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First Edition of Play Golf With Player; SIGNED BY GARY PLAYER
PLAYER, Gary.
Play Golf with Player: Instruction of Every Aspecct of the Game.
London: Collins, 1962.
First edition of this early instructional by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "With Very Best Wishes Gary Player." Very good in the original dust jacket that shows some wear to the crown.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 988
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"To live effectively is to live with adequate information": First Edition of Norbert Wieners Autobiography; Signed by Him
WIENER, Norbert.
Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Weiner's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Norbert Weiner on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 3729
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First Edition of Buzz Aldrin's Men From Earth; Inscribed by Him and co-author Malcolm McConnell
ALDRIN, Buzz and Malcolm McConnell.
Men From Earth.
New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
First edition of Aldrin's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page, :To Bob Best Wishes Buzz Aldrin" and by the co-author opposite the title page, "To Bob - Best regards Malcolm McConnell." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus Studio. Written with Malcolm McConnell.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144989
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First Edition of Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance; The author's Copy
BESCHLOSS, Michael R.
Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.
First edition of the historian's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Michael Beschloss' personal copy with his name to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Edward P. Diehl. Foreword by James MacGregor Burns. From the library of Beschloss.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112673
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"With gratitude and appreciation for your prayers, your confidence and your support at those times when they were needed most": First Edition of A Time To Heal; Lengthily Inscribed by President Ford
FORD, Gerald R.
A Time To Heal.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of the 38th president of the United States' autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Marshall Hobbs, with gratitude and appreciation for your prayers, your confidence and your support at those times when they were needed most Warmest regards, Gerald R. Ford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Desirable signed by Ford and Stevens.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145505
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First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's Punch, Brothers, Punch!; in the publisher's rare variant blue cloth
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches.
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1898.
First edition, first issue with the author's name in Roman type on the title page, "health offi. . could" on the 4th line from the bottom of page 91, and 13 lines of text on page 101. BAL 3378. Octavo, original publisher's bright blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with rubbing to the crown of the spine. Rare and desirable in the publisher's variant blue cloth.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 137252
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"One of the most remarkable and adventurous small boat voyages of modern times": First edition of Commander R. D. Graham's Rough Passage; from the library of adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett
GRAHAM, Commander R.D. Introduction by Claud Worth.
Rough Passage.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1936.
First edition of Graham's narrative of his solo voyage across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bermuda on the Yacht Emanuel. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, with maps and illustrations including frontispiece. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112063
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First Edition of Philip Fisher's highly regarded Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks
FISHER, Philip A.
Paths To Wealth Through Common Stocks.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1960.
First edition of Fisher's classic second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with a few chips.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146396
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Social Index of Winter Residents and Visitors to Palm Beach and Other Florida Resorts 1928
Social Index of Winter Residents and Visitors to Palm Beach and Other Florida Resorts 1928.
Palm Beach, FL: The Social Index Association, January, 1928.
Early twentieth century seasonal index of residents and visitors of Palm Beach, Florida. Duodecimo, original boards. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146622
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer": Albert Camus Classic Novel The Stranger
CAMUS, Albert.
The Stranger.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition, third printing of Camus' first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth with red top stain. Near fine in a good dust jacket, loss to the crown and foot of the spine with a closed tear and some creasing to the front panel. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145104
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"Pretty well the last word on the subject" First Edition of the Authors Classic Work; Manias, Panics, and Crashes
KINDLEBERGER, Charles P.
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre. Uncommon.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 146114
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First Edition of Thomas H. Sherman's Twenty Years with James G. Blaine; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
SHERMAN, Thomas H.; with Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler [William T. Sherman].
Twenty Years with James G. Blaine: Reminiscences by His Private Secretary.
New York: The Grafton Press, 1928.
First edition of this biography of American statesman, Republican politician, and Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, from the observations of his private secretary; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of James G. Blaine, illustrated with black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145741
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"The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other": First Edition of Between the Woods and the Water; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: John Murray, 1986.
First British edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Craxton. A very sharp example.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 40026
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First Edition of Frederic Remington's Pony Tracks
REMINGTON, Frederic.
Pony Tracks.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.
First edition of Remington's first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout after Frederic Remington, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. In very good condition, bookplate. Howes R201; BAL 16489; Adams Herd 1878; Graff 3458. A nice example.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 125652
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Rare original Paul A. Samuelson Research Memorandum
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Market Mechanisms and Maximization, III: Dynamics and Linear Programming.
Santa Monica, California: The Rand Corporation, 1949.
Rare original research memorandum written by Paul A. Samuelson providing a simple introduction to the dynamic problems of maximizing as investigated by von Neumann and Dantzig. Octavo, 23 pages typescript on original Project Rand Research Memorandum letterhead. Assigned to Lt. R. S. Weinberg, USAF. In near fine condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 88162