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“REALITY IS FREQUENTLY INACCURATE”: First American Edition of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Inscribed by Douglas Adams
ADAMS, Douglas.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
New York: Harmony Books, 1980.
First American edition of Adams' sequel to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ted - Douglas Adams." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Sansone. Jacket illustration by Peter Cross. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146777
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“Hello Clarice”: Signed Limited First Edition of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs
HARRIS, Thomas.
The Silence of the Lambs.
United States: Suntup , 2021.
Signed limited first edition of Harris’ third and most famous novel. Octavo, bound in full silk, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Thomas Harris and illustrator Tom Bagshaw. In fine condition. This is a publishers copy, without a number.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 136994
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“faithful death that never forgets in the press of work the most insignificant of its children": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Tales of Unrest
CONRAD, Joseph.
Tales of Unrest.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.
First edition of Conrad's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, pictorial bookplate, ownership signature to half-title page. Housed in a contemporary clamshell and chemise box. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139203
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"Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience": first edition of north to the orient; signed by both anne and Charles lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
North to the Orient.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1935.
First edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s account of her journey to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China and Japan. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by both Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the year of publication and Charles Lindbergh on the half-title page. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and tear to the extremities. With maps by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 4652
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“Education is the movement from darkness to light": The Closing of the American Mind; Inscribed by Allan Bloom
BLOOM, Allan; Foreword by Saul Bellow.
The Closing of the American Mind.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
First edition, early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation, which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 22016
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"An Eye as Fine As Her Ear": On Tour With Leonard Cohen; Signed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
On Tour With Leonard Cohen.
New York : Powerhouse Books, 2014.
First edition, early printing of this work on Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page. Photographs by Sharon Robinson. Essay by Larry Sloman. In good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144188
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Rare deluxe limited edition of Rudyard Kipling's Lettres du Japon; one of only 50 copies printed on japan paper
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Lettres du Japon.
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1925.
Deluxe limited edition of Kipling's collected letters written during his 1889 travels in Japan. Octavo, original wrappers, decorated by H. Tirman. One of 50 copies printed on Japan paper. Translated into French by Louis Fabulet and Arthur Austin-Jackson. Very good in the rare original richly decorated dust jacket. Rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 122943
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"With gratitude and admiration from his friend": First Edition of Booth Mooney's The Lyndon Johnson Story; lengthily inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson
MOONEY, Booth. With a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Lyndon Johnson Story.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Booth Mooney's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, "To Ray Luhn with gratitude and admiration from his friend Lyndon B. Johnson." Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111067
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“I HATE EVERYTHING WHICH IS NOT IN MYSELF”: First British Edition of The Naked and the Dead; Inscribed by Norman Mailer
MAILER, Norman.
The Naked and the Dead.
London: Allan Wingate, 1949.
First British edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For ________ ________, Spent a winter once in Jamaica, Vermont, back in 1949, Loved it. Cheers Norman Mailer." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by James Holland.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 833
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Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Signed by Him
COOLIDGE, Calvin.
Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Chicago: Government Printing Office, 1925.
First edition of this address by President Coolidge. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Calvin Coolidge. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom folding case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119470
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"And bitter was the rowers' song as they brought the war-boat round": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Years Between
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1919.
First edition of this collection of 45 poems. Octavo, original half vellum over buckram boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt with others uncut. One of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Scarce, this title was printed in three formats: the first trade edition with a run of 10,000 copies, the large paper edition with 200 copies, and this, the rarest form, one of only 30 copies.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120530
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Advance Review Copy of The First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City
KEROUAC, Jack.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
Advance Review Copy of the first edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. many of his works. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143084
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Rare collection of periodicals containing first and early appearances of articles by or about John Muir; including his landmark article "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"
MUIR, John.
John Muir Periodical Collection.
Various Publishers, 1872-1977.
Rare collection of periodicals containing first and early appearances of articles by or about John Muir. Octavo, 20 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes: The Overland Monthly. Volume 9, No. 6, Number 43 [John H. Carmany & Co., San Francisco, December 1872] which contains Muir's "Living Glaciers of California"; The Overland Monthly. Volume 13, No. 2, Number 74 [John H. Carmany & Co., San Francisco, August 1874] which contains Muir's "Studies in the Sierra, No. IV, Glacial Denudation"; Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume 57, No. 342 [Harper & Brothers, New York, November 1878] which contains Muir's "The New Sequoia…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 126180
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"No spots are too hard for a hat cat like me!": The Cat in the Hat comes Back; Inscribed by Dr. Seuss
SEUSS, Dr. [Theodor Geisel].
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books: A Division of Random House, 1958.
Early printing of the sequel of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "For Aaron Samuel congratulations and Best Wishes! Dr. Seuss." Near fine in a good dust jacket with rubbing and wear.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144491