLE, Eric.
Dream Snow.
New York: Philomel Books, 2000.
First edition of this Christmas classic by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 103548
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Signed limited edition print commemorating Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's summit of Mount Everest; signed by Edmund Hillary and artist James Lumbers
HILLARY, Edmund; Tenzing Norgay; James Lumbers.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed “Hillary Conquers Everest May 29, 1953” Print.
Toronto: Newport Edition Limited, 1992.
Limited edition color lithograph commemorating one of the great achievements of human stamina and will: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's summit of Mount Everest. One page, the color lithograph is signed by Edmund Hillary and artist James Lumbers. One of 1953 numbered copies this is number 771. In fine condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 139714
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First Edition of Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination; Inscribed and dated by Him in the Year of Publication
TRILLING, Lionel.
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.
New York: The Viking Press, 1950.
First edition of one of the influential works of criticism published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Sue and George in friendship and regard Lionel March 1950." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 22071
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First Edition of Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness; Signed by Him
OZ, Amos.
A Tale of Love and Darkness.
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2004.
First American edition of "one of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books"(The New Republic). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amos Oz on a University of the Negev bookplate with a portrait of David Ben-Gurion. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 107479
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First Edition of Philip Stern's The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
STERN, Philip M.
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this early biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Joan and Arthur Gardner With the warmest and fondest wishes of their friend Phil S. November, 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 143398
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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation": Out of the Crisis; Lengthily Inscribed by W. Edwards Deming
DEMING, W. Edwards.
Out of the Crisis.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of W. Edwards Demings. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ms. Minato Asakawa. May your work in cross-cultural be successful, & may the 1990s bring you health & happiness. W. Edwards Deming 22 April 1990." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146267
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First Edition of Just as Long as We're Together; Inscribed by Judy Blume in the year of publication
BLUME, Judy.
Just as Long as We’re Together.
New York: Orchard Books, 1987.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Jessica Love, Judy Blume December 1987." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, sticker to the front free endpaper. Jacket painting by Peter Catalanotto.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144145
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"God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan--or man to create both": First Edition of Colin Fletcher's Thousand Mile Summer; Signed by Him
FLETCHER, Colin.
The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.
First edition of Fletcher's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs from the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Dean Well from Colin Fletcher." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 74000
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"I hereby pledge myself to be helpful, obedient, loyal, courteous and trustworthy": Rare first edition of the official guide to the Tarzan Clans of America
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan Clans of American: Official Guide.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1939.
First edition of this Official Guide for members of the Tarzan Clans of America, a special division of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan series. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, laid in is a membership application fee and two bookplates from the library of Roy and Dela White. In fine condition. A charming example in exceptional condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 90419
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"Over the great world tragedy of today the star of Bethlehem shines with divine radiance and lights the way to a brighter day when peace and love shall reign forever": Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Lengthily Signed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett
PICKETT, Lasalle Corbell [George Pickett].
What Happened to Me.
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 17, 1917. Lengthily signed by the author on the front pastedown, "Over the great world tragedy of today the star of Bethlehem shines with divine radiance and lights the way to a brighter day when peace and love shall reign forever - Faithfully from LaSalle Corbell Pickett." In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145582
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"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest": Rare First Edition of Gaia
LOVELOCK, James E.
Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Henri Rousseau. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146379
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"Oh, let me sing one song before I lie enfolded in my shroud. Oh let me sing one dong before I die and mingle with the crowd": Rare signed limited edition of Louis K. Anspacher's Tristan & Isolde: A Tragedy; inscribed by him
ANSPACHER, Louis K.
Anspacher
New York: Brentano's, 1904.
Rare signed limited edition of the author's adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original boards. One of one hundred copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, this is number 93. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Henry Seligman, with the cordial greetings of Louis K. Anspacher." In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 115508
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First Edition of Treynor on Institutional Investing; Signed by Jack Treynor
TREYNOR, Jack L.
Treynor on Institutional Investing.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
First edition of this important collection of essays by the father of the capital asset pricing model. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jeff Diermeier.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 58017