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First edition of Robert Garvey's Good Shabbos, Everybody; illustrated by Maurice Sendak
GARVEY, Robert. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Good Shabbos, Everybody.
United Synagogue of America, 1951.
First edition of charming picture book celebrating the Shabbat, with early illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Leonard Weisgard, Art Consultant. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 127020
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First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Rose Tattoo.
New York: New Directions, 1951.
First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 143108
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“The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth": Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us; Inscribed by Him
CARSON, Rachel L.
The Sea Around Us.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.
First edition, early printing of Carson's classic second book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Inscribed for Ruth Y. Whyte with my best wishes. Rachel L. Carson." Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Drawings by Katherine L. Howe.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 133801
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"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead": First Edition of Graham Greene's Classic Work; The End of the Affair; Inscribed by Him
GREENE, Graham.
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951.
First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, "one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jerry Shestack from Graham Greene." The recipient Jerry Shestack was a distinguished American Jurist, President of the American Bar Association and United States ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Civil Rights. Light shelfwear, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 23054
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First Edition of Vedanta for Modern Man; Signed by Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten
PRABHAVANANDA, Swami.
Vedanta for Modern Man.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1951.
First edition of this collection of philosophical and religious essays. Signed by contributors Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143094
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FIRST EDITION OF EDNA FERBER'S CLASSIC WORK GIANT; SIGNED BY HER
FERBER, Edna.
Giant.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952.
First edition of this "powerful story...truly as big as its subject" (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edna Ferber. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Fred McCarroll.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 114531
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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free": First Edition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
ELLISON, Ralph.
Invisible Man.
New York: Random House, 1952.
First edition of the author's landmark first novel, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original black and tan cloth. Fine in an near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. A nice example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140388
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First edition of John Cowper Powys' The Inmates
POWYS, John Cowper.
The Inmates.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1952.
First edition of the author's astonishing tale, set in a madhouse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Sanford.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 128106
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First edition of Buechner's The Seasons' Difference; Lengthily inscribed by him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
The Seasons’ Difference.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
First edition of Frederick Buechner's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, with a full page inscription by the author on the front free endpaper, "This was the most insincere of all of my books. Following hard on the heels of my most successful. I wrote a good deal of it in the small village of Great Milton, near Oxford, where I would get so cold that I would have to get into bed to write, and then I'd fall asleep instead. With all best wishes to Patrick, Christopher, Celia, and Greg Ross. -Frederick Buechner." Near fine in a near…
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 92504
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way": First Editions of Each Book in the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Children of Violence Series; Each Signed by Doris Lessing
LESSING, Doris.
Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City.
London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.
First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 796
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"To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone": Scarce Amicus Brief issued for the historic 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education
[BROWN, Oliver].
In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1952. Oliver Brown, Mrs. Richard Lawton, Mrs. Sadie Emmanuel v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
New York: Bar Press Inc., 1952.
Scarce Amicus brief issued for the historic 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in American schools to be unconstitutional. Octavo, original wrappers, rebacked with a tape repair. Invery good condition. Scarce, OCLC locates only a single copy held by the Kansas State Historical Society.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 135377
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First English edition of Sigmund Freud's On Dreams
FREUD, Sigmund. Translated by James Strachey.
On Dreams.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1952.
First English edition of the abridged version of Freud's classic work The Interpretation of Dreams. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Translation by James Strachey. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146891
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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free": First Edition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; Signed by Him
ELLISON, Ralph.
Invisible Man.
New York: Random House, 1952.
First edition of the author's landmark first novel, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original black and tan cloth. Boldly signed by Ralph Ellison on the title page. Fine in an near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 57008
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Rare First Edition of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot
BECKETT, Samuel.
En Attendant Godot. Pièce en Deux Actes.
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952.
First edition, one of 2500 copies printed of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 109378
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PEANUTS BOOK; SIGNED BY CHARLES SCHULZ
SCHULZ, Charles M.
Peanuts.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952.
First edition of the first collection of the Peanuts cartoons. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Charles M. Schulz." In fine condition, as this was stored upon publication by the original owner. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 136467
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"THE KEY FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF HIS THOUGHT": FIRST EDITION OF THE SENSORY ORDER
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Sensory Order. An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952.
First edition of Hayek's foundational study of cognitive behavior—"an exercise in profound thinking." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Heinrich Kluver.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143046