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“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free”: Photograph of Clarence Darrow; Inscribed by Him
DARROW, Clarence.
Clarence Darrow Signed Photograph.
Original photograph of prominent American attorney and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow. Signed by Darrow on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph four years after the historic Scopes Monkey Trial, "Clarence Darrow with best wishes to his friend Donald Gallagher Chicago March 14th 1929." Matted and framed the entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 84255
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"In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing culture": First Edition of The Art of Managing Human Resources; Lengthily signed by Edgar Schein
SCHEIN, Edgar H.
The Art of Managing Human Resources.
Oxford University Press, .
First edition of this work on management. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor opposite the title page, "In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing culture." All the best, John Ed H. Schein March 29, 2015." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Abraham J. Siegel.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 87844
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"The music of 'Led Zeppelin I' had blown me away and so on spec, I mocked up a fold-out design for the second album and took it to Led Zeppelin's manager": Led Zeppelin II; Lengthily Signed by David Juniper and Frank Borman
JUNIPER, David; Frank Borman; [Led Zeppelin].
David Juniper and Frank Borman Inscribed Led Zeppelin II.
Burbank, CA: Atlantic Recording Corporation, 2014.
Led Zeppelin's second album, first released in 1969. Double-folding album with designs by cover artist David Juniper. Inscribed by David Juniper on the front panel, "The music of 'Led Zeppelin I' had blown me away and so on spec, I mocked up a fold-out design for the second album and took it to Led Zeppelin's manager David Juniper - designer of the cover art for 'Led Zeppelin II.'" Additionally inscribed by Frank Borman on the front panel, "Not Neil Armstrong! Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR." American aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut Frank Borman was the commander of Apollo 8, the…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145289
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"A Good public Servant Becomes so at a high cost of personal sacrifice": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Name on the half-title page, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 52032
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First Argentinian Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism; Signed by Him; From the Library of Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970.
First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of Gregory Rabassa, with his signature. Rabassa was the translator of La Hojaraca into English and Cien Anos de Soledad, among others. He was a translator of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One Hundred Years of Solitude. Garcia Marquez later declared Rabassa's translation to be superior to the Spanish original. In…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 60052
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First Edition of Spartacus; Signed by Howard Fast and Kirk Douglas
FAST, Howard [Kirk Douglas].
Spartacus.
New York: Published by the Author, 1951.
First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Howard Fast and Kirk Douglas on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Charles White. A very sharp example, rare signed by both Fast and Douglas.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145927
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"The strange thing was there were times she felt she liked him very much": First Edition of Bernard Malamud's Assistant; Signed by him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Assistant.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition of Malamud's second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a chip to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 100488
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"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara Wrote in her delicate calligraphy": First Edition of The House of Spirits; Lengthily Inscribed by Isabelle Allende to fellow novelist Annie Dillard
ALLENDE, Isabel. [Annie Dillard].
The House of the Spirits: A Novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Annie, 'Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara Wrote in her delicate calligraphy' Isabel Allende." Allende has also drawn a flower on the title page. The recipient, fellow author Annie Dillard has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and her books have been translated…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 127009
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Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Eyeless In Gaza.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.
Signed limited edition of what is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Number 85 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 136196
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"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts": First Editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs; Each Signed by Him
MACMILLAN, Harold.
Harold Macmillan’s Memoirs: Winds of Change, 1914-1939; The Blast of War, 1939-1945; Tides of Fortune, 1945-1955; Riding the Storm, 1956-1959; Pointing the Way, 1959-1961; At the End of the Day, 1961-1963.
London: Macmillan, 1965-73.
First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs, each signed by him. Octavo, six volumes, illustrated. Each volume is signed by Harold MacMillan on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Complete signed sets are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 91420
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"I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded figure with, almost invariably a glass in his hand": First revised edition of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop; inscribed by him to life-long friend Patrick Balfour
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Scoop.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.
First revised edition of Waugh's satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Patrick, with regards from Evelyn." The recipient, Scottish author-journalist Patrick Balfour,(Lord Kinross), was a life-long friend of Waugh’s. Balfour was serving as a correspondent for The Evening Standard and Daily Sketch in East Africa and became a close companion of Waugh’s as he wrote the present volume. Laid in is a four-page typescript article written by Balfour about his friendship with Waugh, titled "Evelyn Waugh". The article begins, "I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95271
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"One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends": Rare First Hardcover Edition of Little, Big; Lengthily Signed by John Crowley
CROWLEY, John.
Little, Big.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.
First British edition and first hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For _____- John Crowley 'One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends.'" Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Doyle. Photograph of the author by Richard Sutor.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 79887
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"One of the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century": First Edition of Hannah Arendt's Masterpiece The Origins of Totalitarianism; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
ARENDT, Hannah.
