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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together": First Edition of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
CARLYLE, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus.
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.
First American edition of this literary parody of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and German Idealism. Octavo, full green cloth with branching pattern. In very good condition with sunning to the spine and rear panel, rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145348
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First edition of Frederick W. Pethick Lawrence's Women's Fight For The Vote
PETHICK LAWRENCE, Frederick W.
Women’s Fight For The Vote.
London: The Woman's Press, [1910].
First edition of the definitive collection Pethick Lawrence's articles promoting Women's Suffrage. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135198
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Rare 18th Century Map of Florida, Louisiana, and Neighboring Countries by famed French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane, et Pays Voisins. [18th Century Map of Florida, Louisiana, and Neighboring Countries. To be used in the General History of Travel].
Jean-Francois de La Harpe, 1757.
Rare 18th century engraved map of North America by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page, hand-colored, the map shows the French territory of Louisiane and Florida. Labelled cities and regions include St. Augustine, Savannah, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Toronto, Detroit, Mobile, Pensacola, New Mexico, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Topographical features include Lakes Michigan, Erie, and Superior, the Savannah, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, and the Appalachian Mountains. Bellin also labels the locations of various Native tribes such as the Cherokees, Osages, and Apaches, as well as locations of major forts. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138434
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First Edition of Norman Douglas' South Wind; In exceptional condition
DOUGLAS, Norman.
South Wind.
London: Martin Secker, 1917.
First edition of the author's classic work based on the island of Capri. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142093
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"ONE OF THE MOST ENDEARING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN": First edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
First American edition of Grahame's beloved children's novel which preceded the English edition by only four days, with Scribner's seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by W. Grahame Robertson. In good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143829
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"The first major work on the French Revolution": Adolphe Thiers' renowned History of the French Revolution; elegantly bound
THIERS, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe.
Histoire de la Revolution Francaise. [History of the French Revolution].
Societe Typographique Belge: Bruxelles, 1840.
Finely bound example of the first major work on the French Revolution. Quarto, two volumes bound in full contemporary polished and diced calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Thiers. In very good condition. A very attractive binding.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 137208
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"Some things aren't any good unless they're shared": First Edition of A Fine and Private Place; Signed by Peter S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S.
A Fine and Private Place.
New York: The Viking Press, 1960.
First edition of Peter Beagle's first fantasy novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Beagle on the front free endpaper with a smiley in the "P." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146917
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First Edition of Lawrence Klein's Economic Theory and Econometrics; Signed by Him
KLEIN, Lawrence.
Economic Theory and Econometrics.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Lawrence Klein on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Jaime Marquez.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 2922
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“I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals": First Edition of on off the fairway a pictorial autobiography; Signed by Jack Nicklaus
NICKLAUS, Jack.
On & Off the Fairway: A Pictorial Autobiography.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
First edition of this work by the golfing legend. Quarto, original half-cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author opposite the half-title page, "Best Regards Jack Nicklaus." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145802
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Signed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133580
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First Edition of Advances In Game Theory; Signed by Mathematician W.H. Fleming
EDITED BY M. DRESHER; L.S. SHAPLEY; A.W. TUCKER [W.H. FLEMING],.
Advances In Game Theory.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
First edition of collection of papers on game theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by mathematician W.H. Fleming on the title page, next to his name. Wendell Helms Fleming was a mathematician, specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations. Fleming received in 1951 his PhD under Laurence Chisholm Young at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a thesis entitled Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces. Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he retired in 2009 as professor emeritus. Fleming was with Herbert Federer a pioneer of geometric measure theory. Later in his career, he worked on stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations and their applications in control theory.…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146321
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First illustrated edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
WILDE, Oscar. With Woodcuts by Frans Masereel.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1925.
First illustrated edition of this rare Wilde title. Royal octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. One of 450 numbered copies, this is number 16. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139325
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First edition of Robert Parker's The World's Greatest Wine Estates; Signed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
First edition of the renowned wine critic's elaborately illustrated work showcasing 175 of the world's most accomplished wine estates. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, elaborately illustrated with color photographs. Boldly signed by Robert M. Parker on the second free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Beth Middleworth. Uncommon signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144062
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“THE COLDER THE WINTER, THE WARMER THE SPRING": FIRST EDITION OF WALT DISNEY’S BAMBI
[DISNEY, Walt].
Walt Disney’s Bambi: Adapted from the Novel by Felix Salten.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
First edition of this storybook version of Disney’s classic. Slim folio, original pictorial paper boards, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133151