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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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First Edition of "this gripping masterly work" First Edition of I Married A Communist; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
I Married A Communist.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132747
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Eyeless in Gaza.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First edition of Huxley's classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138804
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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First Edition of John Kotter's Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management; Inscribed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
A Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management.
New York: The Free Press, 1990.
First edition of this insightful book on leadership. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard Miller With Best Regards, John Kotter 7/91." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by W. Scot Carouge.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 106426
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"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142025
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the 'Nineties
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the ‘Nineties.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.
First edition of Kipling's tale of a polo pony living among the British in India. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, frontispiece and plates in color. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122493
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
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“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered": First Edition of Station Eleven; Signed by Emily St. John Mandel
MANDEL, Emily St. John.
Station Eleven.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
First edition of this iconic novel, basis for the post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Emily St. John Mandel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147032
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First edition of Vladimir's Nabokov The Defence
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Defence [Defense].
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel, which tells the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own genius and of the hopeless efforts of the wife who loves him to save him from himself. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Curtis. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140004
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First edition of Jack Valenti's A Very Human President; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
VALENTI, Jack. [William Safire].
A Very Human President.
New York: W.W. Norton & Compan Inc, 1975.
First edition of Valenti's intimate biography of Lyndon Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire - a wise and eloquent 'old pro' - and me dear and valued friend Jack Valenti." 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 supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135521
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First Edition of Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice; Lengthily Inscribed by Victor Fuchs
FUCHS, Victor R.
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of "by far, the best book on the subject of medicine as it relates to economics" (Minneapolis Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "10/7/85 To Catie and Pod, with appreciation for a lovely evening. All good wishes, Vic." Also laid in is an autographed letter signed to the same recipient Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 107631
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First Edition of The Films of Kirk Douglas; Signed by Him
THOMAS, Tony [Kirk Douglas].
The Films of Kirk Douglas.
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1972.
First edition of this work on the legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs. Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by Vincente Minnelli.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 110148
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First edition of Charles Allston Collins' At the Bar: A Tale
COLLINS, Charles Allston.
At The Bar: A Tale.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866.
First edition of Collins' ambitious novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Embossed library stamp. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123135
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"Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled": First Edition of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1965.
First edition of the author's fifth novel, a classic satire, which introduces the reader to Kilgore Trout. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Murray Tinkelman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146221
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First Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 84277