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“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain”: First Edition of Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Signed by Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
First edition of this novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Gregory Rabassa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Alain Gauthier. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146862
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First Edition of Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance
KIRBY, Robert G.; John W. O'Brien; Myron S. Scholes; Rodger F. Smith; Jack L. Treynor.
Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance.
Charlottesville: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1977.
First edition of this collection of essays on investment performance. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 117761
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First Edition of Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond; Inscribed by Him
HALL, Donald.
Seasons At Eagle Pond.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987.
First edition of Hall's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Betsy seasonally! with pleasure Donald Hall 18 September 1987." Fine in a near fine slipcase. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 587
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140932
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First Edition of James Morris' Sultan in Oman: Venture Into The Middle East
MORRIS, James [Jan].
Sultan in Oman: Venture Into The Middle East.
New York: Pantheon, 1957.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144487
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Rossiter Johnson's The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession 1861-1865
JOHNSON, Rossiter.
The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession. 1861-1865.
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894.
Second edition of Johnson's authoritative work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132319
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"I'm drawn to characters who see the future, or think they do": First Edition of Avenue of Mysteries; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Avenue of Mysteries.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
First edition of the award-winning author's fourteenth title. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Emily Pracher. Jacket photograph by Karina Juárez. Author photograph by Everett Irving.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145157
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First Edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich; humorously inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Eat The Rich: A Treatise on Economics.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the best-selling author's economic treatise. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lucie Bon Appetite! P. J. O'Rourke 4/27/99 NYC." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman and Charles Rue Woods.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133080
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Joseph Fattorusso's Wonders of Italy
FATTORUSSO, Joseph.
Wonders of Italy: The Monuments of Antiquity, The Churches, The Palaces, The Treasures of Art.
Florence, Italy: Giuseppe Fattorusso, 1952.
Later printing of this handbook for students and travelers navigating the history and culture of Italy. Octavo, finely bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt onlay grid of the coats of arms of various Italian cities to the front panel, double gilt ruling to the rear panel, frontispiece of a partial view of the Palace of the Doges, generously illustrated with 3275 black and white photographs by Fratelli Alinari, Giacomo Brogi, and D. Anderson, numerous chronological and genealogical tables of various sovereign houses, and twenty-two plates in full color. In…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145486
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Finely bound example of Francis Charles Philips' My Little Husband and If Only; finely bound
PHILIPS, Francis Charles.
My Little Husband and If Only.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.
Finely bound example Philips' two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges red. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114507
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First Edition of The Novels of Muriel Spark
SPARK, Muriel.
The Novels of Muriel Spark Volumes I and II.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
First edition of this collection of novels by the acclaimed author. Octavo, original boards, original slipcase. Fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Mark Caleb. The slipcase is in fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139652
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First Edition of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story
HULME, Kathryn.
The Nun’s Story.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.
First edition of Hulme's best-selling novel, basis for the classic film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel Bryant.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118429
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"And bitter was the rowers' song as they brought the war-boat round": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Years Between
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919.
First edition of this collection of 45 poems, often considered Kipling’s darkest work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120774
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First edition of One City; signed by Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh
RANKIN, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling.
One City.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.
First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 125273
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's The Dawn of Liberation
CHURCHILL, Winston S; Compiled by Charles Eade.
The Dawn of Liberation.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1945.
First edition of the fifth volume of Winston Churchill's war speeches, compiled by Charles Eade. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, photographic frontispiece of the King entertaining the Dominion Prime Ministers at Buckingham Palace. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145029
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First edition of David Rieff's Going to Miami; inscribed by him and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
RIEFF, David. [Peter Matthiessen].
Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
First edition of Rieff's classic work on the complex history of Miami, Florida. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "For Maria, with much love. David New York IX.9.87." The recipient, Maria Eckhart was the third wife of American writer Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135144