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“No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world": First Edition of Main Street; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Lengthily Inscribed by Sinclair Lewis
LEWIS, Sinclair.
Main Street.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
First edition, first printing of Lewis' classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, "To Martha Bucher with the greetings of Chester's friend Sinclair Lewis K.C. May 4, 1926." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144082
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First edition of Business @ The Speed of Thought; inscribed by Bill Gates to Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci
GATES, Bill with Collins Hemingway.
Business @ The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Gates' work on best practices for utilizing information systems in the business world. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Gates on the half-title page, "Governor Cellucci, Thanks for your support. Best wishes, Bill Gates." American politician and diplomat Argeo Paul Cellucci served as the 69th governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001, and as the United States Ambassador to Canada from 2001 to 2005. His major accomplishments included his efforts to reform the state's education system, his focus on fiscal responsibility, and his initiatives to promote economic development in Massachusetts. Near fine in a…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145138
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Signed Limited First Edition of John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor; Together with the Bound Text of His Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010
CARRE, John le.
Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010.
London: Viking and London Review Bookshop, 2010.
Signed limited first edition of this thrilling novel which was the inspiration for the 2016 film by the same name starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis and Alicia von Rittberg, together with the bound text of the author's address at the Oxford Literary Festival on 24th March 2010. Octavo, original publisher's morocco-backed half cloth with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt. One of only twenty-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number iii. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase. Copies from this smaller limitation with the…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145764
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“For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down": Rare First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Hungry Hearts; Signed by Her
YEZIERSKA, Anzia.
Hungry Hearts.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
First edition of Anzia Yezierska's rare first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the Anzia Yezierska on the front free endpaper. Near fine with a trace of edge wear in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears to the extremities. Rare signed and especially so in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 42019
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza; Signed by Him
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. Boldly signed in the year of publication by the author, "Aldous Huxley 1936." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 125643
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Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141523
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"Its just that Id rather die of drink than of thirst": First edition of Ian Fleming's Thunderball
FLEMING, Ian.
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.
First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Richard Chopping. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 131678
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The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot
ELIOT, George.
The Works of George Eliot.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..
The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, hand-colored tissue-guarded frontispiece and photogravure plate printed on cream velin to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 277. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144866
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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": Photograph of Neil Armstrong; Signed by Him
ARMSTRONG, Neil.
Neil Armstrong Signed Photograph.
Original color photograph of Neil Armstrong, boldly inscribed by him. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.25 inches by 13.25 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 101188
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Scarce First Edition of Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben's Untersuchungen Uber Die Theorie Des Preises
AUSPITZ, Rudolf and Richard Lieben.
Untersuchungen Uber Die Theorie Des Preises. [Studies on the Theory of Price.]
Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1889.
Scarce first edition of this work by eminent Viennese economists Auspitz and Lieben. Octavo, original brown hard-grain cloth with spine and boards lettered and ruled in black, decorative endpapers, illustrated with economic graphs. In very good condition, embossed stamp to the title page and some additional pages, library stamp and sticker to the rear pastedown, some rubbing and bookplate to the front pastedown, "the Library of Isaac L. Rice presented in his memory to the Bates College Library." Rice was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron known primarily for his contributions to aquatic transportation manufacturing.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145337
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THE RIVERSIDE EDITION OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, HANDSOMELY BOUND
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Writings of Longfellow.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1886.
Octavo, three-quarters leather, 14 volumes. Top edge gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies. This is set number 144. It also includes the three volume Final Memorials of Longfellow by Ticknor and Company published in 1887. All volumes are numbered 144 of 300 copies. Each volume contains the bookplate of noted American poet and publisher Scofield Thayer, best known for his art collection, which is housed in the Metropolitan Mueseum of Art. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3612
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138301
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First Edition of The Tin Drum; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in 1986 by Gunter Grass on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a signed letter from Gunter Grass' secretary. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 25016
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth; Signed by Him
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.
First edition this selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 140857