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First Edition of Reading the Man; Signed by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
PRYOR, Elizabeth Brown.
Reading the Man.
New York: Viking, 2007.
First edition of this “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Elizabeth Brown Pryor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 117223
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First Edition of Codex; Signed by Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.
First edition of this work by Eisenman. Oblong quarto, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In fine condition. Signed by Peter Eisenman on the half-title page.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 1420
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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall. Translated by Tim Wilkinson.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 697
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Alexis Lichine's New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits; Inscribed by Him
LICHINE, Alexis.
Alexis Lichine’s New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.
Early printing of the revised edition of this comprehensive guide to wines and spirits. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dan Chapin best wishes Alexis Lichine on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R. Scuddellari. In collaboration with William Fifield and with the assistance of Jonathan Bartlett, Jane Stockwood, and John Laird.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 76091
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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 title page, "To Sis' Julie Jerome, Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146136
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Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Geography and Trade.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992.
Early printing of Paul Krugman's work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For William Paul Krugman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 110103
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Signed Limited Edition of Norman Douglas' One Day
DOUGLAS, Norman .
One Day.
Chapelle-Réanville: The Hours Press, 1929.
Signed limited edition, deluxe issue, one of 200 signed examples of this work by the author of South Wind, this is number 106. Octavo, original cloth, photographic portrait of the author, photographic endpapers. In near fine condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 121543
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First Edition of What is Realism?; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
What Is Realism.
Bennington, VT: Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.
First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 1366
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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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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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Limited First Edition of The Stark Reality of Responsibility; Signed by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Additionally with Foreign Affairs Pamphlets Signed by Theodore Sorensen
STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing; Theodore C. Sorensen.
The Stark Reality of Responsibility. [WITH] Two Issues of Foreign Affairs: Loyal to a Fault? and America’s First Post-Cold War President. [AND] Theodore Sorensen Autograph Note Signed.
Chicago: Americana House, 1952.
Limited first edition of Adlai Ewing Stevenson's welcoming and acceptance addresses before the Democratic National Convention. Quarto, original publisher's three quarter blue morocco over cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front panel stamped in gilt. One of one hundred copies printed on Maidstone hand-made paper and signed by the author on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Accompanied by two Foreign Affairs pamphlets by Theodore C. Sorensen: 'America's First Post-Cold War President' (Vol. 71 No. 4, Fall 1992, autograph note signed by Sorensen on Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 'Compliments' stationary secured with a paperclip, the note…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146701
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYER, Sonia.
My Beloved World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 123476
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First Edition of On the Other Hand: A Life Story; Signed by Fay Wray
WRAY, Fay.
On the Other Hand: A Life Story.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
First edition of the definitive autobiography of the Hollywood starlet. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with numerous photographs. Signed by Fay Wray on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 137379
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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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"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write": First Edition of What is considered Ruth Rendell’s Greatest Works A Judgement in Stone
RENDELL, Ruth.
A Judgement in Stone.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 4619
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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 title page, "To Sis' Elizabeth, Stay Strong! Love, Cornel West." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146863
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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 Margaret Mead's Blackberry Winter; Signed by Her
MEAD, Margaret.
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of this work by the award winning anthropologist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed and dated "Margaret Mead 1973" on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket cover photograph by Ken Heyman. Jacket design by Lucy Mahoney.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 29069
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant; Signed by Him
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on a Penguin Press bookplate to the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146292
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First edition of Jack Valenti's Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches; inscribed to him by William Safire
VALENTI, Jack [William Safire].
Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1982.
First edition of Jack Valenti's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Bill Safire Thanks for your embrace - with the loving good wishes of Jack Valenti." 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 frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 135441
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First Edition of The Situation of Poetry; Inscribed by Robert Pinsky
PINSKY, Robert.
The Situation of Poetry.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to another poet "Lisa Colt with best wishes, Robert Pinsky November 1977." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 980
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote IV; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1997.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page in 2006.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19033
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First Edition of Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics; Signed by Frank Wilczek
WILCZEK, Frank and Betsy Devine.
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.
First edition of this "uncommon and uncommonly good exposition of contemporary quantum physics" (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Frank Wilczek on the title page with a small drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karl Steinbrenner.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 62094
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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Tim Wilkinson. Jacket design by John Gall.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 72016
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John Hersey's The War Lover; Signed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The War Lover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
First edition, early printing published the same month as the first of this aviation history classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Hersey on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 133174
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First edition of Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film; signed by Richard Linklater
LINKLATER, Richard; Ethan Hawke; Patricia Arquette; et al.
Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2014.
First edition of the behind-the-scenes photography book companion to Linklater's narrative film. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Matt Lankes. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Cheers Richard Linklater." From the collection of longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist Bill Zwecker. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142505
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First Edition of Bernard Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman; Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
First edition of Malamud's fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul Old dear good friends with affection Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Smolich. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 93878
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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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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote III; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario III.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1996.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19036
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller: A Novel; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Storyteller: A Novel.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant novel" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Mark Sturgeon. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated by Helen Lane.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142072
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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 Burger’s Daughter; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Burger’s Daughter.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 1964
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"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own": The Chosen; Signed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
The Chosen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the author's first book set in the mid-twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Chaim Potok. Fine in a fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 87977
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First Edition of Paul Theroux's Half Moon Street; Inscribed by him to Sally Soames
THEROUX, Paul.
