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First Edition of A Primer of Population Biology; Signed by Edward O. Wilson with a drawing of an ant
WILSON, Edward O. and William H. Bossert.
A Primer of Population Biology.
Stamford, CT: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page with a drawing of an ant. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon, especially signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140992
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First Edition in English of Milan Kundera's Ignorance; Inscribed by Him
KUNDERA, Milan.
Ignorance.
London: Faber & Faber, 2002.
First edition in English of Kundera's "most successful [novel] since The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Milan Kundera on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marry van Barr. Translated from the French by Linda Asher.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 68944
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First edition of Frederick Freeman's The History of Cape Cod
FREEMAN, Frederick.
The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.
Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.
First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130559
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First Edition of Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey; Signed by Howard Raiffa
LUCE, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa.
Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.
First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137439
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First Edition of Born on the Fourth of July; Warmly Inscribed by Ron Kovic in the year of Publication
KOVIC, Ron.
Born on the Fourth of July.
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.
First edition of this classic book, basis for the 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "11/26/76 Mary Thank you for being so nice to me and my family Love Ron and Peace." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Bob Adelman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138131
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First Edition of Bill and Moya Lear: An Unforgettable Flight; Inscribed to Bob and Dolores Hope
LEAR, Moya Olsen.
Bill and Moya Lear: An Unforgettable Flight.
Reno, Nevada: Jack Bacon & Company, 1996.
First edition of this autobiography of Bill and Moya Lear. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bob and Deloros Hope on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Bob and Delores [sic] - You'' remember a lot of this! With an embrace for you both Moya Olsen Lear 6/96." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kim Bacon and Jim Richards.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117371
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand": First Edition of Milton & Rose Friedmans memoirs Two Lucky People; Warmly Inscribed by Both
FRIEDMAN, Milton and Rose D.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Dorian + John with love and thanks for your friendship Milton + Rose." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3148
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First Edition of The Price of Prosperity; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter. L.
The Price of Prosperity.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.
First edition of the Wall Street legend's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Paul- Best wishes for much prosperity- Peter Bernstein." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 511
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First edition of Charles Dickens' Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi; in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles and gilt pictorial vignettes to the spines, frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi and 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank. With the 36-page undated publisher's catalogue bound-in at the end of vol.2. and plate facing page 238 in the second state. In fine condition. Housed in two half morocco and chemise slipcases.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 121730
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"It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people": First Edition of the the authors Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel; Inscribed by Saul Bellow to Poet R.P. Dickey
BELLOW, Saul.
Humboldt’s Gift.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Saul Bellow to the poet R.P. Dickey. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of shelfwear. Jacket design by Mel Williamson.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 194
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First edition of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader
WOOLF, Virginia.
The Common Reader.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
First edition of this classic collection of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139279
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"What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from": First Edition of Financial Innovations and Market Volatility; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Merton H. Miller
MILLER, Merton H.
Financial Innovations and Market Volatility.
Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1991.
First edition of the Nobel Prize Prize-winning economist's treatise on modern financial innovations. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To my good friend and valued counselor, Charlie Custer Merton H. Miller Chicago, 12/20/91.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Workhaus Graphics.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 49063
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate": First Edition of William Kennedys Ironweed; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, William.
Ironweed.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Boldly signed William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, offsetting to the title page. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140796
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Inscribed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page, "For John with admiration Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 76891
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"No Doubt, the most interesting part of our visit here to-day consists in looking at the great ships and learning a little of how they are built": Arthur O. Cooke's The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard
COOKE, Arthur O.
The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1912.
First edition of Arthur O. Cooke's The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard. Small octavo, original illustrated boards with pictorial pastedown, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with engravings from photographs, three full-page colored plates including frontispiece, mechanical charts. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 104861