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Rare Original Silver Gelatin Print of Rabindranath Tagore; Signed by Him
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.
Rare original silver gelatin print of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed by Rabindranath Tagore below the photograph. The entire piece measures 5 inches by 3 inches.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 120647
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First Edition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here; In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, Sinclair.
It Can’t Happen Here.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.
First edition of Lewis' later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine panel. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120988
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895.
First edition of Kipling's Second Jungle Book. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel, all edges gilt, pictorial title pages, illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Contemporary ownership inscription.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119977
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First Edition of Michael Herr's Walter Winchell; Inscribed by Him and signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
HERR, Michael.
Walter Winchell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93." Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120899
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First Edition of The Farewell Party; Inscribed by Milan Kundera
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Farewell Party.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
First edition of Kundera's third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Milan Kundera in the year of publication on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, clipping from Kundera's novel on the rear pastedown. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket illustration by Charles Shields. Translated from the the Czech by Peter Kussi.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120543
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Signed by eight justices, Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist and John P. Stevens
BURGER, Warren E.
The Supreme Court of the United States.
Washington, DC: 1973.
First edition of this work on the Burger Court. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by eight justices beneath their portraits accompanying their biographies. They include: Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist and John P. Stevens. 20 page pamphlet on the Supreme Court, published by them.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 120344
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Bob Dylan's Lyrics; Signed by Him
DYLAN, Bob.
Bob Dylan Lyrics 1962-1985.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First printing of the second edition of this compilation of Dylan's lyrics. Quarto, original glossy illustrated boards. Signed by Bob Dylan on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. One of a few examples signed by Dylan for Knopf representatives.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 119777
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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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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in full leather
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: George G. Harrap, 1924.
Finely bound example of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to the front and rear panels, frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 119346
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
SCHATZMAN, Evry (editor).
Cargèse Lectures in Physics, Volume Six.
New York : Gordon and Breach, 1973.
First edition of this work. 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 by a…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 115754
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From the library of Stephen Hawking, with his name on the front free end page
KRAMER, D; H. Stephani.
Exact Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
First edition of this work on Einstein. 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: 119458
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
BERRY, Michael [Stephen Hawking].
Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free end page. 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: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119527
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First Edition of The Panic In Needle Park; Signed by Joan Didion and Al Pacino
MILLS, James [Joan Didion and Al Pacino].
The Panic In Needle Park.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition of this work basis for the classic 1971 film starring Al Pacino, with the screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion and Academy-Award winning actor Al Pacino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 118864
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From the Library of Stephen Hawking with his Signature
COLLINS, P.D.B. [Stephen Hawking].
An Introduction to Regge Theory and High Energy Physics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
First edition of this work on Regge Theory. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking, with his signature to the front free end page, from his secretary. 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…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119369
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
TAYLOR, J.C. [Stephen Hawking].
Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
First edition of this work on gauge theory. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking, with his signature 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: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119299
