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First edition of The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures; inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry M.; William F. Sharpe; Merton H. Miller.
The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures.
Charlottesville: The Research Foundation of The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 1991.
First edition of this collection of the Nobel lectures of Harry M. Markowitz, William F. Sharpe, and Merton H. Miller. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Harry M. Markowitz on the title page, "Dear William: Best wishes, Harry Markowitz." In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115906
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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Harry Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry; Bernard Hauser; Herbert W. Karr.
Simscript: A Simulation Programming Language.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Small quarto, original wrappers. Inscribed by Harry Markowitz on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon, especially signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5379
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First Edition of The Works of Christopher Marlowe; In the Rare Original Cloth
MARLOWE, Christopher.
The Works of Christopher Marlowe.
London: William Pickering and Others, 1826.
First edition of Marlowe collected works, one of 250 examples. Octavo, original cloth, 3 volumes. Half-titles, wreath devices on title-pages, errata leaf at end of vol.III which is rarely present. In very good condition with some chipping with a few minor losses to spines and extremities. Rare, especially in the original cloth.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 78433
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“Freedom is often the first casualty of war": First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El General en su Laberinto; Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
El General en su Laberinto. [The General in His Labyrinth].
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1989.
First edition of this "fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1990 with a drawing of a flower, "Una flor Para Juana, y un abrazo para Sergio en L.A. Gabo 90." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133247
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 126805
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“Freedom is often the first casualty of war": First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in His Labyrinth
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
The General in His Labyrinth.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Signed limited first edition of this "fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, bound in full leather. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One of 350 copies, this is number 44. Fine in a fine slipcase. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130969
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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ'S NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
No One Writes to the Colonel.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
First English edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora. Translated by J.S. Bernstein.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136357
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“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.": First English Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First English edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137048
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“FREEDOM IS OFTEN THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR": FIRST EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITION OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ'S THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH; SIGNED BY HIM
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
The General in His Labyrinth: A Novel.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2004.
First Everyman's Library edition of this “fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Translated and introduced by Edith Grossman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Arici Graziano. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde and Abby Weintraub.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 137055
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The February 1967 issue of Eco Magazine; containing the first appearance of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien Años de Soledad
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
Cien Años de Soledad. [En Revista De La Cultura De Occidente. Febrero De 1967].
Bogota, Colombia: Librería Buchholz, 1967.
First edition of the February 1967 issue of Revista De La Cultura De Occidente containing the first appearance of a fragment of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien Años de Soledad. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Published between between May 1960 and June 1984, Colombian cultural magazine Eco was instrumental in the development of Colombian literary culture. The eclectic publication exposed Colombian readers to a broad variety of Western (primarily German and American) literature and philosophy and brought together a generation of intellectuals who came to identify with a humanist approach to art and culture. The fragment of Marquez's Cien Anos marks the…
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 138401
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Rare German translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia.
Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1982.
Early German edition of the author’s masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the dedication page, “Para Patricia, del amigo, Gabo 83." Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138432
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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“My wisdom is for my friends, my folly for myself": The Novels of Captain Marryat; Finely Bound
MARRYAT, Frederick.
The Novels of Captain Marryat.
London: J.M. Dent, 1895-96.
Finely bound set of the works of Captain Marryat, one of 750 copies printed on handmade paper. Octavo, complete in 24 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with tissue-guarded frontispieces and plates. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 110464
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First Edition of Alfred Marshall's Money Credit and Commerce; From the Library of Legendary Economist Irving Fisher
MARSHALL, Alfred [Irving Fisher].
Money Credit and Commerce.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of legendary economist Irving Fisher, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Irving Fisher was an economist, statistician, inventor, and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase crafted by Asprey. An important association, linking two giants of economic thought.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 133255
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LIMITED SPONSOR'S EDITION OF JOHN MARSHALL’S LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON; SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR PHILEMON TECUMSEH SHERMAN
MARSHALL, John [George Washington].
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States.
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co, 1925.
Sponsor's edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington; specially prepared for Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, five volumes bound in full leatherette, tissue-guarded frontispieces in each volume, illustrated with several tissue-guarded plates in each volume. Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities and spine of each volume. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145735
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FIRST EDITION OF JOHN MARSHALL’S LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, WITH THE SCARCE ATLAS VOLUME
MARSHALL, John. [George Washington].
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. [WITH] The Life of George Washington: Maps and Subscriber’s Names.
Philadelphia: C.P. Wayne, 1804-1807.
First edition, first issue of the first biography of George Washington with the scarce atlas volume and list of subscribers. Octavo, six volumes, bound in full contemporary tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington to volume I. With the scarce atlas volume which is bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards and contains 10 engraved maps, 9 folding, and the 22-page list of subscribers. In very good condition. A rare and complete set in an attractive contemporary binding.
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 131234