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“The world is full of places to which I want to return”: First Edition of The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
HUEFFER, (Ford) Ford Madox.
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.
London: John Lane Company, 1915.
First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements.of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 81026
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Rare forty-five star American Flag; commemorating the statehood of OKLAHOMA
Forty-Five Star American Flag.
[c. 1896].
Rare forty-five star American Flag. The forty-five star American Flag was in use between July 4, 1896 when the state of Utah was admitted into the Union and July 3, 1908 when Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state. In near fine condition. The flag measures 58 inches by 114 inches.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133095
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"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will": Rare First Edition of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna; Inscribed by Actress Hayley Mills
PORTER, Eleanor H. [Hayley Mills].
Pollyanna.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of Eleanor H. Porter's classic of children's literature. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. Inscribed by actress Hayley Mills. Mills starred in the 1960 movie adaptation Pollyanna, alongside Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 138834
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"In Forgetting, they were trying to remember": First Edition of The Exorcist; Signed by William Peter Blatty and Actress Kitty Winn
BLATTY, William Peter.
The Exorcist.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.
First edition of Blatty's landmark horror novel, basis for the 1973 film. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Peter Blatty and actress Kitty Winn, who starred in the film on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Frederick Cantor. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed the author and Winn.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 147119
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"Managing yourself is just as important as managing the course": First Edition of The Greatest Game of All; inscribed by Legendary Golfer Jack Nicklaus
NICKLAUS, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind.
The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
First edition of the golfer's autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Good Golfing Jack Nicklaus." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. Foreword by Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142473
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
STEINBECK, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
London: William Heinemann, 1939.
First English edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143492
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Rare First Edition of Von Mises' Grundprobleme der Nationalökonomie
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Grundprobleme der Nationalökonomie.
Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1933.
First edition of the early work by von Mises, later translated into English as Epistemological Problems of Economics. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 75018
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“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you": First Edition of The Power of Positive Thinking; Signed by Norman Vincent Peale
PEALE, Norman Vincent.
The Power of Positive Thinking.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.
First edition of Norman Vincent Peale's enduring classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Norman Vincent Peale on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First printings are uncommon, especially signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133171
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First Edition of Essays on Economics and Economists; Inscribed by Ronald Coase
COASE, Ronald H.
Essays on Economics and Economists.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
First edition of this collection of articles by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ronald Coase on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 3919
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Rare Signed Photograph of The Members of The World War Debt Commission and Belgian Commission; Including Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon
HERBERT HOOVER AND ANDREW MELLON,.
World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President of the United States), Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State and 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), Reed Smoot (United States Senator and co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act), Theodore E. Burton (United States Senator from Ohio), Charles R. Crisp, Richard Olney, Edward N. Hurley, Garrard B. Winston, Arthur N. Young and F.G. Blair of the Debt Commission. Also signed by…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 21058
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First Edition of John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer; in the rare original dust jacket
DOS PASSOS, John.
Manhattan Transfer.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925.
First edition of Dos Passos' "novel of the very first importance...the dawn of a whole new school of writing" (Sinclair Lewis). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips to the extremities. Scarce in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 95815
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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning": First Edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Inscribed by Thornton Wilder to Fellow Writer Vincent Starrett
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Rufus H. Hathaway with all the regard of Thornton Wilder Tornoto March 1929." Near fine in a good jacket reinforced to the verso. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Housed in a custom chemise jacket with red morocco spine label.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 96138
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First Edition of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving; Inscribed by Him
FROMM, Erich.
The Art of Loving.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of this groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their capacities for love. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Fur Hans und Ruth...Eric August 1957." Very good in a good dust jacket with some wear. First editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 98633
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt": First Edition of Waiting For the Barbarians; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.
First British edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146894
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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
The Scientific Outlook.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1931.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front pastedown. With a note from the recipient that it was signed in 1931. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 119625
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First Edition of Orville J. Victor's The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion
VICTOR, Orville J.
The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion, From its Incipient Stages to its Close.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, [1861].
Complete first edition set of one of the earliest histories of the American Civil War. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher's full pebbled morocco decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated with steel engraved plates, additional vignette title pages. frontispieces, and maps. In good condition. A rare complete set, we have never seen another one.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133063