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First Edition of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal; Inscribed by Jared Diamond
DIAMOND, Jared.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5524
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“THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SAGA OF HOW AMERICA BECAME INVOLVED IN VIETNAM”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Best and the Brightest.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005.
Signed limited edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Signed David Halberstam. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144148
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "You're too big to fail! Andrew Ross Sorkin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 100735
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"Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being": First Edition of Ragtime; Signed by E.L. Doctorow
DOCTOROW, E.L.
Ragtime.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition of this work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by E.L. Doctorow on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118328
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"The facts are always less than what really happened": First Edition of July’s People; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
July’s People.
South Africa: Ravan Press/ Taurus, 1981.
First South African edition and true first of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 84673
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First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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First edition of A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue; inscribed by Harvard Sitkoff
SITKOFF, Harvard.
A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
First edition of Sitkoff's comprehensive account of the emergence of civil rights as a national issue. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Dear Adrienne 'Harvest time would come in the next generation.' my best, Harvard Sitkoff." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143846
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First Edition of The Handbook of Experimental Economics; inscribed by Alvin E. Roth
EDITED BY JOHN H. KAGEL AND ALVIN E. ROTH,.
The Handbook of Experimental Economics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
First edition of this comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by Alvin E. Roth on the front free endpaper, John: Volume 2 is coming out maybe this year. Best Wishes, Alvin E. Roth." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 95170
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First Edition of John Kotter's Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It; Signed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.
New York: Amacom, 1979.
First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106742
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First Edition of High Yield Bonds; Inscribed by Martin Fridson
FRIDSON, Martin S.
High Yield Bonds: Identifying Value and Assessing Risk of Speculative Grade Securities.
Chicago: Probus Publishing Company, 1989.
First edition of this early work by Fridson. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by the Martin Fridson on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note to the recipient signed by Fridson. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144682
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First Edition of Mr. Sammler’s Planet; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Mr. Sammler’s Planet.
New York: The Viking Press, 1970.
First edition of the author's third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 42977
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The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging; Signed by Ansel Adams
ADAMS, Ansel.
The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging.
New York: Morgan and Lester, 1955.
Later printing of the third book in Ansel Adams' 'Basic Photo Series.' Octavo, original decorated boards, frontispiece of The Grand Teton, Snake River, illustrated with fifty black and white photographs and diagrams, including informative tables, formulas and testing instructions. Signed by Ansel Adams on the front free endpaper. Hear fine in a very good dust jacket. .
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146951
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First edition of Charles Baker's The Esquire Culinary Companion; signed by him
BAKER, Charles H.
The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.
First edition of Baker's famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Charles H. Baker Jr." Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127386
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; signed by mountaineer George Band and from the library of George Sale
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141037
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First Edition of Maurice Sendak's Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water; Inscribed by Him
SENDAK, Maurice.
Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes.
New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Willie Merry Christmas! Maurice Sendak Nov. '87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141293
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First Edition of Rocking the Boat; Inscribed by Gore Vidal To His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Rocking the Boat.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, "Valerie -- with semi-fraternal best wishes & God-paternal blessings for Christmas '62. Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, laminated by Vidal. An exceptional association.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126579
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976); Inscribed by Him to his Stepmother
VIDAL, Gore.
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976).
New York: Random House, 1977.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Gore Vidal all love to Kit.” 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 The Artworks.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126757
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First Edition of Alan Paton's Cry The Beloved Country
PATON, Alan.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.
First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145917
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First Edition of The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of Ron Chernow’s ambitious saga of the Warburg dynasty. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146062
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"The lesson of patience and self-containing may be learnt in these trips": The Canoe and the Saddle; Signed by John H. WIlliams
WILLIAMS, John H. (Editor).
The Canoe and the Saddle or Klalan and Klickatat to Which Are Now First Added His Western Letters And Journals.
Tacoma: John H. Williams, 1913.
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. With sixteen color plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. Signed by John H. Williams on the title page. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by John H. Williams. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 61031