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"Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed”: First Edition of One Up On Wall Street; Inscribed by Peter Lynch
LYNCH, Peter with John Rothchild.
One Up On Wall Street.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
First edition of this classic volume on investing; one of the all-time best-selling books in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "Bill Garfield 3/1/89 May your stocks go as straight as your sloop when you are on a run Peter Lynch." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with John Rothchild. Jacket design by Barry Littman. Jacket photograph by Larry Maglott.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 42755
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“Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time": First Edition of The Caine Mutiny; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Herman Wouk
WOUK, Herman .
The Caine Mutiny.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147484
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First Edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Nobel Lecture on Literature; Inscribed by Him
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander [Solzhenitzn].
The Nobel Lecture on Literature.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this powerful Nobel lecture by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Small octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page entirely in his hand. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138171
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Signed Limited First Edition of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint; Signed by Him and Legendary Actor Richard Benjamin
ROTH, Philip [Richard Benjamin].
Portnoy’s Complaint.
New York: Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of Roth's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original cloth, slipcase. One of 600 numbered examples signed by Philip Roth and additionally by actor Richard Benjamin, who starred in the 1972 adaptation. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142668
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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming": First Edition of Donna Tartt's The Secret History; Inscribed by Her and Four Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
TARTT, Donna.
The Secret History.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of this contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller...absolutely chilling" (Village Voice). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Diana- warm regards- Donna Tartt." Additionally signed four times by jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel book, on the front panel of the dust jacket, on the half-title page and rear panel of the jacket. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Barbara De Wilde. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 143517
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First edition of Mary Howitt's Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden
HOWITT, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].
Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.
London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.
First edition of Howitt's work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. Scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Bookplate.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124150
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First Edition of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828; Inscribed by Him to Lady Holland
HALL, Captain Basil.
Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828.
Edinburgh: Cadell and Co, 1829.
First edition of this important work. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, volume one with the foldout map of the United States as far west as the Arkansas Territory and a part of Texas. Volume three contains a foldout chart of statistical data on the population and size each state, and on the United States government's finances. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of volume one, "Lady Holland with the author's compliments." The recipient, Lady Holland was an English political hostess and the wife of Whig politician Henry…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 128562
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive " First Edition of The Affluent Society; Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Affluent Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition of the economist's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Laid in this book is an autographed signed letter to Mr. James English, President of The Connecticut Trust Company dated December 19, 1966. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with light wear. A very sharp example of this book.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3855
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"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see": First Edition of Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira [Blindness].
Lisboa: Caminho, 1995.
First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138766
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"We hear the ocean. Older seas and deserts give asylum, peace to each abortion and mistake. Lost in the Near Eastern dreck, the tyrant and tyrannicide lie like the bridegroom and the bride": First edition of Robert Lowell's Near The Ocean; inscribed by him
LOWELL, Robert.
Near The Ocean.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
First Noonday printing of Lowell's renowned collection of poems, including his famous Waking Early on Sunday Morning. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Sebastiano In the time of my crisis Robert Lowell Jan. 6, 1976 Greenways Nur[s]ing Home Robert." In very good condition with a few holograph markings and notes including brief corrections on pages 35 and 40, owner's inscription covered with white paint on front inside cover. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142550
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ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARD Signed by King Charles III and PRINCESS DIANA
DIANA, Princess of Wales; King Charles III.
Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card.
1983.
Royal 1983 Christmas card bearing two royal seals and an original color photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles and the young Princes William. Signed by Prince Charles (King Charles III), "from Charles and" signed by Princess Diana, "Diana." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145672
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noticia de un Secuestro; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.
First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Para Juana y Sergio, en la linea contra la Helius - Burlon; y Le amistad de siempre, Gabo 96." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely unknown to the literary world…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132317
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"the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen": Photograph by Gutzon Borglum of the Bust of Lincoln; Signed by Him
BORGLUM, Gutzon (Abraham Lincoln).
Gutzon Borglum Signed Photograph of a Bust of Abraham Lincoln.
1907.
Photograph signed and dated "Gutzon Borglum 1907." The photograph taken by Borglum shows his marble bust of Abraham Lincoln. On February 6, 1908, the President's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, wrote to Borglum regarding the bust as, "the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen." The sculpture is on display in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol Building. A typed Lincoln quotation pasted to mount at lower left. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 17.5 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 87608
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Christian LaCroix Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Ricardo Tischi. In an envelope affixed to the rear of the framed piece is the original tissue guard featuring an inscription in Knight's hand, "Jan 24 5pm Christian LaCroix Ecole Nationale 14 Rue Bonaparte" and an arrow pointing to the gold glitter beneath the model's feet, "actual gold dust used on the runway." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95330
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Limited Edition Panoramic Photograph of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; Signed by President Ronald Reagan
REAGAN, Ronald.
Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph.
Limited edition panoramic photograph of 'The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library' in Simi Valley, California. Glossy color 14.5 inch by 5 inch panoramic photograph of 'The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library' in Simi Valley, California, numbered 92/250, boldly signed on the border by Ronald Reagan, and by the photographer, Tom Lamb. In fine condition. Double-matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 13 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146516
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First Edition of So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Patrick Modiano to Philip Roth
MODIANO, Patrick [Philip Roth].
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood.
Boston/ New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
First edition in English of this haunting novel of suspense. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to fellow writer Philip Roth, "Pour Philip, avec toute mon amitie Patrick Modiano." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Moore. Translated from the French by Euan Cameron. From the library of Philip Roth. An exceptional association.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 117832
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John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage; Signed by President George H.W. Bush
KENNEDY, John F. [George H.W. Bush].
Profiles In Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.
First edition, early printing of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Boldly signed by President George H.W. Bush on the front free endpaper. Bush was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Grushkin. Foreword by Allan Nevins.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 140792
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"With love to you, on Washington's birthday": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the half-title page, "Eleanor Roosevelt with love to you, on Washington's birthday Fer. 22, 1954 Vernon." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional inscription.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 110954
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"You know my services are always at your disposal": Rare Autograph Letter from the Great Architect Stanford White
WHITE, Stanford.
Stanford White Autograph Letter Signed.
Autograph letter signed by architect Stanford White. It reads, "To [Marie] Anais [Casey], believed to have been romantically involved with White by his biographer, Aline B. Saarinen. With a typewritten letter signed from Saarinen to Casey’s daughter requesting additional background information on her mother’s affair with White. The handwritten letter reads, "My dear dear Anais What do you mean? You know my services are always at your disposal- but in such a case as this I should feel very badly indeed if you did not consider what I have done for you as a labor of love & I am…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3779
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First Edition of the Author’s Prophetic Book The Coming of Post Industrial Society; Inscribed by Daniel Bell in the year of Publication to Sociologist David Riesman
BELL, Daniel.
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.
New York: Basic Books, 1973.
First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Dave and Evie Riesman, with regard, Dan Bell Chilmark, July 12, 1973." David Riesman was a Harvard sociologist, known for his classic work The Lonely Crowd, which is considered a landmark study of American character. An outstanding association linking these two academician giants of the twentieth century. Some spotting to the page…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 18062
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First Edition of The French Lieutenant's Woman; Signed by John Fowles and Screenwriter Harold Pinter
FOWLES, John [Harold Pinter].
The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
First edition of Fowles' classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by both John Fowles and Harold Pinter on the title page. Pinter wrote the screenplay for the 1981 film bearing the same name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. An excellent near fine example in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams. Rare and desirable signed by both Fowles and Pinter.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 91873
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Rare Columbia University Alumni Banquet Program; signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Columbia University Banquet Program.
Cincinatti: Columbia University Alumni Club of Cincinatti, 1949.
Rare Columbia University Alumni Banquet program signed by the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Large octavo, the program was printed for the Regional Columbia University Alumni Banquet held at the Netherland Plaza Hotel on November 22, 1949. Signed by Eisenhower on the front panel of the program. Eisenhower served as president of Columbia University after World War II, a position he held from 1948 to 1953. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 121022
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First edition of The Infantry Exercise of the United States Army
POTTER, P.
The Infantry Exercise of the United States Army, Abridged For the Use of the Militia of the United States.
Poughkeepsie: P. & S. Potter, Printers, 1817.
First edition of this classic work of military instruction. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with 13 plates. From the library of Ensign Edmond Hopkins of Penn. Service 1813 to 1821 with his ownership inscription. Accompanied by three Civil War era covers and an autograph letter signed dated March 23rd 1864 to James Judson Hall, 28th Regt. Wis. Vols., Co. C, Cairo, IL. Hall, a resident of Oconomowoc, WI, mustered into the 28th Wisconsin Volunteers in August 1862 and mustered out in Brownsville, TX in late August 1865 from E.L. Kellogg. In very…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132610
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"Every penny you think I'm pissing away comes back to you dressed up like a nickel": James Garner's Original Shooting Script for Barbarians At The Gate, for which he starred
BURROUGH, Bryan and Helyar.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1992.
James Garner's original shooting script for the film in which he starred, Barbarians at the Gate. Quarto, bound in the original binder, with Garner's embossed name in gilt to the front panel. Barbarians at the Gate was directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart, based on the 1989 book of the same name by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The film stars James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, and Peter Riegert. It tells the true story of F. Ross Johnson, who was the president and CEO of RJR Nabisco. The film earned nine nominations at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. It also won Best Miniseries or…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 114514
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First edition of The World of William Clissold; inscribed by H.G. Wells
WELLS, H.G.
