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First Edition of Architecture: Form, Space & Order; Inscribed by Francis Ching
CHING, Francis D.K.
Architecture: Form, Space & Order.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979.
First edition of this classic introduction to the vocabulary of architectural design. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John R. Francis Ching 9/7/2015." In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper and pastedown.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 98778
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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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"Kovitsky could have called him to the bench just once...he would have straightened them out just like that": First Edition of I am Charlotte Simmons; Lengthily Inscribed by Tom Wolfe to Judge Burt Roberts who served as the model of Judge Kovitsky in The Bonfire of the Vanities
WOLFE, Tom.
I Am Charlotte Simmons.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.
First edition of this "hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel" (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page with a full page inscription, "The boys and girls in this book have many problems Burt Kovitsky could have called him to the bench just once...he would have straightened them out just like that...Tom Wolfe Authorized Biographer." The recipient, a close friend of Wolfe's Burt Roberts was immortalized in The Bonfire of the Vanities as judge Myron Kovitsky, a character based on Roberts, he was one of the few sympathetic characters in the book, one…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141430
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“FOR A SIMPLE PENNY PAY THOU BACK WITH GOLD; IF THY LIFE BE RESCUED, LIFE DO NOT WITHHOLD”: First Edition of Gandhi's Sermon on the Sea; in the scarce original dust jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma [Mohandas].
Sermon on the Sea.
Chicago: Universal Publishing Company, 1924.
First edition of this modern corollary to the Sermon on the Mount. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134291
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"It may read better in print than it did in manuscript": First Edition of Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Warmly Inscribed by Him
HELLER, Joseph.
Something Happened.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Doreen Phelan, With pleasure + good wishes Joseph Heller 5/24/75 Ojai, Pal." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142470
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First edition of Henry James' The Princess Casamassima: A Novel
JAMES, Henry.
The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First American edition of one of James's "three formidable novels" published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In near fine condition, name opposite the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143493
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First Edition of Javier Marias' Manana en la batalla piensa en mi; Signed by Him
MARIAS, Javier.
Manana en la batalla piensa en mi [Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me].
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1994.
First edition of the author's classic novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3434
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Finely Bound Set of William Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Thackeray (Vanity Fair).
London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1869.
The Works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 24 volumes. Bound in three quarter leather with gilt tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt in all volumes. In excellent condition. An attractive set.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 2202
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Perelandra; in the rare original dust jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
Perelandra.
London: The Bodley Head, 1943.
First edition of the second novel in Lewis' classic trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a portion of restoration to foot of spine, portion of restoration to head, affecting title, two small central points of restoration to spine, corners neatly restored, corner clipped with the original price of 8s. 6d showing. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145807
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"There is no better high than discovery": FIRST EDITION OF SOCIOBIOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS; SIGNED BY EDWARD O. WILSON WITH A DRAWING OF AN ANT
WILSON, Edward O.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has added a drawing of an ant. Name on the front pastedown and some wear to the front free endpaper, near fine in an very good dust jacket with some closed tears.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 1616
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"To forgive and forget is easier than to remember": First edition of Reuben Ainsztein's Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe
AINSZTEIN, Reuben.
Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe: with a Historical Survey of the Jew as Fighter and Soldier in the Diaspora.
London: Paul Elek, 1974.
First edition of Ainsztein's survey of the Jewish military from the destruction of the Jewish state by Rome to 1939. Thick octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Sally Soames who is proud of being a Jewess Reuben Ainsztein London 21 July 1977." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 123442
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"And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities": Framed Signature of The Author of The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
WHARTON, Edith.
Edith Wharton Signature.
Framed signature of the American novelist who wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Age of Innocence.' Large 1.25 inch by 3.5 inch clipped signature of "Edith Wharton." Framed with a black and white photograph of the author. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.1 inches by 15.9 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145451
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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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“And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!”: First Edition of Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SEUSS, Dr. [Theodor Geisel].
How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition, first printing of one of the most celebrated and memorable Christmas stories with all issue points present: Cat in the Hat on back cover of book with 14 titles (up to now) listed on the rear flap and a list of 13 books printed at the end of the book. Dust jacket price reads 250/250. Thin quarto, original illustrated glossy paper boards, pictorial endpapers. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light toning throughout. Some rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels of the dust jacket, a few closed tears and losses to the extremities of…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146460
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"An accomplishment in the field of anthropology on par with Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species": First edition of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age In Samoa
MEAD, Margaret .
Coming of Age In Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928.
First edition of Mead's pioneering work which, upon publication, established her as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Octavo, Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 127605