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First edition of Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941; signed by John M. Erskine
[ERSKINE, J. M.].
Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1941].
First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine beneath his portrait, "J.M. Erskine 27/1/42." Fine in the original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124099
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"The most dangerous woman in America": First edition of the Autobiography of Mother Jones
JONES, Mary G. Harris. [Mother Jones].
Autobiography of Mother Jones.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1925.
First edition of the autobiography of the most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mother Jones. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by Mary Field Parton. Introduction by Clarence Darrow. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 123791
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“There were many times when logic was of no comfort": First Edition of Patricia Highsmith's Deep Water; Signed by Her
HIGHSMITH, Patricia.
Deep Water.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
First edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Very best wishes, Pat Highsmith." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Polly Cameron. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 123562
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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower; Signed by Her
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Parable of the Sower.
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
Early printing of this classic post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from the award-winning author which "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stark Design. Interior design by Marcy Kass. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 123464
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First Edition of Sea of Cortez; Inscribed by John Steinbeck
STEINBECK, John and E. F. Ricketts.
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.
New York : The Viking Press, 1941.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Some offsetting to the half-title page, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by W.V. Eckhardt.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 123887
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Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth; Signed by Chris Ware
WARE, Chris.
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
New York : Pantheon Books, 2000.
First edition of the author's inventive first book, which Publishers Weekly called "graphically inventive, wonderfully realized." Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed and dated by Chris Ware with a drawing of stars. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 123992
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"Like wind we come, like waves we go": First American edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; from the library of Samuel Clemens with his ownership and gift inscriptions
OMAR KHAYYáM. [SAMUEL L. CLEMENS I.E. MARK TWAIN],.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878.
First American edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from the library of Samuel Clemens. Octavo, original decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of Samuel Clemens with his ownership signature and presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "SL Clemens Hartford 1878" and "Transferred to Miss Henry G. Brooks with the kindest regards of S.L. Clemens May 1884." With scribbles and hash-marks in pencil to blank margins, presumably in Twain's hand, similar to the annotated ninth edition at the Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College. In very good condition with loss to the…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 123424
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"Peace is always preferable... but war is news": First edition of Israel at War
ERED, E; Ch. Yaniv; N. May-Tal [Editors].
Israel at War: June 5-10, 1967 A Pictorial Record.
London: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1967.
First edition of this pictorial record of the Six-Day War. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jesse Zierler.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126941
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First Edition, first issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
STEVENSON, Robert Louis .
A Child’s Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123972
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Johann Gottfried Herder's Ausgewahlte Dichtungen
HERDER, Johann Gottfried .
Herder’s Ausgewahlte Dichtungen.
Stuttgart: J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder's selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128406
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First edition of Henry Williamson's Love and the Loveless
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.
First edition of the seventh novel in the author's semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128063
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First edition in English of Ragnar Frisch's Theory of Production
FRISCH, Ragnar.
Theory of Production.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1965.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian economist's work on production theory. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 127011
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"You've lots of friends, let me be among them": Rare original sketch signed and inscribed by American painter Franz Kline
KLINE, Franz.
Franz Kline “The Boy Friend” Original Signed Sketch.
Rare original sketch signed and inscribed by American painter Franz Kline. One page, with pen and ink caricature sketches on both the recto and verso. Kline has drawn five caricatures on the recto which he has signed and titled "The Boyfriend". On the verso, he has drawn a single figure and inscribed the work, "You've lots of friends let me be among them. Franz Kline." In near fine condition. A rare and desirable piece exhibiting Kline's early style. Framed.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 123539
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"Kabul towns by Kabul river, blow the bugle, draw the sword!": Rare sheet music printing of Rudyard Kipling's Ford O'Kabul River
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Ford O’Kabul River. No 2. Of the Second Series of Barrack-Room Ballads. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Gerard F. Cobb.
London: Cas. Sheard & Co, 1895.
Rare sheet music printing of Rudyard Kipling's Ford O'Kabul River, a song from Barrack-Room Ballads. Folio, bound in one quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good condition. Bound with several other pieces including Ciro Pinsuti's Bedouin Love Song.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 126930
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Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Just So Song Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc: Garden City, 1903.
First edition of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123113
