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First Edition of Up From Liberalism; Signed by William F. Buckley
BUCKLEY, William F.
Up From Liberalism.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William F. Buckley on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 130002
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"YES I LOVE YOU BUDDY": First Separate Edition OF ONE CHRISTMAS, SIGNED BY CAPOTE
CAPOTE, Truman.
One Christmas.
New York: Ladies' Home Journal, 1982.
First separate edition of this work by Capote, an offprint put out by the Ladies' Home Journal in advance of the story's appearance in the December 1982 issue. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Truman Capote on the front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 109651
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying": The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick; finely bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf
HERRICK, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.
London: William Pickering, 1825.
Finely bound nineteenth century printing of Herrick's collected poems. Octavo, two volumes bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137228
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"The sun will come out tomorrow": First edition of Thomas Meehan's Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story; signed by him and three 1997 U.S. touring cast members
MEEHAN, Thomas. Illustrated by Julia Noonan.
Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1980.
First edition of the Tony Award-winning storyline of the popular Broadway musical. Octavo, original half cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated by Julian Noonan. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Thanks, Thomas Meehan", "Love, Mary K. Lombardi (Annie)", "Norwood Smith 'Daddy Warbucks'", and "Ruth Kobart Miss Hannigan." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125981
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"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind": First Edition of Middlesex; Lengthily Inscribed by Jeffrey Eugenides
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey.
Middlesex.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John, "Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind." Eugenides." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. Jacket photograph by Marc Yankus.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126292
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First Edition of Richard Posner's The Economics of Justice; Inscribed by Him
POSNER, Richard A.
The Economics of Justice.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
First edition of Posner's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Roger with all best wishes Dick Posner." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 85890
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"One of the best musicals of the century": Original tour program from the 1961 U.S. tour of My Fair Lady starring Ronald Drake and Caroline Dixon
LERNER, Alan Jay. Music by Frederick Loewe.
Original My Fair Lady Tour Program.
New York: Kal Efron, .
Original program from the 1961 U.S. tour of My Fair Lady starring Ronald Drake and Caroline Dixon. Quarto, illustrated with photographs. Signed and inscribed by Ronald Drake, Margaret Bannerman, Marie Paxton, Charles Vistory, Hugh Dempster, and Katharine Hynes. In very good condition. A unique example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 95285
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“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate”: First Edition of The Piano Teacher; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek
JELINEK, Elfriede.
The Piano Teacher.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the title page, "For Adrian Elfriede Jelinek Wien, 12.1.09." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. Jacket illustration by Michael Christman. Author's photograph by Eva Kern. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133735
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"THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAPPENS TO BE MYSELF IS ONLY OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE": FIRST EDITION OF CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S LIONS AND SHADOWS
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.
First edition of Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104893
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Rare first edition of Hornblower One More Time; signed by Alexander Kent
FORESTER, C.S. [Alexander Kent].
Hornblower One More Time.
Tacoma: The Non-Profit Press, 1976.
First edition of this collection of three Hornblower stories never before published in book form. Octavo, original boards, cartographic endpapers. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Alexander Kent of an edition of 350 numbered copies. Additionally one of 15 copies with one of the co-sponsors' gilt names to the front panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131908
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First Edition of The Mafia Conspiracy; Inscribed by John Scarne in the year of publication
SCARNE, John.
The Mafia Conspiracy.
North Bergen, NJ: Scarne Enterprises, 1976.
First edition of this interesting overview of the Mafia. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Walter and Litzka Gibson Best Wishes John Scarne 5/4/76." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145645
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Rare Signed Portrait of Canadian Golfer George Seymour Lyon; inscribed by him
LYON, George Seymour.
George Seymour Lyon Signed Portrait.
1931.
Rare half-tone portrait of Canadian golf legend George Lyon. Signed by Lyon, "Geo. S. Lyon." Period frame. The entire piece measures 8.25 inches by 5.75 inches. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 112303
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First Edition of James M. McPherson's Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction; Inscribed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
First edition of this classic work, now in its fourth edition. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 71 photographs and 37 maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To Rebecca and Clarke Sherman Best wishes from James McPherson March 28, 1991." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by James M. Wall.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137392
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First Edition of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests; Signed by Him
SOYINKA, Wole.
A Dance of the Forests.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
First edition of Soyinka's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Wole Soyinka on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 123932
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First edition in English of Henri See's Modern Capitalism in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SEE, Henri [Henry].
Modern Capitalism: Its Origin and Evolution.
London: Noel Douglas, 1928.
First edition in English of See's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Translated by Homer B. Vanderblue and Georges F. Doroit.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132345