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“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe": Dreams From My Father; INSCRIBED BY BARACK OBAMA
OBAMA, Barack.
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2004.
First paperback edition of the future President's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Bob - All the best! Barack" In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133108
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“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us": Rare photograph inscribed by Helen Keller
KELLER, Helen.
Helen Keller Signed Photograph.
Original photograph of Helen Keller with her Great Dane, Sieglinde, and beloved teacher Anne Sullivan's Scottish Terrier. Inscribed by Helen Keller, "To Perry Finkelstein, with cordial greetings, Helen Keller, June 14th, 1938, Helen Keller." Helen Keller had at least one pet from childhood until the end of her life. Dogs served as a special source of companionship to Keller and accompanied wherever she went, from college classrooms to a visit to Japan. Keller is even credited with helping to introduce Japanese Akita breed to the United States with her beloved Kamikaze-Go and Kenzan-Go which were imported directly from Japan. The…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 89153
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself": First Edition of The Groucho Phile; Inscribed twice by Goucho Marx To Actress Sally Kellerman
MARX, Groucho.
The Groucho Phile.
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.
First edition of this work by the legendary comedian. Quarto, original boards. Association copy, inscribed twice by the author on the dedication page and again on page 364, "To Sally from Goucho?" On page 364 Groucho writes in his hand, “There’s a picture of a pretty girl from an old friend Groucho?” In the caption to the right Groucho states, "There's a world of show business in this picture. Sitting on the floor next to me is Sally Kellerman. We're an item." The recipient, Sally Kellerman was an actress and singer whose acting career spanned 60 years. Her role as…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 137602
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Original Photograph signed by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Albert Schweitzer
SCHWEITZER, Albert.
Albert Schweitzer Autograph Signed Photograph.
Large photograph of Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene purchasing supplies for the hospital, signed and inscribed by him. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11 inches. One of the largest signed photographs we have seen or handled.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 117846
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"He described the night vividly, the endless hours, the bombers thundering low over the storms of fire": First Edition of James Salter’s The Hunters; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
The Hunters.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of the author’s first novel and landmark in the literature of war. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Bill English. Signed first editions are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 117479
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The Presidents' Edition of the University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies
University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World’s Famous Men and Women.
The National Alumni, 1918.
The Presidents' edition of the University Library of Autobiography, including self-narratives of political figures and authors through the ages, beginning with King Sargon of Babylon and ending with Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, 15 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissued-guarded portraits of each featured historical figure. One of one thousand and fifty numbered and registered copies of the Presidents' edition, this is number 698, registered to Evelyn and Warren Winkelstein. In very good condition. A very…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144625
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Rare First Edition of Edna Lewis' First Book: The Edna Lewis Cookbook
LEWIS, Edna and Evangeline Peterson.
The Edna Lewis Cookbook.
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972.
First edition of Edna Lewis' first book. Octavo, original cloth.Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives. Jacket photograph by John T. Hill. First editions are scarce.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145073
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MAURER, David W.
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.
First edition of this classic study of con men, basis for the film The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy, with the letter and notes from the publisher, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the rare wrap around band.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146060
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"It is this theme, co-operation in industry, that I desire to develop": Rare first edition of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s The Personal Relation in Industry; in the rare original dust jacket
ROCKEFELLER JR., John D.
The Personal Relation in Industry.
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc, 1923.
First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; an important contribution to the field of industrial relations. Octavo, original scarlet cloth, uncut leaves as issued. Publisher's advertisement for Edward L. Bernays' Crystallizing Public Opinion on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear to the crown and foot of the spine, bookplate. Rare in this condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 89089
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.
First edition of the author's second collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Forbes. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146637
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First Edition of Ethel Boileau's Ballade in G Minor; Inscribed by her to Ayn Rand
BOILEAU, Ethel [Ayn Rand].
Ballade in G Minor.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1938.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ayn Rand from Ethel Boileau A tribute to "We The Living" New York Feb.10th 1938." Lady Ethel Boileau was an English novelist, best known for Clansmen and Ballade in G Minor. Her correspondence with Ayn Rand began in 1936, when she wrote a glowing homage to We the Living after her American publisher had sent her a copy. After Rand read Clansmen in 1936, she wrote to Boileau that her “descriptions are so lovely…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 136398
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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real": The Border Trilogy; Signed by Cormac McCarthy
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.
First edition, early printing of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144601
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First Edition of Langston Hughes's Laughing To Keep From Crying; Inscribed by Him
HUGHES, Langston.
Laughing To Keep From Crying.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1952.
First edition of Hughes' second major collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed especially for Wolfgang, With sincere regard Langston New York March 30, 1952." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 61051
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First Edition of Honeymoon; Inscribed by Patrick Modiano to Fellow Novelist Philip Roth
MODIANO, Patrick [Philip Roth].
Honeymoon.
Boston: Verba Mundi/ David A. Godine, 1995.
First American edition of this "haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Philip, avec toute mon amitie Patrick Modiano." Roth first gained attention with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy’s Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth’s literary alter-ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth serves as narrator for some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America, Roth went on to be one of the…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146091
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"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts": First Editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs; Each Signed by Him
MACMILLAN, Harold.
Harold Macmillan’s Memoirs: Winds of Change, 1914-1939; The Blast of War, 1939-1945; Tides of Fortune, 1945-1955; Riding the Storm, 1956-1959; Pointing the Way, 1959-1961; At the End of the Day, 1961-1963.
London: Macmillan, 1965-73.
First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs, each signed by him. Octavo, six volumes, illustrated. Each volume is signed by Harold MacMillan on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Complete signed sets are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 91420