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First edition of Robert M. Solow's Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level
SOLOW, Robert Merton.
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Solow in the University of Manchester. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126488
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First Edition of Price Theory; Signed by Milton Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Price Theory: A Provisional Text.
Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1962.
First edition of the economist's classic text on price theory used at the University of Chicago. Quarto, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In near fine condition with light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 99675
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife": Rare first edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel.
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1813.
First editions of all three volumes of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, her bestselling book during her lifetime which remains a landmark of English literature. 12mo, three volumes bound in full mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling and botanical gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled black. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. A very attractive example of this significant work in English literature.
Price: $140,000.00 Item Number: 145824
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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment": Rare First Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1813.
First editions of all three volumes of Jane Austen's second novel and most popular. Octavo, three volumes, bound in contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Armorial bookplates to each pastedown. Period gift inscription from the year of publication to the title page of Vol. I.: "Mary Anne King given her by her mother April 1813." An exceptional example of this landmark work in English literature, rare and desirable bound in contemporary calf.
Price: $175,000.00 Item Number: 133221
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.
First edition of the second book in Lewis' beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership inscription to the inside jacket flap.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143020
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia; with an autograph note signed by him to his PhD Student at Cambridge, Anthony Spearing
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.
First edition of the second book in Lewis' beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. With an autograph note signed by C.S. Lewis to his PhD student at Cambridge, Anthony Spearing. On Lewis' Magdalene College, Cambridge letterhead, the note reads in full, "5th Nov. 57 Dear Mr. Spearing, I gather I have been inflicted as you as a "superior" so I suppose we out to meet. Wd. next Friday at 12 suit you? Don't bother replying if it would. Yours sincerely C. S. Lewis." The recipient of the letter, Anthony Spearing was assigned to report…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 135229
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Rare Photograph Signed by Charles, Prince of Wales is the oldest and longest-serving heir apparent in British history, as well as the longest-serving Prince of Wales, having held that title since 1958. Born in Buckingham Palace in 1948 as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer on July 29th, 1981 at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London; the ceremony reached a global television audience of over 750 million viewers. The royal couple had two sons, princes Harry and William who became second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.
CHARLES, Prince.
Prince Charles Signed Photograph.
1994.
Rare photograph of Prince Charles and his staff taken during the 1994 Royal Tour. Signed and dated by Prince Charles, "Charles 1994." One of eleven original photographs presented by Prince Charles to his staff, this photograph was given to Sergeant Ron Lewis who is standing in the center of the back row of the photograph. In fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 95805
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ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARD Signed by King Charles III and PRINCESS DIANA
DIANA, Princess of Wales; King Charles III.
Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card.
1983.
Royal 1983 Christmas card bearing two royal seals and an original color photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles and the young Princes William. Signed by Prince Charles (King Charles III), "from Charles and" signed by Princess Diana, "Diana." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145672
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"Considered the greatest single contribution to logic to appear since Aristotle": Russell and Whitehead's work Principia Mathematica
RUSSELL, Bertrand and Alfred North Whitehead.
Principia Mathematica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950.
First edition of volume one and second editions of volumes two and three, in the rare dust jackets of Russell and Whitehead's monumental work. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Rare and desirable.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 140610
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
BERRY, Michael [Stephen Hawking].
Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free end page. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119527
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Rare First Edition of Malthus' Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas R. [T.R.}.
Principles of Political Economy Considered With a View to Their Practical Application.
London: John Murray, 1820.
Rare first edition of Malthus' classic work. Octavo, bound in full diced morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 143844
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First Edition of Malthus' The Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application.
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821.
First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 23029
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Rare first edition of Thomas Robert Malthus' Principles of Political Economy in the original boards
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
Principles of Political Economy, Considered With a View to their Practical Application.
London: John Murray, 1820.
First edition of this classic work regarding nature of labor, demand and profit. Octavo, original boards, retaining the original paper spine label. In very good condition. Ownership inscription from the African Society and stamp to the title page. Rare in the original boards.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 119668
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John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy
MILL, John Stuart.
Principles of Political Economy.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865.
Finely bound example of John Stuart Mill's classic treatise. Octavo, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels, gilt rules to the front and rear panels, raised bands, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. In excellent condition, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140085
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"Somedays it's enough to be different or alone": 1969 University of Maine Yearbook featuring numerous unpublished photographs of Stephen King as an undergraduate
[KING, Stephen].
Prism: Stephen King 1969 University of Maine Yearbook.
Bangor, Maine: University of Maine/Prism, 1969.
1969 University of Maine Yearbook featuring several photographs of Stephen King as an undergraduate. Quarto, original publisher's half cloth over illustrated boards, illustrated with black and white photographs including a large photograph of King protesting the Vietnam War on page 70. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143490
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others": First Edition of Prisoner In The Garden
MANDELA, Nelson.
Prisoner In The Garden.
London: Viking, 2005.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela's archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 138566