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The Visit of Pope John Paul II New York Times front page Souvenir; signed by Mother Teresa and Terence Cardinal Cooke
BOJAXHIU, Mary Teresa [Mother Teresa]; Terence Cardinal Cooke; [Pope John Paul II].
Mother Teresa and Terence Cardinal Cooke Signed ‘Visit of Pope John Paul II’ New York Times Front Page Souvenir.
Souvenir printing of The New York Times October 3, 1979 front page commemorating Pope John Paul II's visit to New York, signed by Mother Teresa and Terence Cardinal Cooke. One page, featuring a printed front cover of the New York Times from October 3, 1979, with images and articles commemorating Pope John Paul II's visit to New York, signed in the lower left in black felt tip, "God bless you, M Teresa mc." The sheet, which is also signed in felt tip by Terence Cardinal Cooke, features a 15-cent stamp and a cancellation postmarked on October 2, 1979, at Papal…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146993
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First Edition of "This Masterwork of Photojournalism" Vietnam Inc.; Signed by Noam Chomsky
GRIFFITHS, Philip Jones [Noam Chomsky].
Vietnam, Inc.
New York: Collier Books, 1971.
First edition of Philip Jones Griffith's first book. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky, who in a later edition contributed an introduction to this volume. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146352
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Rare Stock Certificate For the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company; Signed by Financier and Railway Executive E. H. Harriman
HARRIMAN, Edward Henry.
Edward Henry Harriman Signed Stock Certificate for the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company.
New York: Central Trust Company of New York, 1895.
Rare Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company stock certificate signed by American financier and railroad executive E.H. Harriman. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated December 19, 1895 and issues 100 shares of the Capital Stock in the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Co. to Harriman. The document reads in part: 'This certifies that "E. H. Harriman" is the owner of one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Cedar Falls and Minnesota No. N916 Railroad Company of one hundred dollars each transferable on the books of the Company upon the surrender of…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146742
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's The Nature of Necessity; Signed by Him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
The Nature of Necessity.
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 139212
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First edition of Pat Franks second novel An Affair of the State; lengthily inscribed by him
FRANK, Pat.
An Affair of the State.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1948.
First edition of Frank's classic Cold War political thriller, inspired in part by his experiences as an international journalist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free paper, "For Betty Wells - In the hope that some part of this book comes true. Pat Frank." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed examples are uncommon.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 124045
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First Edition of Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook; Signed by Alice Waters
WATERS, Alice.
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition of Waters' first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Alice Waters on the half-title page. Near fine in a near very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Written in collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel. Recipes edited by Carolyn Dille. Designed and illustrated by David Lance Goines.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 130561
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First Edition of Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert E. Lucas
STOKEY, Nancy L.; Robert E. Lucas.
Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert E. Lucas on the front free endpaper, "For Mark- with best wishes- Robert E. Lucas Jr." In near fine condition, small stamp to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142699
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"Sinatra's First Western": Rare "Johnny Concho" Poster; signed by Frank Sinatra
SINATRA, Frank.
Frank Sinatra Signed “Johnny Concho” Poster.
Rare magazine poster featuring a full-length portrait of Frank Sinatra as Johnny Concho, inscribed by him, "For Bonnie - Affectionately Frank." In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 132490
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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence": First Edition of Israel: A personal History, Signed by David Ben Gurion
BEN-GURION, David.
Israel: A Personal History.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Inc, 1971.
First edition of Ben-Gurion's Israel: A Personal History. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by David Ben-Gurion on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition, owner signature to the half-title page.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 99343
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“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life": First Edition of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To To Find
O'CONNOR, Flannery.
A Good Man Is Hard To To Find.
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.
Review copy first edition, first state book with “tyring” on page 125; first-issue dust jacket with reviews for Wise Blood on rear panel of O'Connor's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with the review slip attached to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 99871
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“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept": First Edition of Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel Angle of Repose; Inscribed by Him
STEGNER, Wallace.
Angle of Repose.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John with best wishes Wallace Stegner November 9, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by E.D.N. Designs. Photograph of the author by Alex Gotfryd. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 118652
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"For Alice Adams one of our Planned Parenthood Mother of four lovely children my congratulations and admiration": First Edition of The Margaret Sanger Story; Lengthily Inscribed by Sanger to Fellow Writer Alice Adams
LADER, Lawrence [Margaret Sanger].
The Margaret Sanger Story.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955.
First edition of the biography of the founder of the American birth-control movement. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Sanger on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Alice Adams one of our Planned Parenthood Mother of four lovely children my congratulations and admiration Margaret Sanger April 17 55."The recipient Alice Adams was a novelist and short story writer. Her first novel was Careless Love and after began publishing stories in The New Yorker. She wrote eleven novels, including the bestseller Superior Women. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 5040
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Rare 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer printed by John Baskett
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.
University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1716.
Rare 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer printed by John Baskett. Octavo, bound in full contemporary morocco richly decorated in gilt with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, extra-illustrated with additional engraved title page, frontispiece, and 50 engraved plates, red ruled borders. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 140601
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First edition of David Dreman's Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success; inscribed by him to fellow economist John Pugsley
DREMAN, David.
Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of Dreman's revolutionary work on the stock market success. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ken with best regards David." The recipient, Keniston P. Merrill worked as a financial analyst for TIAA-CREF in New York City from 1957-1964. In 1965, he joined The Five Arrow's Fund as a financial analyst. Five Arrows later became New Court Securities and then Rothschild, Inc. where Ken rose to Managing Director. In 1982, Ken left Rothschild and joined National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier as Chief Investment Officer and President and Chief…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 141431
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Rare autograph note signed by famed English writer Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling Autograph Note Signed.
Sept. 2, 1917.
Rare autograph note signed by and in the hand of Rudyard Kipling. 12mo, one page on Kipling's Bateman's house letterhead, the note reads in full, "Sep. 2, 1917 Dear Dr. Curtiss, Would you please come down to Bateman's as soon as may be to see Mrs. Kipling who is suffering from a sudden attack of illness that I cannot make out the nature of. Very sincerely, Rudyard Kipling." A 17th-century house located in Burwash, East Sussex, Bateman's was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until his death in 1936. Kipling wrote some of his finest works at the house…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142237