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Scarce Original Photograph of a Lion on Safari; taken and signed by Ernest Hemingway
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Ernest Hemingway Original African Safari Photograph Signed.
Original glossy black and white photograph of a lion in the distance of the African savanna, taken by Ernest Hemingway and signed by him on the verso, "Copyright by Ernest Hemingway No. 5." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 18.1 inches. Exceptionally rare and desirable.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 145731
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First Edition of Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961; Signed by Carlos Baker
BAKER, Carlos [Ernest Hemingway].
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
First edition of this almost 600 letters written by Ernest Hemingway between 1917 and 1961 that provide an intimate portrait of one of the most original and influential American writers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Carlos Baker on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Photograph of Ernest Hemingway by Lloyd Arnold.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146116
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"If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it": Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest; Gregory Peck; Susan Hayward; Ava Gardner].
Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Theatre Lobby Card Poster.
20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952.
Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro produced exclusively for display in theatres. One page, printed in color, featuring a still from the film of Peck and Hawyard embracing. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124199
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Rare original photograph of the SS Euripides; signed by twenty-two British scientists and crew members aboard the 1914 voyage to the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science including the father of nuclear physics Ernest Rutherford
RUTHERFORD, Ernest.
Ernest Rutherford Signed SS Euripides Photograph.
Rare original photograph of the SS Euripides signed by the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford and 21 other scientists and crew members present on the 1914 voyage from England to Australia for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Signed by Rutherford, his wife Mary Rutherford, engineer Thomas Hudson Beare, psychologist Charles W. Kimmins, anthropologist John Layard, physicist Joseph Petavel, neurologist and psychologist W. H. R. Rivers, chemist Henry Tizard, and the ship's surgeon C.L. Wigam among others. In near fine condition. Matted and framed, the entire piece measures 16 inches by 15 inches.…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 190502
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First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Escape on Venus
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Escape on Venus.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1946.
First edition of the fourth book in the 'Venus' series. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red, frontispiece and four illustrated plates by John Coleman Burroughs, cartographic endpapers designed by the author. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145058
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First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis' Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism
SMITH, Nowell Charles. [C.S. Lewis]..
Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXVII. [Containing: Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism].
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942.
First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis' essay Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137065
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"Where wealth accumulates, men decay": First edition of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
Essays by Mr. Goldsmith.
London: Printed for W. Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, 1765.
First edition of the collected essays of Oliver Goldsmith which paid the author a profit of only 20 guineas but greatly extended his reputation. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked retaining the contemporary spine label, copperplate vignette to the title page. One of two 1765 editions; Scott argues for the priority of this cheaper of the two editions, but Rothschild suggests also that it may be a piracy. Rothschild 1027. In good condition. Small ownership inscriptions and bookplate.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140433
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“Knowledge advances when striking real-world events and issues pose puzzles we have to try to understand and resolve. The most important decisions a scholar makes are what problems to work on": First Edition of Essays in Economics; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
TOBIN, James [Robert M. Solow].
Essays in Economics: Volume 1 Macroeconomics.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5556
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First Edition of Andrew Macphail's Essays in Fallacy
MACPHAIL, Andrew.
Essays in Fallacy.
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co, 1910.
First edition of Macphail's essay on the psychology of the suffragette. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135199
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First American edition of John Maynard Keynes' Essays in Persuasion
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
Essays in Persuasion.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
First American edition of Keynes’ first volume of collected essays. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 135116
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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Angus Deaton
DEATON, Angus.
Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour: In Honour of Sir Richard Stone.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
First edition of this collection of essays in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Stone. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the editor Angus Deaton on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 75092
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First Edition of Kenneth J. Arrow's Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing; Signed by Him
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing.
Amsterdam-London: North -Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Kenneth J. Arrow on the title page. Small name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition. No jacket was issued for this title. Books signed by Arrow are uncommon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 29023
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First Edition of J.R. Hicks' Essays in World Economics; in the scarce original dust jacket
HICKS, J.R. [John].
Essays in World Economics.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132906
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First Edition of Essays on Economics and Economists; Inscribed by Ronald Coase
COASE, Ronald H.
Essays on Economics and Economists.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
First edition of this collection of articles by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ronald Coase on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 3919
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First Edition of The Essays on Game Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.
Essays on Game Theory.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this important collection of essays. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Nash on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Introduction by Ken Binmore. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 138906