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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world": First edition of Gandhi's Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
GANDHI, Mahatma [Mohandas K.].
Gandhi’s Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
Washington, D.C: Public Affairs Press, 1948.
First edition of Gandhi's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144680
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"In its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant houses side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit": First edition Rev. Charles Kingsley's Two Years Ago
KINGSLEY, Charles.
Two Years Ago.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1857.
First edition of the author's classic work, containing some of his most profound passages of descriptive imagery. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139736
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First Edition of Cape Dutch Homesteads; Signed by Photographer David Goldblatt
GOLDBLATT, David; Courtney-Clarke.
Cape Dutch Homesteads.
Cape Town: Struik, 1981.
First edition. Original beige cloth. Signed by the photographer, David Goldblatt. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 1359
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First Edition of The Philip Roth Reader; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
A Philip Roth Reader.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
First edition of this important compilation of Roth's writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Jenkins. Introduction by Martin Green.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 130271
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Inscribed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett
PICKETT, Lasalle Corbell [George Pickett].
What Happened to Me.
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 17, 1917. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For my friend of many years Mr. W. W. Norman - with the sincere regards of the author: LaSalle Corbell Pickett. March 27, 1923." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145485
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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"IF I HAD A WORLD OF MY OWN, EVERYTHING WOULD BE NONSENSE. NOTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT IS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT ISN'T": Lewis Carrol's Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis.
Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
New York: Worthington Co, n.d..
Early printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136052
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First Edition of Aline Bernstein's Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries; From the library of Vivien Leigh
BERNSTEIN, Aline.
Masterpieces of Women’s Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1959.
First edition of Aline Bernstein's great work on the history of costume design, published posthumously. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 32 color plates and 51 correlated line drawings. In fine condition. From the library of actress Vivien Leigh.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 110285
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"May you enjoy this book's manliness to the max, to the maximum": First Edition of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Maxim Founder Felix Dennis
WOLFE, Tom.
A Man In Full.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition, early printing of this "masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, including a large green exclamation mark hand drawn to Felix Dennis "To Felix Dennis, may you enjoy this book's manliness to the max, to the maximum - Tom Wolfe." The recipient, Felix Dennis was the owner of iconic men's magazine 'Maxim' which made him a media tycoon. He was also a distinguished poet philanthropist, book collector and lover of trees (the Forest of Dennis). Loosely inserted a short note from Maxim's editor, Clare McHugh.…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146476
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First Edition of George Agar Ellis' The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask
ELLIS, George Agar.
The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives.
London: John Murray, 1826.
First edition of this early account of the French legend, later retold by Alexandre Dumas in The Man in the Iron Mask. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary straight grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled. In very good condition. An attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137292
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"Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change": Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin: A Novel; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MCCANN, Colum.
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.
New York: Random House, 2009.
First edition of the author's classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on both the half and title pages, "For Bettyann and Ed With the very best of Irish wishes- and with thanks!! Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change...Colum McCann." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Jacket drawing by Matteo Pericoli. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136604
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First edition of Alexander Wilmot's The History of Our Own Times in South Africa
WILMOT, Alexander.
The History of Our Own Times in South Africa.
London: J. C. Juta & Co, 1897-1899.
First edition of Wilmot's authoritative history of the development of South Africa. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spines. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116824
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King
WILDE, Oscar.
For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923.
First edition of the infamous fifteenth volume of Metheun's Collected Works of Oscar Wilde which caused a legal dispute between Wilde's bibliographer, Christopher Millard and the publisher. Octavo, original publisher's white linen cloth. One of 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's "Presentation Copy" stamp to the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139527
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First edition of Joan Walsh Anglund's Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel; inscribed by her
ANGLUND, Joan Walsh.
Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.
First edition of Anglund's beloved children's classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an original drawing of two strawberries, "For Toby & For Johnny! Joan Walsh Anglund." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123646
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The City of Falling Angels; inscribed by John Berendt to Erica Jong
BERENDT, John [Erica Jong].
The City of Falling Angels.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005.
Early printing of Berendt's suspenseful novel set in the decadent and mysterious city of Venice. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Erica - A fellow Venetophile, Best wishes - John Berendt New York May 23 '07." The recipient, Erica 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 by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142328