The Origins of Totalitarianism.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951.
First edition of this masterpiece, by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. 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. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147458
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First Edition of Sarah Bernhardt's Petite Idole; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
BERNHARDT, Sarah.
Petite Idole.
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1921.
First edition of this work, lengthily inscribed by legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, front panel illustration by Maggy Monier. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with an eight line inscription from Bernhardt on the half-title page, "A Leon Deffocce je ne crois pas que mon petite roman arrete un instant vos regards, mais la cependant vous en lirez quelques pages Soyez clement pour. Sarah Bernhardt." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 134711
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself": First Edition of The Groucho Phile; Inscribed twice by Goucho Marx To Actress Sally Kellerman
MARX, Groucho.
The Groucho Phile.
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.
First edition of this work by the legendary comedian. Quarto, original boards. Association copy, inscribed twice by the author on the dedication page and again on page 364, "To Sally from Goucho?" On page 364 Groucho writes in his hand, “There’s a picture of a pretty girl from an old friend Groucho?” In the caption to the right Groucho states, "There's a world of show business in this picture. Sitting on the floor next to me is Sally Kellerman. We're an item." The recipient, Sally Kellerman was an actress and singer whose acting career spanned 60 years. Her role as…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 137602
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First Edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's Moscou; Inscribed by Him
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
Moscou [Moscow].
Paris: Collection Neuf/ Robert Editeur, 1955.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "a Monsieur et Madame Henri Dumur avec mon souvenir le meilleur Henri Cartier-Bresson." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138199
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"we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much": First Edition of the author’s first book run river; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan.
Run River.
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1963.
First edition of the Didion’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Post. A nice example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140695
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Rare association copy of Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore; inscribed by W.E.B. Du Bois to Prime Minister David Lloyd George
LOWELL, Thomas. [W.E.B. Dubois; David Lloyd George].
Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933.
Early printing of the definitive biography of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs and paintings by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by W.E.B. Dubois to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, "Many Happy Returns to 'Lloyd George' Nov. 5th 1933 from W.E.B." W.E.B. Dubois wrote that "the destinies of mankind for a hundred years to come" were being negotiated in a "small room at the Hotel Crillon." The small room he was referring to was at the Paris Peace Conference and the people in the room were Prime Minister David Lloyd…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144351
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"Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary": First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work Sexual Personae; Inscribed by Camille Paglia to close personal friend and smith college professor Ronald MacDonald prior to publication
PAGLIA, Camille.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
First edition of the author's ground-breaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to close personal friend Ronald MacDonald, Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, prior to publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ron - Love, Camille December 1989." Laid in is the original transmittal letter on Paglia's Philadelphia University of Arts letterhead dated December 18, 1989 which reads, "Ron! Book to be released Feb. 14 (macabre joke from Yale Press??) Feminists will surely froth! - or so predicts Il Bloom - C." Also laid in is a Bowdoin College postcard from…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 112308
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself": Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Point Counter Point.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel, one of 256 numbered copies, this is number 254. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130871
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First editon of The Armies of the Night; Inscribed by Norman Mailer to Christopher Lawford and signed by Noam Chomsky
MAILER, Norman [Noam Chomsky].
The Armies of the Night.
New York: The New American Library, 1968.
First edition of this nonfiction novel, which went on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Chris Lawford remembering our good conversation last summer Norman Mailer March 1983." Additionally signed by one of the subjects, Noam Chomsky. The recipient, Christopher Lawford is an author, activist and member of the Kennedy family and friends with the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 5790
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Inscribed Presentation Copy of Henry Clews Recollections About Wall Street; Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street
CLEWS, Henry.
Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.
New York: Irving Publishing Co, 1888.
First edition of Clews' classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "___ ______ with the compliments of Henry Clews Oct. 25, 95." In very good condition with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 46052
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First Edition of The Magnificent Ambersons; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Lengthily Inscribed by Booth Tarkington
TARKINGTON, Booth.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, " For Rose and John Narteau from Florence and John Jameson and inscribed, with pleasure by Booth Tarkington Indianapolis…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144080
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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example": First Edition of Joe Di Maggio's Lucky To Be A Yankee; Inscribed by Him
DI MAGGIO, Joe [DiMaggio].
Lucky To Be A Yankee.
New York: Rudolph Field, 1946.
First edition of this early autobiography by Joltin Joe Di Maggio. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand, "To Dick- Hope the start of a good Pic Book! Best alwasy Joe Di Maggio." Foreword by Grantland Rice. Introduction by James A. Farley. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Most desirable signed by this baseball legend.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 107322
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"When I first heard about Big Sur I didn't know that it was a member of the Confederate States of America": First Edition of A Confederate General from Big Sur; Signed by Richard Brautigan
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
A Confederate General from Big Sur.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964.
