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RARE ANTIQUE POSTCARD COLLECTION ALBUM
Antique Post Card Album.
Antique postcard collection containing dozens of vintage postcards postdated in the early 1900s. From the collection of Dora Sims. Oblong octavo, bound in decorated cloth. The collection includes postcards with scenic views of Cleveland, Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, the Columbia River Highway, and the Mississippi River, In very good condition. A charming collection.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 116071
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"I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it": Rare First Edition of Through the Gates of Splendor; Signed by Elisabeth Elliot
ELLIOT, Elisabeth.
Through the Gates of Splendor.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Signed by Elisabeth Elliot on the title page. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 466
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First Edition of Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler; Inscribed by Him
SCHUYLER, George S.
Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this work by the Harlem renaissance writer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Richard Beam from George S. Schuyler 2/17/69." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124598
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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Mike Wallace
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Mike Wallace on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145822
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“FREEDOM IS OFTEN THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR": FIRST EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITION OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ'S THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH; SIGNED BY HIM
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
The General in His Labyrinth: A Novel.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2004.
First Everyman's Library edition of this “fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Translated and introduced by Edith Grossman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Arici Graziano. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde and Abby Weintraub.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137055
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First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma K.
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949.
First edition of Gandhi's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Translated by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142027
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First edition of Landmark Papers in Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
SOLOW, Robert M.
Landmark Papers in Economic Growth.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
First edition of this collection of writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 37017
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First editions of each volume in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica Trilogy
MORRIS, James. [Jan Morris].
Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, and Farewell the Trumpets.
London: Faber and Faber , 1968-1978.
First editions of each volume in the author's highly acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (1968), Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973), and Farewell the Trumpets (1978). Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Each volume is very good in a near fine dust jacket. Spotting to the top page edges of Pax Britannica and Farewell the Trumpets. Ownership name and numeric marking to the front free cartographic endpapers of Heaven's Command and Farewell the Trumpets.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144603
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First edition of William S. Burroughs' The Western Lands; inscribed by him to close friend Richard Dillon
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Western Lands.
New York: Viking, 1987.
First edition of the culminating book in the author's Cities trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Richard Dillon all best for 1988 William S. Burroughs 10/20/87." The recipient, Richard Dillon is a poet and astrologer, who was living in Boulder at the same time as Burroughs and became friendly with him, Alan Davies, Anne Waldman and other Naropa luminaries. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Deborah Pinkney. With a National Arts Club tour flyer featuring…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 132374
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First Edition of The Superorganism; Signed by Edward O. Wilson with a drawing of an ant
WILSON, Edward O. and Bert Holldobler.
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies .
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
First edition of this work by the award-winning biologists. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Edward O. Wilson who has drawn an image of an ant on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131084
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First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Door Into The Dark; Signed by Him
HEANEY, Seamus.
Door Into The Dark.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
First American edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with two closed tears to the front panel. A very sharp example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 151
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Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to Various Parts of Asia
BELL, John.
Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to Various Parts of Asia.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, 1806.
First published in Glasgow in 1763. The two maps, well engraved and printed on thick paper, are: "A Map of Mr. Bell's Journeys from Petersburg to Ispahan and from Petersburg to Constantinople" (39.5x31 cm) and "A Map of Mr. Bell's Journey from Moscow to Pekin."
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 76019
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First Edition of Volume One of the Papers of Mathematician Peter Lax; Inscribed by Him
LAX, Peter.
Peter Lax Selected Papers. Volume 1.
Springer: New York, 2005.
First edition of volume one of the selected papers of mathematician Peter Lax. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Roger with best regards Peter D. Lax." In near fine condition. Edited by Peter Sarnak and Andrew Majda.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 100027
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First Edition of Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life; Inscribed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
TALEB, Nassim Nicholas.
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life.
New York: Random House, 2018.
First edition of this work by the author of Black Swan. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Thanks for the nice arguments. Best. Nassim." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Eric White.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139104
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First Edition of Susan Cooper's The Grey King; Signed by Her
COOPER, Susan.
The Grey King.
New York: Atheneum, 1975.
First edition of the the fourth volume in the author's acclaimed Dark Is Rising series and Newberry award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Heslop.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137613
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First Edition of Herge's The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon
HERGE,.
The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon.
London: Methuen & Co, 1959.
First edition in English of Herge's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125499