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Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy; Signed by Both
MASTERS, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson.
Human Sexual Inadequacy.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Emery based on a design by George Price. We have never encountered another signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117478
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Donald G. Mathews and Jane Sherron de Hart's Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation; Inscribed by de Hart to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
MATHEWS, Donald G; Jane Sherron de Hart [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
First paperback edition of this "comprehensive analysis of the politics of the Equal Rights Amendment" (Journal of American History). Octavo, original publisher's pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by co-author Jane Sherron de Hart on the half title page, "For Ruth Bader Ginsberg [sic] with admiration Jane De H." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed “the…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 146580
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First edition of The Chief European Dramatists; from the library of American actor Zachary Scott
MATTHEWS, Brander [Zachary Scott].
The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-One Plays From the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway From 500 B.C. to 1879 A.D.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
First edition of this compilation of the plays of the great dramatists. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen, The Unfaithful, Shotgun, Man in the Shadow, and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott’s bookplate and ownership inscription to the pastedown. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115680
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First edition of Secondhand is Better; inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley to Kenneth David Burrows
MATTHEWS, Douglas; Suzanne Wymelenberg; and Susan Cheever Cowley [Erica Jong].
Secondhand is Better (2H=B).
New York: Arbor House, 1975.
First edition of this unique handbook to secondhand buying. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley on the front free endpaper, "To Burrows, without whose diverse and grateful help this book - and a lot of other things - would not have been possible. Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142533
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"The sun coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds": First Edition of Far Tortuga; Signed by Peter Matthiessen
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
Far Tortuga.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 3917
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First Edition of The End of the Earth; Inscribed by Him
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2003.
First edition of this “luminous and haunting work . . . the contemporary Thoreau" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ian Kind Regards Peter Matthiessen." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bea Jackson. With photographs by Birgit Freybe Bateman.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 130747
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"I feel great gratitude for being here- for being, rather, for there is no need to be oneself in the snow mountains in order to feel free": First Edition of The Snow Leopard; Signed by Peter Matthiessen
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
The Snow Leopard.
New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
First edition of this classic work of modern nature writing. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by George B. Schaller. Maps by Paul J. Pugliese.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144012
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From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name SW Hawking, on the front free endpaper
MATZNER, Richard A. and L.C. Sheply (editors).
Spacetime and Geometry: The Alfred Schild Lectures.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
First edition of this work on space. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 119377
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First edition of Aylmer Maude's Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics
MAUDE, Aylmer. [Leo Tolstoy].
Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.
First edition of this collection of Maude's essays, including one of "one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century", Tolstoy's What is Art? (The Empire Review). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 128538
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Rare Signed limited edition of Maugham's address to the Library of Congress upon the Library's acceptance of the original manuscript of Of Human Bondage
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Of Human Bondage With a Digression on the Art of Fiction: And Address by Somerset Maugham.
Washington: The Library of Congress, 1946.
Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library's acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 500 copies signed by W. Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original accompanying program which is in very good condition. The program contains a brief description of the original autograph manuscript which notes that it is contained in 16 notebooks written on the recto of each leaf, begun in 1911 and finished in 1914.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 108345
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Rare First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's On A Chinese Screen in the original dust jacket
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
On A Chinese Screen.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor's Edge. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear and expert restoration.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 115242
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Rare autograph letter signed by W. Somerset Maugham
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
W. Somerset Maugham Autograph Letter Signed.
Autograph letter signed by the author of The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham. One page, on Messages Maritimes letterhead, the letter reads, "On the way to Port Said at sea. My dear Miller Thank you very much for sending me a cable on my first night. It was kind of you to think of me at that trying moment. Since it took £404 on the second night I think it has got something. Yours very faithfully, W.S. Maugham." The recipient, Gilbert Heron Miller was an American theatrical producer who collaborated with Maugham on several plays including The Constant Wife and…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115513
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"these notes made in boats, on the road, and in strange towns": First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's On A Chinese Screen, Warmly Inscribed by Him
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
On A Chinese Screen.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor's Edge. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Edward Wassermann these notes made in boats, on the road, and in strange towns W. Somerset Maugham." In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 116152
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"THE FACT THAT A GREAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE SOMETHING IS NO GUARANTEE OF ITS TRUTH”: Rare Original Sketch of the Dust Jacket of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge; Signed by him
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge Original Dust Jacket Design Signed.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
Rare W. Somerset Maugham’s original ink sketch showing his dust jacket design concept for his greatest novel, The Razor’s Edge, executed on a blank Western Union telegram form, which was followed by the publisher pretty much to the letter. A striking piece of literary history demonstrating that the author’s intentions for the book were honored from the text to the jacket itself, including his signature Moroccan symbol, used on nearly all his books, including reprints; and an interesting example of a major author’s notion of self-representation. In his autobiographical book, The Summing Up, Maugham wrote of the symbol: “[My father]…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 128489
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered; inscribed by him to Elsie Tritton
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinamann Ltd, 1932.
First edition of Maugham's popular play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "by W. Somerset Maugham for Elsie Tritton." The recipient, Elsie Tritton, was a noted collector and friend of Maugham's who introduced him to Alan Searle. A younger man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had previously embarked upon an affair with the writer Lytton Strachey. Maugham began a relationship with him after his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944. In 1962, Maugham attempted to adopt Searle as his son and heir when he disowned his daughter after a financial dispute,…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133055
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's Sheppy; inscribed by him to Elsie Tritton
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Sheppey: A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933.
First edition of Maugham's final play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "The author's last play for Elsie Tritton W. Somerset Maugham." The recipient, Elsie Tritton, was a noted collector and friend of Maugham‘s who introduced him to Alan Searle. A younger man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had previously embarked upon an affair with the writer Lytton Strachey. Maugham began a relationship with him after his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944. In 1962, Maugham attempted to adopt Searle as his son and heir when he disowned his daughter…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133056