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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul": First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Autobiography; Signed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life.
Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency LTD, 1976.
First edition of the legendary military leader and politician's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bethram Kapadia.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134303
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First Edition of Woody Allen’s Third Collection of Stories, Signed by Him
ALLEN, Woody.
Side Effects.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Woody Allen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 3515
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First Edition of Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking; Signed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Julia Child. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jane Julia Child." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Front of the jacket photograph by Micheal McLaughlin. Book photograph by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145839
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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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First Edition of I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue; Signed by Legendary Illustrator Maurice Sendak
KRAUSS, Ruth; Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, .
First edition of the re-issue of this early illustrated work by Maurice Sendak. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137488
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MEIER, Richard.
Richard Meier: Buildings and Projects 1979 – 1989.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
First Edition of this monograph of the architects projects compiled from the late 1970's to the 1980's. Inscribed and dated by Richard Meier. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $470.00 Item Number: 874
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Wildcats to Tomcats; Signed and Inscribed by Wally Schirra, Phil Wood, and Barrett Tillman
CORMIER, Richard L. 'Zeke'; Walter M. 'Wally' Schirra; Phillip R. 'Rat' Wood; Barrett Tillman.
Wildcats to Tomcats: The Tailhook Navy.
St. Paul, MN: Phalanx Publishing Co, 1996.
First edition, early printing of this collection of flying stories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Captain Phillip Wood, "9/6/96 Tailhook To Ozzy: A great Tailhooker Warrior. Big A little F but still one of the finest. 'Rat'" and Barrett Tillman, "To Ozzy: One of the gutsiest VFA pilosalfoat - Tailhook membership proves it! Barrett Tillman Tailhook '96." Additionally signed by Wood, "Phil Wood,"and Wally Schirra next to their respective names on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A rare collection of signatures.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147212
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods; Signed by Him
GAIMAN, Neil.
American Gods.
New York: William Morrow, 2001.
First edition, early printing of Gaiman's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 141802
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First Edition of Don Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog; Signed by Him
WINSLOW, Don.
The Power of the Dog.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2005.
First edition of the first novel in Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog trilogy. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Don Winslow in the year of publication on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124988
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"Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere": First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
HEANEY, Seamus.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.
London: Faber and Faber, 1999.
First edition, early printing of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Seamus Heaney 13 March 2002 Sutton House." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Barrie Cooke. Author photograph by Caroline Forbes.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142416
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Advanced reader's edition of Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red; Signed by him and Twice by Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
My Name Is Red.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Advanced reader's edition of this "fabulously rich novel, highly compelling" (The Independent). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd (once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In near fine condition. Design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar. The jacket was later changed to a different design.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126789
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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's Now & Then; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Now & Then.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of the author's second memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Flanders.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 58012
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing will appear to man as it is, infinite": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception
HUXLEY, Aldous.
The Doors of Perception.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1954.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper Jacket design by John Woodcock. A very nice example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146401
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"I wanted to climb high again in order to be able to see deep inside myself": First edition of Reinhold Messner's Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate; signed by him and Peter Habeler
MESSNER, Reinhold. [Peter Habeler].
Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate.
London: Kaye & Ward, 1979.
First edition of Messner's thrilling account of the first ascent of Everest without the use of artificial oxygen. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Reinhold Messner and by Peter Habeler on the first page of the book's first section, The Idea. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Audrey Salkeld. Uncommon signed by both Messner and Habeler.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 136235
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Rare Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Scriptures
CALMET, Antoine Augustin. Translated by Giovanni Domenico Mansi.
Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.
Venetiis: Apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1757.
Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Scriptures, perhaps the most famous and meticulous exegetical, historical and geographical dictionary of the Holy Scriptures produced. Folio, 2 volumes bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels, all edges speckled red, elaborately illustrated with full-page woodcut engravings, folding maps, printers device to the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114059
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First Edition of Don DeLillo's The Names; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
The Names.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
First edition of this "brilliant... a powerful, haunting book" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140609