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"The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind": The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan; Signed by Bob Dylan
DYLAN, Bob.
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
1963.
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records, boldly signed by Dylan. Whereas his self-titled debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin' represented the beginning of Dylan's writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are Dylan's original compositions. The album opens with "Blowin' in the Wind", which became an anthem of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary soon after the release of Freewheelin'. The album featured several other songs which came to…
Price: $10,500.00 Item Number: 109822
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The Dot and the Line; Signed by Norton Juster
JUSTER, Norton.
The Dot and the Line.
New York: Random House, 1963.
Early printing of this classic work. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Norton Juster on the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket, with inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146182
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First Edition of The Negro Protest; Signed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, James; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King.
The Negro Protest.
Boston: The Beacon Press, 1963.
First edition of this collection of interviews done by Kenneth B. Clark. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a talk with Kenneth B. Clark and with a note about the interviews by Henry Morgenthau III. Bookplate.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 118239
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First Edition of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Inscribed by Stephen Sondheim
SONDHEIM, Stephen; Burt Shevelove.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1963.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kurt Rowley, with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136038
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First Edition of Martin Luther King's Strength to Love; Signed by Him
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Strength to Love.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.
First edition of Dr. King’s second book, of which Coretta Scott King noted, “If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes, Martin Luther King." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 130633
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First American Edition of Brian Wildsmith's ABC; Signed by Him
WILDSMITH, Brian.
Brian Wildsmith’s ABC.
New York: Franklin Watts Inc, 1963.
First American edition. Oblong quarto, original cloth. Signed by Brian Wildsmith on the title page. Some rubbing to the bottom cloth and a bookplate to the inner front panel, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 29082
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First Edition of Beyond the Melting Pot; Inscribed by Nathan Glazer
GLAZER, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, "perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed and dated by Nathan Glazer on the title page. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some edge wear and chips.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 49014
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First Edition of Robert Solow's Capital Theory and the Rate of Return; Inscribed by Him
SOLOW, Robert M.
Capital Theory and the Rate of Return.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1963.
First edition of the Nobel prize-winning economist's De Vries Lectures on economics. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition, name on the front free endpaper.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 46014
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"Vogue has sometimes been called a civilizing force. If that is true, perhaps it is because a civilization, to endure, needs voices to sing its praise": The World in Vogue; inscribed by Cecil Beaton to actress Vivien Leigh
ROSENSON, Audrey; Executive Editor: Paul H. Bonner.
The World in Vogue.
New York: The Viking Press, 1963.
First edition of this work on the groundbreaking publication Vogue. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to actress Vivien Leigh from Cecil Beaton, "Merry Xmas, Vivien darling, with all my love always - Dec. 25/'63." Near fine in a fine dust jacket with a few tears. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 79103
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"The invitation would commit him to nothing more crucial than seeing that she had a pleasant evening and paying the bill. And a man was surely entitled to call his own publishers": First Edition of A Mind To Murder; Lengthily Inscribed by P.D. James
JAMES, P.D.
A Mind To Murder.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by the author on the title page with a transcription from the novel as follows, "The invitation would commit him to nothing more crucial than seeing that she had a pleasant evening and paying the bill. And a man was surely entitled to call his own publishers P.D. James." The inscription is from the final sentence of this novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Mozley. Rare and desirable, especially with such a lengthy inscription and in this condition.
Price: $11,500.00 Item Number: 96896
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"For Susie and Paul Old and good Friends": First Edition of Malamud's Idiots First; Inscribed by Him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Idiots First.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul Old and good friends Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marshall Lee. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 10017
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Rare First Edition of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. [Solzhentizyn].
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, titles to the front panel, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Translated by Ralph Parker. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142203
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“They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive": Ian Flemings Moonraker; Signed by Him
FLEMING, Ian.
Moonraker.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Early printing of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. From the personal collection of a close female friend of Fleming's who visited him in Jamaica frequently. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the spine panel bright and with light wear to the spine extremities. Jacket design by Kenneth Lewis.
Price: $18,000.00 Item Number: 122972
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Confessions of An Advertising Man; Warmly Inscribed by David Ogilvy
OGILVY, David.
Confessions of an Advertising Man.
New York: Atheneum, 1963.
First edition, early printing of this seminal work on advertising. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Irving Lichter from your new partner David Ogilvy, January 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. On the verso of the dust jacket there are "samples of David Ogilvy's wizardry," and it unfolds to reveal six advertisements he created.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140858
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"The Leading And Most Persuasive Explanation of the worst economic Distaster In American History": First Edition of A Monetary History of the United States
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz.
A Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1960.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth. Review copy, with the slip adhered to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 146725