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"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY": FIRST EDITION OF ERICH SEGAL'S LOVE STORY; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HIM, ALI MACGRAW AND RYAN O'NEAL
SEGAL, Erich.
Love Story.
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First edition, early printing of the author's best-selling novel, a "sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental" work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Erich Segal, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal who co-starred in the 1970 film adaptation. A tragedy, the 1970 film Love Story was produced by Howard G. Minsky and directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. The film is considered one of the most romantic by the…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139599
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"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore": First Edition of Beautiful Losers; Inscribed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Leonard.
Beautiful Losers.
New York: The Viking Press, 1966.
First edition of Cohen's second and final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Matthew all the best Leonard Cohen 2008." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Gilda Kuhlman.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 94686
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First edition in English of Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id; Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
FREUD, Sigmund.
The Ego and the Id.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927.
Rare first edition in English of Freud's classic study of the human psyche. Octavo, original cloth. Authorized translation by Joan Riviere. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 137877
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive " First Edition of The Affluent Society; Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Affluent Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
First edition of the economist's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Laid in this book is an autographed signed letter to Mr. James English, President of The Connecticut Trust Company dated December 19, 1966. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with light wear. A very sharp example of this book.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3855
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THE FIRST EXPLORER TO REACH THE NORTH POLE: Deluxe signed limited edition of Robert Peary’s The North Pole; one of only 500 copies
PEARY, Robert E. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
The North Pole.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Deluxe signed limited edition of Peary’s illustrated account of his journey to the North Pole, number 4 of only 500 copies signed by Peary and Captain R. A. Bartlett. Thick quarto, publisher's original full vellum decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated with a large folding map printed in color, four black-and-white mounted photogravures and 112 tipped-in photographic plates. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. In very good condition.
Price: $2,450.00 Item Number: 125090
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Rare First Edition of Robert Frank's The Americains
FRANK, Robert.
Les Americains [The Americans].
Paris: Delpire, 1957.
First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,400.00 Item Number: 120922
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"To have and have not is all that I've got like a count with a purse full of princes": First edition of Marc Bolan's The Warlock of Love; inscribed by him
BOLAN, Marc.
The Warlock of Love.
Plymouth: Lupus Music, 1969.
First edition of the Glam Rockstar's only published book of poetry. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by Bolan on the front free endpaper, "deepest love & blessing on your head x- Marc Bolan." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,400.00 Item Number: 122471
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First Edition of Evaristo Carriego; Signed by Jorge Luis Borges and cover designer Jim McMullan
BORGES, Jorge Luis.
Evaristo Carriego.
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1984.
First edition in English of this magnificent philosophical biography, a classic of the genre. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges and cover designer Jim McMullan on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,350.00 Item Number: 146788
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Signed Limited Edition of The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats; Additionally inscribed by the editor Russell Alspach
YEATS, W.B.
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.
Signed limited edition, one of 825 numbered copies signed by W.B. Yeats, this is number 231 of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth, original slipcase. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell Alspach. Additionally inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Steele high regards Russell Alspach." Fine in the original slipcase, which is in near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 140884
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"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it": The Works of Daniel Webster; Signed by Him
WEBSTER, Daniel.
The Works of Daniel Webster.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851.
The subscriber's edition of the works of Daniel Webster, signed by Webster in the first volume. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in original cloth, frontispiece, and one other plate. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 141456
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in three quarters calf
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition in book form of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands, frontispiece, pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 117844
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First Edition of The Merry Men From the Library of Herbert John Gladstone; Signed by Robert Louis Stevenson
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1887.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, decoratively stamped with florals and stars in black and silver to the front panel and spine, floral endpapers, thirty-two pages of publisher's advertisements dated September 1886. Signed by Robert Louis Stevenson on the title page. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities and a few closed tears to the top edge of the text block. Bookseller relief to the front free endpaper, ownership initial to the half title page, and bookplate to the front pastedown from the library of Herbert…
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 145264
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“HAPPINESS IS NOT SOMETHING READY MADE”: First Edition of The Art of Happiness At Work; Signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA AND HOWARD C. CUTLER,.
The Art of Happiness At Work.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.
First edition of this beloved classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 140812
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"We've sent our little cupids all ashore- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold": Signed limited edition of Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling; one of 125 numbered copies singed by Kipling and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910.
Signed limited edition of the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling, beautifully illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with nine mounted color plates. One of one hundred and twenty five numbered copies signed by Rudyard Kipling, this is number 108. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 141581
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Rare Broadside of North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell; Signed by Elizabeth Bishop
BISHOP, Elizabeth.
North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell.
Northridge, CA: Richard Bigus for the Lord John Press, 1979.
Memorial broadside, signed by Elizabeth Bishop, one of only 150 examples. It measures 21 inches by 14.5 inches. Framed, signature lightly faded, small stain to the bottom edge. Rare.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 143985
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“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy": Signed Limited First Edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Mandarins.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956.
Signed limited edition and first English edition of the novel for which de Beauvoir won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Simone de Beauvoir. Fine in a near fine dust original glassine jacket in the original slipcase. Translated from the French by Leonard M. Friedman. Rare in this condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 137901