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First Edition of Macro Markets; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s Largest Economic Risks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Robert Shiller on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 108001
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The Salon edition of Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
A Simple Heart.
Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, n.d. [ca. 1895].
The limited Salon edition of Flaubert's classic novella. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red morocco onlays to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, with tissue-guarded illustrations by Emile Adan. Limited to five hundred and fifty numbered copies, this is number 152. Preface by A. de Claye. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139337
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FIRST EDITION OF NABOKOV'S THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA (DYING IS FUN); SIGNED BY DMITRI NABOKOV AND THREE TIMES BY DESIGNER CHIP KIDD
NABOKOV, Vladimir; Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov.
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun): A Novel in Fragments.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
First edition of Nabokov's final and incomplete novel which he was in the process of writing at the time of his death in 1977. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. Signed by Dmitri Nabokov on the title page and additionally signed three times by the jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and on the rear flap of the jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the original index cards that comprised the unfinished manuscript with accompanying printed annotations. Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140672
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“TO ME EDUCATION IS A LEADING OUT OF WHAT IS ALREADY THERE IN THE PUPIL'S SOUL": FIRST EDITION OF THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
SPARK, Muriel.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
London: Macmillan, 1961.
First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 116307
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"I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog": First Edition of Saul Bellow's Herzog; Inscribed by Him to Sally Soames
BELLOW, Saul.
Herzog.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965.
First British edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally S. from S. Bellow Best wishes Oct 10 '91 Chicago, Ill." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118261
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"Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan, 1897.
First edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo, original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt. In near fine condition with light shelfwear. Pictorial bookplate of L.A. Shilcof to the pastedown. A sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144073
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Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire Raisonne de Mobilier Francais de L'Epoque Carlovingienne a La Renaissance
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugene-Emmanuel.
Dictionnaire Raisonne de Mobilier Francais de L’Epoque Carlovingienne a La Renaissance. [Dictionary of French Furniture from the Carlovingian Period to the Renaissance].
Paris: Librairie Centrale d'Architecture, n.d.
Finely bound example of Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's authoritative resource on the evolution of furniture styles in France from the Carolingian Period to the Renaissance. Royal octavo, 6 volumes bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with numerous plates and text illustrations. In near fine condition. A very nice example of this standard reference.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144610
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The Nimmo edition of Richard Burton's The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
BURTON, Richard.
The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Nights Entertainments. With an Introduction Illustrative of the Religion, Manners, and Customs of the Mohammedans.
London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883.
The Nimmo edition of Burton’s monumental masterpiece. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter maroon crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with nineteen original etchings by Lalauze. One of 150 numbered copies printed on laid paper with proof etchings on Whatman paper, this is number 104. In good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145314
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together": First Edition of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
CARLYLE, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus.
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.
First American edition of this literary parody of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and German Idealism. Octavo, full green cloth with branching pattern. In very good condition with sunning to the spine and rear panel, rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145348
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First Edition of Lillian Smith's Memory of a Large Christmas; Inscribed by Her
SMITH, Lillian; Illustrated by Constance McMillan.
Memory of a Large Christmas.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962.
First edition of this "beautifully written book which should be read by families at Christmas time as Dickens' Christmas Carol used to be" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Clare- with my warm greetings, Lillian Smith." Decorations by Constance McMillan. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 59092
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First Edition of On the Mines; Signed by Photographer David Goldblatt
GOLDBLATT, David; Nadine Gordimer.
On the Mines.
Capetown: Struik Press, 1973.
First edition of the photographer's first book. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by David Goldblatt on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 85243
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First Edition of Jack Nicklaus's My Most Memorable Shots; Signed by Him
NICKLAUS, Jack.
My Most Memorable Shots In the Majors.
New York: Golf Digest Book, 1988.
First edition of this classic work by the Golden Bear. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jack Nicklaus on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written with Ken Bowden. Illustrations by Jim McQueen. Foreword by Barbara Nicklaus.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146898
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First Edition of Andrew Macphail's Essays in Fallacy
MACPHAIL, Andrew.
Essays in Fallacy.
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co, 1910.
First edition of Macphail's essay on the psychology of the suffragette. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135199
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First Edition of George F. Kennan's Nuclear Delusion; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
KENNAN, George F.
Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
First edition of this Kennan work, which reviews the complex issues that must be addressed if the United States is to make rational, prudent decisions about future nuclear weapons systems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to is sister Constance Lathrop Kennan on the front free endpaper, "For Con with love, George, 'The Farm' Oct. 16, 1982." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135232
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Robert Trivers' Parent-Offspring Conflict; inscribed by him
TRIVERS, Robert L.
Parent-Offspring Conflict.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Zoology, 1974.
First appearance of Trivers' extremely influential paper, building on his study of parental investment. Octavo, disbound from the original journal. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, "For Jeffrey w/ best wishes, as always. Bob. June 29, 1974." The recipient, Jeffrey A. Kurland, was a distinguished professor of biological anthropology and evolution at Penn State. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 136287
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's The Heavenly Host; inscribed by him
ASIMOV, Isaac. Illustrated by Bernard Colonna.
The Heavenly Host.
New York: Walker and Company, 1975.
First edition of Asimov's classic juvenile science fiction adventure. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Bernard Colonna. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Steve Isaac Asimov." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142300