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George Reisman's The Government Against the Economy; signed by him
REISMAN, George. Introduction by William E. Simon.
The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government’s On-going Destruction of the American Economic System through Price Control.
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1979.
First edition, early printing of Reisman's argument against regulated price controls. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by George Reisman on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115809
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First Edition of Capital Ideas; Signed by Peter L. Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter L.
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein's editor laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Michael Langenstein.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115654
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First Edition of Edwina Sandys' Eve & Adam; Inscribed by Her
SANDYS, Edwina.
Eve & Adam.
New York: Edwina Sandys, 2000.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Sandys. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Frank and Carol Edwina Sandys." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 118981
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First edition of Edmund S. Phelps' Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory; signed by him
PHELPS, Edmund S.
Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory: The Cost-Benefit Approach to Monetary Planning.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's study in economic policy and theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 115886
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“We cannot admit that all words are equally good": Rare Friedrich August von Hayek Autograph Letter Signed
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
Friedrich August von Hayek Autograph Note Signed.
Rare autograph note signed by and entirely in the hand of Austrian-British economist Friedrich August von Hayek. One-page lined index card, the note reads, "We cannot admit that all words are equally good. However unfashionable this may be, there is moral progress, also moral decline - and in the last resort we can more be sure where it is. It is, of course, our moral duty to defend our moral duty to defend our words, but these are not a list of precise words giving clear and unambiguous answers to all questions, but complex incomplete pearls imbuing an enticing and…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 115089
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Rare Johns Hopkins Medical History Club Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration Program
EASTMAN, Dr. Nicholson J.; Dr. Harry Friedenwald; Dr. Howard A. Kelly et al.
The Johns Hopkins Medical History Club Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration Program.
1894.
Rare original program from the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the foundation of the John Hopkins Medical History Club. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with engravings and five tipped-in photographs, ribbon bound in. Housed in a custom chemise case. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115381
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Signed Limited First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December
BELLOW, Saul.
The Dean’s December.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the original acetate.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 120568
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"THE LIGHT MUSIC OF WHISKY FALLING INTO GLASSES MADE AN AGREEABLE INTERLUDE": James Joyce's Dubliners
JOYCE, James.
Dubliners.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Later printing of Joyce’s first prose work, his great collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership signature.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115487
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First edition of Anne Shannon Monroe's Signing in the Rain; inscribed by her and in the rare original dust jacket
MONROE, Anne Shannon.
Singing in the Rain: Essays for Thoughtful People.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1930.
First edition of this collection of the author's popular articles on beautiful living. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Cora E. MacKenzie of Lauta; and a delightful evening's memory at the Town Club in Portland Oregon. from Anne Shannon Monroe Leave Grove Oregon." Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115861
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First edition of George Clinch's English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times
CLINCH, George.
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, 1919.
First edition of Clinch's history of hop cultivation. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115808
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original photograph signed by Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Brooks Robinson
MANTLE, Mickey and Brooks Robinson.
Mickey Mantle and Brooks Robinson Signed Photograph.
Original color photograph of baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Brooks Robinson. Signed by both Mickey Mantle and Brooks Robinson. Framed on a custom oak mount with a commemorative plaque. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 10.5 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115289
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Rare collection of late 18th and early 19th century sheet music of the Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel
HANDEL, George Frideric and Joseph Hayden.
Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel.
London: I. Walsh, William Randall, C.S. Thompson, G. Walker, et al. Ossenbach sul Meno: Giovanni Andre, c. 1740-1815.
Rare collection of late 18th and early 19th century sheet music of the Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel. Quarto, bound in a variety of marbled wrappers and boards with some disbound. The collection includes Sei Quartetti concertanti per due Violini, Viola e Violoncello al Signor Giuseppe Haydn (Ossenbach Sul Meno: Giovanni Andre) Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick: An Ode Wrote in Honour of St. Cecilia By Mr. M. Dryden Set to Musick by Mr. Handel (London: J. Walsh), Six Overtures fitted to the Harpsicord or Spinnet Composed by Mr. Handel (London: J.…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 112946
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First edition of Charles Dickens' Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi; in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles and gilt pictorial vignettes to the spines, frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi and 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank. With the 36-page undated publisher's catalogue bound-in at the end of vol.2. and plate facing page 238 in the second state. In fine condition. Housed in two half morocco and chemise slipcases.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 121730
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First edition, first printing of Sedrick Arlington Goldbeck's I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere
GOLDBECK, Sedrick Arlington.
I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere.
Bronx, NY: The Bird Press, 1996.
First edition of the poet's collection of sonnets. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "1996 to Gary, Regards Sedrick A. Goldbeck." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115382
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“Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”: Rare First Edition in Spanish of the Authors Masterpiece Cien Anos de Soledad; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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, "Para Pablo, conversando en el parque Gabriel Garcia Marquez '95." In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing small name on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box mimicking the front panel of the book. An exceptional example.
Price: $40,000.00 Item Number: 115638