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First Edition of Another Africa; Signed by Chinua Achebe
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Another Africa.
New York: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1998.
First edition of this work with essays and poems by Chinua Achebe. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Hubbard. Photographs by Robert Lyons.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 130393
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First edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores; inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
First edition of O'Rourke's international best-seller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Jennifer all the best! P.J. O'Rourke 6/2/91." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133079
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First Edition of Daniel Ellsberg's Papers on the War; Signed by Him
ELLSBERG, Daniel.
Papers on the War.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
First edition of the signal work that further established Ellsberg "as one of our most refined analysts of that awful war." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "9 April 1973 To Julie, For peace! Dan Ellsberg." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Shapokas.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 112364
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"DRIVING BACKWARD DOWN THE HIGHWAY OF LIFE": CADILLAC JACK, SIGNED BY LARRY MCMURTRY
MCMURTRY, Larry.
Cadillac Jack.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.
First edition of "the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote." Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Corsillo. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147139
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Wildcats to Tomcats; Signed and Inscribed by Wally Schirra, Phil Wood, and Barrett Tillman
CORMIER, Richard L. 'Zeke'; Walter M. 'Wally' Schirra; Phillip R. 'Rat' Wood; Barrett Tillman.
Wildcats to Tomcats: The Tailhook Navy.
St. Paul, MN: Phalanx Publishing Co, 1996.
First edition, early printing of this collection of flying stories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Captain Phillip Wood, "9/6/96 Tailhook To Ozzy: A great Tailhooker Warrior. Big A little F but still one of the finest. 'Rat'" and Barrett Tillman, "To Ozzy: One of the gutsiest VFA pilosalfoat - Tailhook membership proves it! Barrett Tillman Tailhook '96." Additionally signed by Wood, "Phil Wood,"and Wally Schirra next to their respective names on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A rare collection of signatures.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147212
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"And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire": First Edition of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire; warmly Inscribed by Him
TARKINGTON, Booth.
Monsieur Beaucaire.
New York: McClure, Philips, 1900.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel, basis for the classic 1946 film starring Bob Hope. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "And live men are just names! said M. Beaucaire." Booth Tarkington. For Miss Carmel Myers." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137803
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First Edition Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course; Inscribed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold.
Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated autobiography of this golfing legend. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To George Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145787
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"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself": First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Autobiography My Story; Inscribed by Him
NICKLAUS, Jack.
My Story.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of the Golden Bear's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Doug Good Golfing Jack Nicklaus." Written with Ken Bowden. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Smith.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146131
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First Edition of Michael Herr's Walter Winchell; Inscribed by Him and signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
HERR, Michael.
Walter Winchell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93." Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120899
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Pete Townshend on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 2929
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FIrst edition of Ken Follett's A Place Called Freedom; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
A Place Called Freedom.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995.
First edition of Follett's New York Times bestseller. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Erica & Ken, with love Ken Follett." 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 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…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142627
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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Angus Deaton
DEATON, Angus.
Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour: In Honour of Sir Richard Stone.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
First edition of this collection of essays in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Stone. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the editor Angus Deaton on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 75092
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Limited Edition of Tristram; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Tristram.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the limitation page, this one is number 167. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of Frank Irving Fletcher, a prominent freelance copywriter of advertising who famously wrote in his autobiography 'Lucid Interval,' “The aim of modern advertising is not to make people think, but to save them the trouble and effort of thinking."
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145430
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First edition, first printing of Sedrick Arlington Goldbeck's I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere
GOLDBECK, Sedrick Arlington.
I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere.
Bronx, NY: The Bird Press, 1996.
First edition of the poet's collection of sonnets. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "1996 to Gary, Regards Sedrick A. Goldbeck." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115382
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Igor Sikorsky The Story of the Winged-S; inscribed by him
SIKORSKY, Igor.
The Story of the Winged-S: with New Material on the Latest Development of the Helicopter.
New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1942.
First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the half-title page, "To Mr. Henry Drans with kindest personal regards of I. Sikorsky Dec 16 1942." In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138142
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's The Temptation To Do Good; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The Temptation To Do Good.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this "convincing and haunting novel" (Publishers Weekly) by the father of modern management. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef. Author's photograph by Rob Lewine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142036
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First edition of Ken Follett's The Third Twin; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
The Third Twin: A Novel.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.
First edition of Follett's New York Times bestseller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To Erica and Ken with love - Ken Follett." 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 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…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142322
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"Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau , the younger had ruled the older. Did anyone ever say Esay and Jacob? Jacob have I loved": First Edition of Jacob Have I loved; Inscribed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Jacob Have I Loved.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980.
First edition of the author's second Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author, "Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau , the younger had ruled the older. Did anyone ever say Esay and Jacob? Jacob have I loved... For Lisa Katherine Paterson." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kinuko Craft. A unique example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 73768
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"Now it is YOUR TURN! Be well, Be strong!": First Edition of Eating Dr. King's Dinner; Lengthily Inscribed by Chuck Fager
FAGER, Chuck.
Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966.
Fayetteville, North Carolina: Kimo Press, 2005.
First edition of this personal memoir of Civil Rights activism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "Durham NC, 2023 For James, The narrative here concludes in early 1966. Chuck Fager. But fifty-plus years later, the story & the courageous black struggle goes on, in some ways as intense as ever. For young readers, these pages are not only history; they are also a call - Now it is YOUR TURN! Be well, Be strong!" In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146361
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Jacob A. Riis's The Making of an American; Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Him Tipped In
RIIS, Jacob.
The Making of An American. [WITH] Jacob A. Riis Autograph Letter Signed.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
Early printing of this exceptional autobiography from the exceptional American reporter and reformer, Jacob A. Riis. Octavo, original blue ribbed cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded half-tone frontispiece portrait of Riis, top edge gilt illustrated with in-line and full-page half-tone drawings and photographs. In very good condtion with rubbing, bookplate of Walter Sondheim to the front pastedown. Rare autograph letter signed by the author, tipped in. Octavo, one page on Riis's personal stationary, signed by Riis and dated Oct 1903. In near fine condition with mail folds. Also tipped in is a magazine article on…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146700