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First Edition of Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher Pissarides
MORTENSEN, Dale T. and Christopher A. Pissarides.
Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the front free endpaper, "To John Rogers with best wishes C Pissarides." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110971
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First Edition of Burton Richter's Beyond Smoke and Mirrors; Inscribed by Him
RICHTER, Burton.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
First edition of this insightful overview of climate change science by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Burton Richter. Octavo, original glossy boards. Inscribed by Burton Richter on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition, without the dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 34014
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sis' Nancy Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 118572
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First Edition of Madam Secretary; Inscribed by Madeleine Albright to Ambassador Henry Kimelman
ALBRIGHT, Madeleine.
Madam Secretary: A Memoir.
New York: Miramax Books, 2003.
First edition of this classic memoir by the first female Secretary of State in United States history. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ambassador Kimelman Madeleine Albright." The recipient, Henry Kimelman served as the United States ambassador to Haiti from 1980 to 1981. He was the first US ambassador to be awarded Haiti's highest civilian decoration, the Grand Cross of Honor and Merit. The governor of the Virgin Islands proclaimed February 4, 1998, "Henry L. Kimelman Day." Ambassador Kimelman also has been honored by the government of Israel. Fine in a fine…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 147966
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First Edition of
TROUPE, Quincy [James Baldwin].
James Baldwin: The Legacy.
New York: Touchstone Book, 1989.
First edition of this work on the legacy of the incomparable James Baldwin. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by the editor on the title page, "Quincy Troupe 11/26/89." In very good condition. Cover design by Carin Goldberg. Foreword by Wole Soyinka.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 147899
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"I FIRST MET HIM IN PIRAEUS": KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK; Lengthily signed by the work's translator Peter Bien
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos. Translated by Peter A. Bien.
Zorba The Greek.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Early printing of of this new translation of Kazantzakis' masterpiece and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by translator Peter Bien with the opening line of the novel on the front free endpaper, "I first met him in Piraeus Peter Bien 3-27-23." Peter Bien translated a number of Kazantzakis' works, most notably this translation of Zorba the Greek. This edition translated, directly from Kazantzakis’s Greek original, is a more faithful rendition of his original language, ideas, and story, and presents Zorba as the author meant him to be. In fine condition. Cover design by Marilyn Dantes.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141461
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From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters; Signed by Ralph Guldahl
SARAZEN, Gene.
From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters.
Chicago: Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 1937.
First edition of this work by various golfers, including Gene Sarazen. Small octavo, original pebbled cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette. Signed by Ralph Guldahl on the half-title page. Sarazen was the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open (1922, 1932), PGA Championship (1922, 1923, 1933), The Open Championship (1932), and Masters Tournament (1935). Guldhal was the winner of the 1937 and 1938 U.S. Open and the…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 79787
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First Hungarian Edition of Imre Kertesz's Felszamolas; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
Felszamolas [Liquidation].
Budapest: Magveto, 2003.
First Hungarian edition, preceding the English edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 698
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“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did": First edition of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying; inscribed by her
JONG, Erica.
Fear of Flying.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
First edition of the author's controversial, gound-breaking second-wave feminist classic which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Octavo, original cloth, red endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Katherine Kasten - from Erica Jong October 1973." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the rear panel. Jacket design by Judith Seifer. Author photograph by Peter Trump.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141273
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First Edition of Famous Financial Fiascos; Signed by John Train
TRAIN, John.
Famous Financial Fiascos.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this overview of financial fiascos. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by John Train on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roger Black. Illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan. Foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 47637
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She Loves Me. She Loves Me Not; Signed by Maurice Sendak
KEESHAN, Robert; Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
She Loves Me… She Loves Me Not.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
First edition of the 1991 edition. Small quarto, original illustrated boards. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 27056
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale; Signed by Edith Grossman
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel; Edith Grossman.
Living To Tell the Tale.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's memoir. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated by Edith Grossman.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133748
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First Edition of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Signed by Andre Dubus III
DUBUS III, Andre.
The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed twice by Dubus with the words added "Stay true and be you." Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual fading to the orange spine panel. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 451
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First Edition of Doubling the Point; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this collection of essays and interviews by the Nobel Prize winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1497
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First American Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
First American edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 4159
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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's Trilogy; Each volume signed by Him
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The Year of the French, Tenants of Time and The End of the Hunt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/ E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979-1994.
First edition of the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed and inscribed by Thomas Flanagan, with The Tenants of Time inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Ellen in the year of publication. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 107361
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Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad; inscribed by Fagles to fellow writer and translator Charles Tomlinson
FAGLES, Robert.
The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.
Grand Street Publications, Inc, .
Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles' renowned translation of Homer's Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front panel of Book XVIII, "Charles and Brenda - Wonderful to have you back in Princeton with us - Love, Bob." The recipient, Charles Tomlinson, was a prolific English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator who taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University, where he became Emeritus Professor. Tomlinson was an authoritative translator of poetry from the Russian, Spanish and Italian, including work by Antonio Machado, Fyodor…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137120
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Anne Morrow Linbergh's Gift From the Sea
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.
New York: Pantheon, 1955.
First edition, early printing of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by George W. Thompson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 138202
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“Now I am a man; World have changed a lot. Some things nearly so, Others nearly not.”: P.B. Socci sketch of Yul Brynner; Signed by Yul Brynner
SOCCI, P.B. (Yul Brynner).
Yul Brynner Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Russian-born film and stage actor Yul Brynner. Boldly signed by Yul Brynner. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. In fine condition. The drawing measures 10 inches by 8 inches. A striking example.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 89137
