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"The best inside information is on the tape": Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years; Inscribed by Legendary Investor Richard Wyckoff
WYCKOFF, Richard D.
Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931.
Second edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data).. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Misses Niell and Tyson with best regards Richard D. Wyckoff April 19/32." In very good condition. Books signed and inscribed by Wyckoff are rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145810
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First Edition of this Classic in Scientific Literature Adaptation and Natural Selection; Signed by Richard Dawkins
WILLIAMS, George C. [Richard Dawkins].
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critic of Some Current Evolutionary Thought.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the half-title page. Many aspects of this book were popularized by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Both volumes instrumental in introducing the gene's-eye view to evolutionary biology. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name and bookplate. Rare and desirable signed by one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 112392
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"Here is how we work together": First Edition of My Years With General Motors; Warmly Inscribed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
SLOAN JR., Alfred P.
My Years With General Motors.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.
First edition of Sloan's influential work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed in the year of publication by the author on the half-title page, "For my good friend Harry F. Barr 'Here is how we work together' With this goes my profound appreciation Alfred P. Sloan Jr. New York Dec 23 1964." The recipient, Harry Barr was engineer, inventor, automotive industry leader, and vice-president of General Motors engineering staff and a friend of Sloan's Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Edited by John McDonald with Catherine Stevens. First editions are uncommon, especially…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 137691
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": First American Edition of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
New York: Grove Press, 1967.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kuhlman Associates. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142102
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“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist": First Edition of The Recognitions; Signed by William Gaddis
GADDIS, William.
The Recognitions.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Thick octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Gaddis on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144184
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Rare original Capricorn One shooting script; inscribed by Peter Hyams
HYAMS, Peter.
Capricorn One Original Shooting Script.
ITC Entertainment, Inc., 1976.
Rare original shooting script from from the 1978 science fiction thriller Capricorn One. Quarto, original leatherette wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the writer/director on the title page, "To ____ Many thanks. Peter Hyams. P.S. Where did you find this?" In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124688
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"This country is, I once heard it put, absolutely lousy with greatness" with not only the greatest responsibilities but with the greatest oppurtunities ever known to man": First Edition of Inside U.S.A.; Signed by John Gunther
GUNTHER, John.
Inside U.S.A.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1947.
First edition of this classic work, "riveting from start to finish" (Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, pullout map. Boldly signed by John Gunther on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust price-clipped jacket. Signed first editions are exceptionally rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 134601
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First Edition of the Saul Bellow’s First Book Dangling Man; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
New York: Vanguard, 1944.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 1962
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"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it": The Crucible; Inscribed by Arthur Miller
MILLER, Arthur.
The Crucible.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition, early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Gerald Kramer, Arthur Miller." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138592
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"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY": FIRST EDITION OF LOVE STORY; SIGNED BY ERICH SEGAL, ALI MACGRAW AND RYAN O'NEAL
SEGAL, Erich [Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal].
Love Story.
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First edition, early printing of the author's best-selling novel, a "sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental" work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Erich Segal, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal who co-starred in the 1970 film adaptation. A tragedy, the 1970 film Love Story was produced by Howard G. Minsky and directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. The film is considered one of the most romantic by the…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139599
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The Spirit of St. Louis; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month before the date of publication on the title page, "To Andy Cain With best wishes, Charles A. Lindbergh June 9, 1954." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147499
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Photograph signed by President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin
CARTER, Jimmy and Menachem Begin.
Photograph Signed by Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin.
Photograph signed by President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the front panel. The photograph is of Carter and Begin in The White House with their cabinets. The photograph is stamped on the rear panel, "Official Photograph, The White House." Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 13 inches. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 123824
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Long Walk to Freedom; Warmly Inscribed by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Austin Christmas Compliments and best wishes NMandela 10.6.95." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132402
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition Of The Author’s Magnum Opus; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138301
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"People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it": First Edition of the 40th Anniversary Edition of Stephen King’s First Book Carrie; Signed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Carrie.
England: PS Publishing, 2014.
First edition of the 40th Anniversary edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards, original slipcase. Although not called for signed by Stephen King on the title page. Signed by Glenn Chadbourne, James Lovegrove and Kim Newman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in fine condition. Illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne; Introduction by Glenn Chadbourne and the preface by Kim Newman. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 123034
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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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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”: First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay; Inscribed by Him
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Antic Hay.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For James Murphy, thirty years later, Aldous Huxley, 1954." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119728
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"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it": First Edition of David Foster Wallace’s First Novel, The Broom of the System; Signed by Him and three times by illustrator Lon Kirschner who has added an original illustration
WALLACE, David Foster.
The Broom of the System.
New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
First paperback edition (issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition) of the author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the illustrator Lon Kirschner, on the front panel, rear panel and on the title page with an added original illustration. In fine condition. Illustration on the front panel by Lon Kirschner. An unique example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124672
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"words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them": Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings; One of only 100 examples
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Words and Their Meanings.
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940.
Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133128
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": Rare First Edition of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
London: Faber & Faber, 1967.
First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139108