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First Edition of David Fromkin's Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?; Signed by Him
FROMKIN, David.
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this "enormously impressive book" (The Weekly Standard). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and 1 map. Boldly signed by David Fromkin. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney. Jacket photograph by Gavin Bond.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 138439
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"Take dead aim for the pin": First Edition of Tom Kite's A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life; Inscribed by Him
KITE, Tom.
A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.
First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harry- Best of luck with your golf Tom Kite." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bradford Foltz. Written with Mickey Herskowitz.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 129108
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"Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family": First Edition of Roger Angell's autobiography; Signed by Him
ANGELL, Roger.
Let Me Finish.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Angell's autobiography of his early years growing up in New York. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Roger Angell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cooley Design Lab.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 7412
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First Edition of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict; Inscribed by Roger Myerson
MYERSON, Roger B.
Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic introductory work on game theory. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Inscribed by Roger B. Myerson on the title page. In 2007, Myerson was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." In fine condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 74034
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First edition of Stewart Alsop's The Center: People and Power in Political Washington; inscribed by him to fellow journalist William Safire
ALSOP, Stewart.
The Center: People and Power in Political Washington.
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of American journalist Stewart Alsop's vivid portrait of political Washington. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Helene - Bill tells me you even got through the Supreme Court... which is more than I could ever do Best, Stew Alsop." The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 135146
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First Edition in English of Le Clezio's Fever; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Fever.
New York: Atheneum, 1973.
First American edition of this collection of nine stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page Very good in a very good dust jacket with a small chip from the foot of the spine. Jacket design by Harry Ford. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 776
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Signed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 68963
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First Special 1993 Sponsor Edition of How I Played The Game; Signed by Byron Nelson
NELSON, Byron; Arnold Palmer.
How I Played the Game.
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.
First special 1993 Sponsor edition of Nelson’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher's full forest green leatherette with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and photographic plates. One of one thousand one hundred copies signed by Byron Nelson on the semi-transparent flyleaf, this is number 58. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Accompanied by the original gilt engraved GTE Byron Nelson Classic metal clip bookmark.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146678
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First Edition of A Fresh Start for America; Inscribed by First Lady Laura Bush
BUSH, George W. [Laura Bush].
A Fresh Start for America: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush.
Austin, TX: Bush for President, Inc, 1999.
First edition of this collection of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by First Lady Laura Bush on the front free endpaper, "To Perry & Karen, with very best wishes! Laura Bush." In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147237
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First Edition of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse; Inscribed by Richard Thompson Ford
FORD, Richard Thompson.
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
First edition of this "sharp, nuanced, enlightening reflection on how America should confront its authentic legacy of racism . . . A sharp, nuanced yet stylish analysis" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lisa Thanks for reading the book Richard Ford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Aaron Artessa. Jacket illustration by Jean Tuttle.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 120633
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First edition of Anita Shreve's Resistance; inscribed by her to Kenneth Burrows
SHREVE, Anita.
Resistance: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
First edition of this work by the author of The Pilot's Wife. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "March 28, 1995 For Ken, with thanks for your help in a different battle front Anita Shreve." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142738
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First Edition of Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110499
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"Then life was thornless to our ken, and, bramble-rise, thy hills were then a rise without a bramble": Frederick Locker's London Lyrics; inscribed by him
LOCKER, Frederick.
London Lyrics.
London: John Wilson, 1868.
Rare privately printed edition of Locker's first book. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "John S. Smith from the author July 28 1868." In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124134
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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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Limited First Edition of Where I'm Calling From; Signed by Raymond Carver
CARVER, Raymond.
Where I’m Calling From: New & Selected Stories.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, bound in full publisher's morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, elaborate spiral gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, original silk ribbon tipped in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Steve Johnson specially commissioned by The Franklin Library for this signed limited first edition. Privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society and personally signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine condition. Accompanied by a typed letter addressed from the publisher…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146628
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Byron Nelson's How I Played the Game; Inscribed by Him
NELSON, Byron; Arnold Palmer.
How I Played the Game.
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.
First edition, second printing of Nelson's autobiography. Octavo, original forest green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Will Best wishes Byron Nelson 7-16-93." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Arnold Palmer.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146679
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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating; Signed by Her
GOODALL, Jane with Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson.
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.
New York: Warner Books, 2005.
First edition of "one of those rare, truly great books that can change the world" (John Robbins). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne Twomey.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117849
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First Edition of Francis Wyndham's The Other Garden; Inscribed by Him
WYNDHAM, Francis.
The Other Garden.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
First edition of Wyndham's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rolland Comstock with my very best wishes- Francis Wyndham." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jane Human.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 74064
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First Edition of Samuel Shem's The Spirit of the Place; Signed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
The Spirit of the Place.
Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.
First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Samuel Shem on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Marc Chagall.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142499
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First edition of The Moment of Truth; Signed by Alan Simpson
SIMPSON, Alan and Erskine Bowles.
The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Washington, D.C: 2010.
First edition of Simpson and Bowles' final report on The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Alan Simpson on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas!! Alan Simpson." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117683