First edition of Brautigan's first published novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Brautigan on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Larry Rivers. Jacket photograph by Erik Weber. A very nice example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 110462
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“Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don’t let somebody else dictate your life’s path”: First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Autobiography The Greatest Game of All; Signed by Him and Co-Author Herbert Warren Wind
NICKLAUS, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind.
Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
First British edition of the golfer's autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jack Nicklaus on the frontispiece and by co-author Herbert Warren Wind on the dedication page, "To Bobby Burt Who knows his golf and understands why the champions win. Herb Wind." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. Foreword by Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Rare and desirable signed by both Nicklaus and Wind.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 126499
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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it": First Edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat; Signed by Oliver Sacks
SACKS, Oliver.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.
New York: Summit Books, 1985.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Roger, With kind regars Oliver Sacks 1/15." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130831
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First Edition of A.J. Ayer's The Problem of Knowledge; Inscribed by him in the year of publication
AYER, A.J.
The Problem of Knowledge.
London : Macmillan & Co, 1956.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Ryan Evans from Freddie Ayer, October 30, 1956." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133114
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“THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE FIGURE IN JEWISH LIFE”: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF CHAIM WEIZMANN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRIAL AND ERROR
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Trial and Error.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Chaim Weizmann, this is number 415. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Near fine in near fine dust jackets, owner name to the front free endpaper of volume one. Uncommon in the original dust jackets.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135082
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“In this age of ours it's hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place": First Edition of Oe's A Personal Matter; Warmly Inscribed by him to Translator Howard Hibbett
OE, Kenzaburo.
A Personal Matter.
New York: Grove Press, 1968.
First edition in English (preceding the British edition by one year) of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in Japanese on the front free endpaper to Howard Hibbett. The recipient, Howard Hibbett was a prominent Harvard scholar, translator of Japanese literature and friend of Oe's. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with Hibbett's occasional marginalia. Jacket design by Kuhlman Associates. Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. An exceptional association, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 139621
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“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert": First Edition of J.K. Rowling's Quidditch: Through the Ages; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K [Kennelworthy Whisp].
Quidditch: Through the Ages.
New York: Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic Books, 2001.
First edition of this "amazingly imaginative work" (Associated Press). Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. In fine condition. Rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141463
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's My Days; Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
My Days.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1938.
First edition of this firsthand look of everyday life in the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Roosevelt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Miss Trefether With a Merry Xmas from Eleanor Roosevelt." Introduction by Malvina Thompson Scheider. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 92438
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First Edition of Linear Programming and Economic Analysis; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Paul A. Samuelson to Fellow Economist Francis M. Bator
SAMUELSON, Paul A.; Robert M. Solow; Robert Dorfman.
Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition of this classic text. Octavo, original gray cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed Paul Samuelson to colleague and close friend Francis Bator on the front free endpaper, "With thanks of Paul S." With Francis M. Bator signature and note Gift of PAS, Jan. 17, 1958. Also laid in is a note, "With the Compliments of Paul A. Samuelson." The recipient, Francis M. Bator was Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States from 1965 to 1967. He was also a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Bator was Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy in Harvard's Kennedy School…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 88234
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“We have no means of discriminating between right and wrong if we do not take into account others’ feelings, others’ suffering": First Edition of The Dalai Lama's Ethics for the New Millennium; Signed by Him
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Ethics For the New Millennium.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2001.
First edition of this ethical treatise by The Dalai Lama. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldy signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147841
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Two Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.
1941-42.
Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the other December 19, 1942, each with their original envelopes; both letters refer to the commissioning of the U.S.S. Atlanta.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 21082
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Signed and Dated in 1959 by The Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph: United Jewish Appeal.
1959.
Photograph of David Ben-Gurion signed and dated in 1959 by him in Hebrew, presented to Max Goldweber in appreciation from The United Jewish Appeal. The UJA-Federation, as it is known today, was created from the 1986 merger of the United Jewish Appeal, established in 1939, and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, a predecessor organization established in 1917. It is the largest local philanthropy in the world. Headquartered in New York City, the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for people in need, inspire a passion for Jewish life and learning, and…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 41088
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First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Rose Tattoo.
New York: New Directions, 1951.
First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 143108
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First Edition of Content and Consciousness: An Analysis of Mental Phenomena; Inscribed by Daniel C. Dennett
DENNETT, Daniel C.
Content and Consciousness: An Analysis of Mental Phenomena.
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Annie- Daniel C. Dennett 3/5/23." Also laid in is a note from Dennett stating, "* My memoir: I've Been Thinking in October." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145503
