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"For your affectionate support over so many years, my deep gratitude": First Edition of DNA Synthesis; Warmly Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Arthur Kornberg to the co-discoverer of DNA polymerase
KORNBERG, Arthur.
DNA Synthesis.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1974.
First edition of this important work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Bob: For your affectionate support over so many years, my deep gratitude Arthur August 8, 1974." The recipient, Robert Lehman was a colleague of Kornberg's at Stanford and was a co-discoverer of DNA polymerase. In near fine condition. With the original publicity card laid in.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130734
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First Edition of Alexandre Dumas' Henri III et sa Cour
DUMAS, Alexandre (Alexander).
Henri III et sa Cour.
Paris: Vezard et Cie, 1829.
Rare first edition of Dumas' first play. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. This work also includes Maximes et Pensées Du Prisonnier De Sainte-Hélène. In near fine condition with light toning. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 87497
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First Edition of George Cornewall Lewis' Remarks on The Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms
LEWIS, George Cornewall.
Remarks on The Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms.
London: B. Fellowes, 1832.
First edition of Cornewall Lewis' classic work. Octavo, original boards. From the library of American journalist William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134502
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"To Admiral Richard E. Byrd and the remembrance of his 1933 Antarctic Expedition": First Edition of Adolphus W. Greely's Three Years of Arctic Service; Inscribed by E. Griffith Dodson to Polar Explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd
GREELY, Adolphus W.
Three Years of Arctic Service: Volumes I & II.
New York: Scribners, 1886.
First edition of this narrative record of the harrowing Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Adolphus Greely to Vol. I and Fort Conger, Grinnell Land May 20 1883 to Vol. II, heavily illustrated with engravings, charts and nine maps, two folding and one in a pocket at the end of Vol. II. Inscribed by American lawyer and Democratic politician Edward Griffith Dodson on the front pastedown of Vol. I to Admiral Richard E. Byrd, pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics, and the members of his 1933…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145350
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Partial Set in Parts
WELLS, H.G.
The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Partial Set in Parts.
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1919-20.
First edition of the original parts of Wells' classic work. Quarto, original wrappers, 12 volumes, with full-color covers and many illustrations in color throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom case.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120473
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16th Century Edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Corbaccio [The Crow]
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Il Corbaccio. [The Crow].
Paris: Federigo Morello, 1569.
Rare sixteenth century edition of this literary work in the original Italian. Duodecimo, original full vellum. In near fine condition with light splitting to the front interior hinge.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146435
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James Fields' Yesterdays With Authors; elaborately bound in full morocco by tout
FIELDS, James T.
Yesterdays With Authors.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882.
Finely bound illustrated edition of Fields' Yesterdays with Authors. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Tout with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt decorative cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, watered silk doublures and endleaves, gilt topstain, extra illustrated with 61 rare plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Charles Dickens, and engraved portraits of Thackeray, Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and many others. In near fine condition. Bookplate.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 122843
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"When I'm Six I'll fix Anthony": First Edition of I'll Fix Anthony; Signed by Judith Viorst
VIORST, Judith; Pictures by Arnold Lobel.
I’ll Fix Anthony.
New York: Harper & Row,Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Signed by the author opposite the title page, "Wen I'm six, I'll fix Anthony- Judith Viorst." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5687
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; finely bound by Riviere & Son
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Edited by Rev. Walter W. Skeat.
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920.
Finely bound example of Chaucer's complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, supplied tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A nice binding.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130504
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First edition of Emanuel Hertz's Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue.
HERTZ, Emanuel. [Abraham Lincoln].
Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue.
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1927.
First edition of Hertz’s compilation of tributes delivered upon the occasion of the death of President Lincoln. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 131608
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First Edition of James McPherson's The Struggle for Equality; Signed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by James McPherson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137871
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"You can twist perception. Reality won't budge": Rare Presto CD; Signed By Rush lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee
LEE, Geddy.
Geddy Lee Signed Presto CD.
Toronto: Anthem Records Inc, 1989.
Rare 'Presto' album CD, signed by lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee. Duodecimo, original CD case and illustrated lyrics booklet. Boldly signed by Lee in blue felt tip on the front panel of the lyrics booklet. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146558
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"Belongs in Every Golfer’s Library" (Tom Watson): First Edition of Golfing Great Byron Nelson's Winning Golf; Inscribed by Him
NELSON, Byron.
Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1946.
First edition of Nelson's first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To G.R. Tate Best Wishes Byron Nelson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A superior example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146822
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Inscribed by Tim Sample and Signed by Stephen King
SAMPLE, Tim; Introduction by Stephen King.
The New Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner.
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1996.
First printing of the second edition. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Inscribed by Tim Sample on the title page. Additionally signed by Stephen King, who wrote the introduction to this volume. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 19022
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First edition of James Ford Rhodes' The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909; finely bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf
RHODES, James Ford [William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt].
The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
First edition of Rhodes' authoritative work on the McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139557
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Rare first edition of Josiah Tucker's A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely
[TUCKER, Josiah].
A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely: Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the Subject of American Affairs.
London: Printed by R. Raikes and Sold by T. Cadell, 1776.
First and only edition of this important Revolutionary tract in which Tucker advocates granting the colonies independence. Octavo, bound in paper wrappers. Sabin 97360. In very good condition with restoration to the extremities of the first few leaves.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 127150