Half Moon Street.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally Soames with best wishes Paul Theroux." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119623
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First edition of John Diamond's Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...; inscribed by him photojournalist Sally Soames
DIAMOND, John.
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…
London: Vermilion, 1998.
First edition of Diamond's story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To dearest Sally with thanks and - well you know. With love John Diamond." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124373
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First Edition of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover photograph by Bob Chase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128109
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Dick Cavett's Brief Encounters; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
CAVETT, Dick. Foreword by Jimmy Fallon [William Safire].
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
First edition, early printing of Cavett's engaging memoir. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Tom & Bill - Dick Cavett." The recipient, Bill Zwecker, was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133039
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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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"Give a chunk to a monkey, give a chunk to a fighter": Later printing of Michael Rosen's Nuts About Nuts; Signed and dated by him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten. .
Nuts About Nuts.
London: Diamond Books, 1999.
Early printing of British children's author Michael Rosen's illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, "Hello Eileen, Michael Rosen was here." In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88125
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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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First Edition of Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man; Inscribed by Wolfgang Stopler
STOPLER, Wofgang F.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of A Private Man.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994." From the library of noted economist Richard Musgrove. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 4401
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Anita Lovitt. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Translated by George Kolovakos and Ronald Christ.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142083
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First Edition of Chris Bonington's Quest for Adventure: Ultimate Feats of Modern Exploration; Signed by Him; From the library of Fellow Adventurer Steve Fossett
BONINGTON, Chris.
Quest for Adventure: Remarkable Feats of Exploration and Adventure 1950-2000.
London: Casell and Company, 2000.
First edition of this work by Bonington. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Chris Bonington on the half-title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111431
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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
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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 Jeane Kirkpatrick's The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State; Inscribed by Her to William Safire
KIRKPATRICK, Jeane J. [William Safire].
The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State and Other Surprises.
Washington, D.C: The AEI Press, 1990.
First edition of this work by Ambassador Kirkpatrick, who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire Columnist extraordinaire. With admiration and friendship. Jeane Kirkpatrick. December, 1990." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 127827
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First edition of A. Scott Berg's Kate Remembered; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
BERG, A. Scott.
Kate Remembered.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's biography of Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Tom and Bill - the best reason I have to return to Chicago - with new and old affection, respectively Scott. July 2003 Chicago." The recipient, Bill Zwecker, was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133040
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First Edition of the Next Century; Inscribed and Dated by David Halberstam in the Year of publication
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Next Century.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.
First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "For Sandy and Virginia with love David Jan 1991." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 144104
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Signed Limited Edition of James A. Michener's My Lost Mexico
MICHENER, James A.
My Lost Mexico.
Austin: The State House Press, 1992.
Signed limited edition of this novel by the award-winning author, one of 350 numbered copies, this is number 59. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations by the author. Signed by James A. Michener. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119391
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First edition of John Diamond's Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...; Signed by him
DIAMOND, John.
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…
London: Vermilion, 1998.
First edition of Diamond's story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Diamond on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally Soames.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 141524
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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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"Kabir says: Listen, my friend there is one thing in the world that satisfies, and that is a meeting with the guest": First edition of Robert Bly's The Kabir Book; inscribed by him
BLY, Robert.
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir.
Boston: The Seventies Press, 1977.
First edition, review copy with the publisher's review slips laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Regan, Robert Bly." Bly has added a drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123768
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First Edition of The Appointment; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Herta Muller
MULLER, Herta.
The Appointment.
New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997.
First edition of the Nobel Prize winning-author's gripping story of a Romanian women's daily life in a stagnated dictatorship. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Herta Muller on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Candell. Translated from German by Philip Boehm and Michael Hulse.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 902
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First edition of Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Santiago; Signed by Him
NOOTEBOOM, Cees.
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Cees Nooteboom on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 5715
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Inscribed 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ray Grinold from Danel J. Boorstin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100661
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First Edition of Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri; Signed by Bonington and Clarke; From the library of fellow Adventurer Steve Fossett.
BONINGTON, Chris and Charles Clarke.
Tibet’s Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2000.
First edition of this work by Bonington and Clarke. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke on the title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111347
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First Edition of The Golden Helix; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Arthur Kornberg
KORNBERG, Arthur.
The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures.
Dulles, Virginia: University Science Books, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "July 29, 2005 To Matthew Greetings! A Kornberg." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 138915
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Henry Landau's All's Fair: The Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines; Signed by Him
LANDAU, Henry.
All’s Fair. The Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1934.
Early printing of Landau's biography of his time in the British Secret Service. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Captain Henry Landau." Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 83469
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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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Joseph Lichten most cordially Simon Wiesenthal August 82." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147051
