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“Leave him alone, he's as mad as a hatter!”: First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Light that Failed
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Light That Failed.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.
First edition of Kipling's first novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher's gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 121637
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First Edition of The Arrow Impossibility Theorem; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz
ARROW, Kenneth; Eric Maskin; Amartya Sen; Joseph Stiglitz and Partha Dasgupta .
The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series).
New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
First edition of this work which explores Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sen on the front free endpaper, "To John, best wishes always Amartya Sen 3.31.15." Additionally signed by Joseph Stiglitz, who contributed to this volume on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Noah Arlow.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145886
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35th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Legendary Actor Gregory Peck
LEE, Harper [Gregory Peck].
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Academy-Award winning actor Gregory Peck on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145873
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First Edition of Content and Consciousness: An Analysis of Mental Phenomena; Inscribed by Daniel C. Dennett
DENNETT, Daniel C.
Content and Consciousness: An Analysis of Mental Phenomena.
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Annie- Daniel C. Dennett 3/5/23." Also laid in is a note from Dennett stating, "* My memoir: I've Been Thinking in October." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145503
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"Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard": First Edition of The Walter Hagen Story; Signed by Horton Smith
HAGEN, Walter; As told to Margaret Seaton Heck.
The Walter Hagen Story.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
First edition Walter Hagen's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "On behalf of the "Haig" and myself, good golfing and good luck. Horton Smith." Today, Smith is best-known as the winner of the first and third Masters. In 1929 he won eight titles. This was an era of expansion and reorganization for professional golf. The PGA Tour was founded in 1934, and Smith was one of the leading players of the early years of the tour, topping the money list in 1936. He accumulated 32 PGA Tour titles in total, the last of them in 1941, and his two major…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 82302
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"Extremely secret forbidden tax and customs anti-spy...": Rare Japanese Spy Manual
Japanese Spy Manual.
Wuhan: c.1940s-1950s.
Rare Japanese spy manual. Octavo, original wrappers printed in black and red, illustrated with photos of spy gadgets and techniques to hide them on one's person or search for them on a suspected spy. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145396
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“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind": Signed Limited First Edition of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
BALDWIN, James.
If Beale Street Could Talk.
New York: The Dial Press, 1974.
Signed limited first edition, one of 250 numbered copies of Baldwin's fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Octavo, original boards. One of two hundred and fifty copies boldly signed by James Baldwin on the colophon, this is number 212. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145468
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"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some": Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz; FINELY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED RED MOROCCO BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE
DICKENS, Charles.
Sketches By Boz.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of the new edition of one of Dickens' collection of short pieces. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130587
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FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FOUR FINAL NOVELLAS IN CHARLES DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS BOOK SERIES; ATTRACTIVELY BOUND
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.
First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The set is comprised of a first edition of The Chimes [London: Chapman & Hall, 1845 (1844)] Half-title and 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. Second state of the vignette title; First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth [London:…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132035
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Rare 19th century hand-colored lithographed map of the states of Florida and South Carolina by American cartographer S. Augustus Mitchell
MITCHELL JR., S. Augustus.
County Map of Florida and Map of South Carolina.
Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: 1860.
First edition of Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s map of the states of Florida and South Carolina, published in Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc. Embraced In Forty-Seven Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Seventy-Six Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. Philadelphia. One page, hand-colored the maps shows the counties and major towns and cities of each state, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina with an inset map of Charleston Harbor. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138429
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Original Donald Brooks Sketch from the production of Dance a Little Closer
BROOKS, Donald.
Dance a Little Closer: Donald Brooks Original Pencil and Watercolor Drawing.
1983.
Original Dance a Little Closer is a pencil and watercolor drawing depicting the Cynthia character in a full length pink and peach gown with a second drawing depicting the back of the gown, signed lower right by legendary designer Donald Brooks. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 27 inches by 22 inches. Brooks was the costume designer for the 1983 production of Dance a Little Closer.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 137699
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First Edition of Israel M. Kirzner's An Essay On Capital; Signed by Him
KIRZNER, Israel M.
An Essay on Capital.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966.
First edition of Kirzner's essay of the conceptual problems surrounding the foundations of capital theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 114868
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"Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb": Rare Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of A Grain of Wheat; Inscribed by Ngugi
NGUGI, James.
A Grain of Wheat.
London: William Heinemann, 1967.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Warmly inscribed by Ngugi on the title page, "For John Your favorite? Mine too! Ngugi." In very good condition with some spotting to the wrappers.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 45014
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"IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME"; FIRST EDITION OF SHOELESS JOE; SIGNED BY BOTH W.P. KINSELLA AND KEVIN COSTNER
KINSELLA, W.P. [Kevin Costner].
Shoeless Joe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner, which was later inducted into the National Film Registry. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by Bill Kinsella and by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner below Kinsella's. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed by both Kinsella and Costner.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146376
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Jonathan Edward's A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton
EDWARDS, Jonathan.
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, and the Neighboring Towns and Villages of New-Hampshire and New-England [AND] True Grace, Distinguished from the Experience of Devils.
Elizabeth-Town, NJ: Shepard Kollock, 1790.
Rare early example of this essay about the process of Christian conversion in Northampton, Massachusetts, during the Great Awakening, which emanated from Edwards' congregation in 1734, to which is added 'True Grace,' a sermon preached by Edwards before the Synod of New York. Duodecimo, original boards, rebacked. In very good condition with rubbing to the boards, some dampstaining, antiquarian ownership inscription to the rear flyleaf.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146579
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"One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends": Rare First Hardcover Edition of Little, Big; Lengthily Signed by John Crowley
CROWLEY, John.
Little, Big.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.
First British edition and first hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For _____- John Crowley 'One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends.'" Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Doyle. Photograph of the author by Richard Sutor.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 79887