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Autograph Letter Signed By English Author John Creasey to American Novelist John Ball
CREASEY, John [John Ball].
John Creasey Autograph Letter Signed.
Bodenham: August 9, 1967.
Autograph letter signed by English author John Creasey to American novelist John Ball with a review of the film based on Ball's first 'Virgil Tibbs' novel. One page on Cunard Line R. M. S. Queen Mary letterhead, duodecimo, the autograph letter reads, "Dear John, Last night in New York, I saw 'In the Heat of the Night.' It was quite remarkable, and I hope you agree that any changes from the book did no harm at all. It is, in fact, a tremendous piece of film making and a social document which will surely be of great value and urgently…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145578
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First Edition of P.A. Vaile's Modern Golf; Finely Bound by Asprey
VALIE, P.A.
Modern Golf.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909.
First edition of this early work by Vaile. Octavo, finely bound in full green morocco by Asprey, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentilles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous full-page photographic plates and diagrams, including frontispiece photo with tissue-guard. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 89767
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"The climate of the East Coast of Florida is nearer perfection than that of any other place on earth": Rare First Edition of Florida: Beauties of the East Coast
INGRAM, Mrs. H.K.
Florida: Beauties of the East Coast.
St. Augustine: Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway Company, 1893.
Scarce first edition of this early brochure for the state of Florida. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrappers, gilt titles, with color illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates from photographs. With text by Helen K. Ingram.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 103179
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inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Saul bellow to friend and fellow high school classmate
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate, "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake (Tuley gym!) Saul." In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2038
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First Edition of Vernon Smith's Bargaining and Market Behavior; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Bargaining and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
First edition of this collection of important essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Vernon L. Smith on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James F. Brisson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 80039
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First Edition of Saul Bellow’s Second Book, The Victim; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
The Victim.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A Burgess 99 title.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 125877
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First edition of Rufus Wilmot Griswold's The Republican Court of American Society in the Days of Washington; with twenty-one portraits of distinguished women
GRISWOLD, Rufus Wilmot.
The Republican Court of American Society in the Days of Washington.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition of Griswold's account of the American Republican Court during the presidency of George Washington. Quarto, original publisher's full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate stamping to the spine and panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with twenty-one portraits of distinguished women including Mrs. George Washington and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton engraved from original pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Trumbull, et al. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138600
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First edition of Christopher Wordsworth's Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical
WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical.
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1839.
First edition of Wordsworth's classic history of Greece. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, ribbon bound in, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title, 26 engraved plates and numerous illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138649
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Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
Mr. Scarborough’s Family and An Old Man’s Love.
London: Chatto & Windus; Edinburgh and William Blackwood and Sons, 1883-1884.
Finely bound collection of Trollope's Mr. Scarborough's Family and An Old Man's Love. Octavo, five volumes uniformly bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 110623
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“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk": First Edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People
HULME, Keri.
The Bone People.
Wellington: Spiral, 1983.
First New Zealand edition (and true first) of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112441
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The Language of Post-Modern Architecture; Signed by Charles Jencks
JENCKS, Charles.
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.
New York: Rizzoli, 1991.
Sixth edition of this seminal work in the field of architecture. Folio, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Charles Jencks on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2263
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"Well until tomorrow then, my dearest, until tomorrow, goodbye": First Edition of Life in the Tomb; Lenthily Inscribed by Translator Peter Bien
MYRIVILIS, Stratis.
Life in the Tomb.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1977.
First edition in English of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title page, "To A. Roger Well until tomorrow then, my dearest, until tomorrow, goodbye. Peter Bien Riparius, NY Sept. 11, 2020." In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 124581
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First American trade edition of Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Brideshead Revisited.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
First American trade edition of Waugh's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Lester M. Peterson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 124337
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"SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, IT IS A GRAND SPORT": FIRST EDITION OF S. KIP FARRINGTON, JR.'S ATLANTIC GAME FISHING; INSCRIBED BY HIM to the editor of Field & Stream
FARRINGTON, S. Kip. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway.
Atlantic Game Fishing.
New York: Kennedy Bros., Inc., Publishers of Yachting, 1937.
First trade edition of Farrington’s classic work on Atlantic game fishing, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs and color illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt including frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Ray Holland one of the best editors in the game, and as good a sportsman as there is in the world, and the last goes also for Dan who will soon rank with the old man on the first. With my very best wishes to you both. S. Kip Farrington…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 126491
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First edition of Oliver E. Williamson's The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
WILLIAMSON, Oliver E.
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting.
New York: The Free Press, 1985.
First edition of Williamson's modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 126832
