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"BON APPETIT!": FIRST EDITION OF FROM JULIA CHILD’S KITCHEN, SIGNED BY BOTH JULIA AND PAUL CHILD
CHILD, Julia.
From Julia Child’s Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
First edition of Child's fourth book. Octavo, original pictorial coated cloth boards. Boldly by the author on front free endpaper, "Bon Appetit to Carol & Jim Julia Child." Additionally signed by Paul Child on the front free endpaper. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Photographs and drawings by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147065
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul": First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Autobiography; Signed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life.
Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency LTD, 1976.
First edition of the legendary military leader and politician's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bethram Kapadia.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134303
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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
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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 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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First Edition of My Life; Inscribed by President Bill Clinton
CLINTON, Bill.
My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of President Clinton's autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To ____ Best wishes- Bill Clinton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146893
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“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”: Signed Limited Edition of Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale
BENNETT, Arnold.
The Old Wives’ Tale.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Bennett's masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rare original slipcase.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114732
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of this "indispensable book" (Anwar Ibrahim). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33051
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First Edition Everest Catalogue; Signed by member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition Jan Morris
MORRIS, James [Jan]; [Edmund Hillary; George Lowe; Michael Ward].
Everest.
London and Alberta: Aquila Books and Meridian Rare Books, 2013.
First edition catalog of books, ephemera, and artefacts relating to the exploration of the world's highest peak on the 60th anniversary of its first ascent, including books from the libraries of members of the 1953 Exploration George Lowe and Michael Ward, with a foreword by Times Correspondent to the 1953 Expedition Jan Morris. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with photographs of the authors and their books. Signed on the title page by Jan Morris. In fine condition. Accompanied by a second catalogue of the same year. Quarto, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146565
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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 John C. Bogle's Common Sense on Mutual Funds; Signed by Him
BOGLE, John C.
Common Sense on Mutual Funds.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of the best book on index investing ever published. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John C. Bogle on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Welsh. Foreword by Peter L. Bernstein.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 46255
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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214
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Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook; signed by him
OLNEY, Richard.
The French Menu Cookbook.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1985.
First edition of the revised edition of this landmark work. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Olney on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Judith Eldridge.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 72976
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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 Gore Vidal's Screening History; Inscribed by Him to His Stepmother
VIDAL, Gore.
Screening History.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Gore Vidal For Kit, my only stepmother, all love." The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 126912
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First Edition of Political Power in Ecuador; Inscribed President Osvaldo Hurtado to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
HURTADO, Osvaldo [Henry A. Kissinger].
Political Power in Ecuador.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1980.
First edition of this political history of Ecuador. Association copy, inscribed by the author to former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Henry Kissinger, "A Henry Kissinger, con admiracion, Osvaldo Hurtado 9.4.83." Osvaldo Hurtado, was the President of Ecuador from 1981-1984 and inscribed this book to Kissinger while in office to the chief architect of the United States foreign policy in the 1970s. In fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 5742
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First Edition of the Centenary Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There; iNSCRIBED by Legendary Illustrator Ralph Steadman
CARROLL, Lewis [Ralph Steadman].
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972.
First Centenary edition of this classic work of children's literature. Large quarto, original black boards, pictorial endpapers, numerous illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Boldly signed by the illustrator in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Ralph Steadman 11.11.72." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Brian J. Green. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146024
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"She knows everything about the plaza": Kay Thompson's Eloise series; each volume Signed by illustrator Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Kay Thompson’s Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition, later printings of the first three books in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. Quartos, 3 volumes, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Each volume signed by illustrator Hilary Knight. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jackets.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133189
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First Edition of I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue; Signed by Legendary Illustrator Maurice Sendak
KRAUSS, Ruth; Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, .
First edition of the re-issue of this early illustrated work by Maurice Sendak. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137488