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John Bunyan's Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress
BUNYAN, John; Edited with Introduction by Roger Sharrock.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Finely bound Oxford University Press printing of the author's famous allegory and spiritual autobiography. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Bayntun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of John Bunyan from the pencil drawing by Robert White in the British Museum. Presentation stamp to the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145239
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First edition of Douglas Rutherford's Grand Prix Murder
RUTHERFORD, Douglas.
Grand Prix Murder.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1955.
First edition of Rutherford's early murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 119604
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First Edition of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius; Signed by Sylvia Nasar
NASAR, Sylvia.
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
First edition of this sweeping narrative. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated by Sylvia Nasar on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 47016
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145169
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant; Signed by Him
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on a Penguin Press bookplate to the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146292
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality": First Sphere edition of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit; Signed by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
ONO, Yoko; Introduction by John Lennon.
Grapefruit.
London: Sphere Books Limited, 1971.
First Sphere edition of Ono's seminal piece of conceptual art. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper. The uncommon Sphere edition of Ono's Grapefruit integrates the 'cheeky' subject matter of her 1966 short film Bottoms. Rare and highly sought-after signed by both Ono and Lennon.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 142829
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Signed limited edition of Sydney D. Smith's Grapes of Conflict; signed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith
SMITH, Sydney D. Foreword by Cesar Chavez.
Grapes of Conflict.
Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 1987.
First edition, signed limited edition of Smith's account of the relationship between the Migrant Ministry and National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s farmworkers' movement. Octavo, original publisher's red velvet with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel. Singed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith on the signature page. In fine condition.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 122036
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers”: First Edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; Inscribed by Him
PYNCHON, Thomas.
Gravity’s Rainbow.
New York : The Viking Press, 1973.
First edition of Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin- Regards, Thomas Pynchon." The recipient Herb Yellin, was the publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. He formed a friendship with the author, Thomas Pynchon. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities and a closed tear to the rear panel. Jacket design by Marc Getter. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.…
Price: $42,000.00 Item Number: 7202
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First American edition of Ron Padgett's Great Balls of Fire; Inscribed by him
PADGETT, Ron.
Great Balls of Fire.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First American edition of the poet's 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Shelly a [Great] idea... Gary Cooper Oscar Homosexual" and signed on the title page, "Ron Padgett." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129719
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Signed Limited Edition of Michael Whyte's Great Comic Cats
WHYTE, Michael.
Great Comic Cats.
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001.
Signed limited edition of this work, one of 100 numbered and signed copies, this is number 10 signed by Michael Whyte. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127182
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Rare first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; bound in full royal blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery
DICKENS, Charles.
Great Expectations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
First edition, first impression of Dickens' rarest novel. Octavo, three volumes bound in full royal blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Bayntun, all edges gilt. The earliest impression of Dicken's rarest novel. This copy agrees in all points with Margaret Caldwell's extensive analysis of the differing impressions in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations. As in the Lawrence Drizen copy sold in 2019 at Sotheby’s and in…
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 142357
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"SUFFERING HAS BEEN STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER TEACHING, AND HAS TAUGHT ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR HEART USED TO BE. I HAVE BEEN BENT AND BROKEN, BUT - I HOPE - INTO A BETTER SHAPE": Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; attractively bound
DICKENS, Charles.
Great Expectations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
First edition, second impression of Dickens’ popular Victorian bildungsroman. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Second impression lacking the advertisements, quite likely as issued. Edition statements neatly removed from titles. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 132084
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“Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don’t let somebody else dictate your life’s path”: First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Autobiography The Greatest Game of All; Signed by Him and Co-Author Herbert Warren Wind
NICKLAUS, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind.
Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
First British edition of the golfer's autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jack Nicklaus on the frontispiece and by co-author Herbert Warren Wind on the dedication page, "To Bobby Burt Who knows his golf and understands why the champions win. Herb Wind." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. Foreword by Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Rare and desirable signed by both Nicklaus and Wind.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 126499
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First edition of Christopher Wordsworth's Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical
WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical.
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1839.
First edition of Wordsworth's classic history of Greece. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, ribbon bound in, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title, 26 engraved plates and numerous illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138649
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FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: FIRST EDITION OF Greed and Glory on Wall Street; SIGNED BY KEN AULETTA
AULETTA, Ken. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman.
New York: Random House, 1986.
First edition of this account of the Lehman Brother takeover, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Signed by Ken Auletta on the front free endpaper. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White,…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 146519