The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1926.
First editions of each volume in Wells' longest novel. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.G. Wells in the year of publication on the front free endpaper of the first volume in the series, "Walter H. Parker H.G. Wells Oct. 1926." Each volume is very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable inscribed by Wells and in the rare original dust jackets.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133426
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"The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day": CHUCK YEAGER BELL X-1 SPEED OF SOUND SIGNED AUTO ROCKET
YEAGER, Chuck.
Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-1 Speed of Sound Auto Rocket.
Model of the Bell X-1, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 14 inches in length, 10 inches in height and 11 inches in width. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 100398
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“BUT IS GOD A YALE MAN?”: First Edition of God and Man at Yale; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by william f. Buckley
BUCKLEY JR., William F.
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom”.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951.
First edition of the author's first book and seminal work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by William F. Buckley on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146491
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First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash's most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "John F. Nash, Jr. 1 March 2011." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147384
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Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and inscribed, "Para el Senor Kenneth H. Browne con afecto Eva Peron." Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 15.5 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119773
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First Edition of Pat Frank's Classic Science Fiction Novel Mr. Adam; Inscribed by Him
FRANK, Pat.
Mr. Adam.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946.
First edition of the author's classic first novel, which has went on to sell over two million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Cynthia - With best regards, Pat Frank, Tarrytown, '47". Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 122192
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“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument": C.S. Forester's The African Queen; Signed by Him
FORESTER, C.S.
The African Queen.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
First edition, early printing of C.S. Forester’s beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston’s 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by C.S. Forester on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132321
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Louis Armstrong's Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans; lengthily inscribed by him
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans.
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.
First edition, second printing of the autobiography of one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, Louis "Pops" Armstrong. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the musician on the half-title page, "To Josh: The Old Dixie Jazz-hound from New Orleans!! Your friend, Louis Armstrong ("Satchmo")." The recipient, Joshua B. Glassel was a fellow Dixieland jazz musician and friend of Armstrong's in New Orleans. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. With Glassel's ownership signature to the half-title page.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 137133
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"There was something about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine": First Edition of The Country of Pointed Firs; Inscribed by Sarah Orne Jewett on Christmas Day in the Year of Publication
JEWETT, Sarah Orne.
The Country of Pointed Firs.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Bartol from Sarah O. Jewett - 25 December 1896." In the Blanchard biography of Jewett, Dr. Bartol is listed as a neighbor of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields in Manchester, Massachusetts. He was an early transcendentalist and Reverend of the West Church from 1837 to 1889 and was originally from Maine and was a Bowdoin classmate of Sarah's father. In near fine condition. Signed and inscribed first editions are rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 4217
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"one of the most movingly redemptive novels I have ever read": First Edition of True Confessions; Signed by John Gregory Dunne and by Joan Didion
DUNNE, John Gregory [Joan Didion].
True Confessions: A Novel.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
First edition of this work, basis for the film, with the screenplay by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Design by Guy Fleming. Photograph by Nancy Ellison. It was the basis for the 1981 film True Confessions, directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Joan Didion. Rare and desirable signed by both Dunne and Didion.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144261
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First Edition of To Cuba and Back; Inscribed by Richard Henry Dana
DANA, Richard Henry.
To Cuba and Back.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.
First edition of this classic travelogue that reveals the character of pre-Spanish American war Cuba. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Rev. John A. Albro with the sincere regards of Richard Henry Dana." In very good condition, restoration to the crown of the spine. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. BAL 4447.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147922
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Gift From the Sea; Signed By both Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh
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. Signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the title page. Additionally inscribed by Charles Lindbergh on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. J.F.T. Crawford With appreciation and best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Illustrations by George W. Thompson. Rare and desirable signed by both.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 120706
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“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end": First Edition of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch; Signed by Him With the original prospectus
BURROUGHS, William S.
Naked Lunch.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1962.
First American edition, first issue jacket with no zip code on rear panel and no roman numerals on lower spine near back panel of Burroughs' classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William S. Burroughs on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Included is the original prospectus issued by Grove Press prior to publication. Photograph of Burroughs on the rear panel by Martha Rocher. An exceptional example, scarce with the original prospectus.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 87577
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First Edition of The End of Ideology; Inscribed by Daniel Bell
BELL, Daniel.
The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas In the Fifties.
Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press, 1960.
First edition of this landmark in American social thought. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Adrienne Righ with appreciation Daniel Bell." Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 86124
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Percy Fitzpatrick's Classic Work Jock of the Bushveld; Signed by Him
FITZPATRICK, Percy.
Jock of the Bushveld.
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1913.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Percy Fitzpatrick on the title page. In near fine condition with light shelfwear to the extremities. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119744