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First Edition of Return to Earth; Signed by Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga
ALDRIN, Buzz .
Return to Earth.
New York: Random House, 1973.
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin and inscribed by co-author Wayne Warga on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146504
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J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish; Signed by Him
MACLEISH, Archibald .
J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Archibald MacLeish on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Title page by Ismar David.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131799
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First Edition of The London Dore Saw; Inscribed by Eric de Mare
DE MARE, Eric.
The London Dore Saw: A Victorian Evocation.
London: Allen Lane, 1973.
First edition. Folio, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Peggy and Frank Taplin with kind, associational thoughts from Eric de Mare Jan. 1973." Also laid in, is a page and half handwritten signed letter to the same recipients. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel and some nominal wear the the extremities.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 2474
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First Edition of The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers; Warmly Inscribed Bela Kornitzer to Boxing Legend Gene Tunney
KORNITZER, Bela.
The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955.
First edition of this famed journalist's work on the Eisenhower brothers. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion on the dedication page, "To Gene Tunney, who manifested that body and spirit are truly ---- [?]. With sincere admiration and affection, Bela, May 26, 1963, Stamford, Conn." Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian-born journalist, made a career of interviewing prominent men. In 1940 he compiled his many interviews into a two-volume book, Fathers & Sons, which earned him a place on the Gestapo's most-wanted list. During the Nazi occupation, he sought protection for himself and for…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145646
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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Inscribed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth in the year of publication opposite the title page, "For Crisci - from his best library friend - Philip R April 1993." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 61793
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James and the Giant Peach; Signed by Illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert
DAHL, Roald; Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
James and the Giant Peach.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
Early printing of this Dahl classic. Octavo, original cloth, beautifully illustrated, many full-page and in color. Boldly signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144540
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First Edition of Willie Morris' My Dog Skip; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
MORRIS, Willie.
My Dog Skip.
New York: Random House, 1995.
First edition of "this classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America... a rich experience all around" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To John, Warm wishes to a fellow dog-lover in Michigan 6/17/95." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Jacket illustration by Alan Phillips.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 141499
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Marcella's Italian Kitchen; Signed by Her
HAZAN, Marcella.
Marcella’s Italian Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes! Marcella Hazan." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Front-of-jacket photograph by David Massey. Jacket design by Karen Katz.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143529
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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 Detective Story; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Detective Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 699
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First Edition of Ethel King's The Calendar In Rime; Signed by Her
KING, Ethel.
The Calendar In Rime.
Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1947.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my compliments- Ethel King." Near fine in the rare original glassine.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114523
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First edition of Garry Wills' Explaining America: The Federalist; signed by him
WILLS, Garry.
Explaining America: The Federalist.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981.
First edition of Wills' analysis of The Federalist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Garry Wills on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132144
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First Edition of My Life; Signed By Hillary Rodham Clinton
CLINTON, Bill; Hillary Rodham Clinton.
My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of President Clinton's autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Boldly signed in full on the title page by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138187
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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 The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan; Warmly Inscribed by Paul Goldberger
GOLDBERGER, Paul.
The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this classic work on New York. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Edith and Martin Segal, Such treasured parts of New York that they should really be a part of this book- but even more important, valued friends. With much fondness, Paul Goldberger 16 October 1979." The recipients, Martin E. Segal made his fortune through the Segal Company, an international consulting business, and was perhaps best known as the elder statesman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he served…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145643
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First edition of Mikhail Gorbachev's The Results and Lessons of Reykjavik; signed by him
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
The Results and Lessons of Reykjavik.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986.
First edition of this collection of speeches delivered by Mikhail Gorbachev at the historic Reykjavík Summit. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114360
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First Edition of Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146167
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"Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappoints. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding": John Adams; Warmly Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Edward Ash-Milby with greetings from David McCullough 2001." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146414
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"A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone"; First Edition of Enzymatic Structures of DNA; Inscribed by Arthur Kornberg
KORNBERG, Arthur.
Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Arthur Kornberg on the front free endpaper. Small stamp of Biologist L.S. Baron on the front endpage. Fine in a dust jacket that shows just a touch of wear.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 747
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First Edition of The Return to Increasing Returns; Inscribed by James M. Buchanan to his Secretary
BUCHANAN, James M. and Yong J. Yoon.
The Return to Increasing Returns.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by James Buchanan on the title page, "To Betty, another to add to your list on the shelves. J. Fairfax April 94." The recipient, Betty H. Tillman, was his assistant for 46 years and was the second person Buchanan phoned on October 16, 1986 (after his wife, Ann) when he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (see Buchanan, ‘Notes on Nobelity,’ in Better than Plowing: And Other Personal Essays, University of Chicago Press 1992). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33048