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First Edition of Gary Player’s First Book; Signed Twice by Golfing Legend Gary Player
PLAYER, Gary .
Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.
First edition of Gary Player's first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Gary Player on the title page and additionally signed by Player on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a good dust jacket with a large chip to the rear panel.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 109227
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First Edition of Toward The Next Economics and Other Essays; signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Toward The Next Economics and Other Essays.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.
First edition of this collection of essays on business, management, economics and society by America's most foremost authority on management. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Perlow. Jacket photograph by Rob Lewine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 117331
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"I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve": First Edition of Nothing Venture, Nothing Win; Inscribed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
Nothing Venture, Nothing Win.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975.
First edition of Hillary's autobiography, which he considered his finest book. Octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Dan Searle with kindest regards Ed Hillary." The recipient, Dan Searle was a business executive and philanthropist. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of G. D. Searle & Co from 1970 to 1977, and as its Chairman from 1977 until its merger with Monsanto in 1985. He established the Searle Freedom Trust to promote free market economics. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by George Chrichard.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147926
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First Edition of Casino: Love and Honor In Las Vegas; Inscribed by Nicholas Pileggi
PILEGGI, Nicholas.
Casino: Love and Honor In Las Vegas.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
First edition of Pileggi's true crime story, basis for the classic Martin Scorsese movie of the same name. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bob Hope you like it best Nick Pileggi." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Corsillo/Manzone.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147712
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First Edition of Iris Chang's Thread of the Silkworm; Warmly Inscribed by her
CHANG, Iris.
Thread of the Silkworm.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.
First edition of the definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Wei-ling Dai, Best wishes and happy Chinese New Year! Iris Chang 2-17-96." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125008
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate": 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 title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132767
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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's Now & Then; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Now & Then.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of the author's second memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Flanders.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 58012
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Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society; Inscribed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.
First edition, early printing of this work "which makes businessmen think thoughts they have never thought before" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 81084
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Rare February 11, 1952 Time Magazine Cover Signed by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden
EDEN, Anthony.
Anthony Eden Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Havana: February 11, 1952.
Original February 11, 1952 Time Magazine Latin American edition cover signed by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Quarto, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Eden painted by Boris Artzybasheff. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145308
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First Edition of The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
CHOATE, Joseph Hodges [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate.
New York: Privately Printed, 1917.
First edition of this autobiographical recollection of a lawyer and American ambassador to the United Kingdom, privately printed by Caroline Sterling Choate; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original half cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Joseph Hodges Choate at the age of seventeen, illustrated throughout with several tissue-guarded photographs, "With the Compliments of Mrs. Joseph H. Choate" note laid in. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his inscription, "Uncle Cump studied Law in the office of Evert's Choate + Beaman 1889 E.S.F." Friends and family of General William Tecumseh Sherman often referred to him…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145989
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"Photographing a cake can be art": First Edition of Still Life; Signed by Irving Penn
PENN, Irving.
Still Life.
New York: Bullfinch Press, 2001.
First edition of this collection of photographs. Tall quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4324
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First edition of Jean-Louis Bourgeois' Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition; signed by him and Carollee Pelos and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
BOURGEOIS, Jean-Louis. Photographs by Carollee Pelos. [Peter Matthiessen].
Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition.
New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this spectacular celebration of traditional Adobe architecture in the West. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Carollee Pelos. Historical Essay by Basil Davidson. Signed by Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Carollee Pelos on the half-title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140210
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First Edition of Harold Lamb's Alexander of Macedon: Journey to World's End; Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
LAMB, Harold.
Alexander of Macedon: Journey to World’s End.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Hortense Shyab Harold Lamb June 11, 1946." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 72071
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First Edition of We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends; Inscribed by David Herbert Donald
DONALD, David Herbert.
We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "For Shane Bartleson, with warm regards, David Herbert Donald." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kai Chu.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146498
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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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First Edition of Here is New York; Inscribed by Gilles Peress
PERESS, Gilles; Michael Schulan; Susan Meiselas; Jeff Mermelstein.
Here is New York.
New York: Scalo, 2002.
First edition of this work by the award-winning photographer. Thick oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, original slipcase. Inscribed by Gilless Peress. Illustrated with nearly 1000 full-color and black-and-white photographic plates with images by noted photographers such as Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas and Jeff Mermelstein. Fine in a fine slipcase. Parr & Badger II, 232.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 972
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First Edition of Without End; Inscribed by Adam Zagajewski to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Without End: New and Selected Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, "To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton, February 2005." Also, laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that "Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy..." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Translated by Clare Cavanagh, and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4688
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First Edition of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins; Signed by both Eric Kimmel and Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
KIMMEL, Eric A.; Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.
New York: Holiday House, 1989.
First edition of this Caldecott Honor-winning classic. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Ann, Eric A. Kimmel." Additionally signed below by the illustrator "Trina Schart Hyman 1990." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 103993
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First Edition of Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film; Signed by Him
STONE, Oliver.
Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film.
New York: Hyperion, 1995.
First edition of the screenplay which was the basis for the work by the legendary director. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. In fine condition. Edited by Eric Hamburg. Screenplay by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, and Oliver Stone.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 133168
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“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe": First edition of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch; warmly inscribed by her
TARTT, Donna.
The Goldfinch.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
First edition of the bestselling author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "especially for John - on Halloween - Donna Tartt." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keith Hayes. Jacket painting: The Goldfinch (1654) by Carel Fabritius. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 141045