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"To Una who will at last get to the end!": First edition of From Russia, With Love; inscribed by Ian Fleming to his real-life Miss Moneypenny
FLEMING, Ian.
From Russia, With Love.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
First edition, first state of the fifth James Bond novel and what Fleming considered one of his best books and listed in Life magazine as one of US President John F. Kennedy's top ten favorite books. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt rose and gun emblem to the front panel. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Una who will at last get to the end! from Ian Fleming." The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No. Una started…
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 133890
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Jacob Bigelow's Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity
BIGELOW, Jacob.
Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity, With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Principal Synonyms, Descriptions, Places of Growth, and Time of Flowering, and Occasional Remarks.
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.
Enlarged and second edition of Bigelow's authoritative work on the flora of Boston and its vicinity. Octavo, original boards, rebacked, greatly enlarged and with a significant glossary of botanical terms. In very good condition. Period ownership inscriptions and notations.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137356
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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FIRST EDITION OF IAN FLEMING’S GOLDFINGER; INSCRIBED BY HIM TO HIS REAL LIFE MISS MONEYPENNY
FLEMING, Ian.
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.
First edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming." The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No. Una started working in 1948 at Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times where she was soon appointed secretary to Ian Fleming, where he worked throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming "always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book,…
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 133728
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“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
London: H. G. Bohn, 1852.
Early English printing of Stowe’s enormously influential work, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Leech, Gilbert, etc. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134862
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Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Inscribed by Him to His Doctor
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Sochinenia Grafa L.N. Tolstogo [Childhood, Boyhood, Youth].
Moscow: Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1893.
Early Russian printing of Tolstoy’s trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Quarto, original half leather. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his doctor, “To Dmitry Vasil’evich Nikitin. Leo Tolstoy. 28 March 1903.” With an original photograph of Tolstoy with Dmitry Nikitin opposite the title page. The recipient, Dmitry Nikitin was Tolstoy’s family doctor who described him as ‘‘a very attentive person [who] knows everything that medicine knows now.” The son of a priest from a small village, served as Tolstoy’s first family and later treated M. Gorky. Beginning in the 1850s, Tolstoy had to turn to doctors…
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 133583
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First Edition of Gypsy; In Exceptional Condition
LAURENTS, Arthur; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Gypsy.
New York : Random House, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name. An exceptional example.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 133724
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First Edition of Capitalism and Historians; Edited by F.A. Hayek
HAYEK, F.A.
Capitalism and the Historians.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1954.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small stamp to the front panel. Includes essays by T.S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, F.A. Hayek, W.H. Hutt and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133717
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First Edition of The Truro Bear; Signed by Mary Oliver
OLIVER, Mary.
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133714
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Large Photograph of The Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion; Signed by Him
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph.
1947.
Large original silver gelatin photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion, boldly signed by him. Ben-Gurion's signature measures 5.25 inches by 1.25 inches. x 1.25" alone. Also signed and dated "Charles Bergman May 1947" who was possibly the photographer. The photograph was taken in May 1947, one year before Ben-Gurion declared the formation of the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948. The British had controlled Mandatory Palestine since 1920, but in May 1947, they asked for international guidance in resolving the complicated question of possession and ownership. The British submitted the Palestine question to the United Nations.…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 133617
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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
The Silver Chair.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary name to the half-title page. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. An exceptional example, as this is the most difficult volume in the series to find in collectible condition.
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 133711
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; In the rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips to the extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 133716
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The Night Traveler; Signed by Twice by Her
OLIVER, Mary.
The Night Traveler.
A Bits Chapbook, 1978.
First edition of this early collection by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed twice by Mary Oliver, once on the front free endpaper and on the title page. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 133671
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Rare 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook; containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years
[WARHOL, Andy].
The Thistle: Andy Warhol 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1949.
1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook featuring a rare photograph of Andy Warhol as a college senior. Folio, original boards, illustrated. Warhol is pictured as a member of Modern Dance club. The yearbook also includes a photograph of Philip Pearlstein, a fellow graduating senior. In near fine condition. Very rare, containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134091
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Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II; including photographic portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
[ALCOTT, Louisa May; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe].
Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II.
Rare collection of albumen silver print portraits of eminent 19th century poets and American authors. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial covers, bound with the original ribbons. Including the portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In very good condition. Rare and unique.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 134524
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Rare Unionist Program Signed by Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
CHAMBERLAIN, Neville; Anne Chamberlain.
Neville Chamberlain Signed Unionist Program.
1938.
1938 Unionist Association Annual Dance and Whist Drive Program signed by Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and hi wife, Anne Chamberlain. 12 mo, one page folding. Signed by the Chamberlains on the front panel who are listed as the special guests of the evening. The event was held at the Palais de Danse on Friday, February 18th, 1938. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134522