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"Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...": First Edition Of Roald Dahl’s Beloved Book Matilda; Warmly Inscribed by Him
DAHL, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Matilda.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Andrew Love Roald Dahl." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 143009
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Rare First Edition of this "comprehensive survey of current mechanism, practice, and theory" Stock Market Theory and Practice
SCHABACKER, Richard Wallace.
Stock Market Theory and Practice.
New York: B.C. Forbes, 1930.
First edition of the first of Schabacker's three major works on the stock market. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the original dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. First printings are uncommon.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 4479
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Rare Declaration of Independence Engraved Copper Plaque
[KOPPEL, Charles; John Trumbull].
Declaration of Independence Engraved Copper Plaque.
1776.
Rare mid-19th century engraved copper plaque replicating John Trumbull's celebrated oil painting, Declaration of Independence. Engraved "The Declaration of Independence. Congress 4th July 1776 Philadelphia." Housed in the original elaborately carved frame with the original paper label listing the sitters' names. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 126940
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"a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power" First Edition of A House For Mr. Biswas; Signed by V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A House For Mr. Biswas.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with a small chip to the foot of the spine and some light wear. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 92563
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Rare correspondence archive between Cecil B. DeMille and Fortunino Matania discussing paintings commissioned to assist in the set design of DeMille's masterpeice The Ten Commandments
DEMILLE, Cecil B. [Fortunino Matania].
Cecil DeMille Signed Letter Archive.
Rare archive of typed letters signed by legendary American film producer and star Cecil B. DeMille to Italian artist Fortunino Matania discussing paintings commissioned to assist in the set design of the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. The archive contains 10 typed letters signed by DeMille dated July 24 1952 to November 18 1957 on DeMille's Paramount Pictures Corporation letterhead as well as 32 additional letters of correspondence, 4 photographs and a first edition of Drawing From History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania. Italian artist Fortunino Matania became a war artist at the outbreak of the First World War…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 131466
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"perhaps our best view of ancient Rome" Early English Edition of Livy's Masterpiece
LIVY,.
The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the Supplements Of the Learned John Freinshemius, and John Dujatius. From the Foundation of Rome to the middle of the Reign of Augustus. Faithfully done into English.
London: Awnsham Churchill, 1686.
An exceptional early English edition of Livy's classic Roman History. Folio, bound in period calf, illustrated with four plates, including frontispiece woodcut portraits of emperors and Hannibal, one two-page plate, and two maps of the early settlement of Rome. In very good condition, rebacked. A very sharp example.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 133257
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"I AM FOREVER walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my foot-prints, And the wind will blow away the foam": Signed Limited First Edition of Kahlil Gibran's Sand and Foam
GIBRAN, Kahlil.
Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
Signed limited edition of the author's classic work. Number 75 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven drawings by the author. In near fine condition, two small names to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom made slipcase. A very sharp example.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 34068
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First Edition of Kenneth Arrow’s First Book Social Choice and Individual Values; Signed by Him; from the library of fell economist Emmanuel Drandakis
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Social Choice and Individual Values.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles and frontispiece in gilt. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow." From the library of Emmanuel Drandakis with his name to the front free endpaper, "Emm. Drandakis Rochester, N.Y. 10/20/59." Drandakis was a well-known economist, who specialized in general equilibrium theory and served the University of Athens Department of Economics from 1972 to 2000 and one of the first people from the University of Rochester Economics department to be awarded a Ph.D. In near fine condition with…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 45982
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do": RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTION OF JEFFERSON’S WRITINGS
JEFFERSON, Thomas.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr and Co, 1829.
First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, an impressive four-volume work edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Octavo, 4 volumes, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart in volume I, 4 folding plates of facsimiles of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 142662
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FIRST EDITION OF IRVING FISHER’S THE STOCK MARKET CRASH—AND AFTER IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
FISHER, Irving.
The Stock Market Crash—And After.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930.
First edition of Fisher's important work tracing the causes and the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some tape repair to the spine. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 107462
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"Fight has never been and is not now a fight for conquest of land, for accumulation of wealth or domination of peoples, but for the recognition and preservation of the rights of man and the establishment of a truly free world for a free people": Exceedingly Scarce Signed Photograph of Albert Luthuli
LUTULI, Albert.
Albert Lutuli Signed Photograph.
Black and white photograph of Albert Lutuli, the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Signed twice by him and dated by him 2/11/1961. The portrait shows Luthuli holding the telegram which announced his award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1960. The reverse of the photograph is rubber stamped "Copyright Photograph supplied by The Natal Mercury, Devonshire Place, Durban". In near fine condition.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 81123
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“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction": First Edition of Oakley Hall's Warlock; Inscribed by Him to Historian and Friend Jim Dunham
HALL, Oakley.
Warlock.
New York: The Viking Press, 1958.
First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jim Dunham with best wishes Oakley Hall UCI 89." The recipient, Jim Dunham was a historian and friend of the authors. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Egri and Evelyn Curro. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed by the author.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 140967
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“I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night": First Modern Library Edition of Out of Africa; Signed by Isak Dinesen and Bernadine Kielty
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] .
Out of Africa.
New York: The Modern Library , 1952.
First Modern Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed on the dedication page by Karen Blixen and Bernadine Kielty, who contributed the introduction. Introduction by Bernadine Kielty. From the library of Bruce and Beatrice Gould. Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined to the home"…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 144981
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First Edition of Monetary Policy; Inscribed by Gregory Mankiw to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson
MANKIW, N. Gregory [Paul A. Samuelson].
Monetary Policy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
First edition of this collection of essays on monetary policy. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by editor Gregory Mankiw to fellow economist Paul Samuelson on the half-title page, "To Paul with best wishes, Greg Mankiw." The recipient, American economist Paul Samuelson is widely considered the “Father of Modern Economics” and the most influential economist of the later half of the 20th century. In 1970, he became the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for “[doing] more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory.” Samuelson considered mathematics…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 135064
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Rare Second Edition of New Testament of Jesus Christ faithfully translated into English
New Testament of Jesus Christ faithfully translated into English.
Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600.
Rare second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English, first published in Rheims in 1582. Small quarto, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces. In very good condition, rebacked, bookplate to the front pastedown, stamp to the verso of the the title page.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 146364