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First edition of How It Is; signed by Samuel Beckett
BECKETT, Samuel.
How It Is.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1964.
First American edition of this existential novel by the author of Waiting for Godot. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page. Translated from the French by the author. From the library of translator and playwright John Franceschina. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Tape remnants to the front free endpaper and title page. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143924
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Rare first edition, presentation copy of L'Hotel du Nord; inscribed by Eugène Dabit
DABIT, Eugene.
L’Hotel du Nord.
Paris: Robert Denoël, 1929.
First edition of the author's immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endleaves, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Valmard, with two illustrations signed by Dabit mounted to the front and rear pastedown. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Bernard Steele. Hors commerce copy, from a total edition of 250 numbered copies. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144043
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles": First Edition Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
New York: The John Day Company, 1941.
First edition of Nehru's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144175
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First Edition of Nell Freudenberger's Lost and Wanted; Signed by Her
FREUDENBERGER, Nell.
Lost and Wanted.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
First edition of this "intelligent and moving novel" (Los Angeles Times Review of Books). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nell Freudenberger. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 127638
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First complete edition of Henri Estienne's complete works of Plato
PLATO,.
Opera Quae Extant Omnia. [The Complete Works of Plato].
Geneva: Henricus Stephanus, 1578.
First complete edition, large paper issue of Henri Estienne's monumental edition of the complete works of Plato, which "for two centuries remained the indispensable instrument of Platonic studies; to this day its pagination is universally accepted as the standard system of reference to the text of Plato" (Schreiber 201; Renouard I, 145-46, 1; Hoffmann III 119-21). Folio, three volumes bound in full 8th century calf, neatly rebacked with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, text printed in double columns in Greek and Latin throughout, Latin translation by Jean de Serres, large woodcut printer's device to first title, further…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 144802
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"To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one": Signed limited edition of colson whitehead's The Nickel Boys
WHITEHEAD, Colson.
The Nickel Boys.
New York: Doubleday, 2019.
Signed limited first edition from the Powell's series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase with the original booklet laid in. Jacket design by Oliver Munday.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144172
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First Edition of Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations; Edited by Solomon Lefschetz
LEFSCHETZ, Solomon; S. P. Diliberto; L. L. Rauch; F. H. Brownell; M. L. Cartwright; J. G. Wendel; C. E. Langenhop; A. B. Farnell; W. Wasow.
Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
First edition of this collection of seven mathematical research papers on the topic of nonlinear oscillations. Medium octavo, original orange wrappers, illustrated with equations and graphs. In very good condition. Accompanied by a typed list of errata printed circa publication.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147030
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First Edition of Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers; Inscribed by Judy Blume
BLUME, Judy.
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of this collection of censored writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor in the year of publication on the title page, "To Lorrie Love, Judy Blume Sept. 1999." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lily Malcolm.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144168
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“WE ALL WANT THINGS WE CAN'T HAVE. BEING A DECENT HUMAN BEING IS ACCEPTING THAT”: First Edition of John Fowles' The Collector; Signed by Him
FOWLES, John .
The Collector.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
First edition of Fowles' debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket design by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 139294
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"An Eye as Fine As Her Ear": On Tour With Leonard Cohen; Signed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
On Tour With Leonard Cohen.
New York : Powerhouse Books, 2014.
First edition, early printing of this work on Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page. Photographs by Sharon Robinson. Essay by Larry Sloman. In good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144188
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First edition of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Senator Larry Pressler
GORE, Al.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
First edition, first printing of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For my friend and colleague Larry Pressler, with respect + best wishes, Al Gore." The recipient, Senator Larry Pressler served in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1997, representing South dakota. After completing his Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, he joined the United States Army and served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant. He was the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 144920
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First paperback edition of Paul Bocuse's French Cooking; INSCRIBED BY PAUL BOCUSE TO FELLOW LEGENDARY FRENCH CHEF JEAN VERGNES
BOCUSE, Paul [Jean Vergnes].
Paul Bocuse’s French Cooking.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.
First paperback edition in English of Bocuse's classic work on French cuisine. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Translated from the French by Colette Rossant. Presentation copy, inscribed by Paul Bocuse on the title page, "A l'ami Jean Vergnes a mon ami... en sommelier du Cirque la plus belle cuisine de N.Y. 16.08.2008." The recipient, Jean Vergnes, was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144607
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Paul Bocuse's La Cuisine du Marche: en hommage a Alfred Guerot; inscribed by Paul Bocuse to FELLOW LEGENDARY FRENCH CHEF JEAN VERGNES
BOCUSE, Paul [Jean Vergnes].
La Cuisine du Marche: en hommage a Alfred Guerot.
Paris: Flammarion, 1976.
First edition of Bocuse's classic work on French cuisine. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half title page, "A Mon Ami Jean Vergnes ambassadeur de las cuisine Francoise aux U.S.A. Paul Bocuse N.Y. 1977." The recipient, Jean Vergnes, was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a chef at various top restaurants in Paris during…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144237
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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think": First edition of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Signed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter.
Einstein: His Life and Universe.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
First edition of the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by David Ter-Avanesyan.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144608
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First edition of Anthony Powell's The Valley of Bones
POWELL, Anthony.
The Valley of Bones.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1964.
First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144231
