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First Edition of Arrival and Departure; Inscribed by Arthur Koestler in the Month of Publication
KOESTLER, Arthur.
Arrival and Departure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943.
First edition of the third novel in the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the half-title page, "Elisa Mann from Arthur Koestler London, 24.XI.43." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 5695
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First Edition of the First Monograph on Frank Gehry's Masterpiece The Walt Disney Concert Hall; Signed by Him
GEHRY, Frank.
Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
First edition of this volume on Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Deborah Borda. Introduction by Frank Gehry. With essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Wood. Photography by Grant Mudford.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 515
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First Edition of Will Durant's Transition: A Mental Autobiography; Signed by Him
DURANT, Will.
Transition: A Mental Autobiography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Will Durant on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125898
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First Edition of Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience; Signed by Ben Bernanke and Frederic Mishkin
BERNANKE, Ben S; Thomas Laubach; Frederic S. Mishkin and Adam S. Posen.
Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
First edition of this ground breaking study. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Ben Bernanke and Frederic Mishkin on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 44019
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First Edition of the 50th anniversary of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Signed by Him
MALKIEL, Burton G.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
First edition of the 50th anniversary of this classic work, one of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Burt Malkiel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pete Garceau. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140797
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The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
First edition of Kuhn's classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some rubbing. Foreword by James Bryant Conant.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 77852
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Original theatrical poster from the Broadway Performance of Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking; signed by Joan Didion and actress Vanessa Redgrave
DIDION, Joan. [Vanessa Redgrave].
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Signed Theatrical Poster.
New York: Prof. D.R. McClennahan, 2006.
Original theatrical poster from Vanessa Redgrave's performance of Didion's 2005 best-selling memoir at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Signed by Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave on the lower portion of the poster. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143250
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Finely Bound Example of Hermann Oldenberg's Buddha
OLDENBERG, Hermann.
Buddha.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904.
Finely bound example of the German scholar of Indiology's influential study on Buddhism based on the Pali texts. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco by the Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribners Sons with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, title page in red and black. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145240
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed": Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities and some dampstaining to the cloth. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 137493
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"I was born to a vocation to bear witness to the great mysteries": First edition of Ararat; inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück
GLUCK, Louise.
Ararat.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the half-title page, "For ____ ____ with best wishes Louise Gluck." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michaela Sullivan. Jacket illustration by Christa Näher.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138219
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First Edition of W.T. Blanford's Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia
BLANFORD, W.T.
Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia: Made During the Progress of the British Expedition to That Country in 1867-68.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1870.
First edition of this work dedicated to the geology and zoology of Northern Abyssinia. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, illustrated with a folding color frontispiece of the view of Amba, or Hill-Fort of Duga and the neighboring mountains taken from the British camping-grounds as Belago, several illustrations and diagrams of the animals and landscapes of Abyssinia in black and white and in color by John Gerrard Keulmans and others, and a color lithographed folding map of the region with another folding map laid…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145447
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First edition of Switch Bitch; inscribed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Switch Bitch.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First American edition of this collection of Dahl's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jon Walley Thanks Roald Dahl 1975." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Shields.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146282
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First Edition of Lillian Smith's Memory of a Large Christmas; Inscribed by Her
SMITH, Lillian; Illustrated by Constance McMillan.
Memory of a Large Christmas.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962.
First edition of this "beautifully written book which should be read by families at Christmas time as Dickens' Christmas Carol used to be" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Clare- with my warm greetings, Lillian Smith." Decorations by Constance McMillan. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 59092
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The Salon edition of Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
A Simple Heart.
Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, n.d. [ca. 1895].
The limited Salon edition of Flaubert's classic novella. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red morocco onlays to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, with tissue-guarded illustrations by Emile Adan. Limited to five hundred and fifty numbered copies, this is number 152. Preface by A. de Claye. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139337
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Rare First Edition of Schumpeter's Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians
CRUM, W.L. and Joseph A. Schumpeter.
Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians.
1946: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1946.
First edition of this classic work by Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 130196
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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