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The Double Helix; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist James D. Watson
WATSON, James D.
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
New York: Atheneum, 1969.
First edition, fifth printing of Watson's ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Octavo, original blue cloth, with numerous diagrams and photographic illustrations. Boldly signed by James D. Watson on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong. Foreword by Sir Lawrence Bragg.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146168
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"An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12": Official NASA 'EVA' Photograph; Lengthily Signed by Alan Bean
BEAN, Alan.
Alan Bean Signed ‘EVA’ Photograph.
Official NASA photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean. Glossy color photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean using a fuel transfer tool on the Lunar Module. Lengthily signed by Alan Bean in silver felt pen, "An island of refuge in an ocean of storms Alan Bean Apollo 12." In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146031
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge": First Edition of The Discoverers; Inscribed by Daniel Boorstin in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search To Know His World and Himself.
New York: Random House, 1983.
First edition, early printing of this "grand and exhilirating voyage, a bold attempt to circumnavigate the intellectual globe" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Thick octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free end paper, "For Jeanne Perkins- fellow discoverer- from Daniel J. Boorstin June 6, 1989." Also, laid in is a signed letter from Boorstin's wife on their letterhead. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133633
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM; Inscribed by Writer and Publisher Elbert Hubbard to His Niece
KHAYYAM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; [Elbert Hubbard].
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906.
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay and Introduction by Clarence S. Darrow. Oblong duodecimo, original half red suede over black boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, red leather spine label, top edge gilt, illustrated with decorated headpiece, tailpieces, and initials by W. W. Denslow. Association copy, inscribed by writer and publisher Elbert Hubbard to his niece on the front flyleaf, "To Mrs. Wellman with love and blessing, from her uncle Elbert Hubbard." In very good condition with rubbing to the corners…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146576
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"To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas": First Edition of Robert M. Parker's Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
First edition of Robert M. Parker's first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Don To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas Robert M. Parker." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147055
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First edition of Eden Phillpotts' Children of the Mist; with an autograph letter signed by him and inscribed by English swindler Whitaker Wright
PHILLPOTTS, Eden [Whitaker Wright].
Children of the Mist: A Novel.
London: A. D. Innes & Company, 1898.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by famed English swindler Whitaker Wright on the front free endpaper, "Clara Hubbard from Mr. Whitaker Wright Lea park Mitford Surrey." Whitaker Wright was regarded as a financial wizard at the turn of the 20th century in London. He built the Park Lane house at the height of his power. Like his celebrated country home at Lea Park, where he had music and billiard rooms under an artificial lake, No. 18 Park Lane was a…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137170
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": First authorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Abaft the Funnel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author's note noting Dodge's previously unauthorized edition "issued without my knowledge or sanction". Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 122341
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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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Signed Photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
THE DALAI LAMA,.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.
Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Glossy color photograph of a bust portrait of His Holiness The Dalai Lama in scarlet monk's robes, boldly signed by him. In very good condition with light creasing to the corner and a moderate crease across the center. The piece measures 7 inches by 5 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145416
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"My sympathies are with the suffragettes": Rare English parlor game book containing numerous early 20th century signatures
[MACKENZIE, Poppy].
The Truth About My Friends.
London: Dow & Lester, n.d.
Small parlor game book belonging to Poppy Mackenzie, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or "truth" (one of them being "My sympathies are with the suffragettes"), below which the participants have signed their name. In good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135645
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"Who ere while the happy Garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost, now sing": Finely Bound Set of The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton
MILTON, John.
The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton [Including Paradise Lost].
London: John Macrone, 1835.
Finely bound set of Milton's poetical works including his masterpiece Paradise Lost. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in full brown calf, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, raised bands, red and black morocco spine labels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Edited by Sir Edgerton Brydges. Illustratations by J.M.W. Turner. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 102379
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Rare First Edition of Douglas Jerrold's A Man Made of Money
JERROLD, Douglas.
A Man Made of Money.
London: Punch, 1848-49.
First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scarce in the original wrappers.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 121345
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"History is everywhere. It seeps into the soil, the sub-soil. Like rain, or hail, or snow, or blood": First edition of Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation; inscribed by her to Erica Jong
O'BRIEN, Edna [Erica Jong].
House of Splendid Isolation.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.
First edition of O'Briend's haunting and delicately poetic thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "My dear Erica - to meet again and to find you as a friend. Love Edna Dec. 94." The recipient, Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 142675
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Signed limited edition of Roald Dahl's Two Fables; one of 300 copies signed by him
DAHL, Roald.
Two Fables.
Middlesex: Viking, 1986.
Signed limited edition of Dahl's short fable collection. Octavo, original half leather with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Graham Dean. One of a limited edition of 300 books signed by Dahl and published by Viking in honor of Dahl's seventieth birthday, this is number 267. In near fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 129318