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First Edition of Don DeLillo's The Names; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
The Names.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
First edition of this "brilliant... a powerful, haunting book" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140609
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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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First Edition of When Bad Things Happen To Good People; Inscribed by Harold Kushner
KUSHNER, Harold S.
When Bad Things Happen To Good People.
New York: Schocken Books, 1981.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Judge Silber with my best wishes Rabbi Harold S. Kushner." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Edward Smith.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146450
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First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Collected Poems 1947-1980; Inscribed by Him to his Cousin
GINSBERG, Allen.
Collected Poems 1947-1980.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original red wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on the title page, "for Ed [sic] & Lorraine Levy from Allen Ginsberg February 22, 1989," and the opposite blank, "Shalom with thanks for Under The Bamboo Tree, Memphis Minnie, & your book on J.W. Johnson from Cousin Allen," above a hand-drawn doodle of a sun with initials "AH" in the center and a Star of David with a skull in the middle, holding a flower over crossbones. In very good condition.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146470
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"Wishing our country strength, wisdom and liberty": First Edition of Everything We Had; Lengthily signed by Al Santoli
SANTOLI, Al.
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of this reminder of the Vietnam War in thirty-three reports from ordinary American soldiers. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Wishing our country strength, wisdom and liberty - Al Santoli." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Aulicino. Uncommon signed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146639
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“The White House had decided that the conduct of the press, not the conduct of the President’s men, was the issue": All the President's Men; Signed by Bob Woodward
BERNSTEIN, Carl & Bob Woodward.
All The President’s Men.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1989.
First Easton Press edition of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Bob Woodward on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147037
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First edition of Richard Ford's The Ultimate Good Luck; lengthily inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
FORD, Richard.
The Ultimate Good Luck.
London: Collins Harvill, 1989.
First edition of Ford's second published novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to Sally Soames who contributed the author photograph for the dust jacket, "For Sally, Right! Better... Indeed. Genuine, ever complex... Richard Ford." 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 Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 123277
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"It's Christmas! Sweet Christmas! The Happy day of Home": First edition of Joan Walsh Anglund's A Christmas Book; warmly inscribed by her
ANGLUND, Joan Walsh.
A Christmas Book.
New York: Random House, 1983.
First edition of the revered children's book author's charming children's tale. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sarah, Merry Christmas 1983 - Joan Walsh Anglund." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 123670
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First Edition of Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side; Signed by Him
ALGREN, Nelson.
A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Algren's "most critically acclaimed and best-known novel" (ANB). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay. A superior example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 76436
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First Edition of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War
SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh [William Tecumseh Sherman].
General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, Missouri.
New York: Robert Grier Cooke, 1908.
First edition of this biographical address of the author's father, delivered at the Thirty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Octavo, original wrappers. Author's card tipped in, "With the Compliments of the Author 15 William Street, New York City." In near fine condition with a few small losses to the extremities of the wrappers. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145970
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First Edition of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Tommie.
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
First edition of this powerful autobiography by the Olympic gold medalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Michelle- Enjoy Life, it's divine Tommie Smith 1968 Olympics." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kate Nichols. Written with David Steele.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 117701
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First Edition of William Kennedy's Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a newspaper article on Kennedy winning the Pulitzer Prize. Some offsetting to the half and title pages, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 690
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First Edition of Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley; signed by Denton A. Cooley
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. Boldly signed by Denton A. Cooley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146290
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Typed Letter Signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter
FRANKFURTER, Felix.
Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed.
Typed letter signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Two pages, typescript on Frankfurter’s Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated November 14, 1949 and reads in part, "My dear Mrs. McAllister: If persuasiveness, conveyed by an old and very cherished friend, could enable me to hurdle the obstacles that bar my presence at the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the National Consumers League, Molly Dawson's letter would have done it long ago. Please take my word for it that there are very few occasions which could possibly be so tempting as the League's Anniversary Dinner, and few occasions which would…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114070
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First Edition of Annie Dillard's An American Childhood; The Author's Own Copy
DILLARD, Annie.
An American Childhood.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
First edition of Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. The author's own copy with her personal bookplate. Signed by Annie Dillard on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Dreese Breslin.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 1746
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First Edition of Ellen Raskin's Figgs and Phantoms; Warmly Inscribed by Her
RASKIN, Ellen.
Figgs and Phantoms.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of the author’s Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ethel & Paul many, many thanks for all your kind words Ellen Raskin." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 29005
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First Edition of Investing: The Collected Works of Martin L. Liebowitz; Signed by Him
LEIBOWITZ, Martin L.
Investing: The Collected Works of Martin L. Liebowitz.
Chicago: Probus Publishing, 1992.
First edition of this collection of essays by Leibowitz. Thick octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Keith Anderson, With all best wishes, Marty Leibowitz February 18, 1991." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by William F. Sharpe. Edited by Frank J. Fabozzi.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 75089
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"We find comfort only in another beauty, in others music": First Edition of Adam Zagajewski's Another Beauty; Signed by Him
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Another Beauty.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author's memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with the following line from this work, which reads, "We find comfort only in another beauty, in others music Adam Zagajewski." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh. A unique example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 84787
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America Inscribed by Barbara Ehrenreich
EHRENREICH, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
First edition, early printing of this work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Lynn- Thanks for your support of Measure '25 Barbara Ehrenreich." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146483
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Bridge to Terabithia; Inscribed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Bridge To Terabithia.
New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.
Early printing of the author's first Newbery-Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Patti, Katherine Paterson 1/26/82." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 122421