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"The greatest description of war since Goya" (Henri Cartier-Bresson); Vietnam Inc.; Signed by Noam Chomsky
GRIFFITH, Philip Jones; Foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Vietnam Inc.
New York: Phaidon Press, 2001.
First edition of the re-release of classic photojournalist work. Folio, original black boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125511
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First Edition of The Diehl-Vardon Golf Manual; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DIEHL, R.W. and Tom Vardon.
Diehl-Vardon Golf Manual: Golf Complete.
St. Paul: Western Golf Publishing Co, 1927.
First edition of this early golf instructional manual. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs. Some light dampstaining, near fine in the rare original dust jacket. Murdoch 203; D&M 15090; D&J D14740.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 75680
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First edition, limited issue of RICHARD R. HOLMES' QUEEN VICTORIA; PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVED PORTRAITS FROM THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS
HOLMES, Richard R. [Queen Victoria].
Queen Victoria.
London: Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1897.
First edition, limited issue of this finely illustrated account of the life and reign of Queen Victoria compiled and edited by the librarian to the Queen, Richard Holmes, to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. Folio, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling and central royal Coat of Arms to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of the Queen and Prince of Wales, profusely illustrated with tissue guarded engravings after portraits from the Royal…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139233
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"Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village": First Edition of Omeros; Warmly Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet
WALCOTT, Derek.
Omeros.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dagmar thanks for a wonderbar evening in der kneipe Derek." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Sigrid Nama. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133145
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First Edition of Thomas McGuane's The Sporting Club; Signed by Him
MCGUANE, Thomas.
The Sporting Club.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969.
First edition of this brilliant work by a "a major American writer, one of the best of his generation" (Time Magazine). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas McGuane on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kaye Bellman. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142316
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Rare finely bound example of John Dunton's Letters From New-England
DUNTON, John.
John Dunton’s Letters From New-England.
Boston: Printed For the Society, 1867.
The Prince Society edition of Dunton's letters from New England. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt. One of twenty numbered copies printed on large paper, this is number 5. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135164
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First Edition of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Signed by Legendary Director Oliver Stone and photographer Barry Wetcher
STONE, Oliver and Stanley Weiser.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
New York: Newmarket Press, 2010.
First edition. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone and photographer Barry Wetcher on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133568
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“This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels" (Cyril Connolly): First Edition of Down There On a Visit; Inscribed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Vincente Urbistondo, with my best wishes Christopher Isherwood Oct 22 1967." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 110673
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Rare first edition of Prospects in Mathematics; signed by John Milnor
HIRZEBRUCH, F.; Lars Hormander; John Milnor; Jean-Pierre Serre; I.M. Singer.
Annals of Mathematics Studies No. 70: Prospects in Mathematics.
Princeton, New Jersey: Annals of Mathematics Studies Princeton University Press, 1971.
First edition of the papers from the "Prospects in Mathematics" symposium, held in Princeton on March 16-18, 1970 on the occasion of the dedication of Princeton's Fine Hall. Signed by John Milnor on the half-title page. In fine condition. Ownership name to the front panel. Both uncommon in this condition and signed by Milnor.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 114348
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First Edition of Travesìa del Horizonte; Signed by Javier Marias
MARIAS, Javier.
Travesìa del Horizonte.
Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia, 1972.
First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 3368
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Rare First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Drums of The Fore and Aft
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Drums of The Fore and Aft.
London : F. Tennyson Neely, 1899.
First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120480
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"Good Appetite good cooking from an old friend": First Edition of James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BEARD, James.
James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
First edition of this classic work, which compiles 300 recipes by the dean of American cooking. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Karl W. Stueklen. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Good Appetite good cooking For Esther from an old friend James Beard." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139445
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Scarce 17th century printing of Perez's Institutiones Imperiales
PEREZ, Antoni.
Institutiones Imperiales Erotematibus Distinctae.
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Danielem Elzevirium, 1669.
Scarce 17th century printing of Perez's early legal treatise. 12mo, bound in full contemporary vellum, engraved pictorial title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 132642
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"A fragrant flame rose, and before as glow'd fruit, viand, blossom, and amber wine and gold": First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess; A Medley
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
The Princess: A Medley.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847.
First edition of Tennyson's serio-comedic narrative poem about the heroic Princess Ida. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and ruling to the panels stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 101523
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First Edition of Death With Interruptions; Signed and Dated in the Year of Publication by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Death With Interruptions.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.
First edition of Saramago's philosophical page-turner, which hinges on death taking a holiday. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication on the half-title page by Jose Saramago. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 1504