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"Howl for them that suffer broken bone homeless on moody balconies, Jack's soul returning to me over & over with prophecy": First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Iron Horse; inscribed by him to Fellow Beat John Clellon Holmes
GINSBERG, Allen (John Clellon Holmes).
Iron Horse.
Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.
First edition of Ginsberg's beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the half-title page, "a ah gha sa ma ha for John Clellon Homes Salem/Kerouac Mass from Allen Ginsberg 5 April 1973." The recipient, John Clellon Holmes was one of the foremost members of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. In November of 1952 Holmes introduced the phrase 'beat generation' as a term of common parlance with the publication of…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96567
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First Edition of William Kennedy's Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a newspaper article on Kennedy winning the Pulitzer Prize. Some offsetting to the half and title pages, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 690
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate": William Kennedy’s Ironweed; Signed by him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132767
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate": First Edition of William Kennedy’s Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Boldly signed William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, offsetting to the title page. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140796
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“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble": Irrational Exuberance; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Irrational Exuberance.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Robert J. Shiller Oct 8, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144343
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First Edition of the papers presented at the irst C.F.A. Seminar: Is Financial Analysis Useless?; Signed by Jack L. Treynor and Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe
BLOCK, Frank E..
Is Financial Analysis Useless? The Proceedings of a Seminar on the Efficient Capital Market and Random Walk Hypothesis.
Charlottesville, Virginia: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1975.
First edition of this proceedings issue consisting of the papers presented at the first C.F.A. Seminar, entitled Is Financial Analysis Useless? Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated with graphs. Signed by Jack L. Treynor and William F. Sharpe on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 96334
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James Thurber and E.B. White's Is Sex Necessary; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
THURBER, James and E.B. White [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.
Early edition of this collection of satirical essays in theme with the many Freudian sexual theories published in the 1920s; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece photograph of New York, illustrated with about fifty-two drawings by James Thurber. Signed and dated by Gilman in pencil on the front free endpaper below an antiquarian ownership signature which she has crossed out, "C. P. Gilman Nov. 1931." Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145591
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RARE AND UNRECORDED LAND INDENTURE SIGNED TWICE BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON
NEWTON, Isaac.
Isaac Newton Manuscript Land Indenture Signed.
November 11, 1719.
Rare and unrecorded 18th century legal document signed twice at the conclusion by Sir Isaac Newton as a witness to a land indenture. Manuscript document signed twice on the verso "Isaac Newton", one vellum membrane, dated 11 November 1719, signed by Thomas Sturgess and with his seal, witnessed twice on the dorse (the sealing of the document and the payment of the PS270 witnessed separately) by Newton and also by Richard Cox and James Weston, and also signed again by Sturgess. The document records an indenture by which Thomas Sturgess of the parish of St Martin's in the Fields sells…
Price: $65,000.00 Item Number: 146958
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“THE DISTANCE IS GREAT FROM THE FIRM BELIEF TO THE REALIZATION FROM CONCRETE EXPERIENCE”: DOCUMENT SIGNED BY QUEEN ISABELLA I, QUEEN OF SPAIN
ISABELLA I, Queen of Spain.
Isabella I, Queen of Spain Signed Document.
Single quarto manuscript document signed by Queen Isabella of Spain, dated 20 November, 1501. With "La Reyna" at the top, and signed "Yo la Reyna." The letter is for a credit to Isabella's chamberlain, Sancho de Paredes for various supplies, services, and expenditures. Matted and framed opposite a portrait of Isabella. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 20.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by Queen Isabella.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 39080
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“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream; FINELY BOUND BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Islands In The Stream.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.
First edition of Hemingway's autobiographical novel in three parts, published posthumously. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 140288
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First edition of Samuel White Baker's Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; elaborately illustrated
BAKER, Samuel White.
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1847.
First edition of Baker's classic work documenting his journeys to the Nile. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards to each volume, with fifty full-page illustrations by Zwecker and Durand, folding map of Baker's routes. In very good condition. From the library of George Lucien Edwards with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 96200
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"Peace is always preferable... but war is news": First edition of Israel at War
ERED, E; Ch. Yaniv; N. May-Tal [Editors].
Israel at War: June 5-10, 1967 A Pictorial Record.
London: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1967.
First edition of this pictorial record of the Six-Day War. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jesse Zierler.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126941
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First Edition of Israel, Zionism and the New Left; Signed by David Ben-Gurion
RUBENSTEIN, Richard L. (David Ben-Gurion).
Israel, Zionism and the New Left.
New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1969.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed on the title page, "3.3.73 D. Ben Gurion." Ben-Gurion passed away in December of 1973. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding box.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 72028
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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence": Signed Limited Edition of Israel: A personal History, one of 2000 numbered copies Signed by David Ben Gurion and with the rare original publisher’s cardboard box
BEN-GURION, David.
Israel: A Personal History.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Inc., 1971.
Signed limited edition of Ben Gurion's history of Israel, one of 2000 numbered copies signed beneath the photographic frontispiece by David Ben-Gurion. Thick quarto, original full dark blue morocco, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. Fine in a fine slipcase. Also includes the rare original publisher’s cardboard box.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 146980
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First Edition of George Shultz's Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future; Signed by Him
SHULTZ, George P. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger.
Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future.
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2013.
First edition of this work by the former Secretary of State and Treasury. Octavo, original boards. Signed by George P. Shultz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. Cover design by Jennifer Navarrette.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121830
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First Edition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here; In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, Sinclair.
It Can’t Happen Here.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.
First edition of Lewis' later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine panel. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120988