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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Washington D.C.; Inscribed by him to his sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Washington, D.C.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.
First edition of the final volume in Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second title page, "Valerie from Gore, 1968." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author's sister. Vidal's father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheridan Germann. An exceptional association.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 125449
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First Edition of Robert Kennedy’s Manifesto To Seek A Newer World; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, Robert F.
To Seek A Newer World.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967.
First edition of Robert Kennedy's classic fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert F. Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket photograph by Lawrence Fried.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131782
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First Edition of Sam Shepard's Five Plays
SHEPARD, Sam.
Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.
Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Patrick Sullivan from photographs by Hope Wurmfeld.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 141325
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know": Rare First Edition of James Salter's A Sport And A Pastime; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
A Sport And A Pastime.
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.
First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher's compliments of the author laid in, fine in a good dust jacket with a few chips. Jacket collage by Alex Gotfryd. First editions are exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146210
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Signed Limited Edition of Pablo Neruda's We Are Many
NERUDA, Pablo.
We Are Many.
Cape Coliard Press, 1967.
Signed limited edition, one of only 100 examples, this is number 65. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with a cut-out by Jim Dine. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda and the translator Alistair Reid. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alistair Reid. Photographs by Hans Ehrmann.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 133314
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First edition of Bonamy Dobree's Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist
DOBREE, Bonamy.
Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
First edition of Dobree's fresh approach to Kipling's philosophy, poetry, and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Stamp to the title page, lacking the front free endpaper, tape remnants.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 135942
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"With all my heart, the flower beyond": Rare First Edition of the Author’s Masterpiece Cien Anos de Soledad; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to close friend Juana Munoz
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Cien Anos de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967.
First 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 with a large drawing of a flower, "Para Juana, con todo el corazon, la flor mas alla, Gabo." [For Juana, with all my heart, the flower beyond]. The recipient, Juana Munoz, was a close friend of Marquez and wife of Sergio Munoz. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house…
Price: $30,000.00 Item Number: 132338
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Sarah Churchill's A Thread in the Tapestry; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
CHURCHILL, Sarah [Winston S. Churchill].
A Thread in the Tapestry.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's deeply moving eulogy of her father, Sir Winston Churchill. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139833
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Spenser's Images of Life
LEWIS, C.S. Edited by Alastair Fowler.
Spenser’s Images of Life.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
First edition of Lewis' longest piece of literary criticism, posthumously compiled by Alastair Fowler. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Will Carter.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140466
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First Edition of A Long Way Up: The Story of Jill Kinmont; Inscribed by Jill Kinmont
VALENS, E.G. [Jill Kinmont].
A Long Way Up: The Story of Jill Kinmont.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of this powerful biography of Jill Kinmont. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Burk Uzzle and others. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kinmont on the front front free endpaper, "To Dr. Robinson, Thank you for your nice letter. Best Wishes- Jill Kinmont 2-27-67." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124068
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First Edition of Martin Luther's King Jr.'s Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?; inscribed by him
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Carl Colodne, With Best Wishes for Peace and Justice, Martin Luther King Jr." Fine in a fine dust jacket, small name. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 137331
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": Rare First Edition of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
London: Faber & Faber, 1967.
First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139108
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else": Rare First Edition of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Signed Twice by Tom Stoppard
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
London: Faber & Faber, 1967.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed twice by Tom Stoppard, once on the title page and again on a bookplate with the Union Jack flag to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 141432
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Signed by Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein.
LAWRENCE R. KLEIN & MICHAEL K. EVANS,.
The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Model.
University of Pennsylvania, 1967.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with some offsetting and light spotting the front panel. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Lawrence Klein on the title page.
Price: $875.00 Item Number: 3797
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"Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb": Rare Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of A Grain of Wheat; Inscribed by Ngugi
NGUGI, James.
A Grain of Wheat.
London: William Heinemann, 1967.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Warmly inscribed by Ngugi on the title page, "For John Your favorite? Mine too! Ngugi." In very good condition with some spotting to the wrappers.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 45014
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First Edition of Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife; Inscribed by Her and Signed by Actor Richard Benjamin
KAUFMAN, Sue [Richard Benjamin].
Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel.
New York : Random House, 1967.
First edition of this classic, bestselling novel of Central Park West ennui -- and a seminal piece of urban women's fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'To Kornby with love Sue Kaufman." Additionally signed by actor Richard Benjamin, who starred in the film bearing the same name. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Larry Ratzkin. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 124902